Awesome and thanks! Glad you liked it :) I watched your playthrough and that of a few others and you're not the first to get stuck there. We know some things that we should've hinted at and there are few "totally intentional features" that we hadn't seen until after publishing xD
We actually fixed some of those issues, but we can't update our entry until after the contest (disclaimer: no guarantee we will do that).
Cheers!