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Nancy Drew 17: Legend of the Crystal Skull Hints

What should I be doing with the octopus cabinet?

  • 1 of 4: If you open it up, you'll discover glass eye number 17 --
  • 2 of 4: -- and slots for all the glass eyes. Pick up the one that's in there, and Nancy will make a comment and put in the eyes she has. Now you know how many you have left to find (sigh).
  • 3 of 4: If you've gotten every eye you can find and there are still empty slots, use this diagram to track down the ones you're missing:
  • 4 of 4: Other than keeping track of which eyes you have and which you don't, you can forget about the cabinet until you have all the eyes.