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Ankh Hints

How can I cut his chains?

  • 1 of 11: What tool might be useful in cutting chains?
  • 2 of 11: It's nothing you have, so look around the cell for something.
  • 3 of 11: You see that cake laying on the well-lit straw over to the right?
  • 4 of 11: Maybe the old cliché of people in prison getting cakes with files in them was around in ancient Egypt.
  • 5 of 11: However, if you click on the cake, you won't find a file.
  • 6 of 11: But notice the rat that keeps zooming back and forth between the cake and his rat hole.
  • 7 of 11: Maybe he took the file!
  • 8 of 11: He did, so right-click on the rat hole a couple of times to get a rasp item.
  • 9 of 11: Then find the lower part of the chains that are holding the captain up.
  • 10 of 11: They're to the left, between the talk-hole and the captain.
  • 11 of 11: Use the rasp on those chains to get the captain down to where you can reach him.