House of Wonders

[Freddy]

nancygevans wrote:
1° I had 8 keys coming back from 16495 to 16696.
2° I had 7 keys coming back from 16497 etc. Did I miss a key there? If so, it must be purple because that's what I need to continue in 16696.
3° I can go on down the pole but then I can't find a way back to 16696.

1° Perfect.
2° You are missing the 8th key, but I can't confirm that it should be a purple one. :-X
3° The door puzzle in # 16696 is a very complex and an extremely tough one. But it is also built in a way that it is ALWAYS possible to continue pole-down at any time, when one is out of ideas (or keys). The challenge is, of course, to find

everything

before going down. Compare it with the previous problem, where you need to find the rugsack to be able to take EIGHT keys with you. But without the rugsack, there wasn't a Jack-stuck.

Good luck!