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Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game Hints
A Note About the Hints
The entire game is divided up into individual tasks, and most tasks take place entirely within a single game region. When you save a game, its description is always going to include the name of the region you're in and the name of the task you're on. That means you can always tell what the exact name of your current region and task are by saving your game and then looking at the top entry on the "LOAD" menu. (Note that the top entry may not be immediately visible if you've scrolled down the list previously without going back up.)
So when you're stuck and need some hints, the first thing to do is save your game and check to see what region name and task name is saved as its description. Find the region name in this hint file, click on it to get a list of all the tasks that take place in that region, then click on the task that you're on. Skim through the task's "outer" hints until you reach the spot you're stuck on, at which time you'll usually be able to click on a question and view gradual, progressive hints regarding the problem.
For example, you've figured out how to get George and Anna Maria into the office's storage room, but you're stuck there because you can't figure out how to leave the storage room. You save your game and find that you're in the "New York Bail Bonds" region, and are working on the "George meets a new client" task. So in this hint file, click on that region to bring up its task list, then click on the first task listed because it's the one you're on.
The first hint for that task just describes the current situation, so you know you're in the right place, but there are no answers there. Click to read the second hint, which is about how to leave the office. You already did that, so click for the next hint. Ah, ha! It describes your current predicament (stuck in the storage room with no obvious way out), and it has a clickable question attached to it that will give you the UHS's usual detailed, gradual hints on how to leave the storage room.
