Me and the Key 2

*"Can you get the key in each level? Just point, click, drag, drop, and think…."*
— The Bart Bonte Collection description

***Me and the Key 2*** is the 2nd entry of the *Me and the Key* series. It released on November 10, 2009 as a browser-exclusive game.

## Gameplay

### Overview

The game consists of mechanics revolving around penguins, bricks, snakes, oranges and balls, and TVs. The background can be dark red, mid-tone blue, bright orange, or greenish-yellow.

### Objective

To pass the level, you need to find a key through point-and-click (except for a few levels). Just like the first game, the challenge increases as you get further into the game, but also the fun!

### Levels

There are 25 levels:
**NOTE: the ones with stars (★) represent the milestones for the BB Collection.**
**Level 1**: A penguin peeks out from near the bottom left corner of the game window. Drag (not click) the penguin up to reveal the key necklace. Click the key to advance to the next level. The penguin will slowly return to its neutral position once the player releases their cursor.

**Level 2**: Twelve balls with letters will fall from the top of the screen (in this order: D, N, Q, M, C, H, O, F, P, Z, K, A). Remove these balls by typing the corresponding letter on your *keyboard* (you do not need to use the Shift key). The ball with that letter will pop. The key will drop from the last ball you pop. Click it to continue.
*If you press any letter absent from the screen, a ball with that letter will drop.*

**Level 3**: Thirteen white bricks appear. Click them to turn them pink and send them to another location. Once you click all thirteen bricks, they will make the shape of a key. The key will drop from the top. Click it to move on.
*You can click pink brick to turn them back to white bricks. This is not a programming error.*

**Level 4**: Play some Snake! The snake will come from the top. Click the game window to turn the snake counterclockwise 90°. If it touches the orange ball, it will reappear in a completely new location, and the snake will grow longer. Once the snake collects 2 oranges, the key appears (all 3 items appear in the same positions) If the snake touches the key, you pass the level!

**Level 5**: Ten penguins labeled (from lowest to highest, left to right) A, D, E, H, K, M, N, T, Y and 2 appear in a triangle. Click a penguin to input the character on its body. Here you will need to spell the title of the game, ME AND THE KEY 2 (ignoring the spaces). Since the penguin labeled "2" is the last one you click, it will have the key necklace. Click the key to carry on.

**Level 6**: You need to bring down an orange ball without letting the spikes at the top pop it. If it pops, the level resets. There are multiple layers. Light layers move horizontally with the mouse, while dark layers move in the opposite direction. To let the ball advance to the next layer, put an empty space underneath it (using the next rectangle layer). Once the ball reaches the key, you may continue.

**Level 7**: This time, the penguin does not have the key necklace. The stripes on the background are moveable, with the key behind the left stripe. Move that stripe and click the key to continue.

**Level 8**: This is a memory game. Click the ball on the screen. The screen will flash black for a second, and a new ball will appear somewhere else on the screen. Click that one. Repeat the process until you have clicked the 10th new ball. This one contains the key. Click it to move on.
*If you click the wrong ball, the screen will flash black again, and all except the first ball will disappear.*

**Level 9**: This level requires you to put your cursor in a very precise spot. Don't move your cursor once you choose the spot. The penguin on the left will think for thirteen seconds. *Carefully* click the key when it's touching the cursor to move on. If you move your cursor any time the penguin is thinking, the penguin will stop thinking and wait until you stop moving your cursor.

**Level 10** (★): Hover your cursor over the ball. The ball will float upwards until it touches the spikes. Once it does, the ball will pop and the key will drop from it. Click the key to move on.
If at any time the cursor goes off of the ball, the ball will drop back to the ground and wait until the cursor hovers over it again.

**Level 11**: Two penguins and an arc appear. The left penguin has a ball on its head. Carefully drag the ball to the other penguin. If it touches the dark area, the ball goes back to the left penguin. Once the ball drops on the right penguin, the left penguin will stand up and reveal the key necklace. Click the key to move on.

**Level 12**: 9 letters, along with K, E, and Y, drop down. Trying to type K, E, or Y will spawn a ball with a different letter (because K, E, and Y spell KEY). The last ball to pop will contain the key. Click it to continue.

**Level 13**: Three penguins with an A on their body appear. Click them to change the letter to the next letter of the English alphabet. Spell KEY. The last penguin you finish changing their labeled letter will have the key necklace. Click the key to carry on.

