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Nancy Drew 24: The Captive Curse Hints

What do I do with the relief in the end wall?

  • 1 of 8: Basically, keep your eyes peeled for something the same shape.
  • 2 of 8: You'll find it when you go looking for one of the pictures on a legend page --
  • 3 of 8: -- the one you find in the well maze.
  • 4 of 8: When you have the pendant, come back here and us it in the relief. Now you see the arrows?
  • 5 of 8: Turn the pendant to the right (clockwise), then be careful how you move --
  • 6 of 8: -- because you just opened the trapdoor in the floor. Turn left to face the wall again, then turn the pendant to the left (counterclockwise) to close the trapdoor and again to open a door into the well maze.
  • 7 of 8: And now that the door is open, this is a good time to go through the maze again. There are a couple of things here that weren't here before.
  • 8 of 8: Check out the barrel by the forest exit, for example. (Use the prybar from the glass room to open it.) Hmm!