Solve
Unlock
Unlock verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).
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- The Conduit requires the player to solve a minigame to unlock secret weapons caches.
Source: Mini-Game -
It's a "Playable Epilogue" because it's the only chance you get to unlock the True Ending route and solve the game's last dangling plot threads.
Source: Video Game / Persona 4 - Each of the Professor Layton games has mini-games you can solve during the course of the main story in order to unlock bonus puzzles, but one of the mini-games in Diabolical Box is actually required in order to finish the game.
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