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One looked like a house to me, but was actually a stone wall. The images on the top of the treasure chest were not exactly clear as to what they were supposed to be.

I read the letter, and tried to figure out the correct sequence, which was hidden in a 'song' comprised of 7 stanzas, which each had 4-5 lines. Supposedly the clues are in a letter written by an old ships captain way back in the late 1700s.

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The very last puzzle of the game requires Nancy to press a series of buttons on a chest to open a treasure. Alas, over the last several years I have found the ND games to be increasingly difficult to play, mainly due to the extremely difficult puzzles that I have had more and more trouble figuring out. I have played pretty much all of the ND games from way back, and as a 60+ year old, avid gamer since 1985, I consider myself a fairly good gamer. So this father and daughter team definitely rates this game two thumbs up! We liked the game enough that we're starting to play some of the older titles (there sure are alot of them!) now to continue our Nancy Drew experience. Others have stated that some of the puzzles or puzzle ideas were re-used from previous games I guess we're luck to have never played any others, because they were all new to us and I thought some of them were quite ingenious, and all were fun to solve. The duration of the game was good it could have gone on even longer and that would have been great, but I feel that for the cost and my expectations, the pacing and duration seemed just fine. The great thing about this game is that there is a hints feature that can unblock you any time you need it, and it can help to keep the game flowing. Some of this may be attributable to the fact that I came into the game about halfway through so there may have been some clues that would have led me on that I never got a chance to see.

Sometimes, the game was a little frustrating because a small missed detail blocked progress, and it's no fun combing the same locations over and over again looking for that missed detail. The graphics were very detailed and provided a tremendous sense of place for the story that unfolded. The voice acting that others have complained about seemed excellent to me (especially Dagny). Perhaps it is the perpetual night of Iceland making her uneasy? Certainly didn't help.ДЄnyway, without comparing this game to any other game of the series, my daughter and I both thought the game was very entertaining and well done. My daughter is also, let's just say, not the bravest soul, and by the end she was quite nervous about some of the locations and events and I had to sit with her to complete the story as it became a little to scary for her. The puzzles were challenging, some of them very challenging, and I don't think my daughter ever would have completed at least half of them without assistance. The game was easy for my daughter to play, as it is entirely a point-and-click adventure. There are so many tasks to complete that it is difficult to organize them all, even for an adult, and a click-happy child can get themselves pretty far along before finding themselves hopelessly tangled up in various plot lines with no idea what to do next. The game was much too difficult for my 9 year old, and I expect it would be pretty difficult for any child under 12 or so to complete on their own. It was purchased for my daughter (age 9) for Christmas, over the course of a month of on-again, off-again play, we just completed it tonight. Unlike many other reviewers, I have not played all of the previous installments in this series in fact, this was my very first Nancy Drew game.

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