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Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock Hints
How do I reassemble the gears?
1 of 3: This is easier than it looks, I promise.
2 of 3: For one thing, each gear fits on only one post, and when you get the right one it locks in place and can't be moved again. (And the icon changes from a hand to a magnifying glass when you move.) So one way to do it is to take a gear and try it on every post until it locks in place.
3 of 3: The other thing that'll help you here is those little black lines on the gears that you may not have noticed. When all the gears are in place, those lines will connect. Also, some of the posts have little lines on them that match the ones on the gears.
