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Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy Hints
How do I solve this helmet with the gears?
1 of 10: This is on a bookshelf behind Kyler, to the left of the door to nowhere.
2 of 10: As you can tell from the numbers and drawings on the right side of the gear display, you need ten big gears and ten little ones, and you only have nine of each. You need to get the other two before you can solve the puzzle.
3 of 10: You'll get one in the Nursery, after you solve the Otter puzzle --
5 of 10: Once you have both gears, return to this puzzle and the game will put them in the drawer for you. The point of this puzzle is to place all the gears on the left side so that when you turn the handle at the lower left, the gear at the upper right turns. Read to the end of this hint for a picture showing exactly how to lay them out.
6 of 10: The gears can only go on the pegs. When you get a gear near a peg where it fits, you'll see it jump a little to fit the spot. If you're not near a place where it can fit, when you click to drop it, it will go back to the bin at the right.
7 of 10: The gears don't always look like they mesh even when they do. If you're not sure if the placement works, turn the handle at the lower left to see if the gears catch.
8 of 10: The gears will always alternate in size -- big gear to small gear to big gear all the way through.
9 of 10: In general, the gears will make a path shaped like a big wobbly N: up to the gear labeled II, then down to the right, then up to the gear labeled VI.
10 of 10: Here's a screenshot of the assembled gears. Other ways may be possible, but this is how I did it.
