The answer key is the small figurine on top of the wardrobe. Copy its poses, in the order it shows them, and Aldous does his morning routine.
That is the whole puzzle. The reason it stops so many players is that the figurine reads as scenery — it is a decoration on a piece of furniture in a room full of decorations, and nothing in the scene points at it.
Solving it
- Aldous asks for his exercises. Do not start clicking poses yet.
- Look at the top of the wardrobe. There is a small figurine there.
- The figurine holds a pose. Match it on Aldous.
- Work through the poses it shows you in that order.
If you are on the mobile Lite build, the poses are set by dragging rather than tapping, and short drags register as taps instead. Drag slowly and past the target before releasing. That input quirk, not the puzzle, is what most Lite players are actually stuck on.
The achievement wants you to fail
Exercising with Mr. Aldous is a hidden achievement, and the official in-game clue is unusually direct about it:
"You have to make him move. How to fail at this task?"
To unlock it, do the exercises wrong. Click through the poses at random, ignore the figurine entirely, and keep going. Eventually Aldous gets stuck in a position and complains about it. That complaint is the trigger.
Two things worth knowing:
- Failing does not lock you out of finishing the routine properly afterwards.
- This is one of several deliberate-failure achievements in the game — the same pattern shows up with the bouquet and the goat, and with the champagne and the baby. A clean, competent playthrough misses all of them, which is why so many players finish the game at around half the achievement count. The full list is on the hidden achievements page.
Where this sits in the day
The exercises come at the end of the Aldous bedroom block on Day 1 Morning, after the wake-up sequence and the porridge. If you have not got that far, the strict order is:
curtains → clock to 7:00 → shave → clean the ear → earlobe to the raven → key → berries → bowl, porridge, spoon, berries.
Full context on the Day 1 walkthrough. This section is also in the free demo, so the demo walkthrough covers the same ground if that is where you are playing.