Nancy
Drew:

Danger
by Design

 

(A Walkthrough by Zurreen
Zubairie)

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© 2008.  All rights reserved.

(Please,
note that this walkthrough is copyrighted.  Hence, any attempt to
reproduce anything from this walkthrough will be severely
punished to the maximum extent of the law.)

The Walkthrough

This is Nancy Drew’s Case 14.  It is actually a very easy
game and I would encourage you to try to solve as many puzzles as you can on
your own.  For this reason, I have tried to write the following walkthrough so
that you can find the answer to a question without "accidentally
discovering" the answer to another that you might have preferred to find
yourself.

 

Although Nancy Drew games are supposed to be for mystery
fans aged 10 and up, they are actually a lot of fun for any age group.  Unlike
many games these days, however, the Nancy Drew games provide clean fun. 
What’s more, some of the puzzles can be quite challenging.  The only complaint
that I have with these games is that you cannot skip any cutscene or dialog.  This
is especially annoying when you are trying out the different options in a conversation
to see if you can discover some new information.  Thankfully, though, in most
of the Nancy Drew games – and certainly in this one – you tend to get all the
critical information you need, no matter what option you select.  In other
words, you will not get stuck because you made the "wrong" choice in
a given conversation!

            Please note
that this is a non-linear game.  In other words, you can do the tasks in any
order you like.  There are some tasks that have to be done before others, of
course.  For example, you might be able to call someone only after the game
indicates the need to do so.  But you will not be penalized for taking your
time to complete any task.  In this connection, please note the day changes in
this game.  This change has nothing to do with the tasks you complete.  Rather,
there seems to be a clock running in the background, even though you will not see
it until the day is about to change.  Please also note that you will be notified
of the change only when you try to go from one location to another on the map. 
Nancy will tell us that it is getting late and will rush back to her
apartment.  You will then get a screen saying "Day 1," "Day
2," etc.  Just click on the screen to begin that day.  If you were in the
middle of an errand and the day ends, don’t worry about it.  As I indicated,
you will not be penalized for taking your time to finish a task, even if
someone has told you to get it done right away.  You can always finish the next
day.

 

Well, that is all I can think of in terms of a general
guide to the game.  Following is a more detailed step-by-step walkthrough. 
Please, feel free to address any comments or questions about this walkthrough
to .

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            This game begins a little
differently than the thirteen Nancy Drew games before it.  We still don’t get
to see Nancy, but we do get a glimpse of her room.  The opening leaves us facing
her desk.  Feel free to refer to the "Dossier" (the brown book
standing in the upper-left portion of the desk), which lists all the Nancy Drew
games before this one.  Click on any case you like to see its synopsis.  The book
on "How to be a Detective" (in the lower-left portion of the desk) tells
you all about playing this game.  Finally, the "Case File" in the
center of the desk gives a synopsis of the present case.  In fact, you can refer
to this "Case File" even during the game.  Just look it up in your
inventory after the game begins.

            When you are ready to play the
game, click on the airplane ticket which is lying on your right.  You will be
asked if you would like to start the game.  Answer "Yes." You will
then be asked if you would like to play as a Junior or Senior Detective. 
Choose as you wish.  Note: the following walkthrough is written for the
Senior Detectives.  But that should not be a problem for those playing as
Junior Detectives, of course, because the game provides them with more clues
and easier puzzles anyway.

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ABBESSES (Minette’s House of Design)

            The opening cutscene takes us
into what we will call the "office area."  It continues with a dialog
between Nancy and Heather.  Pick up the Metro pass ("Carte Blanche – Paris
Metro"), to continue the conversation.  After talking to Heather, turn
left and go through the brown door (with the glass pane at top) to enter
Minette’s studio.  Go to your left to talk to Minette.  You can ask to see if
she will answer a few questions, but she won’t.  We must now make some herbal
tea for her.

The Herbal Tea

            Turn around and go left of the
brown door to what we will call the Tea Center.  As you approach it, Nancy will
point out the different objects we will need: the herbs at the top shelf; the
pot of boiling water on the stove; the teapot on your left; the sink on the
right (to throw away the mixture if you make a mistake); and the card of instructions
for making the tea in front of you.  After she finishes pointing out
everything, pick up and read the instructions card.  As you flip through the
pages, Nancy will ask Minette two questions.  Based on the answers Minette
gives and on our own observations of her, we will need the following herbs to
make the tea.

Since Minette is "right-handed"
today, we must add herbs from the Gaviforme family to the pot of boiling
water on the stove:

 

Jar 4   – CALLICULA

Jar 5   – FENNELLERY

Jar 8   – HOG BONE

Jar 15 – YELLOW BUTTONS

 

Since she is "not humming," we must
add the herbs with a potency of 7 or higher (excluding the ones that we have
already added above):

Jar 2   – BOOJUM

Jar 6   – GIBBERING

Jar 9   – MACROPHYLLA

Jar 11 – PHYRIGIA

Jar 12 – PIPSWEET

Finally, since she said that her favorite
color is "red," we must add the following herbs which grow in marshy
areas:

Jar 3   – BRELAND

Jar 14 – VARVAINE

After you have
put all the herbs in the pot of boiling water, click on the teapot on your
left.  Nancy will tell Minette that she is done.  Step out of the close up and
go out of the brown door on your right.  If you have made the tea correctly, Minette
will call and a dialog will follow.  Click on the bag she gives you and finish the
conversation.  Then, turn right and look at the "stuff" she
mentioned.  We must now buy four items from Pont Neuf that have some
things in common with the items displayed here in the center of the room.

            Step back out in the office
area and talk to Heather, on your left.  She will tell you about how Minette
"has this thing about curves" and how Minette claims that working in
a "quasi-round environment" makes her more productive.  [These are
clues to the objects we must buy for Minette: something round or curved.] 
Finish the conversation, turn around and approach your own desk.

Close up on the
computer first.  Look up the "To Do List," in the upper-left
portion of the monitor, to see the errands you must run for Minette.  Feel free
to click on "E-mail" in the top center of the screen and read
the six messages there, one by one.  Feel free to click on the game, "Jane’s
Game Portal," in the upper-right portion of the monitor.  We need to
type in a login and password, but that information is actually readily
available if you check out Sunny’s notes in the top drawer on your left.  But
we don’t need to play the game yet.  So leave it alone for now.  But do
check out Sunny’s notes in the drawer.  The printed page (on "Skard
2-DV8") taped to the last page of the notes tells us how to fix the plotter,
one of the errands we must do.

Fixing the
Plotter

            Approach the plotter on your
right.  Click on the red magnifying-glass icon.  A dialog will follow.  Click
on the red magnifying-glass icon again to close up on the plotter.  Click on
the hand icon and you will see the three adjustable settings (V, H,
I) and the Print button.  Press the Print button to print a
test page.  After the cutscene, you will be shown the defective print.  Click
on the blue hand icon, to return to the settings.  Click once on
the middle (H) setting, to raise the horizontal pitch, as shown below.

