Box
Box noun - A covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things.
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Nearby Word: boxed
Portals
Both words in one sentence
- Even stranger, at the end of the episode, the portals are rearranged such that each universe contains a box containing itself.
Source: Up the Real Rabbit Hole - In Portal, there is a puzzle in which the player must use portals to send a rocket towards some glass and shatter it to get to a box, which can be used to climb into a vent to continue the game.
Source: Combinatorial Explosion -
Portal started off as this, being focused on puzzles that require thinking with non-Euclidean portals, and was first released in The Orange Box compilation alongside the heavyweights of Half-Life 2, its episodic sequels, and Team Fortress 2, seeming very small by comparison.
Source: Dancing Bear
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