This is a nudgingly friendly and extended hint-based guide meant to gently push you along thru one of the tougher of the puzzle rooms in the game. Without giving you easy solutions thinly veiled as hints. (looking at you Polygon and IGN). The room in question: the Gallery.

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Disclaimer: Do not read this guide if you have not uncovered the first two rooms of this type.

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Spoiler Tags are Liberal To protect you from any possible premature reveals

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Although this is a spoiler-free guide, it does use spoiler tags—think of them as safety gloves for your curiosity. It’s here to help you solve the gallery and uncover a room. You probably will finish the game without seeing the gallery. Room 8 is your reward for solving the gallery. (Don’t spoil it for yourself unless you're ready.) When does it show up? Hard to say—but higher ranks and later days seem to help.

• Hint 0-ish:
  Sound out the descriptions, or whatever "actions" are happening!

You're presented with a gray-scale painting, that contains a spotlight, a chain of shackles or handcuffs, and the word "THICK" over a reflective surface on a earthen covered foreground with hills in the background. The shackles are held by a right hand that is at shooting across the night sky with a prominent comet-tail.
In order to start solving this you must observe how the elements are arranged. The spotlight is clearly on one thing it's on the word THICK, which should be a dead give away that you need to use that as your main focus of solving the puzzle. Things that stand out should be your first go-to. The other characters/elements in the images give you 'framing'...usually(general conceptual hint for helping you solve the puzzle).

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1. Okay I get it. but I'm unsure what to do here still...
   Hint:a)Free your mind. This is the most abstract part of this hint guide, and is explicitly b)"illustrated" in the puzzle.
   
   
2. Dude you're gonna have to be more explicitly than that
   Hint:Shackles = free your mind, but also something else needs to be freed. Take a minute look at the puzzle. What stands out?
   
   
3. Okay I get it. but just in case, can we talk about other parts I see here?
   Yes. Top, bottom or middle?
   Top. What's with the shackles and the hand-comet thingy?
   Hint: Well we discussed part of this in both hints 1 and 2, but there's more The right hand... could signify something on the right hand side of the puzzle needs to be freed?
   Hint B: There's a big spotlight on something. What stands out on that right hand side of that thing the spotlight is pointing at. If you free this from the rest you see a word play forming.
   
   
4. OH I see, but I want a more explicitly hint that will send it almost to home-base?
   Hint: Okay, so we notice the K is different. It's a thinner letter. And if I were to describe the letter by this , in a single short sentence what word do I get?
5. Basically the solution for the first thing:
   You get a thin letter K, which is some way a word play, its a verb, that you do in the process of freeing your mind.

You're presented with a gray-scale painting featuring two wagons, pointed in opposing directions seemingly midair. The wagons appear to be identical. But observe closer and you will see why. Each contains a rose, an apple, a fire hydrant, and a upside down inverted stop sign. But upon closer inspection, the one on the right has a large,letter “P,”. The background is most vacant sky with clouds of no discernible shape above rolling hills.
In order to solve this you will remember the theme of this gallery. We mentioned this earlier and Thing Number 1's solution gives us the immediate first hint to help solve the rest of the puzzle.

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1. Wow this one seems a lot harder, I'm not even sure where to start other than the thing you mentioned in the description.
   Hint 1: Well that's a good start. What does the right hand side wagon have going on? what do they both have going on?
   
   
2. I noticed all the items are the same, and they all could have one or two qualities shared, is that right?
   
   Hint: That's a good start and this one is less ambiguous at first that the others. They share a color right? and an orientation like somehow the left one and the right ones are the same if we didn't have that big fat P.
   
   
3. Yeah but so what, they all could be red
   
   Hint: But the one on the left is in the correct orientation, and if the one on the right were a mirror it would be exactly how it would look.
   
   
4. Cool so what?
   
   Hint: I know this one can be tough. Remember to be observant... the one on the Right hand side is different. so its the one we want to focus on. Right? So if all of it except the P is mirrored, and are a certain color.... describe what is happening on the right, maybe use some verbs.
   
   
5. Okay I think I get it, is it about flying wagons?
   
   Hint: No, its about red wagons that don't look the same and one has a P on it.........................don't be gross....
   Hint 6: I basically gave it to you the stuff on the left is red and has no P on it. but if the stuff on the right is mirrored can anything give us a literal clue?
   
   
6. I have no idea...
   
   Hint:Look at the stop sign.
   
   
7. I see, it's mirrored and upside-down... but what does that tell me?
   
   Hint:So far I have mentioned previous themes and synonyms must remain and the stop sign gives us a way to maybe use the words to our advantage. What happens when you invert the word "red" the same way as the stop sign, what does that spell?
   
   
8. It doesn't spell any word, red upside down is still red, but red upside down and reflected would be 'der' how does that tell me anything?
   
