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Nancy Drew: Danger By Design Hints

How do I use this piece of paper with the eyeballs?

  • 1 of 12: After you get all the pictures Dieter asked for, give them to him; he'll tell you a lot of interesting stuff and hand you a piece of paper with a bunch of eyeballs on one side. How bizarre!
  • 2 of 12: Did you buy the book from the flea market about codes? If you did, you might recognize what this is.
  • 3 of 12: It's a dot code. All you need now is a grid to lay over the eyeballs.
  • 4 of 12: Did you notice the red thing inside the front cover of the journal you found in the tunnel in Dieter's office?
  • 5 of 12: In inventory, look at the eyeball paper and turn it over to look at the eyes, then click on inventory again and select the red grid to put it on top of the eyeballs. Huzzah!
  • 6 of 12: The way these things work is you click on certain specific eyes, and they'll spell out a message below. But ... which eyeballs?
  • 7 of 12: The clue to this came in your conversation with Lynn Manrique.
  • 8 of 12: What did she say were Noisette's last words?
  • 9 of 12: It was red left green -- or more accurately, "Red left ... green." How might that apply to these eyeballs?
  • 10 of 12: Notice that some eyes look forward, some right, and some left. Could "red left" mean the red eyes that look left?
  • 11 of 12: If so, "green" might mean all the green eyes, no matter what direction they point.
  • 12 of 12: Click on the five red eyes that point left, and on all five green eyes. When you have it right, Nancy will read the message out loud and write it on the bottom of the eyeball paper.