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Nancy Drew and the Secret of Shadow Ranch Hints
What am I supposed to be doing with the petroglyphs?
1 of 6: The piece of paper you got from Dirk's letter kind of looks like a map, doesn't it?
2 of 6: What you need to do is mark the relative position of each petroglyph on the map.
3 of 6: See the squares that are slightly lighter? Every one of those will eventually have a petroglyph in it.
4 of 6: When you find a petroglyph, click on it and you'll go to the map, with the picture you just found off to the right. Click and drag it to the box where you think it goes.
5 of 6: As you do this, letters will form underneath. They may not make sense at first, but they will eventually.
6 of 6: Assuming you put the pictures in the right boxes, that is.
