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Nancy Drew 23: Shadow at the Water's Edge Hints
How do I arrange the origami models?
1 of 13: This is harder than it ought to be, because some of these models are more than one move away from completion. But if you read all the way to the end of this hint, I'll show you where they all go.
2 of 13: To translate the various arrows and symbols here, check out Takae's origami book. It's in the second drawer of her little red box on the left side of the room.
3 of 13: Let's look at one of the easier ones. The first model, a brown shape that looks like a beetle-type thing, is very close in shape to the unfinished model that looks like a red and white diamond. The only difference is that the finished model has a flat top, and the unfinished one has a pointy top.
4 of 13: And on the unfinished model, the symbol shows that the top should be folded down, which would give it a flat top. That must be it! So put that model under the brown beetle.
5 of 13: The blue bald eagle is only a little tougher. It's got to be one of the two squarish unfinished models, because the others models have all those legs and the eagle only has two. But which one?
6 of 13: Let's tackle this one from the other direction. Look at the two unfinished square models and imagine what they'll look like when you do the move shown by the symbol.
7 of 13: The one with the dotted line is being folded in half down that line, and that would be very close to the bald eagle in shape (once you do the final move of pushing down his beak, that is). So let's make that one the eagle.
8 of 13: The final square model must therefore be the purple fish, though I think there are actually a couple of moves left out. But let's not get too picky here.
9 of 13: The last three models must then go with the green frog, the yellow crane, and the ... blue spidery thing, if that's what it is. These are a little harder to figure out because the bases (at least in this game) all look about the same.
10 of 13: We can tell them apart, however, by what happens to the various "leg" pieces. For example, on the crane, the two points will go up and become the bird's neck and tail; the wings already point up. So that one is the model showing two bottom points going straight up.
11 of 13: On the frog, two points go up and become arms, and two go down and become legs. So that's the one that shows the arms up and being pulled down, and the legs down and being pulled up.
12 of 13: The spidery thing has all four points going the same way. That's the only model left: the one showing two points straight out and two being folded up and then down.
13 of 13: Again, all of these models except for the beetle have folds left out, so it's understandable if you have to look at the final settings:
