How to get Mellow’s hands back

This is the complete Chapter I route from Green Hills to Mellow's hands. The order is clown strength game → rope room → train → checkerboard maze.

Direct route

1. In Green Hills, enter the red-and-white Circus carriage.
2. At the giant clown head, stand on the yellow pad and press Space when the strength meter reaches its peak. Enter the clown's open mouth.
3. Use the hazard-striped door in the middle and clear the dark rope room.
4. After leaving that room, continue left to the arrow-marked train tent.
5. Finish the train ride, then keep going left to the black-and-white maze.
6. Follow the five maze states below. Mellow's hands are at the far end.

• 

• 

Clear the dark rope room

Mellow still has no hands here, so this is not a click or Hand interaction. Walk or run into each hanging rope as it appears while staying away from the moving creature. The exit opens after the rope sequence is cleared.

If the room keeps resetting, prioritize avoiding the creature and move into a rope only when there is a safe opening.

Clear the train ride

Use the direction controls to follow the track and press Space to jump. Inside the tunnel, move onto the green lane. Keep following the ride until it returns Mellow to the Circus path, then continue left.

• 

• 

Exact checkerboard maze route

The walls move after each correct landmark. Treat every wall change as a new maze state rather than trying to retrace the previous screen.

1. From the entrance, go straight up to the first character on the left, then go left through the open doorway.
2. After the walls move, go right past the UFO and then down to the mime.
3. After the next change, go to the blowing face, move up to the raven row, and go all the way left to the seated clown. Step one tile up toward the sun-and-moon space.
4. When the walls move again, go right and up beside the stairs. Step onto the character immediately to the right of the stairs.
5. On the final layout, go right toward the raven, straight up, and then left to Mellow's hands.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

If the route seems to stop

• The clown mouth stays shut: stand on the yellow pad and time Space with the top of the strength meter.
• Nothing happens in the rope room: collide with the ropes; do not try to use the missing Hand action.
• The train fails in the tunnel: change to the green lane and use Space for the jump sections.
• The maze loops: restart from the current wall layout and use its landmark step above. Do not follow the route for an earlier layout.

The task is complete when Mellow reaches the hands at the end of the maze and normal hand interactions become available again.

Version boundary

This is a Chapter I task from the paid full release. It is not part of the standalone opening-demo route. The later Misery Town Whack-a-Clown puzzle is a separate task and is not required here.