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Nancy Drew 17: Legend of the Crystal Skull Hints

Where is it and how do I get in?

  • 1 of 8: The entrance to it is in the great room, but it's not anything obvious like a door. Like I said, it's a SECRET room. In order to make the entrance appear, you'll need to solve one of the puzzles in this room.
  • 2 of 8: Or, to be more specific, you need to find the missing painting --
  • 3 of 8: -- and put the paintings in the correct order.
  • 4 of 8: As you now can see, this leads to a peephole --
  • 5 of 8: -- but you can also go upstairs to find a locked door with a weird spider pattern engraved on it. Darn!
  • 6 of 8: Does that spider look familiar? It might, if you've explored the garden.
  • 7 of 8: It's the exact image of the hole in the fountain, the one with a key in it protected by a spider. What do you bet that key opens this door?
  • 8 of 8: Once you have the key, use it on the lock here to open this door. The door will stay unlocked after this; all you have to do is click on the entrance to get in.