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Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships Hints
What order do I put them in?
1 of 6: The clue to this is to be found in something you found at Halfmoon Reef.
2 of 6: That plate with the strange rules on it is what you want. If you recall, El Toro's journal says he created "a two-rule code of conduct to bring order to the six." Six dials, maybe?
3 of 6: Read the two rules again, and this time don't think about the actual words, which are a little odd. Instead, look for signs of the six animals.
4 of 6: For example, the phrase "abandon keys" is very odd -- until you run the two words together to produce "donkey" in the middle ("abanDONKEYs"). Aha!
5 of 6: Go through the two rules and find all six animals, then put the dials in that order: the three animals in the first rule on the top row in that order, and those in the second rule on the bottom row.
6 of 6: Here are the six animals in the "Two Rules" plate --
