1.30.2014

Water well maze | Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice




1. From the map pull back and turn right around the corner.
Turn around and see the circle water well.
We want to go across based on the map.
Go forward and see that the water is down.
Turn left and fill this circle well by turning the wheel counterclockwise.
Now cross the bridge.

2. Now we're in #2 in the map.
Turn to the right just after crossing the floating bridge.
We want to go to point 3.
Drain the circle well by turning the wheel clockwise.
Turn left and go down the ladder one level down.
Turn around and cross the bridge.

3. We are now in point 3.
Time to empty this circle well.
Turn to the right and turn the wheel clockwise to drain circle well.

4. Turn left and go down the ramp to see triangle well.
Cross the bridge.
We are now point 4 at the map.
Immediately turn to the right.
Turn the wheel to drain the triangle well in preparation for #8.

5. Go up the ramp to see a drained diamond well.
Turn left and fill the triangle well so we can go across.

6. Cross the bridge and be at point 6.
Turn right and drain the triangle well.
Go to the ladder and go down to the next level.

7. Cross the bridge.
We are now at point 7 of the diamond well.
Turn right and drain the diamond well.

8. Go down the ramp to point 8 and see the floating bridge.
Do not cross.
Turn left and drain triangle well.

9. Go back up the ramp to diamond well.
See that there is a floating bridge here caused by draining the other well.
Cross the bridge and go up the ladder to point 9.
Turn around and forward.
Turn left and let us fill diamond well.
Go back to the ladder and climb up.

10. We are now in point 10.
Turn around and forward to the wheel.
Turn left and fill diamond well so we can get to the ultimate ladder.

Ladder: Cross the bridge and see the passage on the left.
Go forward, left and climb the ladder.
Safe place (at last in more ways than one):

Light: Turn around from the ladder. We need light.
Look close at that faint yellow thing at left. Take the flashlight.

Take the flashlight from the stand. Pull back.
Take the flashlight from inventory and click it forward until the metal door.

The loot:
See a keypad. Use the numbers taken from the microdot of the pigeon message.
Press 4 3 5 5 6.
Enter through the metal door. See a crate. Check the crate and see that it is mailed to one seen at the postcard and mailed dropped after a smashing encounter your first day here.

Check what is inside and see Carnevale mask. Open one and see the loot.

The door is closed, water starts flowing.

Save yourself: Go to the left and look close at the gauges.
You need to place the gauge all at the center line.
Be sure that when you adjust the gauges that you do not have any reach the top or the game ends.
After studying what gauge affects others: (left to right):

Do this fast:
Click 2 down clockwise twice.
Click 1 up counterclockwise 5 times.
Click 3 down clockwise 3 times.
Click 5 up counterclockwise 4 times only.
Click 4 down clockwise twice only.
Click 5 up counterclockwise once.
Click 4 down clockwise twice. Whew!
Exit, climb rope ladder and report.

Fax machine Puzzle | Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice



Go to Fango's office at Campo del Frari.
Check and note down the notes of the music played by the horse music box.

Enter the number see at the back of the wireless flyer = 111#046.
It printed out a set of dots with notes. Ah, they look like the phone number pad.
Click the number pad code on the Fax dial.

Using the printed number pad code as reference, enter the notes of the music box: 
mi, re, do, si, la, re, re, do, la, fi, sol, do, mi, do, do, sol, sol, mi, fa, re, re, re, la, si, re, do on the number pad.

Press: 2 9 1 # * 9 9 1 * 7 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 2 6 9 9 9 * # 9 1.

Chinese Box Puzzle | Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice



Check the note on the pillow of Nancy's bed. It's a parting letter from Colin-Justin.
Exit the room and look at the Chinese Puzzle box on Colin's work table.
Nancy shakes the box as overheard from the phone call of Tazza.
It opens and Chinese characters are seen.
If you haven't yet, go buy the book "An Introduction to Chinese Symbols" from the kiosk at Piazza San Marco.
Go back to the Chinese Box at the Ca'.
Translate the Chinese characters. Let's try the 4 elements: Press wood, mountain, fire and water.

