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Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand Hints

Where can I learn about Mayan numbers?

  • 1 of 12: The exhibits only give you the basics: dots and bars. But, sometimes the Mayans used picture glyphs for numbers too.
  • 2 of 12: Get more information from an electronic source.
  • 3 of 12: Computers are electronic!
  • 4 of 12: If you read through Sonny's notebook, you realized that he loved computers.
  • 5 of 12: In fact, he saved information onto a floppy disk -- and left the disk behind!
  • 6 of 12: Now all you need is a computer to read it on.
  • 7 of 12: The ones in the museum don't have disk drives. Travel outside the museum to find another computer.
  • 8 of 12: Read the disk on Nancy's Computer.
  • 9 of 12: The file on the numbering system is named "Stuff To Remember." Read it carefully and take careful and complete notes.
  • 10 of 12: Information from Sonny's file on the regular numbers is pretty self-explanatory.
  • 11 of 12: The descriptions Sonny wrote on the picture tiles are really good. Write them down too so you can refer to them while working the puzzle.
  • 12 of 12: Just for those of you who might be impaired for one reason or another, see below for the notes I jotted down from Sonny's disk.