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Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper Hints
How can I decode the message that Watson found at the hospital?
1 of 10: Use Holmes' experiment table for some workspace.
2 of 10: Select the coded message in inventory, then click on the experiment table's hand cursor to bring up the decoding screen.
3 of 10: Watson mentioned the Spartaca Encyclopaedia, so use the two pages you've gotten from it as relevant documents.
4 of 10: Click on one of the empty document spaces below the main decoding area, select one of the two Spartaca Encyclopaedia pages, then click on the "Use this document as proof" button that's underneath the page display. Repeat with the other blank document space to connect the other page there.
5 of 10: Now you have Roman numerals and letters down at the bottom of the screen. Study them to see that I is code for A, II is code for B, and all the way up to XXVI is code for Z.
6 of 10: Pretty simple, but the catch is that the Roman numerals underneath the blank spaces in the coded message are cut off at the bottom. An X will look like a V, and a V will look like two slanty lines that don't quite connect.
7 of 10: Once you get used to that, the message will be fairly easy to decode.
8 of 10: When you think you know what letter goes in a blank, click on that letter in the red strip along the bottom of the screen, then click on the blank you want to put it in. It'll appear in that blank plus any others that have the same number under them.
9 of 10: Read on to find out what the coded message says.
10 of 10: NEW COMMAND SUBJECT WOMAN DELIVERY WHARFDALE
