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Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure Hints
How do I open the safe with the bars across it?
1 of 6: The first trick is to raise the bars. Look for something that will fit in that opening at the right.
2 of 6: Insert the lever from the snooker puzzle in The Games Room and use it to lower the bars. Um ... now what?
3 of 6: It looks a little like a chessboard, doesn't it? only it's 6 by 6 squares, not 8 by 8 like a real chessboard.
4 of 6: See the queen symbol at left and the 6 at the right?
5 of 6: Your goal here is to place six queens on the board in such a way that they'd be safe from each other -- that is, you can't have two queens in the same row, the same column, or the same diagonal line. Press each square where you want to put a queen; if there's another queen in the way, that other square will pop back up.
6 of 6: There may be more than one way to solve this one, but here's an arrangement that works:
