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Nancy Drew 24: The Captive Curse Hints
I'm stuck between the castle gates!
1 of 7: After the monster goes away, explore the area. What do you have to work with?
2 of 7: In the middle of the passage, there's a panel against one wall. Open the little door above it to find the key, then open the panel to discover --
3 of 7: -- one of those sliding bar puzzles. You'll actually have three puzzles to solve before you can open the gate, so I hope you like these things. Read to the end of this hint for complete solutions to them all.
4 of 7: The deal here is that you have to move the grey bars around to make a path for the colored bar to reach the patch of the same color on the bottom right. When you do that, the doors will close and the next puzzle will appear.
5 of 7: If you get the bars locked into a position that feels hopeless, click on the "Gate Release" box at the upper right to reset the puzzle -- just the one puzzle you're working on, not the whole thing -- and return the bars to the positions they started in.
6 of 7: If you have trouble with these guys, remember that sometimes you have to move the bars into positions that seem obstructive and unhelpful for a while to make room to move other bars.
7 of 7: Any way you can do this is the right way. However, if you can't make headway, here are solutions for the whole thing:
