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The Orange Box: Portal Hints
How can I get up to where the cube is?
1 of 16: Notice that there's a button post in that room.
2 of 16: Try the button out to see what it does.
3 of 16: Ah, it works that extendable wall section across the room that angles upward!
4 of 16: That and the two small concrete walls in the button room make it painfully obvious how you're supposed to get to the cube room.
5 of 16: You're apparently supposed to put a blue portal on a nearby wall, then fire an orange portal at the slanted wall section once it's fully extended. (Remember that portals will disappear from a moving surface.)
6 of 16: Then you'd go through the blue portal, ready to fire another blue portal at the floor below you after you exit the orange portal.
7 of 16: However, if you do that, the best you can hope for is to be thrown down into the toxic crap on the room's lower floor.
8 of 16: So instead, fire an orange portal onto the wall just to the right of the extendable wall segment, then use a nearby blue portal to get back over there.
9 of 16: Do this right after pressing the button so that you can crouch-walk back past the extended wall segment and into the room adjacent to the big button ledge.
10 of 16: That sounds like a waste of time since you didn't get there with the cube, but it's necessary in order to get things to where the jump to the cube area is doable.
11 of 16: When you're ready, press the button to extend the wall segment again so you can get back into the room past it.
12 of 16: As soon as it fully extends, go around to the front of it and fire an orange portal onto it.
13 of 16: Then turn left (assuming you're facing the wall segment) and run over to the edge of the floor you're on.
14 of 16: Looking down, you'll see a concrete floor section a ways below you.
15 of 16: What you need to do is fire a blue portal down there and then drop into it before the extended wall segment starts retracting.
16 of 16: If you do it right, you'll be thrown all the way across the room and into the cube's little area.
