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Tell Me Your Story Puzzle Walkthrough Guide

Tell Me Your Sto­ry Puz­zle Walk­through Guide

writ­ten 5/15/24, updat­ed 5/18/24

  • Pub­lished: RedDeer.Games
  • Plat­form Played: Nin­ten­do Switch
  • Price: $2.99 from MSRP: $10.99
  • Rat­ed: E (Every­one)
  • Genre: Puz­zle, Adven­ture
  • Date Released: April 26, 2024

This game is a puz­zle game that does­n’t have any words or text or, real­ly, any instruc­tions, so you have to fig­ure it out. While it’s easy to get hints in-game, here is a walk­through

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Adventure Start: To-Do

Level 1 — Arrival

All box­es with the FRAGILE stick­ers are the bases and are immov­able. Start by remov­ing the ivy, then stack the plant pots so that they nest with­in each oth­er, then group all box­es so that they all match in size.

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 2 — Greeting Grandma!

Move the hands on the clock on each scene until the pic­ture changes for some fun. The goal is to find the cor­rect time for the back­yard lunchtime with Grand­ma. Then move the pro­tag­o­nist towards Gram­my to fin­ish the puz­zle

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 3 — Give Grandma the Notebook

This one needs no real expla­na­tion. Just slide the note­book up to Grand­ma’s hands

Level 4 — What to Do?

Poke the ques­tion marks until they become oth­er icons, then poke those until they all dis­ap­pear, them poke the thought bub­ble to fin­ish the puz­zle

Level 5 — Unpack the Dog’s Stuff!
  • Start by tap­ping the dog’s suit­case
  • Place the dog bowl on the bone mat
  • Tap the dog’s suit­case again
  • Move the dog treats to the bowl
  • Move the blan­ket on the table and the 2 pil­lows on the ground onto the bed
  • Now remove the bot­tles and tow­els from the bas­ket and place them in the appro­pri­ate spots on the bath­room shelf
SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 6 — Unpack Your Stuff!

Match items with their mates!

  • Cam­era + Pho­to­graph x2
  • Toi­letry Bag + Hair­brush + Aller­gy Med­i­cine + Tooth­brush + Tooth­paste + Bar Soap
  • Note­book + Pen­cil
  • Shirts x 4
  • Green Sock x2
  • Tan Sock x2
  • Red Shoe x2
SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 7 — Makeup

Col­or the dot­ted line areas any way you’d like. Move the mark­ers over the areas until they look like sol­id col­ors

Level 8 — Yay!

Match the upper speech bub­bles with any of the low­er bub­bles, then tap the box

Level 9 — washing Dishes

Drag the teapots, dish­es, and cups to the soap, dunk them in a few times, then wipe them on the cloth until they sparkle, then place them in the cup­board (teapot on top, dish­es in the mid­dle, and cups on the pegs)

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Adventure in Green: Into the Amazon Jungle

Level 1 — Adventure Hat

Tap the hat, then tap the back­pack, then match up the dots in the back­ground with the 3 orange cir­cles

Level 2 — Itinerary

Pull the leaves out of the way, then remove the hat

Level 3 — Break the Code

This is a tri­al and error puz­zle: drag an icon from the right side to one of the ques­tion marks. When you fill them up, Grand­ma will let you know how you did:

  • Green = Cor­rect icon and spot
  • Yel­low = Cor­rect icon, wrong spot
  • Red = Wrong alto­geth­er
SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 4 — Path to the Temple

Line up the 3 lines of for­est so that the path opens to the tem­ple

Level 5 — Rain

Tap 8 times

Level 6 — Match the Leaves

Match 4 sets of leaves

Level 7 — Find the Critters!

Find the Bird, the Tiger, the Capy­bara, the Croc­o­dile, and the Snake

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 8 — Colorful Flowers

Com­bine 1 col­or­ful flower with 1 set of green leaves

Level 9 — Lily Pads

Turn the lily pads until their Pac-Man mouths face each oth­er, caus­ing the flow­ers to bloom

Level 10 — Poisonous Frogs

Use the mag­ni­fy­ing glass to check out each frog!

