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Nancy Drew and the Secret of Shadow Ranch Hints
What does this message carved in the wall mean?
1 of 8: Use Dirk's code (from the jail in Dry Creek) to decipher it.
2 of 8: It translates to: "brown lime yellow red blue orange lime yellow brown blue lime orange blue brown lime orange red blue yellow lime blue lime brown yellow"
3 of 8: It's a series of colors. So what?
4 of 8: Duck your head into the door and you'll see so what.
5 of 8: This is a maze, and a confusing one.
6 of 8: Each door in this place has a colored stone over the door.
7 of 8: So the message must be the way through the maze -- that is, go through the brown door, then the green one, and so on.
8 of 8: In case you've never done a maze in a computer game before, I'll let you know that you need to SAVE your game before you start.