Click on the Print button to print
another test page and learn that the plotter has been fixed.

            Step out of the close up to
hear the phone ring.  Step further out of the close up and pick up the phone on
your left.  It is a call from a Lynn Manrique about a letter concerning a
Noisette Tornade.  Proceed as you wish.  After the phone conversation, turn
around and talk to Heather about Dieter von Schwesterkrank (we will call him
Dieter from now on).  Feel free to check out the magazine on the table on your
right to read the four-page article on Hugo Butterly.

We are now ready
to go run our other errands.  So approach the blue door on your right.  A
cutscene and dialog will follow.  Pick up the letter from the floor.  Open it as
Heather tells you to do so.  Another cutscene and dialog will follow.  Conduct
the conversation as you wish.  Step out of the blue door.  A map will be
presented to you.  Click on "Rue du Bac" to go to Dieter’s
studio for your first outside errand.

RUE DU BAC (Dieter’s studio)

            Step forward and talk to
Dieter.  Conduct the conversation as you wish.  As it turns out, we will have
to make the four prints ourselves to complete this errand for Minette.  Dieter
tells us to refer to the binder on a bookshelf for instructions.  There is only
one bookshelf in the room, the one with the aquarium on your right.  So close
up on the aquarium and pick up the binder (which is propped up against the side
of the bookshelf on your right).  Flip through the pages to read the
instructions.  A dialog will follow.  Turn around and approach the door with
the red light at its top.  Dieter will warn you not to spill any chemicals
while working inside.  Enter the Dark Room (which is really a bathroom that has
been converted into a dark room).  Turn right to face the actual developing
area.

Developing the
Prints

            This is actually a very tricky
puzzle.  The instructions dictated that we turn off the lights before doing any
real developing work.  But you will soon discover that working in the dark is
the tricky part.  You have to remove the paper from the enlarger and put it in
three trays, one by one.  The hand icon can be misleading; and if you don’t
click exactly where you are supposed to, you will spill the chemicals from the
trays and it’s Game-Over.  You can go back to an earlier save or use the
"Second Chance" option in the main menu, of course.  But that just means
you will have to start the puzzle all over again!  In short, it can all be quite
tricky indeed.  Well, one tricky deed deserves another, right?  So here is my
tricky solution to this tricky puzzle.

Having done all this
"preparatory" work, follow the steps below.

1.  Pick up a negative from the tray at the bottom and put it in the
top-left portion of the enlarger on your left.

 

2.  Turn off the Light Switch on your right.

 

3.  Turn on the Enlarger Switch in the lower-left portion of your
screen.  We need to wait 2-9 seconds.  Remember the old trick: it takes one
second to say "one thousand one."  Keep your cursor in the same
place as you count the seconds by saying "one thousand one, one thousand
two," etc.  Give it 5 seconds
because you don’t want to go under or above the time limit in case you might be
counting too fast or too slowly.  [Note: Don’t be distracted if Dieter makes a
comment in the background, possibly at the beginning of your work.]

 

4.  Click on the "Enlarger Switch" again to pick up the
paper.

 

5.  Put the paper in the Red Tray.  We need to wait 7-12 seconds
for this one.  Again, keep the cursor in the same place as you count the
seconds as before: "one thousand one, one thousand two," etc.  Give
it 10 seconds.

 

6.  Pick up the paper and put it in the White Tray.  We should wait
"no more than 5 seconds" this time.  Give it 3 seconds.

 

7.  Pick up the paper and put it in the Blue Tray.  We must now wait
8-15 seconds.  Give it 12 seconds.

 

8.  Pick up the paper.  Nancy should announce that it is done, the
lights should come on and Nancy should be holding a picture.

 

Click on the hand icon on the picture to step
out of the close up.  You should see the picture now hanging on the line above
the trays.  The space in the tray from where you had first picked up the
negative should still be empty.  Pick up a different negative and put it
in the enlarger (step 1).  [Note that doing so will put the first negative back
in its original position in the tray holding all the negatives.]  Repeat the
above steps 2-8 to develop the second picture.  Develop the last two pictures
in the same way.  As the last picture comes out, Nancy will indicate that we
are done and the game will bring you out of the dark room automatically.

            Turn left and talk to Dieter
now.  Proceed as you wish.  Then step out of the studio and go to the park at
Pont Neuf.

PONT NEUF (the flea market)

            Note that there are only three
merchants in the park: two women and a man.  Feel free to haggle with them if
you like, but be sure to save your game before you start haggling because you
get only one chance to make an offer and if you offer too little, the merchant
will stick with his or her highest price.  As you examine the items offered by
the merchants, keep in mind that Minette likes round and curved objects (as
Heather had told us and as you yourself might have noticed in Minette’s
studio).  Following is a list of items you need to purchase, the merchants that
offer them, and the lowest price at which you can get them.

Malika (the veiled lady on your left as you enter the park):

·       
Green Rings for 4 euros

Monique (the young lady on the other end as you turn right from Malika):

·       
Traffic Cone for 1 euro

·       
Lava Lamp for 15 euros

M. Marchand(the male vendor
in the very center of the park):

• Film Canister
  for 21 euros

As you try to
step out of the close up after purchasing the canister, the merchant will offer
you a chance to make money by painting some pictures for him.  Feel free to
take him up on that offer.  You will get 15 euros for the first painting, that
of a woman.  After paying you for it, the merchant will ask you if you would
like to do another painting.  If you decide to continue, you will then get a
choice of two paintings: that of the woman (for 15 euros again) or a flower
vase (which is more complicated and thus gets you 30 euros).  While all this
painting work is rather straightforward, the following hints might be helpful.

 

• Be sure to place the TIP of the
  brush in the area you are trying to color.  This would be especially helpful
  in painting the tiny parts of the painting.

 

• Do NOT try to step out of the
  close up even though you might think you have finished the painting,
  because if you have to step out of the close up, that means you
  have made a mistake.  (The merchant will scold you for ruining the
  painting and you will just have to start over again.)  If you have really done
  the work correctly, a dialog will automatically follow: Nancy will ask the merchant if the work is okay, he will compliment her and pay her for
  the job.

After you have purchased the above items
for Minette and done the painting work, if any, for M. Marchand, leave the park
and go to the hotel.

 

HOTEL DE VILLE (Cafe Kiki)

            Step forward and talk to Jean
Michel Traquenard (we will call him Jean Mi from now on).  During the
conversation, he will insist that you order some food, i.e., at his
expense.  Pick up the menu and order anything you like.  You can order only one
item, of course.  If you would like to try out the other items (for example, to
see what the French names stand for in English), save your game before you
order and then replay this portion of the game trying the items, one by one!  Then
continue the conversation with Jean Mi.  Be sure to ask him about Hugo Butterly
and he will give you that man’s phone number.  You don’t have to jot down the
number yourself, however, because it will appear automatically at the bottom of
the screen (i.e., in your directory) whenever you pick up a phone.  When
you finish your conversation with Jean Mi, the game will bring you back to the
map automatically.  Go and check out J.J. Ling, the lady with whom you are
supposed to be staying during this trip.

