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The Orange Box: Portal Hints

Chamber 13 Advanced

  • 1 of 7: The first thing you'll notice is that there's no storage cube to use on the big button in the starting room.
  • 2 of 7: Next, you'll need to figure out a way to get the storage cube that's on the unpowered moving platform over to one of the two buttons.
  • 3 of 7: After setting the cube, put a blue portal on the ceiling directly over the other button.
  • 4 of 7: Make an orange portal in the nearest wall, a bit lower than you are, and jump through it.
  • 5 of 7: When you land on the other button, the exit door will open.
  • 6 of 7: Fire a blue portal onto a wall past the open door, then put the orange portal into the wall nearest you.
  • 7 of 7: Now you can go through the orange portal and get to the exit elevator.