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Nancy Drew: Danger By Design Hints
How do I use the thing from the catacombs?
1 of 5: When you visit The Catacombs and retrieve the item from the locked cabinet there, you'll recover an item that should look familiar.
2 of 5: It's a stylized windmill blade, and the place to use it is in Minette's studio. Wait for her to leave, then go into the studio and see where you think it might be used.
3 of 5: Go in through the brown door and walk up to the large shaft at the middle of the room. Never noticed that windmill-shaped imprint on it before, did you? (Well, I didn't, anyway.)
4 of 5: Use the windmill blade from the catacombs on the imprint to reveal --
5 of 5: -- oh, rats, another puzzle. These five colored panels need to be turned to a specific pattern. But what?