PLACE MONGE (J.J.’s place)

            Step forward and talk to J. J. 
Feel free to tell her that you don’t believe her story about her own lost
luggage.  Be sure to ask her about the envelope at the end of the
conversation.  Pick up the envelope.  After the conversation, check out the
"Top Story" in the newspaper lying on the dining table on your left. 
Go to the phone on the table to the right of J. J.  Read the article on
"Zu" in the magazine lying next to the phone.  Pick up the phone and
you will see Butterly’s phone number at the bottom of the screen.  Call him by clicking
the numbers on the phone dial.

            After your conversation with
Butterly, turn right to leave the apartment.  Feel free to check out the blue
recycle bin on your right on your way out.  Go to Minette’s place.

ABBESSES: in the office area

            Enter to hear the phone
ringing.  Step forward and answer the phone on your left.  After that
conversation, turn around and talk to Heather.  Nancy will give her the
envelope from J.J.  Turn to the work table on your left.

The Rutherford Designs

Close up on the
work table.  Click on the red magnifying glass to close up further and a dialog
will follow.  Click on the red magnifying glass again to get a close up of the
top of the work table.  Read the instructions sheet on your left.  Then open
the black portfolio on your right and flip through the pages for more
information.

 

As you get to
your first "order," close up on the card in the top-left portion of
your screen to see Ms. Rutherford’s own instructions.  Click on the drawing on
your right to remove the plastic sheet and display the items necessary to
complete the first order.  You must place these items on the drawing on your
right to design the outfit.

If you have
correctly finished the order, you will hear Heather’s compliment.  Complete the
other two orders in the same way, i.e., read Ms. Rutherford’s
instructions in the card in the top-left portion of the screen; then click on
the right page to remove the plastic cover and display the items necessary to
complete the order; and then place these items on the drawing on your right
according to Minette and Ms. Rutherford’s instructions.  The following picture
shows the three successfully completed ensembles.

As you finish the third design, a dialog
will follow.  Step out of the close ups and approach the door to Minette’s
studio on your left.  Heather will warn you that Minette is too busy playing
some online game to talk to you.  Go in and try to talk to Minette anyway.  As
she shushes you away, come out and talk to Heather.  She will suggest that you
try to beat the highest score for Minette.  [Note: I don’t know if telling
Heather how good or bad you are at playing computer games will affect the
difficulty level of the game you must now play.  But the game is not too difficult
and you just need to score more than 1000 points.]

Jane’s Game Portal

            Return to your desk and close
up on the computer.  Click on "Jane’s Game Portal" on the
right of the screen.  Feel free to refer to Sunny’s doodles in the drawer on
your left for clues on what the Login and Password might be.  Then type the
following on your keyboard, pressing "Enter" after each entry.

LOGIN: CAROL

PASSWORD:  RUDE

            As you get into the program,
click on "Model Match" to start the game.  Note that the High Score
is 1000 (the score you need to beat) and that the stop watch begins at 120
seconds (the total time allowed for each round).  The object of the game is
simple: match three or more identical pictures to score points.  In
fact, you will be able to use the full 120 seconds even after you have gone
over the 1000 threshold.  If you have scored less than 1000 by the end of the
round, click on "Back" to start over.  If you have scored more
than 1000, Nancy will exclaim.  Click on "Back" or "Quit"
to step out of the game.  A dialog and cutscene will follow.  Go into Minette’s
studio and talk to her.  She will take the four items you had purchased for her
and tell you to leave.  Step out of the studio.  Another dialog and cutscene
will follow.  We must now go and fetch J.J. from her place.

PLACE MONGE (Cookie time!)

            Step forward and talk to J.J. 
She will ask you to play a game of Hangman.  Feel free to do so.  If you don’t
know how to play the game, just ask J.J. and she will explain the rules to you. 
Now give her the message from Minette.  She will agree to go, but only if you make
the cookies for her.  As she leaves, step forward into the kitchen and open the
tall white cupboard in front of you.  Pick up the jar of molasses ("mélasse") from your left.  Check out
the books on your right.  Hmmm…

Next, go to Pont Neuf and buy the following items from the
merchants.

Sprig of Mint from Malika (on your left) for 50 euros.

French-English Dictionary from Monique (now on your right) for 23 euros.

Common Cooking Substitutions bookfrom Marchand(in the center of the park) for 1 euro.

            Return to Place Monge.  Go to the back of the kitchen, turn
around and step to your right to reach the cooking counter.  Nancy will tell us
that we must first chop up the mint.  So bring out the mint from your
inventory and put it on the cutting board on your left.  Nancy will chop it up
for you.  Bring out the jar of molasses and place it just left of the sugar
("sucre").  Pick up the recipe
card from the stand just above the mixing bowl and read it.  Note that the
recipe calls for 1/2 cup of brown sugar.  Refer to your book ("Common Cooking
Substitutions") to learn that the substitute for 1/2 cup of brown
sugar is 1/2 cup of white sugar plus a teaspoon of molasses.  We are now
ready to make some cookies!

Note:   Be sure to refer to the book before
you start adding the ingredients to the mixing bowl.  There seems to be some
kind of a bug here in the game.  So if you refer to the book after you have
already added some ingredients, the cookies won’t come out right (apparently
because the ingredients added before reading the book are lost and the game
proceeds as if they had never been added).

 

Making the Cookies

 

      Feel free to use your French-English
dictionary to translate the French terms.  Then add the following to the mixing
bowl.

3 cubes of Butter ("beurre")

1 cup White Sugar ("sucre")

1/2 cup White Sugar +
1 teaspoon Molasses (substitute for brown sugar)

3 Eggs

1 teaspoon Vanilla ("vanille")

2+1/4 cups all-purpose flour ("farine")

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda ("bicarbonate
de soude," to the left
of salt)

1/4 teaspoon salt ("sel")

1 sprig of fresh, finely chopped Mint

1 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips (packet
of "morceauxduchocolat," on your left)

      After adding these ingredients to the
mixing bowl, click on the baking sheet (left of the mixing bowl) and a cutscene
will follow.  If you have added everything correctly, this cutscene will show the
cookies flatten out and Nancy will note how their edges have turned up.  Step
out of the close up and you will hear the phone ring.  Answer the phone (on
your right) to find that it is J.J., asking about the cookies.  Nancy will tell her about the edges of the cookies curling up.  Bingo!  Go to Minette’s place
now.

ABBESSES (the mysterious call)

      Enter to hear the phone ring.  Go
left and answer it.  A man will ask for Minette.  Feel free to try or not try to
get Minette for him.  If you do try, you will find the door is locked and she will
not come out.  You might even hear her busy with J.J. inside.  If you return to
the phone quickly enough, Nancy will be able to talk to the guy one more time before
he hangs up.  Otherwise, he will have already hung up.

      Turn right to your computer.  Pick up
and read the pink note hanging down from the shelf left of the computer.  It is
a note from Heather asking you to pick up a stuffed parrot from Pont Neuf. 
So go to the park now.