Coded chess puzzle | Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice


Learn that Scaramuccia likes to use the algebraic style of chess notation.
The main question to be presented to Scaramuccia is Palazzo Zattere.
Review the Chess book bought at the kiosk. Study the graph of columns and rows of letters-numbers that can be used as codes. Zattere is coded this way;

 Z = KB1, A =  KA4, T = KD2, T = KD2, E = KE4, R = KB2, E = KE4.

Click on the chess piece icon and play with Scaramuccia.
Using the chess notation codes, type in using your keyboard as answers to Scaramuccia postings:  

KB1, KA4, KD2, KD2, KE4, KB2, KE4. 
Press enter after each answer.

1.28.2014

Niko's video system | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device

This is similar to the security video monitor lock.
The aim of the puzzle is to click on 5 points to light up the board green.
There is a reset button below the charges panel at left. The points can be clicked on in any order.

Amateur

Master


Find the password for Niko's video system:
The monitor asks for a password.
Remember the clue heard in Niko's diary and shown by the pigeon.
Enter the number of the 1902 patent: 1119732. Press enter key.
Press the play arrow. Watch the unedited video and see Niko's killer.

Capacitors colors puzzle | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device

Arrange the capacitors taken from Ellie's office so that there are no similar colors in the row or column for amateur. Master must not have similar colors on the same row, column or diagonal.

Before you place the capacitors on the frame, right click to turn them so that the labels are all at the same place (top or bottom).

Amateur

Master

Bookcase puzzle | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device



Topsy the performer is the condemned elephant's name.
Ohm's Law is V=IR (from Mason's White Board).
Mark Twain is Tesla's good friend from the book of his life.
The Tungsten Divide - Element #74 is W (Tungsten) seen at Periodic Table on board at lower level.
Marconi TransAtlantic Quest - as mentioned in the book in the bedroom closet; Marconi is the incorrect radio patent holder.
Chicago is the 1893 Columbian Expo Site mentioned in the book by the 3D printer.
Guinevere and Lancelot - Sagramor's fellow knight is Sir Launcelot from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Make a design | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device

Look close at Mason's monitor. Open component design 5.5.
See the 4 layers squares at left and Ryan's design at right.
Ryan's design shows the 4 sides. The puzzle on the left is by layers from top to bottom.
Start on bottom layer and copy the arrangement of the cubes.
Take note that this is a 4x3 grid.

Amateur

Master

Shapes colors puzzle | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device

Amateur

Amateur: Clues from Ellie's notes about the passcode for the control booth:
The red shape is pressed neither first or last.
The green shape is pressed immediately after the diamond.
The yellow shape is pressed last.
The blue shape is a star.
The purple shape isn't pressed first.
The square isn't red. The purple shape, the diamond and the circle are pressed in order.
The triangle is pressed second.
The circle is pressed before the yellow shape.



Master

Master: Clues from Ellie's notes about the passcode for the control booth:
The yellow shape is pressed after the purple one.
The star is pressed sometime before the circle.
The blue shape is pressed immediately before the green one and sometime after the red one.
The yellow shape is not the star or the second one pressed.
The square is pressed sometime before the triangle which is pressed sometime before the circle.
The purple shape is pressed before the star, which is pressed before the triangle.
The circle is neither red not the last shape pressed.
The diamond is pressed immediately after the blue shape which is pressed after the star.

Escape from photo lab | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device



Exit the workshop. Someone hits Nancy on the head.
Nancy wakes up at the photo lab. There is a bar at top right of screen that shows the air content of the room.
Intercom:    Use the intercom right of door. Press the talk button and hear Ellie. She says she's also locked in. She's in the control booth. Ellie says to use the air duct.
Air duct:    Turn right and see a ribbon hanging from the air vent in the ceiling.
Click on the air vent to climb up to the air duct. It's hot in here.

Amateur:    Go F, F, F, L, F (173), R, L (121), L, R, R, L, R, R (005), L and F to vent on floor.

