Goal and Lock

Goal

Goal noun - Something that one hopes or intends to accomplish.

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Lock and goal are semantically related in door topic. In some cases you can use "Lock" instead a noun "Goal".

Nearby Words: goalless, goalie

Lock noun - One that is certain to succeed.

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Goal and lock are semantically related in door topic. Sometimes you can use "Goal" instead a noun "Lock".

Nearby Words: locked, lockup, locker, locket, lockout

good	good goal	good lock
single	single goal	single lock
simple	simple goal	simple lock
actual	actual goal	actual lock
Other adjectives: big, secret, new, final, different, said.

Don't Escape turns the genre on its head: it opens with "I wake up in a room, it is not locked, and I remember.. everything." The player's character is a werewolf due to transform that night, and their goal is to lock themselves in to prevent the werewolf escaping and attacking innocent people.

Source: Room Escape Game
Two-Keyed Lock: A common puzzle type, where the player will have to keep several doors open in a long passageway (for a long time) so that the goal at the other end can be reached.

Source: Video Game / Deadly Rooms of Death
However the latter example is arguably a zigzagged trope since Van Dough's ultimate goal was to gain access to the 'wealth' of the Rich family vault; but the catch was that the vault was sealed with a voice lock that requires the Rich parents to open it.

Source: Film / Richie Rich

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