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Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game Hints

Finding Nico

  • 1 of 4: To start on your search for Nico, return to the monastery's entry room and check out the two doors that you could never open before.
  • 2 of 4: When you try the large "door" in the floor, George says there's a lock on the inside of it that he needs to get at somehow.
  • 3 of 4: In the room below the trap doors, you'll have to solve a puzzle involving two large angel statues.
  • 4 of 4: Even though you haven't found Nico yet, the starting task in the Vatican area will become active when you go down the stairs past the open stone slab.