I’m glad the words hit right! :D
I gave the puzzle another shot today, now its not 2am - tugging around the wires in the first part and realising they only extended so far finally made that part click for me (I feel like the first time i played through, it didn’t register that the lengths were intentional - maybe sound effects when you fully extend them could help?). Between than and watching the walkthrough again with that knowledge I can finally see the logic behind what was going on here; it’s a REALLY neat little puzzle and it’s definitely salvageable. (I can imagine it sucks to see people get stuck on it! 🙃)
Re: post puzzle...
I would be curious to know what you’re supposed to do at the countdown as well - I can’t find anything to interact with besides the switches along the bottom of the screen, and I can see from the screenshots that there’s more to the game.
On re-testing, I figured out what I was running into was that you can’t move the wires while the flashlight is on! It didn’t intuitively click I couldn’t do both at the same time (especially since Kobe is the one holding it), and with me looking for clues on how to solve the puzzle I had kept it on.