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Nancy Drew 22: Trail of the Twister Hints
How do I make circuit boards for Chase?
1 of 9: After you've been to the store and learned about Pa Pennies (or after you've tried to take some of the Pa Pennies in the jar on Chase's work bench), he'll tell you that you can earn Pa Pennies by wiring up fans on the circuit boards they use in the weather balloons.
2 of 9: You can do this as many times as you want, so if you find the work interesting you can make yourself a fair pile of change this way. If you don't like it, you don't have to do any at all, since there are other ways to earn Pa Pennies.
3 of 9: The object here is to place wires between the fans on the board. Each fan has a number on it saying how many wires it needs to make it work. If you connect the wrong number of wires, the fan will burn out, and Chase won't pay you nearly as many Pa Pennies for the finished board, even if you do figure it out eventually.
4 of 9: You can place wires horizontally, vertically, or diagonally between neighboring fans. Click on the space to place a wire; click again to remove it. If you click to put a wire diagonally and it goes the wrong way, click on it again to flip it.
5 of 9: One way to start is to look for the fans that need wires in all the possible places. For example, fans in the corner can be attached to zero, one, two, or three other fans. If you see a corner fan with a 3 on it, you know it has to be connected in all possible ways.
6 of 9: Fans along the side can be connected to as many as 5 other fans, and fans that are in the middle can go as high as 8. So again, look for 3 in the corner, 5 on the side, or 8 in the middle, and connect those fans first.
7 of 9: When you think you have all the wires placed right, click on the Power On button to turn on the electricity and see what happens. If you got it right, all the little fans hum and you can either move on to the next board or exit to collect your pay. If you made a mistake, the fans that have the wrong number of wires will short out, and the Overload indicator at the left will get a yellow bar. Three mistakes and you're out; if the timer runs out, you're also out.
8 of 9: You get a box asking you to select the level when you start, and you get more levels as you successfully complete the boards at that level. The higher levels get more complicated, with more and more fans to wire; at level 4, there are 25 fans that all need to be wired, which is ... well, it's a challenge, let's just say that. But you also get more time and more money (up to 50 PP at level 4), so there's that.
9 of 9: If you're making circuit boards for the Pa Pennies, the most lucrative way to do this is to do three or four boards, then quit and get the money, then do three or four more, and so on. This way, you'll get the cash before you make a mistake and start to lose some. Which hurts.
