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Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove Hints

What is there to do in the manager's office?

  • 1 of 5: Not as much as you might think. We broke in to use the telephone, but after all that, it's not working. What else is there to do here? (Aside from the obvious hidden object scene on the desk, that is.)
  • 2 of 5: Your detective won't go down into the basement until the lights are turned on, so you can forget that for now.
  • 3 of 5: There's a hotspot on the painting on the back wall. Use the crowbar on the painting to reveal --
  • 4 of 5: -- a safe, yummy! Locked, of course.
  • 5 of 5: When you want to leave the manager's office, you don't have to climb back up through that wet hole into the bathroom; just go out the door. You can now enter the office via the door as well.