PONT NEUF (Dieter)

      As you enter the park, step forward
and close up on the cross in front of you.  Nancy will translate the French
inscription.  Note the dates: 1940-5.  Step out of the close ups.  You
will not be able to go right.  You can try Malika on your left, but she does
not have the stuffed parrot.  Go right of her and you will note that you cannot
approach Monique.  So go right again towards Marchand in the center of the park,
to find that you cannot talk to him either (at least just now).  But you will
now be able to see Dieter sitting on a bench in the distance.  Try to approach
him.  A cutscene will follow.  Pick up the two objects that Dieter has left
behind: a miniature clock (with the "3" circled) and an obituary on
Noisette Tornade.  Read the obituary; and then, return to Marchand and buy the stuffed
parrot from him for 1 euro.  Now go to Dieter’s place.

RUE DU BAC (the secret passage)

As you enter, Nancy will note that someone is in the dark room.  Go there and knock on the door.  A
dialog will follow.  Turn around and step towards the bookcase.  Instead of
closing up on it, however, step just to the right of it – towards the panel
with the hole in it.  Attach the clock you had picked up in the park to this
hole, to start a timed puzzle.

The Clock
Puzzle

      The puzzle is timed, but don’t
worry.  You will have more than enough time to solve it.  As we noted earlier,
the "3" in the clock we found in the park was circled.  This is a
clue to the fact that we must set each of the nine clocks in the panel at 3-o’clock. 
This can be tricky, however, because setting the time in one clock changes the settings
in other clocks.  Thus, we need to be careful in choosing the clocks we set so that
we can set all the clocks at 3:00 before we run out of the
allotted time.  Set the clocks in the following order.

Note that you need to set only the clocks shown
in the orange boxes in the above diagram.  By the time you finish setting these
clocks in the indicated order, the clocks shown in the gray boxes will be
automatically set at the correct time as well.

      As you finish, a cutscene and a
dialog will follow.  Step inside the passageway.  Close up on the spider on
your right.  Step out of the close up and proceed forward in the passageway. 
You will find a wall safe at the end of the passage.  Open the cover.  Nancy will translate the French inscription.  Recall the dates we noted on the cross at Pont
Neuf: 1940-5.  The "-5" stands for 1945, of course.  So click in 1945
and the safe will open.

      Pick up and open the red diary
inside.  Pick up the grid from the left page.  Click on both the picture and
the code below, one by one, on the right page.  Turn the page.  Pick up and
read the folded letter on your right.  Step out of the close up and return to
Dieter’s studio.  He is still in the dark room and will not talk to you any
further.  Go to Minette’s place.

ABBESSES (Cockroaches & Dodo box)

 

      Enter. 
A cutscene and a dialog will follow.  At the end of the conversation, you will
find yourself in Minette’s studio.  Nancy will comment.  Pick up the box in
front of you.

The Cockroaches

      You must catch nine bugs in
all.  As soon as you catch one, it will be deposited in one of the empty spaces
in the box.  I am afraid no walkthrough can help you catch the bugs.  It all
depends on how quickly you can click your mouse button at the right spot at the
right time.  So the best that I can do is to give you an idea of where to find
the bugs.  Don’t worry.  Sooner or later, you will get all of them!

      Generally, you will find the bugs on
the floor.  As you can see from the more detailed directions below, you will
find most of the bugs if you go left along the room from the starting
position at the door.  Others you will find when you reach the door and then start
going right along the room.  In other words, you will have to go clockwise
and counter-clockwise along the room to catch all the bugs.  While the
following hints should give you a pretty good idea as to where to find these
bugs, please note that the appearance of the bugs seems to be randomly
generated by the computer.  Thus, you might have to visit some of the areas I
have indicated a few times before the bugs in those areas appear there.  Keep
in mind also that it might be hard to see the bug itself sometimes.  If that is
the case, just keep your ear out for the buzzing in the background and your
eye out for the blue hand icon on the floor.   Click on the blue hand
icon as soon as you see it to catch the bug!

BUG # 1:  Step out of the close up on the box of chocolates and you will
see the bug go from left to right.  Thus, you do get a few chances to catch it
if you keep trying to click on the blue hand icon along the floor.  Don’t worry
if you miss it though.  We’ll get him next time.

BUG # 2:  Click on the straight left arrow (ß) to step towards the
display of the red dress and the bug should be hovering around in front of the
box to the right of the red dress display.  Click on the blue hand-icon and you
will get a close up of the floor just behind the display.  Pick up the letter
on the floor just left of the display.  Indeed, you have to pick up that
letter before the game will allow you to step out of the close up behind the
display.  As you pick up the letter, you will get a close up of its contents.  Click
on the yellow stick-note in the top-right corner of the letter.  Nancy will comment.  Feel free to read the top portion of the letter.  Then click on the down
arrow to read the rest.  Click on the letter again to deposit it in your
inventory.

      Step out of the close up.  You might get
another chance to catch the bug, if you missed the first time.  But don’t worry
if you miss again.  We’ll try again later.  For now, step out from behind the
display and close up on the red dress.  Click on it to hear Nancy’s comment.

BUG # 3:  Step out of the close up on the dress and step to your right.  Click
on the blue hand icon on the computer desk (on your left) to close up on that
desk.  Pick up the piece of paper lying right of the computer.  Again,
you have to pick it up to step out of that close up on the desk. 
Again, picking up the piece of paper will give you a close up of its contents. 
Nancy will comment.  Step out of the close up on the piece of paper and you might
get another chance to catch the bug there, if you haven’t caught him already.

BUG # 4:  Step out of the close up and continue to go to your right.  You
may not see the bug in this area the first time you visit it.  When you do see the
bug, it will be moving across the floor from left (from the sewing machine) to
your right.

BUG # 5:  Continue to go right along the room.  Again, you may not see the
bug in this area the first time you visit it.  When you do see the bug, it will
be going from right to left, heading under the red sofa set in front of you.

BUG # 6:  Step to the right again and you will find this bug going from the
tea center to your right.  (If you miss this bug going clockwise along the
room, you might get another chance to catch it when you reverse
direction, at which time you will find it going from the bottom center of your
screen to under the tea center).

      Note:  We just went clockwise
around the room.  We must now go counter-clockwise to find the rest of
the bugs.  So go to the door, turn around and you might get another chance to
catch the first bug, if you missed it the first time.  Now go right
along the room.

BUG # 7:  As you approach the coffee table, you might get another chance to
catch Bug # 5 (now hovering around in front of the large picture frame resting
on two stacks of bricks on your right).  Pick up the magazine on the coffee
table.  Feel free to read the article on Minette.  Turn the page on your right,
to hear Nancy’s comment.  Step out of the close ups on the article and the
coffee table.  Step forward.  Again, you may not see the bug in this area (Bug
# 7) the first time you visit it.  When you do see it, it will be going left to
right, heading under the red armchair.

BUG # 8:  You will find this bug on the floor under the three large stone
disks on your right.  Close up on the stone disks to hear Nancy’s comment. 
Then step out of the close up and move forward to complete this round of the
room.

BUG # 9:  When you see this bug, you will find it on the floor in front of
you, heading under the red dress display.

      Once again, you might have to make a
few rounds (clockwise and counter-clockwise) around the room before you catch
all the bugs.  When you catch the last bug, the close up of the box will show
all nine bugs and Nancy will comment.

      Go to the door and try to step out. 
A cutscene and a dialog will follow.  Step out of the room to find it empty.  Check
out the dodo box on the table to the right of the blue door.  You
must now solve a three-part puzzle to open it.

 

The Dodo Box
puzzles

      The object of each part of the puzzle
is to move your horse from the starting position to the finishing position
before the two predators catch you.  Use the controls in the lower-left portion
of the puzzle to move your horse.  The round button in the center resets the
puzzle.  Clicking on any of the four "arrowheads" around the round button
will move the horse in that arrowhead’s direction.  Note that if the horse
cannot move in a direction, you will not be able to click on that arrowhead.  The
following picture shows the solution to this puzzle.

NOTE:  In
the second (middle) puzzle, you will step up and down along the same tile left
of the barrier (to bring the predator down to follow you) before you step
further left and dash up and in to the finishing position.

      After you solve the last puzzle, you
will get a close up of the dodo box.  Press the egg-shaped button at the bottom
of the box cover to open the box.  Pick up and read each of the four notes
inside.  Nancy will comment on one of them.

      Go to your desk and pick up the
phone.  Dial the Zippy Calling Card number.  After three rings, you will now
get a different "address book" at the bottom of the screen.  Dial the
phone number for Lynn Manrique and talk to her.  After the conversation, leave
Minette’s place.

PONT NEUF

      Enter the park, open your inventory
and click on the box of chocolates to let the cockroaches go free, as Minette
had told you to do.  Now go and see Jean Mi.

HOTEL DE VILLE (The Parfaits)

Ask Jean
Mi about J.J.  A dialog will follow.  Proceed as follows to get the most
information.  Ask Jean Mi if J.J. has done modeling for any other designers
in Paris.  When Jean Mi refers to J.J.’s having been tricked, pretend to
know what he is talking about by clicking on the choice: "Yes. 
Terrible thing, being tricked like that."  After finishing this topic,
talk to Jean Mi about the cropped picture you saw in the magazine in Minette’s
studio.  Jean Mi will agree to show you the uncropped picture, but only if you
will help him by making parfaits for the owner of the café.  You have to
agree, of course, but how you express this agreement does make a difference.  Even
if you know what a parfait is, I suggest that you ask, "What’s a
parfait?"  Jean Mi’s response is not important, but the owner of the
café will then be more helpful and "introduce" you to the workings of
the "parfait station."

The Parfaits

 

      After
the owner finishes his "introduction," Nancy will point out the
ingredients necessary to make the parfaits.  (See picture below)

      Note:  Be sure to refer to what
I have called the "Sample" (see the above picture) before you ring
the bell "announcing" that the order is ready.  That way, you can
catch any mistakes you might have made and just throw away the contents into
the "Trash."  Otherwise, the owner will catch the mistake for
you and you will have to prepare an additional order as penalty!

      Prepare the orders as follows.

6 AIXOIS:
Whipped Cream; Strawberry; Caramel; Bananas; Caramel.

 

5 L’ENFER:
Chocolate; Whipped Cream; Chocolate; Whipped Cream; Berries.

 

4 TROPICAL:
Bananas; Tapioca Balls; Berries; Strawberry; Chocolate.

 

5 L’ENFER:
Chocolate; Whipped Cream; Chocolate; Whipped Cream; Berries.

 

4 CORBEAU: Chocolate; Caramel; Bananas; Caramel; Chocolate.

 

3 MYSTIQUE:
Tapioca Balls; Berries; Bananas; Whipped Cream; Tapioca Balls.

2 FANTAISIE:
Berries; Vanilla; Tapioca Balls; Strawberry; Whipped Cream.

 

1. LOULOU: Bananas;
Caramel; Bananas; Caramel; Bananas.

[Note of Possible Interest:  Recall
that the owner had told Nancy that the number before the order indicated the
number of orders we were supposed to make.  Thus, "6 AIXOIS"
at the beginning of this puzzle meant we have to make six orders including
that Aixois.  But note that the numbers 5 and 4 repeat twice.  Thus, either
there is a mistake in the game or the owner tricked our poor Nancy into making two extra orders for him.]

      As you finish the last order, Nancy will comment and we will be back with Jean Mi.  He will show us the uncropped
picture which shows the stone disks (or "dials") before the paint had
been splashed on them.  Note the little arrows in these "dials" pointing
at Roman numbers IX, V, and III.  Don’t worry about
jotting down the numbers or their order because they have been noted for you in
Nancy’s "Case Journal" (the blue notebook at the bottom of
the screen).  Step out of the close up.  Feel free to order something if you
like, but you will have to pay for it yourself this time.  Go to Dieter’s studio
now.

RUE DU BAC (The Photos Assignment)

Knock on the
Dark Room door.  A dialog will follow.  We must now take some pictures for
Dieter.  Step out of the close up and pick up the list (of pictures you need to
take) from the top of the desk on your left, to find that the list is in
French.  Bring out the French-English dictionary from your inventory and look
up the words to learn that

AGRAFEUSE = STAPLER

ARAIGNEE = SPIDER

BOUGIE = CANDLE

CRANE = SKULL

CROIX = CROSS

THEIERE = TEAPOT

      Step out of the close ups, turn left and
close up on the round table to the right of the Dark Room door.  Pick up the
camera on your left.  Step out of the close up, turn around and go to the hole
in the wall right of the bookcase.  Use the clock to open the secret passage. 
(See the Clock Puzzle solution noted earlier.)  Enter the passage and
close up on the SPIDER (List Item # 2) on your right.  Bring out
the camera from your inventory.  Click on the white, straight button in the
top-right portion of the screen to activate the camera.  Focus on the spider so
that it will appear in the center of the frame.  (See the set of six pictures
later in this walkthrough.)  Click on your left mouse button to take the
picture.  Go to Minette’s place.

ABBESSES (Photos, Heather, Zu)

      Talk to Heather.  Nancy will give her
the stuffed parrot.  Ask Heather about the threatening letter.  After the
conversation, turn around and close up on the left portion of your desk.  Take
a picture of the STAPLER (List Item # 1).  (See the six-picture
set later in this walkthrough.)

      Pick up the phone.  Call Zu.  [As you
may recall, that is the guy in the magazine article at J.J.’s place.  Note that
his phone number now appears in the Paris Address Book at the bottom of the
screen.]  Zu will tell Nancy that he will give her the information she needs,
but only if she gets J.J.’s autograph for him.

      After this conversation, go into
Minette’s studio.  Approach the tea center on your right.  Nancy will refuse to
close up on it, however, saying she won’t make any more tea.  So just focus on the
TEA POT (List Item # 6), making sure that it will appear in the
center of your camera frame, and take the picture.  (See the six-picture set
later in this walkthrough.)

