Can you escape BeachHouse 4+

Cannot even understand the hint

I once wrote in a review that I would probably never rate an Omnisoft game less than 4 stars unless it were unplayable, because I just like them that much. Unfortunately, as other reviewers have attested, this one would probably be unplayable for most people (like me) without a walkthrough. I don’t mind the couple of “weird” puzzles per game that you typically find from this dev, because I can usually muddle through them to some satisfaction with an occasional hint, but this game set the frustration bar too high for me to jump. There was one puzzle whose solution made absolutely no sense even with the walkthrough, but at least it walked me through it. Most of the other solutions made some kind of sense in hindsight, but I had neither the foresight nor the patience to conceivably come up with several of them on my own. Is it worth playing? Yeah, there’s still some fun to be had from it, but I would put it last on my list to play, as most of the other ones in this series are really quite good.

All of the solutions’ explications are only in Japanese. There are a few English words in the hints and for most of the puzzles that was enough to send me in the right direction. Also, I read a little Chinese and a few characters (such as numbers) have the same meaning in both languages so I was able to guess the numerical solution to one of the earlier puzzles. However now I’m 2\3 of the way through and stuck. The puzzle starts with a single square lit up and I’m guessing that I have to tap a sequence to get the next square to light up as shown in the next photo. But I’ve tried all of the sequences shown on the items I’ve collected and none work. I’m guessing that it’s a combination of two hints on the items I’ve collected. I’m so frustrated that I’m not bothering to go to YT and look at the walkthrough that one of the other raters says is out there. Normally I’d give this 1 stars because it’s the lowest possible rating but I’m giving it a second star for the beautiful graphics.