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Nancy Drew 27: The Deadly Device Hints
How do I get out of the big Faraday cage without frying?
1 of 15: After you get the video out of Niko's study --
2 of 15: -- the culprit shows up to knock poor Nancy out one more time. Deirdre's right; Nancy really should have her cerebral functioning checked some time.
3 of 15: And the bad guy's bizarre idea is to put Nancy in the Faraday cage and turn on the big Tesla coil, in an apparent attempt to bore her to death. Wait, no, that's not it -- the idea is that the immense flow of electricity will eventually short out the cage. Or something.
4 of 15: At any rate, we gotta get out of here, and there's no way to survive the trip while the big coil is running. Or is there? Look around the cage to see what you have to work with.
5 of 15: There's one hotspot; it's the dismantled control for the lightning rod. If you messed with the lightning rod when you were running the coil, you might remember that the lightning rod attracts the flow of electricity to itself.
6 of 15: If the electricity is going to the lightning rod, it won't be attracted to Nancy, who's much shorter than the rod, and she might make it to the door before she died. I'd be terrified to try it in real life, but it's Nancy's only out. Let's give it a go.
7 of 15: Clicking on the lightning rod box pops up a circuit diagram, then the actual circuit board. Your job is to assemble the components Ryan gave you on the board in the fashion shown on the diagram. Read to the end of this hint for a screenshot showing how to assemble the circuit board.
8 of 15: You'd think this puzzle would be timed, given that Nancy says she has to hurry, but it doesn't seem to be. I once sat listening to the buzz of the coil for more than half an hour without dying, so take your time and don't rush.
9 of 15: Pull the components out of your inventory and use them on the board. The components are arrayed at the left, and the diagram and the book explaining how to read the diagram are at the right.
10 of 15: If you haven't already, look at pages 3 and 4 of the book to see what all the symbols on the diagram mean. This is complicated, so expect to refer to this book again and again.
11 of 15: One important thing to note about the diagram is that while it does show exactly which components are connected and in what order, it's not laid out exactly the way the board is. You might need to follow the lines around to find what slots connect to what other slots.
12 of 15: The first pieces to place are the three large pieces, what the book calls integrated circuits. They fit into the three largest empty spaces on the board; right click to rotate pieces to fit into the vertical slots.
13 of 15: Then just start inserting the rest of the components as it takes your fancy. You might want to start with the inductor, the big red square piece; there's only one of it, for one thing.
14 of 15: There is no right-side up for these pieces; any way they fit in the slots is the right way. But a lot of these components are the same size -- resistors, diodes, inductors, and fuses all fit in the same places -- so be sure you've got the right one in the right slot. (You can always move them if you need to.)
15 of 15: Here is how the circuit board should look when you're done:
