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Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock Hints

I got in! How do I open this journal?

  • 1 of 5: There's a clue to this in Josiah's Memory Book, on page 4.
  • 2 of 5: Remember the note that said "Becoder is in the rrivet -- two to the right"?
  • 3 of 5: Two of those words are pretty weird -- "becoder" and "rrivet." There's something wrong with the first letters.
  • 4 of 5: Do what the second half of the clue says: replace the funny letters with the letters two to the right in the alphabet.
  • 5 of 5: The sentence then becomes, "Decoder is in the trivet."