Tunnel maze | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

Look for another way out:

The timer starts. You can save throughout the tunnel part of the game and it will stop the timer.

Turn around from door. See a pile of carton boxes right of desk.

Move the boxes out of the way to reveal a rusted door.

Use the screwdriver taken from the alcohol boxes on the hinges of the rusted door. Exit.

Tunnel maze:

See the start of the tunnel maze.

Follow Option C clues from the Dust and Dirt book to select which is the correct door to go through next.

Remember which door you came out of and then turn right or left to check the icons and number of doors in that room.

Then use the rules of option C. Good luck.

This chart goes left to right. Go to the door with the shown icon and then go through that door to the next room.

Go forward and climb the metal ladder. Go up on another metal ladder to the hatch cover.

Take The Clues Challenge medallion hanging from the hatch. Exit.

Enter the Police Station. Nancy reports to Chief McGinnis.

Watch the live broadcast from the burned Town Hall.

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Antenna box | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

Hook the jammer to Brenda's van:

Antenna colored wires connection:    Place the jammer at right slot.

Connect the wheels of the same color without the wires crossing another wire.

Click on a colored wheel. Move the cursor with lit wire on the path you want the wire to go through. Once the wire reaches the other similarly colored wheel - do not click - leave the lit wire there and work on another wheel.

When the wires are connected and all lit up; press the activated button at bottom right.

The broadcast is jammed.

A key falls out. Take the key that has a label 5C21B.

Junior

Senior

Find a way into the tunnels:

Face the back of the van. See an active spot on the floor.

Open the floor tile and see a hatch.  Open the hatch and go down.

Turn around, forward and go left. Check each door on the left and see that they are labeled.

Go to the end of the tunnel and climb the metal ladder, you will come out to the Town Hall parking lot.

While standing at the edge of the parking lot facing the burned Town Hall pan left and see the metal hatch of the tunnel.

Go back down.

Discover what Brenda's keys opens:

5C21B door:    The door marked 5C21B is the third door from the metal ladder by the van or the town hall. It is the middle one of the 5 doors.

Use the key on the door. Enter and look around.

See a box on the left full of isopropyl alcohol; the town hall fire accelerant. Take the screwdriver from top of the far box.

Check to take the bag full of evidence on the chair. It has bottle of alcohol, snowflake, ice cube trays and matchbox.

The baddie arrives. She throws the jammer on the floor.  She confronts Nancy and then locks her in.

See a target with Nancy's silhouette right of the door.

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Jammer connection | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

Go home to Drew house. Talk to George at the living room.

She needs a battery for something that can stop Brenda's broadcast.

Go upstairs to Nancy's bedroom. Take the battery left of the false teeth from the top drawer of the desk.

Go back down to the living room.

A stone was thrown and breaks the window. It has a nasty note about arsonists. The townspeople are beginning to rise against Nancy.

Jammer connection:    Nancy gives the battery to George.

George wants Nancy to complete the connections of the jammer.

See the battery at lower left. Connect the lines to light up all the lines. All lines should be connected (no open lines). Turn the lines by clicking on it.

Junior

 Senior

Take the completed jammer from the table. Nancy has to attach it to the antenna.

Go to the antiques store and enter the van.

Go forward once and turn right to see the antenna box on the right wall.

Open the antenna box.

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Dust and Dirt book | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

 Go to Alexei at the antique shop. Talk to him and ask for advice.

Learn more about the tunnels. Alexei's clue is a book on the shelf that should be read cover to cover.

Dust and Dirt book:    Turn around from Alexei and forward to the shelf left of the trunk.

Take and read the Dust and Dirt book. Turn to the back of the book and examine the 2 sheets of paper.

There's a hidden entrance in front of the antique shop. Aha!

Shape puzzle:    See a sequence of 6 shapes in 5 frames.

The 6th frame is one of the 3 frames below. Which one is it?

Choose the correct letter and then follow the rules of the selected letter in the next page to navigate the tunnels.

The 6th frame is C (junior); B (senior).

Tunnel navigation clues:    Check the next page and see that Option C (junior) or B (senior) show several criteria.

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Bess' interview | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

Call Brenda. Answer the recording - yes for reporting breaking news.

Go to the antique shop. Enter the van and see that Brenda is gone.

Check the isopropyl alcohol beside the microphone on the counter.

Bess' interview:    Look close at the monitor and play (press green arrow) Bess' interview. See Deirdre at background talking on her cell phone.

Find out what Deirdre is saying on the tape:    See the audio panel at right of the monitor.

There are 5 channels and they are labeled on top for the levels and the bottom is for frequency.

Adjust each channel's sound frequency and level so that Deirdre's voice is isolated and the others are removed.

Move the buttons on each channel. Listen to find where Deirdre's voice is the loudest and the main sound as shown by label - me, Bess... is the least heard.

Do one channel at a time to blank out the other sounds.

Once the adjustment is correct the slider arrow cannot be moved anymore and the numbers turns green.

When all are adjusted; press the play button. Hear that Deirdre couldn't find something; she knows it is here.

Channel 1 level = ~ 35.

Channel 2 level = ~75.

Channel 3 level = ~96 to 100.

Channel 4 level = ~50.

Channel 5 level = ~100.

Me frequency = ~93

Bess frequency = -87 to -99

Cars frequency = ~27.

Birds frequency = -73 to 83.

Bugs frequency = -100.

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Evidence police board | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

 Go to suspect board and place the new evidence taken on their respective suspect's board.

