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Nancy Drew 17: Legend of the Crystal Skull Hints
I'm in the back room. How do I get into this box?
1 of 9: Getting into the cardboard box isn't a problem; it's getting into the locked box inside the big box that's the problem. Oy! Read to the end of this hint for the solution.
2 of 9: Read the letter from Amelinda and look at the buttons on the front of the box. Hmm. You can use these buttons to spell out "DR BRUNO BOLET," but that doesn't do anything. It must be more complicated than that.
3 of 9: It has something to do with the other piece of paper, the one with all the Hamlet quotations -- ah, but these numbers don't really have anything to do with Hamlet.
4 of 9: You can call Nancy here for a hint about how to solve this puzzle, but it's still a little confusing. What she says is that you count the letters in the Amelinda message, using the numbers in the second page.
5 of 9: So since the first number is 1, the first letter is L. The second number is 3, so count 3 more letters from L to get --
6 of 9: -- E. The next number is 32, so start with E and count 32 letters from there to get --
7 of 9: -- B. See how it goes now?
8 of 9: When you've got all the letters (skip that X at the end), enter it in the buttons on the front of the box. The combination is --