      Go to Minette.  As you approach the
red dress display, close up on the dress and click on it.  A dialog will
follow.  Step out of the close up, turn to Minette and talk to her.  [Note:
 Minette will abruptly end the conversation as soon as you ask her about Dieter
or tell her about Heather.  So – if you are planning to tell her
about Heather (and you don’t have to) – cover the other topics first, skip
the question about Dieter for now, and just tell her about Heather.]  Minette
will tell you to go away, but at least you will get to see her reaction.

      Leave Minette’s place.  A new
destination appears on the map.  But, if you did tell Minette about Heather,
return to Minette’s place (by clicking on ABBESSES on the map).  Enter, to take
a call from Heather.  After that conversation, feel free to go to Heather’s
desk and check out her "Fashion Portfolio" (lying to the left of her
computer).  Feel free also to go into Minette’s studio and now ask her why she
broke up with Dieter.  After the dialog, go to the park.

PONT NEUF (Photo)

      As you enter the park, take a picture
of the CROSS (List Item # 5).  (See the six-set picture later in
this walkthrough).  Now go to J.J.’s place.

PLACE MONGE (Autograph)

      Talk to J.J. about getting an
autograph for Zu, but she will refuse to oblige.  Well, there is more than one
way to skin a cat (or get an autograph, in this case)!  As we know, J.J. writes
out every letter that we pick when we play Hangman with her.  So ask her to
play that game with you and "guess" the following letters, one by
one.

Z. U. M. Y. L. O. V. E. J. I. N. G.

      As you "guess" the last
letter, Nancy will automatically ask for the piece of paper on which J.J. wrote
the letters.  Put the paper ("autograph") in your inventory and feel
free to play a "real" game of Hangman with J.J.  Then go to the new
place that had appeared on the map.

DENFERT
ROCHEREAU (the Catacombs)

      Step forward.  After Nancy’s comment, take a picture of the CANDLE and the SKULL
(List Items # 3 & 4, respectively).  Our photo assignment is now complete! 
(See picture below.)

      Now put J.J.’s "autograph"
in the skull.  [Note:  The piece of paper will actually go into the
skull’s eye.  So I like to take these pictures first, just in case that paper
sticking out of the skull’s eye might make these pictures
"unacceptable" to Dieter.]  Go back to J.J.’s place.

PLACE MONGE (Zu’s information)

      Call Zu.  After the conversation, go
to the park.

PONT NEUF (Wetsuit & M380)

      Go to Marchand in the center of the
park.  Buy the WETSUIT for 31 euros.

Note:  You
can also buy the book of "Common Codes and Deciphers" for 4
euros at this time, but I would advise against it.  There is some kind
of a bug later in the game (as explained in the next section in this
walkthrough).  The problem is easily solved, but you can avoid all the
hassle if you just buy this book later.  You don’t need it yet anyway.

      Try to buy the M380 decoder from
Marchand, but he will not sell it.  He does agree to let you have it, however,
if you get him a bottle of Mouton Fouette.  Go to the catacombs.

DENFERT ROCHEREAU (The Tunnels)

Approach the
skull and click on its top to remove it.  Click on the red button.  An opening
will appear on your right.  Go through that opening to arrive in a dark
chamber.  Move forward and step out of this chamber to arrive in what we will
call the Central Hall.  As you move further, you will hear the police in the background
as the words "Police approach" will appear at the bottom of the
screen.  Turn around and go back into the dark chamber, all the way to the door. 
Don’t step out though!  Rather, as you reach the door, just turn around and the
police voices should stop immediately.  At that point, go back out into the
Central Hall, cross the plank in front of you and turn right.  Take four
steps forward, turn left and enter a chamber with a pool of water in it.  Go
forward and into the water.  Nancy will comment.

Note:  Nancy leaves her inventory by the "pool" before she steps into the water.  In
other words, you will not have access to your inventory until you return to
this point.  But don’t worry.  You have everything you will need.

      Move forward in the water.  You will see
the number 2 marked in front of you and the only way forward is down.  Note that
any time you spend underwater is timed.  In other words, you must move fast or Nancy will lose her breath and it will be Game Over.  It would therefore be a good idea to
at least skim through each underwater section in the walkthrough before you
dive, to get an idea of what you need to do below and thus to save yourself
some time.

Note:  In the following directions, "F1" means
take a step forward; "F2" means take 2 steps forward; etc.

Mouton Fouette

Down, F1, Right, F3, Right, F1.

Pick up the bottle
of "Mouton Fouette."

Turn
around, take 3 steps forward and come UP to breathe (at number 6).

The Hazelnut ("Noisette")

Down,

Left,
F1, Left, F1, Left,

F1,
Right, F2, Right,

F1,
Left, F2, Right,

F1,
Left, F4, Left,

F2,
Right, F1 which will
automatically bring you up, stopping the timer.

The Tunnels
Safe

      Go up the ladder in front of you. 
Move forward towards the wall safe.  Open the cover and close up.  Nancy will translate the French words, but the clue actually lies in the French words
themselves.  Recall that the letter in Noisette’s red diary (that you had found in the secret passage in Dieter’s
place) had mentioned devising a code using the Metro route names and numbers.  The
code used in this puzzle is just such a code.

      Note the four colored French
words/phrases written in capital on the safe cover.  Does the word "PONT NEUF,"
at least, ring a bell?  Unfortunately, we can’t access the map from here.  But
if you go back to an earlier Save and check out the map, you will find that
each of these words/phrases on the safe is the name of a metro stop.  Indeed,
the color of the words on the safe is the same as the color of the names of
those stops in the map.  (See picture below.)

      The trick to cracking this code is to
determine the number in the map for each colored word/phrase on the safe; and
then, click in the numbers in the same order as the corresponding word appears on
the safe.  Thus,

EUROPE = 3

            PONT NEUF = 7

               BLANCHE = 2

CHATEAU
ROUGE = 4

So click in 3724 and the safe will
open.  Pick up the object inside.  Nancy will comment.  Click on the object again
to deposit it somewhere (since you don’t have your inventory with you). 
Turn around and go to the manhole.  Step in to get back on the ladder.  Take four
steps down the ladder, to reach the last dry point on the ladder before you go
underwater again.

Down, Left, F2,

Right, F4, Right, F3, and come Up to breathe (at number 2).

Down, F1, Right, F2, Right, F1,

Left, F2, Right, F1, Left, F6 to come up to beginning of the
waterlogged tunnel.

      Go forward and
come back up on the landing.  Try to pick up your inventory from the floor on
your left.  A cutscene follows.  (And I thought this game was for girls who
weren’t afraid of rats…)  Click on the hand icon and you will be able to pick
up the inventory this time.

