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'''Usagi Puzzle''' (うさぎパズル, '''Usagi Pazuru''') is a Japanese flash game made by Hothukurou. The game is considered to be "a non-scary horror game" by the creator himself. The game, like [[Lomando.com]], has, in fact, a story and somewhat similar gameplay.

The actual game is just a simple drag-and-shoot game. Your objective is to control a rabbit with the mouse to bounce the balls into the holes. However, the upper section of the second page of the tutorial asks you not to click on a button that appears randomly and to continue the game normally. On the bottom section of the same page is a description of [[wikipedia:MDMA|MDMA]], a psychoactive drug and the case that it was used to cure [[wikipedia:Posttraumatic stress disorder|PTSD]] in America, which sets the foreshadow of the underlying story.

The game has 15 stages that increase difficulty each time you clear. Strangely, it has several endings and 4 routes, which will be listed below.

[[File:20180523150323.jpg|thumb|190px|"Congratulations for clearing! Rest your body and your mind and let's have a healthy life!"]]You have beaten all 15 levels, and that means that you also didn't click on the button mentioned. After completing all the levels, the game congratulates you and asks you to relax after having fun, besides wishing you a positive life.

[[File:20180523155903.jpg|thumb|left|180px|The park.]]This ending is called "お迎え" (''omukae''), a short version for "お迎え現象" (''omukae genshou'') which means "Psychopomp". Other meanings are: "welcoming" and also "approach of death".

By clicking on the "Don't click here!" button, the game gets distorted and the background is changed to a static screen, a disturbing noise also starts playing. However, if the player stands still for a few minutes, something changes. You are redirected to the start menu of the game and suddenly the rabbit gets a realistic mouth and eye, plus a few black dots around.

The game resumes very differently than it was before, and now an image of a park appears. You have two options: "右を向く" ('''Turn Right''') and "左を向く" ('''Turn Left'''). When turning right, a rabbit appears and runs toward the screen with a loud sound.

The game over message is "夢の中でお迎えがきた。よかった。"('''Death has come in my dreams. I'm so glad.''').

[[File:20180523160015.jpg|thumb|180px|The easter egg.]]In stage 10, there's an easter egg. When you try to take the block to the right, it slowly goes out of the way until it finally opens. When you move the rabbit to the lower left, it will get stuck, and the only thing you can do is click the "Don't click here!" button. After clicking, a sentence reading "呪われたすぐに閉じろ" ('''Close immediately after being cursed.''') appears. After a few seconds, the screen will be filled with a flood of "すぐにけせ" ('''Disappear''') and loud noise. There is nothing more than this and you will be redirected to Hothukurou's website.

The narrator wakes up from the dream he had and notices he is trapped in a one-man cell after he had gone crazy by a certain urban legend. The truth is, the dream he had was the entire Usagi Puzzle game all along. By the fear of being found by a certain ''something'', he screams out loud and it makes the nurses on the nurse station worried. They start discussing the urban legend that the narrator so believes until he screams again. After that, a box comes out from the air vent in his cell, and the whole webpage background begins to flash red. You have to click on the box to be redirected to the main story, which reveals to be '''<span style="color:#B20000">Akazu no Hako</span>'''.

[Link to a game called "Puzzle of prayer" (Oinori Pazuru/お祈りパズル), which is similar to Akazu no Hako, but with a different storyline and without screamer.]

Kobayashi wakes up, realizing that the dream he had was similar to a certain urban legend. Looking at his desk, he notices that the box was no longer in his room, making him sigh in relief. Kobayashi begins to wonder about what happened at the '''Nightmare Forest''', but went into denial after overthinking. He began to believe that everything that happened was just a dream, and even thought that Nomura wasn't murdered by the woman, but by a serial killer. When he left his house, it was already morning. He walked to college and found Ikeda on the way. As Kobayashi approached her, he noticed that it wasn't Ikeda, but the woman in black clothes. Kobayashi becomes self-aware that he still didn't wake up from the dream and is killed by the woman.

Watanabe wakes up in the '''Nightmare Forest''' and he needs to escape as soon as possible. However, there's two endings for his arc, which both will depend on the player's choices.  

When the player opens the box, Watanabe wakes up in his room. He notices that the woman in black clothes is in his room, approaching slowly. Watanabe is then killed by the woman. After this, when you try to play the game again after seeing the game over screen, a message saying '''"The truth is under the page"''' (真実はページ下) appears. Scrolling the page down, there will be a message saying '''"Don't escape"''' (逃ゲルナ) and '''"Don't open it"''' (開ケルナ). However, if you scroll the page too much, the bluish woman screamer appears with a loud noise. The page then reloads.  

'''The day before the nightmare''' (悪夢の前日謹, ''Akumu no Zenjitsu'') is a part of the storyline from Akazu no Hako. As the title itself says, it's a series of events that happens before the 4 protagonists enter in their nightmares, so it's recommended to read them before playing their arcs.

Ghost Story is an explanation about the Urban Legend that is spreading around Japan, the Akazu no Hako. The legend says that someone found a strange wooden box with a letter in unreadable scattered Japanese characters in an abandoned small city, specifically, in an abandoned apartment at Room 103. And the ''tansu'' (old Japanese drawer) was tied tightly with a rope so the drawer couldn't be open. But when the rope is cut and the drawer is opened, a sheet of paper written "'''Do not open'''" (開ケルナ) is included.

When the person destroyed the paper and closed the drawer because he was feeling a strange sense of danger, he could hear noises inside of the object and reopened again in a naive curiosity, a box suddenly appeared. After touching it, his destiny was sealed, and from now on, a woman would come in his dreams to kill him.

<u>NOTE</u>: The following game contains a [[screamer]] with flashing lights!

* hothukurou.firebird.jp/game/Truth/index.html