If a room is drafted such that a doorway leads into the back wall of the Closed Exhibit, a control panel appears in place of a boarded-up doorway. The panel has a small window that opens to allow a peek into the Closed Exhibit, as well as three buttons.
The "REVEAL TRIPWIRE" button reveals that there is an invisible set of laser tripwires around the crown (although contained to the cordoned off area). The button's text changes to "HIDE TRIPWIRE" and can be pressed to return to the default state.
The "LOWER BARRIER" button removes the barrier surrounding the crown. The button's text changes to "RAISE BARRIER" and can be pressed to return to the default state. If the area behind the barrier is entered, regardless of if the tripwires are shown or not, a cage appears around the crown, preventing access.
The "RESET ALARM SYSTEM" button, when pressed, causes the tripwires to vanish and starts a 10 second timer. After the timer ends, the tripwires return and are hidden even if they were set to be shown. If the cage was lowered around the crown from hitting the tripwires, this also brings the cage back up.
To obtain the crown, rooms must be drafted such that the button can be pressed and you can run through other rooms quickly enough to each the Closed Exhibit before the timer after pressing "RESET ALARM SYSTEM" runs out. Doing this makes the cage not drop, making it possible to obtain the crown.
- If the timer runs out and you are standing in the area covered by the tripwires, the cage will appear by the crown, regardless of whether it is grabbed or not.
- With a good set of rooms (minimal obstacles in the direct path), the crown is reachable fast enough with a loop of 6 rooms, but it is easiest to collect with the shortest possible 4 room loop.
Collecting the crown shows that the crown is the Paper Crown. (See its page for details.)
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If the reset button is pressed between 1:28:20PM and 1:35:00PM, the timer starts at 60 instead of 10, making it very easy to get to the front side of the exhibit in time.
- This only applies the first time this time range is reached in the day; waiting 24 in-game hours to reach it again does not work.