Nancy Drew Lights, Camera, Curses Waltkrhough -- Part 2 of 3 -- Staying at the Hotel in the Noir Themepark

Now you get to find out that the director plans to build another theme park to commemorate this movie. (There are already two theme parks on this property.) You also learn something about Z.B. Colingwood, the director of the original movie. (Theme park and Z.B. Collingwood are the answers by the way.)

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Start by looking at the magazine on the table. Examine the book on the disk and the sofa. The names in the book do not match up to the names on the staff. Perhaps the name used here are anagrams? Examine the key display and the piece of candy on the floor. Put the candy in the jar and look at the jar again.

Use the bird cane on the clock on the wall. Use the water can on the water fountain. Now that you have filled the water can, use it on the plant that looks a little parched. You’ll discover a class eye in the vase that contains the plant. Place it in the fish on the wall. Get the key from the fish’s mouth and use it on the cabinet underneath the poster for the movie Pharaoh. Look at the Pharaoh poster and enter the next puzzle. You need to decode the letters. The answer is Find the Naja Haje. Click on the oat on the chair and the hat in the cabinet. When you get the key card, use it on the elevator lock by the door. Use the lock pick icon on the door to unlock it.

The first production assistant’s room is much cleaner than most of the rooms in the other Big Fish behind the hidden object games. Start by looking at the remote in this room. It seems to be missing batteries. Look at the electric toothbrush by the sink. Click on the toothbrush to get the batteries, and then use the batteries on the remote. Use the remote on the television.

You cannot do much more with the television screen here. The letter and the steam iron may have some immediate use though. Plug the steam iron into the outlet. Turn it on. Use the letter on the steam iron. Read the letter from a computer firm telling her that she should write down her password if she keeps forgetting it. Take a look at the note that says something about the show on a certain channel. You now have the first half of her password.

Examine the boots. Get the card from the boots. Look at the television screen and look at the pen on the floor. Pick up the tweezers on the floor and use them on the pen cap. Examine the paper in the cap. Turn on the hot water in the room to fog up the mirror. Look at the fogged up mirror. Now you have all the information you need to enter her password. Look at the computer and then enter her password.

The production assistant catches you investigating her room. She does not seem to be too upset, but you must answer two questions. The answers are Pharaoh Philes and accuse you of lying. After you finish your investigation here, you will return to the room outside of the set.

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Go into the editing room and play the decoding mini-game to reveal the information on the chip the original production assistant gave you.

Someone broke into the prop storage room and rearranged its contents. Nancy Drew has used the clean up excuse to cover her tracks, so she might as well start by putting things back in their place. The flash boom powder seems to have been the thief’s target.

Put the bird on the floor in the bird box on the top left shelf. Return the mummy on the floor to its sarcophagus. Move the urn on the floor to a spot near the plant. Take the spear near a plant and put it next to a hanging snake. (Get used to a lot of snakes going through this adventure.) Examine the snake box. Place the scepter in the snake box in the sarcophagus where you put the mummy. Examine the open sarcophagus. Use the ankh prop on the ankh prop to combine the two staves. Do the same thing with the staff prop. Use the litter scoop on the packing peanuts and place them in the appropriate receptacle. Look in the open crate where you just put the packing peanuts. Take the crowbar from the crate and use it on the alligator mouth. Find the packing manifest and place it on the clipboard. Finally use the crowbar on the crate that used to contain flash boom and look inside.

Nancy asks the question why anyone would want to steal flash boom, as there are better explosives available.

Nancy Drew faces another quiz when she finishes up at this room. The answers are as follows:

• why was the room locked?
• it was completely empty.
• a bolt that was shaved off and a bead from Eda's costume.
• is still intact.

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Look inside the locker. It seems that the actress playing Nefertiti believes in a curse and knows something about the Jewel of Karnak. Use the hand icon on her lipstick, flower and pearl necklace. Examine the picture of Lois Manson. Look at the flower book, the locket and the paper. Use the hand icon on the glove. Examine the Karnak book and picture.

Watch the snake come out of the locker. Go back out and get quizzed by the clueless actress.

Tell her that you are a private detective and that the snake that came from her locker. She asks you about the book in the locker, which is about the jewel of Karnak. Listen as the production assistant comes up and tells you that someone released snakes from the creatures room.

Whether Nancy wants to or not, she must return the snakes and a few lizards to their appropriate cages.

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Nancy Drew walks to the hotel. Examine the Pharaoh poster and the snake on it. Remember the letters DECFDA as you will need these notes to open a lock later.

You will face another quiz at the end of this sequence. Use the answers below to score the maximum possible amount of points.

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  in Eda's locker.
• I found this swizzle stick.
• Lois Manson. How did she end up with a poisonous snake on the set?
• was broken into tonight.
• was wearing a hooded cloak
• the thief stole the Flash Boom?

Return to the Hotel. Nancy Drew has almost all the information she needs to figure out what is happening on the set. You may even find something out about the original curse that struck down Lois Manson. You may even figure out that the ditzy actress seems to be after the Jewel of Karnak that disappeared after the original Pharaoh Set was buried beneath the ground. Why anyone would want to steal flash boom powder must remain a mystery for now, as this pyrotechnic does not make a very effective explosive. You'll encounter even more timed puzzles in the next few sections of the game.