Note:  I have played this portion several times and
only once did the rat take the code book.  So it doesn’t happen often
apparently.  The one time that it did, Nancy noted that she was missing the
code book.  I couldn’t find the book anywhere in the tunnels.  I returned to Marchand
in the park.  I couldn’t see the code book on his table, but a hand icon appeared
in the empty space where I had first bought that code book from him.  I clicked
on that icon and was thus able to buy the book once again, but had to pay the
full price (15
euros) this time.  [The fact
that I couldn’t see the book on his table though indicates that there is some
bug in this portion of the game.]

      Step out of this
chamber, turn right and take four steps forward.  Turn left, cross the plank
and go into the dark chamber.  Step through the door to return to the outer
chamber (the one with the skull).  Leave the catacombs and head for Dieter’s
place.

RUE
DU BAC
(Finishing up the Photo Assignment)

      If you have taken
the six pictures shown earlier in this walkthrough, you will find Dieter back
at his desk.  Approach him and a dialog will follow.  Pick either response to
have Nancy give him the camera and the dialog will continue.

Note:  Dieter will end the conversation after you have
exhausted the topic on Noisette.  So be sure to cover the other two topics
before asking him about her.  As you start talking aboutNoisette, Dieter will show you a card with a lot of eyes
on it.  [We will therefore call it the Eyes card.]  Click on the card to turn
it over and continue the conversation.

 

Message on the
Eyes card

      After the conversation, bring out the
Eyes card from your inventory.  Click on the card to turn it over to the side
with all the eyes on it.  With the card still on the screen, bring out the grid
(that you had removed from Noisette’s red diary when you first found that diary
in the secret passage at Dieter’s place) from the inventory.  Place the grid on
the Eyes card.

      Recall what Lynn Manrique had told
you Noisette was saying over and over before she passed away: "RED LEFT … GREEN."  Note the
color of the pupils on the eyes in the Eyes card: red, green or gray.  Note
also the different positions of these pupils:  some are to the left, some are
in the middle, and some are to the right in their eye sockets.  Click on the five
eyes that have RED pupils in the LEFT portion of the eyes.  Then click on the five
eyes that have a GREEN pupil, regardless of their position in the eye sockets. 
If you click correctly, Nancy will read the following message that has appeared
at the bottom of the Eyes card:Sous Lorraine 4154.  [Note: "sous" is French for
"under."]  Step out of the close up and go
to the park.

PONT
NEUF (the park
exhibits)

      Step forward towards
the Lorraine cross.  Close up on the top of the cross and then, on the
inscription.  Note the date: 1940-5.  Click only on the numbers that the
message on the Eyes card had revealed: 4154.  The cover below the date will drop, showing
the order in which we must attempt the exhibit puzzles and the results we must
achieve in the first two puzzles.

The
Mouth Puzzle

      Step out of the
close ups on the cross.  Turn left and step towards Malika.  Instead of closing
up on her, however, turn right, take two steps and close up on the Mouths
puzzle on your left.

Click TEN times on the white handle
on your right.

The mouths should
"say" the following at the bottom of the screen:

Top Mouth:       EEEEE

Middle Mouth:  AHHHH

Bottom Mouth:  OOOOO

Step out of the close
up and, if you have clicked correctly, the mouths will not reset. 
Otherwise, they will resume their original/closed position and you will hear a
sound in the background (like someone sticking out their tongue at you!).  If
that happens, try the puzzle again.  When done, turn around and take three
steps to reach what Nancy calls "the Windmill."

The
Windmill Puzzle

      Click once on the
white handle on your right.  Turn around.  Nancy will comment and a cutscene
will follow.  Step towards the windmill again and click on the red
magnifying-glass icon left of the exhibit.  Nancy will tell us that we need to
put something there to scare that squirrel away.

      We will have to buy
a few things for this purpose.  While we are at it, let’s also buy some other things
that we will need too soon enough.  So make your purchases as follows.

      Go to Marchand.  Nancy will automatically give him the bottle
of Mouton Fouette and get the Decoder in return, just as he had promised
earlier.  Purchase the PIE TIN for 1 euro.  [Note: 
If the rat stole your code book in the catacombs tunnels, be sure to buy that
as well from Marchand by clicking on the hand icon in the empty space in the
lower-left corner of the table and paying the full 15 euros.  As noted earlier, you will
not be able to bargain this time.]

      Go to Malika then and purchase the following items.

·       
STAKE for 10
euros.

·       
STRING for 3
euros.

·       
"ICHIDO"
book for 6 euros.

      Finally, go to Monique and purchase the FLASHLIGHT for 3 euros.

      Turn around and return
to the Windmill exhibit, now on your left.  Close up on the exhibit.  Bring out
the Stake, then the String,
and finally the Pie
Tin from your inventory and
place them, one by one, in the space left of the exhibit where the red
magnifying-glass icon appears.  The squirrel will not bother us anymore.  So

Click on the white handle on the right of
the exhibit six times.

      If you have done
it correctly, the petal at the top should now be (technically, it is lavender,
but some people call it purple), i.e., the same color as that of the top
petal shown in the clues we got earlier from the Lorraine cross.

The
Fish Fountain

      Turn around and
go to what I call the Fish Fountain, now on your left.  Close up on that
exhibit and press the red button on your right.  A cutscene will show a grate
opening under the fish.  Step inside.

The
Park Passage

      Go down the
ladder.  Turn around, step forward and go down the second ladder.  Turn around
and go through the passage.  Since you have already bought the flashlight, you
will not have any problems.  Nancy will merely note that it is time to get out
the flashlight, but you won’t have to bring the flashlight out of the inventory
yourself because it will come out automatically.  A cutscene will then take you
through the passage.

Caution:  This is a very poorly
structured cutscene, I think, because it is likely to make some, perhaps even
most, gamers rather dizzy from the way it goes winding left and right through
the underground tunnel.  For those of you that find it unsettling, my advice is
to just close your eyes and wait for the sound of a click that will indicate
that Nancy has put away the flashlight.  Open your eyes at that point and
proceed as follows.

      Approach the
chest in front of you.  Open it and retrieve the Key.  Step out of the close
up, turn around and go back into the tunnel.  A cutscene will take you back to
the beginning of the passage.  [Once again, close your eyes if you find the
cutscene unsettling.  Open your eyes only when you hear that clicking sound
that indicates Nancy has put away the flashlight.  Then, proceed as follows.]

      Step forward and
go up the ladder.  Step forward again and go up the second ladder.  Click on
the grate above to open it and then, step outside.  Go to Minette’s place.

ABBESSES (The Final Visit)

 

      Go to your desk.  If you had told Minette about
Heather (the fact that Heather had written at least one of those threatening
letters), you will find a lavender note to the right of your computer.  Read
it.  Nancy will comment.

      Feel free to call
Lynn Manrique.  Exhaust both topics of the conversation.

      Now go to the
door to Minette’s studio, but DON’T OPEN IT!  [Otherwise, it will
be game-over and you will have to avail the Second Chance from the main menu.] 
Instead, close up on the mechanical gadget above the door handle on your
right.  A dialog will follow.  Be sure to SAVE your game here because a
timed puzzle is about to follow.  Don’t worry though: you will have more
than enough time to finish the puzzle if you follow the directions below.

