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Portal 2 Hints

Chapter 1: The Courtesy Call

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After completing the short "getting to know the movement keys" intro, you'll wake up again in the same room, countless years in the future. Your first goal is to get to the same small glass-walled room that the original Portal game started in.
- How can I get to that room?
- Once I'm in it, how can I move on?
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At the end of the overgrown hallway are some doors that'll automatically open for you, allowing you to enter Test Chamber 00. In it, your goal is to leave through the door on the chamber's other side.
- How can I get that door open?
- Okay, now how can I get the door to stay open?
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Past the door, go through another door and a force field, then enter the elevator to get taken to the next area. Go up the stairs to find the big 01 sign, then drop into Test Chamber 01 and find a way to get its storage cube set on its large red button.
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Past the exit door, go through another force field and use another elevator. Watch the amusing video on the wall before going up the stairs and on to Test Chamber 02, where your task is to get the portal gun.
- How can I get to the portal gun?
- Once I have the portal gun, how can I get to the next test chamber?
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Test Chamber 03 has another variation on the "get the storage cube onto the big red button to open the exit door" theme.
- How can I get a storage cube onto this button?
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Go through the exit door and enter Test Chamber 04, where you'll need to put two cubes on large buttons to open the next exit door.
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In the Test Chamber 05 area, you'll first have to find a way to enter the actual test chamber. You'll then need to figure out how to get onto the upper floor and open the exit door.
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Take the elevator to the Test Chamber 06 area, which consists of two large chambers that require you to utilize "portal flinging" (and the usual storage cubes) to get through them.
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Take the elevator to the Test Chamber 07 area, where you'll meet up with Wheatley again.
- How can I get across the rubble and into the other room?
- How can I help Wheatley move on past the end of his rail?
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After GLaDOS dumps you into the old incinerator room, you'll need to find a new portal gun, and then get to Chapter 2.
- How can I get to the new portal gun?
- How can I move on to Chapter 2?

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