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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Hints

How can I get into the kitchen?

  • 1 of 15: NOTE: The kitchen (labeled "kuche") is in the upstairs area, near the garden. You can't get to the kitchen door without being caught until you finish your Early Institute Explorations.
  • 2 of 15: Click on the kitchen door to get Holmes to suggest making some smoke so the woman in there will think the place is on fire.
  • 3 of 15: Since you don't want to start a real fire, go to the laboratory in the cell area and see if you can find a way to create chemical smoke.
  • 4 of 15: If you click on the interactive canister that's on the floor next to the unconscious nurse, you'll learn that it contains potash, which is good for creating smoke.
  • 5 of 15: Use your empty meal dish on the potash canister to take some.
  • 6 of 15: Holmes mentions measuring a precise dose of it, so how could you do that?
  • 7 of 15: If you look on the worktables in the lab, you'll see a usable scale on one of them.
  • 8 of 15: Use the meal dish with potash in it on the scales in order to get it measured properly.
  • 9 of 15: To get your smoking device finished, you'll need to add a couple more ingredients.
  • 10 of 15: One of them is chlorine. You'll find several bottles of it on the shelves in the unconscious nurse's area.
  • 11 of 15: When you take the chlorine, Holmes says that the ratio of chlorine to water must be precise, so water is the other thing you need.
  • 12 of 15: Return to the lab and use the bottle of water on the scales to measure it precisely.
  • 13 of 15: Then combine the bottle of water and bottle of chlorine in inventory.
  • 14 of 15: After you do that, you can combine your new chlorine-water bottle with the meal dish to create a smoking device.
  • 15 of 15: Go back to the kitchen doors and click on them after selecting the smoking device in inventory. That'll clear the area!