Defusing
the Bomb

      Open the cover. 
Another dialog will follow, as the timed puzzle begins.  Don’t pay any
attention to Minette’s periodic interruptions.  They are meant to only distract
you and thus to make the puzzle a bit harder.  Nancy will answer her for you.  The
good thing though is that you will be able to continue working through the
dialog, unlike some other places in the game where you have to wait for Nancy to finish her comment before you can use the controls.

      As you open the
cover, note the little black-and-white diagram on the inside of the cover, to
the left of the fuse panel. 

Blackened O + O =
(check mark, i.e., is OK)

Blackened O + Blackened
Triangle = (check mark, i.e., is OK)

Blackened O + Triangle
= (cross, i.e., is NOT OK)

      The upshot of
these cryptic instructions is that it is OKAY to put together two fuses
with the same symbol, even
if the color of those two symbols is different.  (Thus, for example, it is okay
to put a fuse with a red circle in line with a fuse with a yellow circle.)  It
is also OKAY to put together two fuses with different symbols, so long
as they are of the same color. 
(For example, it is okay to put a fuse with a green circle in line with a fuse
with a green triangle.)  But it is NOT okay to put together two
fuses with two different symbols that are also of two different colors. 
(For example, putting a fuse with a red circle in line with a fuse with a blue
triangle will make an "explosive" combination.)

      If this
explanation is too confusing, don’t worry.  Just follow the diagram below and
you will have that bomb diffused in no time at all!  Please note the symbols
that I have superimposed on the screenshot.  You see, I realize that the
symbols on the fuses are a bit too small to see.  I also realize that just
knowing you are being timed tends to make some people uncomfortable.  So I have
used the superimposition in the hope that it will help make it easier to solve
the puzzle.  But please feel free to let me know if that technique distracts
you somehow, and I will see what I can do to send you a "clean" copy
of the solution – i.e., just a screenshot of the solution without the
superimposition.

The solution to the
puzzle is as follows.

      A cutscene will
follow the successful completion of the above puzzle.  Step out of the close up
and go into Minette’s studio.  She is not there.  Step forward to the pole in
the center of the room.  Note the indentation (like that of a windmill) at the
base of the pole.  Before we get to that, however, we need to crack a code with
the help of the M380 decoder we just got from the merchant in the park.

The
M380 Message

      Bring out the
Decoder from your inventory.  Click on the hand icon that appears on the
space bar at the bottom of the screen.  The keyboard will flip up, revealing three
dials under it.  Feel free to refer to Nancy’s notebook to find the roman
numerals we saw on the three stone disks in the uncropped picture Jean Mi had shown
us after we made the parfaits:  IX, V, III. 
So set the decoder’s left dial at IX,
middle dial at V, and right dial at III. Click on the up arrow to
come up directly to the typing area.  Nancy will comment.  Use our own computer
keyboard to type the code under the picture of the M380 decoder in Noisette’s
red diary.  (See picture below.)

 

Note:  Write
the whole thing as one single line, i.e., do not leave
any blank spaces or press "Enter" when you type the above three lines.

      When you finish
typing, Nancy will read the decoded message:

ROUGE, BLANC, ROUGE, BLEU, ROUGE

 

      If you look up
your French-English dictionary, you will find that the above is French for:

RED, WHITE, RED, BLUE,
RED

      Step out of the
close ups on the decoder.  Note that the indentation at the base of the pole in
Minette’s studio looks like that of the object you found in the safe at the
catacombs.  So bring out that object from your inventory and place it on the indentation,
to uncover a panel of five rows of colored bands.  Click on the bands to set
their colors in the order shown above.  [Note: the white band on the
pole actually looks grayish.]  A cutscene will follow, opening a trap door in
the floor on your right.  Approach the trap door and go down the stairs.

The
Secret Chamber

      Go forward in the
passage until you come across the metal door.  Use the key (that you got from
the chest in the park’s underground tunnel) to unlock the door.  Enter the
chamber.  Nancy will comment.  Step forward.  Close up on the top of the stand
in front of you; lift its cover and pick up the envelope.  Open the envelope
and Nancy will translate Noisette’s letter for you.  Note the roman numerals
at the end of the letter: X, IV, III.

      Step out of the
close up on the letter and close the stand’s cover.  A cutscene and Nancy’s comment will follow.  Close up on the metal box in front of you.  Open the cover
and close up inside to see the words: "Une Derniere Enigme, Cher Ami."  [You won’t find a translation for the words in your French-English
dictionary, but the literal meaning is: "One last puzzle, dear friend." 
However, it is the French words themselves and not their English meaning that will
actually help us figure out the code we need to enter in the metal box.]

The
Lock Puzzle

      If you look up
Noisette’s diary, you will find that "Cher Ami" is the nickname for
the M380 decoder.  In fact, the code applied here is the "Shift Cipher"
(see pages 6-8 of your Code Book) and 380 is the shift number. 
The above French sentence is the message we must decode.  As the Code Book
tells us, such a code can require us to shift the letters either to the left or
to the right of the alphabet.  In this case, you need to shift to the right,
as shown below.

      We now have everything that we need
to break the code.  So bring out the decoder from your inventory, lift the
keyboard and set the three dials to X, IV,
III (the roman numbers that were noted at the end of Noisette’s
letter).  Click on the UP arrow to come up to the typing area.  Then, using
your own computer’s keyboard again, type the third line (shown in red) at the
bottom of the above table.  If you have done it correctly, Nancy will comment,
as the following line appears on the screen:

DEUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . UN .
CINQ . . SE.PT

      Feel free to refer to your
French-English dictionary to learn that the above words spell out the numbers 2157.  Step out of the close ups on the decoder.  Close up on the metal
box and click in these numbers.  The bars will go up.  Leave the chamber and go
to the trap door.

The Final
Conflict

      As you step on the gray stairs under
the trap door, there will be a short cutscene, but no need to worry.  Go up to
the trap door and you will hear a dialog outside.  Nancy will comment.  Open
the trap door and step outside.  Go around the pole to the red dress on display
to the right of the studio door.  Close up on the dress.  Bring out the
"Ichido" book from your inventory and skim through the pages.  Then
click on the red dress.  [Note:  It might be a good idea to SAVE
your game right after your "opponent" stops speaking, in case you
have to replay the "battle."  Don’t worry though because you will
have plenty of time to win.]

      Listen closely to your opponent’s
Ichido "cries."  Note that your cursor takes the form of a blue box,
acting as a shield to block the attack.  In the following diagram, I have
listed each "cry" according to where you must move your cursor to
block the attack that follows that particular cry.  Thus, for example, if you
hear "Ssssssss," move the cursor just a bit off to the middle-right of
your opponent.  [Note:  Don’t go to the extreme left or right of the
screen or you will miss the attack altogether.  Remember: you are supposed to
be blocking your opponent’s blows.  So stay within reach of those
blows.]

 

        As you
will soon discover, you can be hit several times and still win!  A cutscene will
follow your success.  So once you have won,

 

Just
sit back and enjoy the ending!

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