Level 11 — Guide the Ferry

Use the con­trols on the left to guide the fer­ry down the riv­er. The wheel will turn the ves­sel, while the pro­peller advances it

Level 12 — Animal Totems

This was dif­fi­cult to com­plete with­out any clues. The ani­mals are straight for­ward, but the sym­bols are not. Turn the ani­mals until they face you, then turn all of the sym­bols until the totems sink down­wards

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 13 — Fit the Pieces

Easy puz­zle! Place the pieces so that they all fit with­in the dark squares

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 14 — Matching Smiles

Hov­er over the masks’ mouths to unveil their smiles and then match them togeth­er. Col­lect the bowl

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 15 — Guide the Bowl

Move the bowl through to the end of the maze

Level 16 — Cocoa Recipe

Tap to open the recipe!

Level 17 — Make the Cocoa!
  • Move the pot to the burn­er
  • Turn on the pow­er
  • Add the choco­late
  • Open the lid
  • Pour in the milk
  • Use the whisk until it turns brown
  • Enjoy
Chapter Clear

Match the stick­ers with the cor­re­spond­ing sil­hou­ettes to com­mem­o­rate your mem­o­ries

Adventures in the Orient: Mountains of Yunnan

Level 1 — Matching Lanterns
  • Match the lanterns to scare away the spi­ders
  • Remove the spi­der­webs
  • Find the box Grand­ma wants
Level 2 — Calm Down

Tap the boil­ing teapot to calm it

Level 3 — Uncover Your Itinerary

Remove the clouds and pink box

Level 4 — Pour the Tea

Slide the teapot and cup out­lines until they match their designs. What’s tricky is that the left cup’s dish out­line is on the right cup’s dish

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 5 — Cabinet Designs

Fig­ure out the cor­rect pat­tern sequence (HINT: find the cor­ner pieces and then the mid­dle pieces). When you hear the unlock­ing sound, remove the locks, slide open the cab­i­net, and take the dish­es

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 6 — Tea Time

Tap the teacup, then slide the tea leaves around until you line up a com­ple­men­tary set to the one in the cup NOT a match­ing set. Then pick the tea leaves and enjoy your fresh cup of tea!

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 7 — Pick Some Tea Leaves

This one is a lit­tle con­fus­ing until you get it. Basi­cal­ly there are 2 lines of both young and mature tea leaves. You want the top and bot­tom lay­ers to match in sequence of tea leaves. Pluck the ones that are odd ones out and leave the sym­met­ri­cal ones behind. If you mess up, you have to do them all over again

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 8 — Dry the Tea Leaves

Sort the leaves by size and group them togeth­er on sep­a­rate racks. They will steam when you’ve done it right

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 9 — Young to Old

Orga­nize the tea leaves from young to old (light to dark)

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 10 — Prepare the Tea Leaves
  • Move the leaves to the dry­ing racks
  • Wait for them to dry (dark­en 2x)
  • Move all three over to the spi­ral
  • Spin them until they com­bine
  • Move them to the bag
  • Repeat until the bag is full (3 more times)
Level 11 — Zen

Tap the “petals” until they form a flower shape (note the hexag­o­nal shape of the mid­dle image)

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 12 — Sushi Recipe

Tap to open the recipe

Level 13 — Make the Onigiri x2

Make Oni­giri #1

  • Remove the blue lid
  • Take 6 rice balls and place them in the tri­an­gle form
  • Move the fish to the brown bowl
  • Open the cap of the tall brown bot­tle, then pour it on the fish
  • Move the sea­soned fish to the tri­an­gle rice form
  • Add anoth­er 6 balls of rice to the tri­an­gle form
  • Place the sea­weed on the bot­tom of the tri­an­gle
  • Sprin­kle it the black sea­son­ings
  • Move the fin­ished oni­ri­gi over to the wood­en board