   Hint 8: Because it's part of a word that Hint 6 mentioned, now you have a word related to the theme right?
   Hint: One last time....The P on the mirrored wagon isn't mirrored its correctly oriented, but the red wagon isn't so its 'der'....No more lifelines will be given for this puzzle.

You're presented with another grey-scale painting, but this one is a perspective shot of a landscape or room filled with disembodied non-paired eyes. However in the middle of the frame, are 4 objects aimed at hinting the answer. At the center is a squat wooden table crafted clearly in the shape of block letters that read "VERI". Placed on this table is a wine bottle labeled "GENU" and a half filled wine glass (where some monster has put an ice cube in it). Behind this is a billboard or sign that is angled in a pointed perspective towards the light on a horizon. The sign says "ACTUAL OBJECTIVE=>".
Hopefully at this point you have gained some understanding as to how these puzzles are to be solved, but they can still be tricky. Remember to 'think'

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1. Okay okay, this one seems a little more on the nose, it has to do with all the eyes right?
   Hint: Well yes...but also the words, and the sign and the god awful sin done to that wine....No I'm not kidding.
   
   
2. Hmm...well where should I start? after what I said was technically correct?
   Hint 2:Great, what do all the letters have in common? They all...spell words right? What are the words they spell?
   
   
3. Theyspell related words? but what does wine have to do with that?
   Hint:For starters its criminal on the flavor, and a hint at word play: Wine should be serve with no...ice...which sounds like?
   
   
4. Ice and eyes?
   Hint 4:Bingo! So now, imagine you have a stereotypical southern car salesmen and your gonna use a word that means something similar to "actual" and many people say it like "in" but you are gonna say in like "wine".
   
   
5. Wow that is a stretch...Gen-yu-wine?
   Hint 5:Yup, but wine with no what?, it and veri have no...
   
   
6. Uh..No Ice? No Eyes!?
   Hint:Correct
   Hint:So if Gen and Veri have no Eyes... and we are talking about things we do with our brain, and are actual things... you're looking for a synonym.
   
   
7. Okay, I'll give it a whirl!
   Hint:If your still stuck, your eyes let you observe it, and its the only perception of this world you have, it means actual, and genuine and is the perceived perception... and may just have the the plural for Eye as a suffix?

Before you is a chamber,
Lined with bins bearing the names of vices or sins.
At the center of this room upon two stone plinths,
Stands a sculpture of infinity filled with pins.
At its feet, an ambiguous hide, some poor animal's skin,
lying flat, tying the room together within.
To the left a wall is adorned by a framed shark's fin,
and to the right is a door... come on in .
So.... you should have everything you need. But If you dont know, an Eight (8) is just a sideway infinity.You should try to rhyme and find the rhyme in the description and use portmanteau style wordplay again....

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1. But I can't
   Hint:Well my little rhymey description has enough info to help you but you should start with what you know about word-play and modes of thought.
   
   
2. Okay so it's about thinking right?
   Hint:Yes, and word play and things that rhyme and synonyms, and thinking so find the intersection of those.
   
   
3. I still cant get this very well and I'm tired
   Hint:So this one is probably the easiest next to the first even though its the longest. if you aren't sulking, but your thinking and its related to a type of animal you are halfway there.
   
   
4. A what? Now I'm more confused.
   Hint:Okay... number... rhymes... explicit location of say image contents...
   Hint:This is the 8th room right? sideways infinity? and its in a room...go ahead and sit on that for a while and rearrange those terms to figure out a word that begins with the letter R its its definitely some room where that 8 is in...

Thats it, the rest is fluff. it is helpful, but not necessary.

First a little background that can be helpful about framing. Fair warning, it can push you towards solutions more than you want, so I am going to hide parts of it.

Typically when you go to a this place/gallery they tend to be by one person or thing/theme. This is true with this room and I would start with the shortest. The theme/thing is "types of actions you do with your mind, or modes of this ....". Yes that is ambiguous but necessary and they are all at minimum partial synonyms.

In the Gallery, you’ll find four paintings by Christopher Manson, each tied to a puzzle like those in the Parlor or Billiard Room. Solving two unlocks the first chest; solving all four unlocks something rarer. Start with the paintingon the right—it’s the simplest. The puzzles can be solved just by observing the artwork, but you can scroll through the letter slots if you need help.
Some rooms contain clues that can assist with the Gallery—but they might also spoil the fun. Use them at your own risk.

• The security room has a computer glossary with entries that tell the answers.
  
• Another room with a pedagogical figure includes a clue or two appearing at higher ranks.

Solution 1: Thin-k.

Solution 2: P-on the red (flip red).

Solution 3: Real Eyes.

Solution 4: Cows are Ruminates .