These are everything Nancy needs. When you think all evidence are correctly placed; press the intercom button to call Chief McGinnis.

Suspects again:

As Bess:   

Talk to Toni at Scoop about paint and lawsuits. 

As Ned:    Ask Ned to distract Deirdre again. Change to Ned.

Go to Scoop and ask Deirdre to go out for lunch.

Nancy calls Ned. Call Bess to check Deirdre's things.

As Bess:    

Check Deirdre's notebook. Turn the page and take traffic ticket RH627E401.

Deliver traffic ticket to the station's drop box. Change to Nancy.

As Nancy:    Take the ticket from the drop box. Go to the computer at the corner.

Click on TicketShark icon. Using your own keyboard, type in RH627E401 in the citation number frame. Click "find" button.

It shows that Deirdre ran a red light by Town Hall close to the time the alarm was switched off.

As Bess:  Talk to Deirdre about the ticket.

As George:  

Talk to Alexei about any possible dialogue.

Go to Nancy's house and go to the living room at left.

Check the shelf left of the fireplace. Take the accelerant chromatograph chart.

Deliver chromatograph chart to the station's drop box. Change to Nancy.

As Nancy:    Pick up the items at the drop box.

Chromatograph result:    Nancy takes the chromatograph chart and compares it to the accelerant result.

Click on 45 under Isopropyl alcohol.

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Lock pick the file cabinet | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

If you haven't read the lock pick book; go to Nancy's desk in her bedroom. Open the bottom drawer and review the lock pick codes.

Decode the picture label at bottom left. The asterisks are vowels.

It states: File cabinet: Every second one.

Note that the code-picture starts with the R(ed) and goes clockwise.

Go back to Scoop. Play Swap A Lot until the delivery truck honks and Toni leaves the counter.

Use the key on the supply room door. Enter and look close at the file cabinet.

 Use the lock pick tool on the cabinet to see the case open beside the lock.

Place the colored picks in the correct order shown by the lock pick book for file cabinets. The lock pick first inserted is the one at bottom right, going clockwise.

The picture shows yellow at bottom right; red at bottom left, blue at top left and green at top right.

If a pick needs to be removed, right click it and replace with the correct one.

The "every second one" code stated by the book is:

R - Y - B - G - G - G - B - R - Y - R - B.

R is red; Y is yellow; B is blue and G is green.

Click each of the picks in order stated.

The file cabinet opens. Read the R-17 and Clean up folders.

Toni has litigation for the land use of a historic building - the town hall. She (The Heights Development) wants to replace the existing historic building with a 7 story mixed use complex. Check the letter and the picture of the building behind the front papers.

The Clean up folder has all her notes about Nancy's and her "cohorts" activities that resulted in the lowering of the city's approval rating and increased expenditures.

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Computer's password | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

Go to the computer left of the microwave and Hannah's goodies. Click on the monitor and it asks for a password.

The paper seen on top drawer of locker 205 states:    Each row and column must have one number and only one selected, can't use same number twice.

Select one number that is not repeated in other rows or columns. Pull back resets the puzzle.

Junior - Top row going down: press 3, 2, 4 and 1. 

Senior - Top row going down: press 3, 5, 4 1 and 2. 

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Open the Evidence Locker 205 | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

As Nancy:

Go to the hallway left of the Chief's office to be at the front desk. Do NOT exit the building.

Open the Items Received compartment on the wall. Take the evidence locker 205 key that was dropped off.

Go to the evidence locker and use the key on locker 205.

Open the top drawer and read the computer password paper. Take the suspects interrogation disk. Study the Krolmeister locking system manual.

Open the bottom drawer and take Nancy's things: cell phone, house keys and the lock pick kit.

Unlock the middle drawer:    Read the Krolmeister manual that is at top drawer.

The aim of the puzzle is to light up the colored status bars at the bottom and have the connection indicator lines on top to be all green.

Click on the tabs outside the triangles to see which tab makes active green connections.

Press in tabs (l-r): top left, bottom, top right, bottom left and right.

Read Nancy's booking report. Learn that they found that Nancy's clothes taken during the home search have gasoline, an accelerant. Nancy wants to know what really started the fire.

Read that Toni Scallari reported the fire. The detector-alarm failed to operate due to unknown reason.

Dad-Carson Drew:    Use the cell phone and call Dad.

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Find the Evidence Locker Key | Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes

Go near the Chief's office door and eavesdrop on the call. It seems that Detective Ryan lost the evidence locker key. He thinks he lost it at Pancake City.

Go back to your cell and use the phone. Call Ned or George to ask help finding the key. Transfer the case.

George or Ned:   

Follow Detective Ryan's trail:    Exit the area and be at map. Go to the places Detective Ryan visited.

Pancake City is below the Riverfront Park at bottom of the map. Mabel Rose's is close to top left of the map.

The Antiques Shop is at middle of the map above the river.

Wardenclyffe Antiques:    Read the August 18 newspaper on the stand in front of the antique store. Learn that the Time Capsule talk was rescheduled because of electrical problem.

Enter the shop. 

Talk to Alexei who is cleaning a telescope. Detective Ryan was here and left an item at the new arrival shelf.

Get the key: Turn around and go forward to the shelving right of the desk. Look close at the item with black and white striped leaves. There's a key under there.

The aim of the puzzle is to retract all the bars at the center to access the key underneath.

Press the buttons to see which bars retract. Pulling back resets the puzzle.

Drive to the police station and drop the evidence locker key in the package drop. Call Nancy and transfer the case.

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