Make Oni­giri #2

  • Place 6 rice balls into the tri­an­gle form
  • Open the lid of the tuna can
  • Move the tuna to the brown bowl
  • Open the lid of the mayo and pour it over the tuna
  • Move the tuna to the tri­an­gle form
  • Add anoth­er 6 balls of rice
  • Add sea­weed
  • Add black sea­son­ings
  • Move to wood­en board

COMPLETED

Chapter Clear

Place com­mem­o­ra­tive stick­ers in their posi­tions

Adventures into the Past: Love on the Orient Express

Level 1 — Serve the Macarons

This one was tricky. You’re sup­posed to notice the col­ors of the plates and the tray, then coor­di­nate the col­ored mac­arons. The game will auto­mat­i­cal­ly place them into their cor­rect spots

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 2 — Dog Treat or No?

Feed your dog the dog treats, and place the mac­arons in the tray

Level 3 — Trial and Error

Basi­cal­ly, just move stuff around until they quit mov­ing, then open the string and move it to the bot­tom

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 4 — Examine the Photos

You need to move the 4 pho­tos in the cen­ter and on the right side into the hand, then move the glass­es so that it cov­ers the per­son in the hand pho­to AND in the left­most pho­to, then tap the screen. Do this until every­one in the left­most pho­to is look­ing at the cam­era

EXAMPLE

LEFT: Before tap; RIGHT: After tap

END PHOTO (Click to Open)

Level 5 — Dance Steps
  • Tap the pho­to
  • Match the foot­steps with back­ground
  • Tap Grand­ma
Level 6 — Remove the Envelopes

Tap the envelopes to remove them

Level 7 — Organizing the Shelf (Bad puppy!)
  • Tap the shelf to sta­bi­lize it
  • Note the designs on the back of each shelf
  • Match the spine of each book to the designs
  • Once the dog is hap­py, search for all the envelopes (6 total)
SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 8 — Postcards

Match the stamps to their respec­tive post­cards

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 9 — Sorting the Drawer

Place the let­ters in such a way that they fit per­fect­ly in the draw­er

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 10 — Work through the Memories

Pull the mom and dad down and then tap the enve­lope

Level 11 — Grandma Intervenes

Give Grand­ma all the let­ters

Level 12 — Comforting

Pull down and up the images

Level 13 — Tickets, Please!

Pull out all the tick­ets and then match them (one has 4 tick­ets)

Level 14 — Train Time

Move the red train up so that the blue train came pro­ceed

Level 15 — Meet halfway

Move the 2 red train cars out of the way so that the yel­low and blue trains can reach the heart

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 16 — Assemble the Cars
  • Util­itz­ing the con­nec­tor shapes, orga­nize the train cars in the cor­rect order
  • SOLUTION: Pur­ple Tri­an­gle, Blue Star, Green Dia­mond, Pink Square, Orange Star
  • Tap each car to see inside
    • Tap a flower bou­quet
    • Tap the male
    • Tap the female
Level 17 — ON Track to Love

Clear the tracks of any obsta­cles, then tap the yel­low cir­cle to start the train

Level 18 — Fig Pizza Recipe

Tap to open the piz­za recipe

Level 19 — Make the Pizza
  • Uncov­er all the ingre­di­ents
  • Refer to the low­er left box
  • Place ingre­di­ents on the upper right area until the ingre­di­ents are removed from the table
  • HINT: Use the cut­ting board to make the pieces small­er
Chapter Clear

Place stick­ers in appro­pri­ate places

Adventures with Grandma: Adventures to Come

Level 1 — Uncover the Adventure

Remove the obsta­cles

Level 2 — Outings With Grandma

Match the item pieces togeth­er and then drag them over to the appro­pri­ate pro­posed out­ings

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 3 — Picnic with Grandma!

Pack the items into the pic­nic bas­ket (HINT: start with the uten­sils, note the items already in the bas­ket, and then stack like items before plac­ing them in)

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

Level 4 — Biking with Grandma!

