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The Black Mirror Hints

The generator room is dark! How do I light it up?

  • 1 of 10: The same way you did in the storage room.
  • 2 of 10: Namely, grope around for things that could be used to restore power.
  • 3 of 10: Check around in the left part of the room, toward the back.
  • 4 of 10: You'll find a switchboard and a fusebox right next to each other.
  • 5 of 10: The switchboard is what you want for now. (Note that it's the unlabeled hot spot just to the right of the fusebox.)
  • 6 of 10: Once you have a close-up of its interior, you need to reconnect the red, green, and blue wires.
  • 7 of 10: To connect a wire, pick it up and left-click it on one of the empty clamps above the wires. To disconnect a wire, pick it up and right-click.
  • 8 of 10: There are only a few possible configurations (just 6 in this case), so try different arrangements until you get the right one.
  • 9 of 10: You need (from left to right): green, red, blue.
  • 10 of 10: Once you have the wires connected in that order, hit the button to the left of the box to turn the power on and light up the room.