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Nancy Drew 25: Alibi in Ashes Hints
How do I play Swap-A-Lot?
1 of 7: This is a fun game, but if you don't want to play it you don't have to; it's just for fun. Plus the puzzles are all quotes from other Nancy Drew games! Pretty cool.
2 of 7: The game is similar to the puzzle in Nancy Drew 24 (The Captive Curse) that was in the note to Lukas from his dad. If you didn't play that game, read on.
3 of 7: What's going on here is that the letters have been jumbled around, but in a very organized way. They're all in the columns where they belong, but not in the right rows.
4 of 7: For example, in the first puzzle, the second word is two letters long, and it currently says LC. The column for the first letter has L, E, L, I, L, and the column for the second word has C, D, E, F, D. The word will have one letter from the first column and one from the second, and the only possibility here is IF. So move the I up to the place where the L is and the F to the place where the C is --
5 of 7: -- and the IF locks in place. See how this works?
6 of 7: Start with the small words first -- those two one-letter words have to be either A or I, for example -- and keep going till you have the whole thing.
7 of 7: Or not, if you don't want to. It's just for fun, and you can win the game completely without doing a single one of these puzzles.