Com­plete the land­scape

Level 5 — Boating with Grandma!

Com­plete the land­scape

Level 6 — Camping with Grandma!

Com­plete the land­scape

Level 7 — Hot Chocolate with Grandma!

Place the mug

Level 8 — Onigiri with Grandma!

Place the oni­giri

Level 9 — Pizza with Grandma!

Place the piz­za

Level 10 — Photos!

Snap 3 pho­tos of your fun time togeth­er!

Chapter End

Place your stick­ers in your album

Game Com­plete!

Bonus Level

Tap the images in chrono­log­i­cal order

SOLUTION (Click to Open)

DIY: Attaching a Folding Table to an Existing Bookshelf

writ­ten 10/9/23, updat­ed 10/9/23

What: A DIY fold­away craft table attached to an exist­ing book­shelf

Why: I have a very small space to work in. This way, when I need it, I have a flat sur­face to do craft things (sewing machine, cut­ter, draw­ing, small t‑shirt press, etc), and when I don’t, I can just fold it down. No need for a sep­a­rate fold­ing card table, plus pre­serv­ing shelf space

Sup­plies: Wood, Cir­cu­lar Saw, Wood Clamps, Work­table, Router, Paint, Paint Sup­plies, Sander, Screws, Hinges, Folding/Extendable Table Legs, Drill, Drill Bits, Screw­driv­er, Tape, Per­ma­nent Mark­er, Stud Find­er, Mea­sur­ing Tape, Ruler, Safe­ty Equip­ment

Cost: $240.21 (all oth­er sup­plies already owned)

ItemPrice
3/4in x 2ft x 4ft Maple Ply­wood$39.99
#12 Flat Under­cut Screw Philips 1/2in length (25pk)$7.84
Dia­blo 7–1/4″ 40 Tooth Fin­ish­ing Saw Blade, Dia­mond Knock­out$16.24
Stain­less Steel Fold­ing, Tele­scop­ing Desk Legs, 35.4″ length w/screws (x2) $75.98
Reli­a­bilt Black 6in Strap Hinge (x2)$9.56
6‑tier Open Book­case 9.3“D x 23.6“W x 70.9“H$79.99
8oz Behr Dynasty Inte­ri­or Paint Sam­ple Size$4.68
Ever­bilt Self Adhe­sive Felt Strip$5.93
Total$240.21

Com­plex­i­ty: Easy to Mod­er­ate (fig­ur­ing out the hinge sit­u­a­tion was the biggest headache)

Time: 2–3 week­ends (1 day + a week to dry paint, 2ish week­ends to gath­er mate­ri­als, measure/calculate, and do it)

Reference Images

Process

I had to buy a book­case to fit a very small, spe­cif­ic space right next to the clos­et so that the clos­et door could still open, mean­ing that the shelf has to be rather shal­low. Because the shelf isn’t very expen­sive, though, the shelves’ thick­ness­es are thin and that has to be tak­en into con­sid­er­a­tion.

Wood

I chose Maple Ply­wood. Was think­ing about MDF, but it was too flim­sy, too heavy, and too dif­fi­cult to uti­lize hard­ware with.

Once the piece of wood is obtained, per­form mea­sure­ments and cal­cu­la­tions, mark them, and pre­pare a work­space to make nec­es­sary cuts. Make sure to avoid knots!

Learned that not all saw blades are cre­at­ed equal. Used a fin­ish­ing blade on the cir­cu­lar saw for a smooth cut through the ply­wood. Taped off the edge to pre­vent splin­ter­ing, and then set up a jig to con­trol the cut line. To do that, use anoth­er, straight piece of wood clamped to the work­table where the cir­cu­lar saw guide will glide against.

Left: work set­up, Mid­dle: jig and taped off cut line, Right: Cut!!!

Test­ed the new­ly cut piece, found that it was still too long, mea­sured again, and back to cut­ting! Same set­up: tape, jig/guide.

Handle

After por­ing over lots of hard­ware, I did­n’t like any of the offer­ings and they were sur­pris­ing­ly expen­sive, plus I only have 3⁄4″ thick­ness to work with. Then some­one rec­om­mend­ed just cut­ting out a hole as a han­dle. What a great idea, and it does­n’t cost any­thing because I already have a router (no jig­saw, which would have been even eas­i­er)!

Decid­ed to use drill bits (step­ping up sizes in suc­ces­sion to make the holes larg­er and bits eas­i­er to con­trol), then spade bits (just be sure not to use too large of a spade bit. I did that and messed up the cut, hence the weird mis­take on the mid­dle hole. Should have just stuck with the 5⁄8 which made a hole bit enough to fit the router bit). Strong rec­om­men­da­tion to mark on the UNDERSIDE of the wood. Thank good­ness my spade bit boo­boo only affect­ed the under­side

Just try­ing to both remove some struc­ture and widen the holes enough to allow the router in

When work­ing with routers, BE SURE that the bit is ALL THE WAY IN. Mine kept fling­ing out because I did­n’t make sure of that (actu­al­ly, I sim­ply for­got how to use it). Super dan­ger­ous! I high­ly rec­om­mend using a guide/jig for the router if you don’t have a router table.

Left: router bit all the way in; Cen­ter: jig for the router; Right: Almost done!

Done! Note how I cut on the under­side of the wood
Paint

Ugh. I hate paint­ing so much!

Rec­om­mend­ed sup­plies: mini roller, roller tray, tow­els, tack cloth, sand­ing discs, sander, bench pucks (to ele­vate).

When con­sid­er­ing paint, I want­ed to be sure that it would be able to with­stand some wear and tear, so I went with a nice paint. The sam­ple size was per­fect for only cov­er­ing one side of the table­top with 3 coats.

I real­ly hate the sound of sand­ing wood

I messed up with the paint col­or. Tip: When col­or match­ing, DON’T USE YOUR PHONE PICTURES. The post-pro­cess­ing or light­ing will mess it up and you’ll get the total­ly wrong col­or like I did. Thank­ful­ly, the shelf came with veneer stick­ers which I brought with me to paint match the 2nd time around.

Mis­take:

Redo:

Tack Cloth
Much bet­ter

Behr’s Dynasty and Mar­quee paints are awe­some

It takes over a week before the paint will quit being so sticky, espe­cial­ly if there are sev­er­al thick coats. Appar­ent­ly, it can take up to sev­er­al months to cure all the way!

LEgs

It’s real­ly hard to find legs for some­thing like this. There’s always the option of a fold-out diag­o­nal brac­ing (as seen in the ref­er­ence images above), but I want­ed ded­i­cat­ed legs since I’m plan­ning on putting heavy items and pres­sure on it. End­ed up find­ing a com­pa­ny off Ama­zon that allows you to choose a height and will even do cus­tom orders. The one I chose tele­scopes and folds!

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, they’re sent from Chi­na, so it took longer than I’d planned. The prod­uct was good qual­i­ty. There end­ed up being more holes than screws… So, I just secured it until it seemed sol­id enough.

Steps: Mea­sure, mark, awl, pilot hole (used tape to pre­vent punch­ing through), install

Upper Left: had a bit and screw gauge which was super help­ful; Cen­ter Top: Used an awl to help guide the drill bit and pre­vent slip­page; Upper Right: Mea­sured then taped off the drill bit to pre­vent myself from punch­ing through to the oth­er side of the table; Bot­tom Row: I’m not sure how many screws are nec­es­sary, so I just installed all that were sup­plied

Did­n’t repaint the under­side with the brown paint because why?
Hinges

Took me for­ev­er to choose a hinge. Log­ic might point in the direc­tion of a piano hinge, but I fig­ured that the 3⁄4″ board vs. 1⁄4″ shelf thick­ness might be a lot to weight and result in pos­si­ble frac­ture, so decid­ed on strap hinges to help dis­trib­ute the weight and pre­vent pos­si­ble break­age from repeat­ed use. In ret­ro­spect, I won­der if a piano hinge would be bet­ter? It would cer­tain­ly have been a much eas­i­er install. I also bought and con­sid­ered sup­port hinges on the sides though did not use them.