Master:    Go F, first  L, F, R, F, R, L, L, L, R, R, L, L, R, L, L, R, R, far R, R, L, R, L. Go to the vent on the floor.

Photolithography etching machine | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device



Turn right and look close at the photolithography etching machine.
Pour the formula in brown bottle on the tank (#1) at left.
Place the printed circuit design on the image tray (#2) below the monitor.
Place the silicon wafer on the tray for blank wafers (#3).
Press the red start button (#4).
This process takes 12 hours.

Etching solution | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device



Prepare the etching solution:

Go back to the mixing booth left of the supply cabinet. The HF automatically goes on the shelf.

The Solutions book says to use for Amateur: 3 parts of Hydrofluoric acid (HF) + 1 part Nitric Acid (HNO3) + 4 parts Water (H2O) for silicon base wafers.

Take Hydrofluoric acid (HF) and pour some on the 3 ml graduated cylinder. Take the poured acid and empty it on the white beaker.
Take Nitric acid (HNO3) and pour some on the 4 ml graduated cylinder. Pour the 4 ml Nitric acid in graduated cylinder on to the 3 ml cylinder. Pour the remaining 1 ml of Nitric acid in the graduated cylinder into the white beaker.

Take the water (H2O) on the sink and pour some into the 4 ml graduated cylinder. Pour the 4 ml water into the white beaker.
Take the mixture in the white beaker and pour it into one of the brown bottle on the top shelf at left to get formula.
If an error is made, pour it in the Hazardous waste disposal at right.
The Solutions book says to use for Master: 2 parts of Hydrofluoric acid (HF) + 2 parts Nitric Acid (HNO3) + 1 part Water (H2O) for silicon base wafers.

Take Hydrofluoric acid (HF) and pour some on the 3 ml graduated cylinder. Pour the 3 ml into the 4 ml graduated cylinder.
Fill the 3 ml cylinder HF again. Pour the 3 ml again into the 4 ml cylinder leaving 2 ml in the 3 ml cylinder. Take this 2 ml acid and empty it on the white beaker.

Empty the 4 ml cylinder into the Hazardous waste disposal at right.
Do the same for the Nitric acid. Take Nitric acid (HNO3) and pour it on 3 ml graduated cylinder. Pour the 3 ml into the 4 ml graduated cylinder.

Fill the 3 ml cylinder HNO3 again. Pour the 3 ml again into the 4 ml cylinder leaving 2 ml in the 3 ml cylinder. Take this 2 ml acid and empty it on the white beaker.

Empty the 4 ml cylinder into the Hazardous waste disposal at right.
Take the water (H2O) on the sink and pour some on the 4 ml graduated cylinder. Pour the 4 ml water in graduated cylinder on to the 3 ml cylinder. Pour the remaining 1 ml of water in the graduated cylinder into the white beaker.

Take the mixture in the white beaker and pour it into one of the brown bottle on the top shelf at left to get formula.

Koko Mallos Memory puzzle | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device

This is a memory puzzle.

Press the yellow button at the center to start the puzzle. See colored buttons of the machine light up.
Press the colored buttons the same order as seen when the buttons light up.

Press for Amateur: blue, brown, brown, blue, brown, blue, blue.

Press fro Master: pink, blue, green, green, blue, pink, green, blue, pink.

Gray's charges puzzle | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device


Amateur

Master


Open the drawer of Gray's desk.
Look at the tablet and see a 5x6 grid. This is similar to the 5x6 grid on the white board that has all green circles. Remember the note that mentions 5 charges below the drawing.
The aim of the puzzle is to click on 5 points that will light up the board green. The points can be clicked on in any order.

Mason's computer Password | Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device



Check the whiteboard on left wall. 
Some of the letters are in orange colors: E E O M A N W T O L S S T H.

See 2 sets of lines at bottom left. There is an apostrophe on the first set.
If the first set is TESLA'S. The remaining set of letters can be arranged as HOMETOWN.

Based on the book at the lounge bedroom closet - Tesla came from Smiljan in Croatia.
Type in Smiljan on the computer. Press enter key.