The most frequent layout failure stems from misreading panel orientation and emotional momentum. In the heartbreak chapter setups, players routinely marry Edgar and Lenore in frame one, drop Lenore into the grave in frame two, and place Lenore's ghost facing Edgar on the cliff in frame three.
Edgar stands still. He covers his face. He refuses to drop.
[Frame 1: Wedding] -> [Frame 2: Death] -> [Frame 3: Ghost Confrontation (Cliff)] = STALL
The puzzle fails because Edgar has no reason to fear Lenore. He loved her. Meeting her spirit at the cliff merely reminds him of his loss. To make the ghost wife actively cause his fall through fear, Edgar must possess a reason to fear retribution, or the fright must be engineered through sudden confrontation where his back is already turned to the drop.
If the level variant involves Isobel, the dynamics pivot to infidelity and guilt. When Edgar moves on and marries Isobel after Lenore's death, Lenore's ghost transforms from a tragic specter into an agent of vengeance. When Edgar encounters the apparition of the wife he abandoned or replaced, the interaction tag flips from mournful grief to panicked recoil.