Most of my time dur­ing this project was cal­cu­lat­ing, mea­sur­ing, and try­ing to use tape to help with visu­al­iz­ing the end result

Test piece with tape
Cal­cu­lat­ing that gap is the worst

Spent sooo much time try­ing to visu­al­ize and cal­cu­late things like strap hinge gap and clear­ance. This is why a piano hinge would have been way more straight­for­ward

Hard­ware. What do you use to install on a 3⁄4″ piece of ply­wood? What if it punch­es through to the oth­er side? Short screws are real­ly hard to find. I end­ed up set­tling on #12 thread 3⁄4″ length flat head screws. 3⁄4″ length on 3⁄4″ thick­ness?? The met­al hinge itself should give just enough buffer to pre­vent a punch-through.

Time to install the hinges to the table­top. At some point, you have cal­cu­lat­ed as much as you can, so you just have to do it. I was incred­i­bly ner­vous doing this. You can’t redo it after every­thing you’ve already done.

I had to turn to the inter­net to find the screws for the 1⁄4″ shelf. I got #12 gauge 1⁄2″ length screws. Same with the table side, the hope is that the hinge, again, will buffer enough to pre­vent a punch through

The ply­wood was too heavy for me to lift on my own, so I thought maybe lay­ing the book­shelf on its side would help. It’s fine for the top hinge when lying down, but it end­ed up skew­ing the bot­tom hinge. The best bet would be to jig up some sort of sup­port, find a helper, or bet­ter yet, find a table/chair that will hold the board up steadi­ly and flat while you secure the hinges. Mine is off-kil­ter because I laid it on its side. Dog­gone it!!! I don’t rec­om­mend doing it this way.

Laid that shelf on its side to try and install the hinge straps. The lit­tle felt pieces you see on the under­side are just adhe­sive felt strips that are cut to cush­ion the met­al legs as its fold­ed up against the wood

If you insist on using this method, then at least turn the book­shelf to the oth­er side to help pre­vent skew­ing, and to not do it on car­pet if pos­si­ble. The prob­lem is that not only is the ply­wood heavy, but so is the shelf. Try­ing to flip it onto the oth­er side has a high chance of rip­ping out or break­ing the already installed hinge. That’s why I still do not rec­om­mend this method, even if it’s doable. Just rig up a sup­port for the table or find a helper. It’s a waste espe­cial­ly giv­en how long it took to even get to this point of the project. Ugggh!

Wall anchoring

DON’T SKIP THIS STEP!!! Seri­ous­ly!! The table is heavy com­pared to the book­shelf, so it WILL tip!

Just be sure that every­thing is lev­el (I had to use a wood pan­el under­neath plus card­board box shims to make it lev­el) and that the car­pet (if your floor is car­pet) isn’t imped­ing any­thing, and then use wall anchors! Find a stud or invest in some real­ly nice dry­wall anchors. I’ve always used the E‑Z Ancor brand and like them a lot.

Super sol­id!!

End Result

In the end, I chose not to use the sup­port hinges I bought because it was too much work, too com­plex look­ing, and it seemed steady enough with­out it, espe­cial­ly with the shelf anchored to the wall. I have yet to try it out with any projects, but I will! Even­tu­al­ly!

Though I’m dis­ap­point­ed in the instal­la­tion mis­take, I am just hap­py to be done with this project that I thought would take be 2 week­ends but end­ed up tak­ing mover a month. Why? Weath­er (I try to do things out­side since I lack a ded­i­cat­ed work­shop), deliv­ery wait times, mess­ing up on the paint, and miss­ing hard­ware.

For ref­er­ence, the table sits about 36″ off the ground, the height of a bar-height table.

Project Images

The upper, unfin­ished wood pic­tures are when the wood was uncut. There are 3 open shelves above and 3 under the table­top