**Level 14**: This time, the snake needs to collect 12 balls. Each object spawns in a random position, but when the player messes up, the snake respawns, but the ball stays where it was (or if the player was on the phase with the key, the key disappears, and a ball spawns elsewhere).

**Level 15**: Press "backspace" or "delete" on your keyboard three times to hide the penguins. The key will drop from the top of the screen. Click it to carry on.

**Level 16**: Spot the differences between the 2 images. A counter displaying the differences left to find lies in the top left corner of the level screen. You will need to fix the top TV screen. Here are the differences:

* The penguin's eye is central rather than looking at the player.
* The circle closest to the penguin is as big as the 2nd one.
* The orange ball has light coming from the bottom right instead of the top right.
* There is no white on the penguin's beak.
* The right stripe is off-center.

The key will drop from the higher TV.

**Level 17**: This time, you're controlling the ball but also the maze. The ball can only move left and right, and the maze rotates from the right penguin.

**Level 18**: There are 2 white bricks, 2 green bricks, 2 orange bricks, 3 blue bricks, and 4 pink bricks (making a total of 13). The color cycle moves like this: white→green→pink→orange→blue→white. Bricks change their location when they change color. You will have to turn all the bricks to white to make the shape of a key. The key will drop from the key shape. Click the key (not the key shape!) to continue.

**Level 19**: 7 penguins appear at the bottom of the screen labeled, from left to right, N, O, T, E, B, A and R. Here, you'll need to spell BART BONTE (refer to the title screen). Since E is the last letter in "BART BONT**E**", the E penguin will always have the key necklace after you spell BART BONTE (ignore the space).

**Level 20** (★★): This is a harder version of level 4. Again, the collectibles (2 balls and the key) have fixed positions, but there are also bricks that surround the 1st ball. Clicking bricks changes their position and turns the snake.

Here are some guideline steps:

1. Wait until the snake is below the brick case. Click the middle brick below the ball.
2. Wait until the snake's head is in line with the ball. Click the middle brick above the ball.
3. After collecting the 2nd ball, go between the pink bricks.

**Level 21**: 6 penguins labeled N, E, W, T, O and Y stand at the bottom. To get the key, you need to spell the English word form of 21 (TWENTY-ONE, ignore the dash). Since "E" is the last letter in "TWENTY ON**E**", the E penguin will always have the key necklace after spelling the word.

**Level 22**: Through the keyhole, the player can see a deep purple canvas. They can drag the front canvas around to reveal another draggable keyhole on the deep purple. The keyhole in the blue shows the background. Drag all 3 keyholes until you find the key (near the top left of the level window).

**Level 23**: 7 TVs stacked similarly to *Me and the Key* level 9 will show up. You can click the background on each TV to change the color or the penguin itself to change its height (not everything you make on one TV can be done on another one). Here, you'll want to make the background of each TV orange and the height of each penguin the lowest. The key will then drop from the top of the screen. Click the key to advance to the next level.

**Level 24**: There are now 20 balls you need to click. Just like before, the 20th ball will contain the key which will drop when clicked on. Click the key to advance to the next level.
**HINT**: Later on, try to focus on empty spaces rather than spaces with balls.

**Level 25** (★★★): This is the hardest level yet. You have a paddle and an orange ball. You want to hit the bricks (they destroy when hit) until all the bricks of that color are gone. Once you have eliminated a set of bricks, the next set appears. There are four sets: orange, blue, green, and pink. The pink bricks surround the key, making it harder. Once the ball touches the key, you win!

## Trivia

* It used to be a very searched game, but it has lost popularity likely due to the end of Flash and that it is no longer free to play on favourite websites. [1]
* This game uses the same soundtrack as *Me and the Key* but in stereo. [2]
	+ *furiosity* and *Me and the Key 3* use the same soundtrack with a touch of the electronic genre.
* Unlike the prequel, in the level select screen, if the player selects a level prior to their current one, their current level does not change to that level. Hence, they do not have to go through levels they have beaten to return to the level they were on.
* On Armor Games, this game has a button labeled "get a hint." However, rather than giving a hint in the game, the button takes the player to a worded walkthrough for all 25 levels in Armor Games.
* On level 20, if a brick goes to a position where part of the snake's body is, it will not restart the level as long as the snake's head is not touching it.