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What if two middle panels of new version got removed?
Open chest success - open door fail
Close enough to keep the reader's mind on "open stuff with a key" concept.

perhaps a mix of both was better
opens chest > leaves cave > in front of the house searches the key on his pocket > remember chest
the redo lacks the punchline, since when i looked at it originally i did think? wats the joke? since at the end it lacked any kind of punchline

Original version:
*Man comes up to a door
*Man searches for something
*Man remembers locked chest
If I had to guess, I'd say the joke was "adventurer returned home from treasure adventure, but forgot to get actual treasure". Key would not have come into my mind at all.

works either way I think.

i might be the odd one, but i think the redo one does explain the joke worse

while the previous version he goes to the house, tries to find the keys and realises what he used them on a chest he opened previously explains it better

Yeah, the final version does a much better job setting up the joke.

I agree, the final version explains it better, since it gives more info with the "open chest?" prompt, and the number of keys in the bottom. On a related note, he should have put his house keys as a "quest item" (or "key item"?), to avoid mixing it with his expendable ones...

The new layout works pretty well after all. Especially the "can't see the last panel ahead of time aspect" (seen on PC).

It can actually make sense in a way. For instance it is pretty logical mechanics if a consumable "key" is in fact a blank, which can be ground to fit particular lock as a one-way conversion.

Yeap, new version makes more sense.