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Nancy Drew 17: Legend of the Crystal Skull Hints
Plentiful Pirates and Nautical Nonsense
1 of 7: The rest of this book tells you how to arrange the glass eyes in the cabinet, once you have all 25 of them. Read to the end of this hint for a picture showing you how the eyes should be arranged.
2 of 7: Buried in this long and silly story about an octopus are specific directions telling you how to turn each eye to open the cabinet.
3 of 7: See the numbers at the bottom of the page? They tell you which eyes are being described on that page. For example, the first pages is marked 1-5, so on that page are directions for eyes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
4 of 7: Read through the story, looking for words like up, down, right, left -- and north, south, east, and west.
5 of 7: Sometimes those words are spread across two words. For example, if the writing said, "He gets out happily," you might find the word "south" buried in it: "He getS OUT Happily." See?
6 of 7: Here is the text for each page showing where the directions are. Or if you'd rather, go on to the next hint for the full answer.
7 of 7: Tired of all this silliness? I don't blame you; it's kind of long, though very clever. Here's a diagram showing exactly how each eye should be turned:
