Ruby Passage combines conveyor belts, rubbish blocks, snowball routes and pinball puzzles. The routes below cover the four Jewel Pieces, Keyzer and CD in each level on Normal. Learn the escape shortcuts before pressing each Frog Switch.
The Curious Factory
Move right over the conveyor belts and climb using the large rotating wheels. Wario’s weight turns a wheel when he stands on a side platform. Collect the first Jewel Piece beneath the second wheel, waiting for a usable landing rather than jumping onto a platform moving away.
The presses create Flat Wario for narrow gaps. Water or the restoration machine returns him to normal. For the second Jewel Piece, descend the ladder in the later conveyor section and follow the corridor. The fire transformation also opens the block guarding the healing route. Climb back to the upper belts for the Keyzer, then drop right toward the switch.
The 3:30 escape opens the corridor to the right of the upper route. Collect the third Jewel Piece below the platforms. Let a press flatten Wario, glide down the shaft where the frog blocks disappeared and steer into the narrow side opening. Behind the restoration machine is Driftwood & the Island Dog.
Leave the CD room by the lower route and head left over the wheels. Open the fourth Jewel Piece chest beyond the low passage, then take the nearby pipe toward the start. Avoid being flattened again on the final approach to the vortex.
The Toxic Landfill
Break downward and then right through the rubbish blocks. Some look like ordinary walls, so test the suspicious blocks along the route. Take an apple to break the heavy floor as Fat Wario and collect the first Jewel Piece below. Continue through the following doors for the second.
In the hammer-enemy room, become Spring Wario and jump through the right-hand ceiling opening. The upper door leads to the third Jewel Piece. For The Judge’s Feet, search beneath the next rubbish corridor. Ground Pound through the breakable floor and work sideways through the stacked television blocks to the metal box. Complete this search before starting the timer.
The Frog Switch gives you 5:00. Use the newly accessible apple thrower to become Fat Wario and break left through the hard blocks. Below, use the hammer enemy to spring up to the Keyzer. Continue left to the next shaft, drop from sufficient height through the hard floor and follow the openings and ladders back upward.
The fourth Jewel Piece is near the start in the previously blocked archer area. Open the chest before deliberately taking the arrow that creates Puffy Wario. Float up to the raised vortex with all four pieces and the Keyzer.
40 Below Fridge
Climb past the conveyors and use a long Ground Pound to break the hard floor. Let falling snow create Snowman Wario, then roll from the small slope through the snow barriers. The first Jewel Piece waits through the following doorway.
Search the stacked narrow passages before taking the apparent exit. The lower tunnel beneath the diamond routes leads to the Keyzer. Return to the tunnel entrance and deliberately choose that lower opening, then continue into the next snow room.
Climb the icy framework, become a snowman and roll through the next barrier. Use the ladder beyond for the second Jewel Piece. Pick up snow higher in the room, drop to the small slope and begin the longer rolling route. The door after it leads to the third piece; search the lower-left portion of the next room for the fourth. Open both chests before rolling through the lower passage to the Frog Switch.
With 4:00 remaining, climb the newly opened ladder and take the snowball route over the slope and down the long drop. Clear the blocks to the ladder back toward the start. Before exiting, return right into the conveyor room for the CD route. Crawl through, break the block beneath or beside the CD box, then loop back through the starting area and approach right again. The opened low passage now reaches The Moon’s Lamppost. Return left to the vortex.
Pinball Zone
Each pinball room contains four black balls and four blue targets. Throw a ball into each target when its opening is ready. Ground Pound to shake a ball from an awkward shelf. The number block tracks the remaining targets, and completing it releases a valuable gold coin.
After the first room, roll down the slope and backtrack slightly before the next door. Break into the enclosed space for the first Jewel Piece. The second is on the raised right side of the second ball room. In the jungle room, become Fat Wario to break the hard floor for the third, then carry the lower ball upward for the middle target.
In the connecting room after that puzzle, climb to the high corner for Soft Shell before taking the door on the right. The next ball room contains the fourth Jewel Piece on the right. Finish its targets and search the fragile walls for the balls needed to open the route to the Frog Switch.
The 6:00 escape still includes two ball rooms. In the first, free the balls on the left, use the right-hand platforms for two targets and climb left for the others. Collect the Keyzer while dropping through the exit shaft. In the last room, shake the upper balls down for the high targets and search the breakable blocks near the Yeti for the lower ones. Complete the targets, then follow the rolling slopes back to the vortex.
Boss: Cuckoo Condor
Normal mode gives you 4:00. Bait the claw by briefly standing beneath the clock, then move sideways. Shoulder-charge the lowered claw so that it strikes the clock, and retreat before the next attack. Jump the later ground pulses and avoid the saws before attempting another counter.
After the clock breaks, catch the eggs before they land and throw them upward at the small bird on the condor’s head. Hatched chicks explode, so move away from them instead of waiting nearby with another egg. Keep the fight fast enough to preserve the chests; Big Fist from the Item Shop can shorten a difficult attempt. Continue to Topaz Passage after collecting the reward.