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Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy Hints
Dollhouse Puzzle 4
1 of 16: You can get this one from the rolltop desk in the tower, but only before you open it.
2 of 16: That is, before you open the rolltop, enter a different code in the lock. Where have you seen a lock like this?
3 of 16: It looks exactly like the cover of the book on the nightstand in the nursery. Remember "Le Lapin Bleu" (means "The Blue Rabbit"), with "lapin" in weird blocks?
4 of 16: Set the dials to LAPIN to get the plan.
5 of 16: You'll also need the doll inside the rolltop to solve the puzzle, plus the Matt doll you picked up at the gate at the beginning of the game.
6 of 16: Okay, this one is a real stinker, with no red lines at all, so we're going to have to do a lot of guessing. Take a look at the relations and see if you can draw any conclusions.
7 of 16: There's a long horizontal string consisting of cat, Matt, sheep, and dog. With four in a row, it has to be either the middle or the bottom row; and since the dog is above the blond girl, it must be the middle. Put all four of them anywhere on the middle row for now.
8 of 16: You can now use them to get the others on their rows. For example, the cow is above the sheep, so he goes somewhere on the top row; the pig is below Matt, so he goes somewhere on the bottom row.
9 of 16: So we now have cow on the top row; cat, Matt, sheep, and dog in the middle row; and pig, red-haired girl, boy, Nancy, and blond girl on the bottom row.
10 of 16: Dog is directly over blond, sheep is directly over boy, and cat is directly over redhead. Okay. Now what?
11 of 16: Now some guessing. The pig is shown as left of a couple of items and right of nothing, so shove him into the corner, the first spot on the bottom row.
12 of 16: The sheep is directly over the boy; the dog is directly over the blond; the cat is directly over the redhead.
13 of 16: And other than that, if there's a good logical way to figure out where they all go, I haven't figured it out. What I did was just move them around within those parameters and press Check every time until something clicked. In any case, here's the arrangement that finally worked:
14 of 16: Top row: cow, empty Middle row: cat, Matt, sheep, empty, dog Bottom row: pig, redhead, empty, boy, Nancy, blond girl
