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|name = Usagi Puzzle

|type = Flash game

|registered in = 2017

|platform = hothukurou.firebird.jp

|written in = Flash (2017-2021)<br> ActionScript (2021-present)

|status = Online

'''Usagi Puzzle''' (うさぎパズル, '''''Usagi pazuru''''') is a Japanese ActionScript 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. Their 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 warns the user 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.

=== Ending 1 — Game Clear ===

[[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 and asks the user to relax after having fun, besides wishing them a positive life.

=== Ending 2 — Welcoming ===

[[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. The user is 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. It knows that the user chooses 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 screen 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.''').

=== Ending 3 — Cursed ===

[[File:20180523160015.jpg|thumb|180px|The easter egg.]]

In stage 10, there's an easter egg. When the user tries to take the block to the right, it slowly goes out of the way until it finally opens. When the user moves the rabbit to the lower left, it will get stuck, and the only thing they 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 it will be redirected to Hothukurou's website.

=== <span style="color:#B20000">True End — Akazu no Hako</span> ===

[[File:Akazu_no_hako.png|thumb|"The Bizzare Urban Legend, Akazu no Hako"]]

This ending is unlocked when the player clicks the "Don't click here!" button and throws the ball inside the hole after it. The screen will get static for a moment until it reveals an image of an air vent and then the real storyline begins.

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. Of the fear of being found by a certain ''something'', he screams out loud and it makes the nurses at 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. The user has to click on the box to be redirected to the main story, which reveals to be '''<span style="color:#B20000">Akazu no Hako</span>'''.

=== Instructions ===

=== Q&A ===

'''Q.What's the storyline? Why I'm chased by a woman?'''

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'''Q.お化け無しで箱入り娘だけ遊びたい。'''

 

 

 

=== Nomura Arc ===

=== Kobayashi Arc ===

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 though 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.

I was being chased by a woman with a kitchen knife. It was exactly like that urban legend.  

I called her out. As I approached, Ikeda turned around.  

=== Ikeda Arc ===

After the player takes the "Daughter" piece out of the box, Ikeda escapes the Nightmare Forest. She wakes up in her bedroom, noticing that the box is nowhere to be seen, just like in Kobayashi's case. Ikeda starts crying for feeling guilty after opening the box, begging for mercy. Suddenly, the sound of her door opening is heard, making Ikeda confuse. When she turns around, Ikeda finally realizes that no matter what she does, that woman will never forgive her and her friends. She is then killed by the woman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

=== Watanabe Arc ===

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

 

 

 

== The day before the nightmare ==

'''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 their nightmares, so it's recommended to read them before playing their arcs.

=== Ghost Story (Nomura Arc) ===

Ghost Story is an explanation of 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 in Room 103. And the ''tansu'' (old Japanese drawer) was tied tightly with a rope so the drawer couldn't be opened. 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.

 

 

=== Curiosity (Kobayashi Arc) ===

When the person opens the door, he really found these pages inside and he noticed there was a box in there causes him having a goosebumps that Nomura was so scared. He don't usually believe in ghost stories, but his body was shivering because of the aura of the box, the atmosphere of the apartment and the darkness. Kobayashi thinks that the urban legend is right that the Woman in the black dress will kill them. They look around a while, but nothing happens. They understood the silence and left the apartment quietly. He talks about that Nomura was playing with the box. He got less scared and took the box from him. He said that there are wooden pieces on the lid, and they are lined up neatly. Each piece has words such as "Daughter", " Father", "Mother" and so on. Some of these parts are faded. It looks like "Hakonezaiku" (Box puzzle/Moving block puzzle). If they move the pieces correctly, they'll solved it. If the rumor is right, they can survive if they solve this puzzle. A black dressed woman never followed them. Kobayashi thinks that the box might be broken. So he gave the box back to Nomura. Their second time exploring an urban legend has ended. Kobayashi then saw the box like Nomura had. He had lost consciousness when he saw the box.

 

=== Really Upset (Ikeda Arc) ===

When the persons think this was a coincidence, there are a lots of coincidence. It cause this situation is the same as the urban legend. According to Nomura, if they touch the box, the woman with black dress will kill them. If they solve the box, they'll survive. But when they touched the box, she didn't chased them. And they didn't touch the box, so even if the rumor is true. Even if they started at the box they'll get chased. If the box is broken, so they'll never solve this. If Ikeda got home, she noticed that the box was also in her room.

 

=== Dead End (Watanabe Arc) ===

* hothukurou.com/game/Truth/index.html

* '''Akazu no Hako''': hothukurou.com/game/PuzzleGirl/index.html