This Game is Hard

[sammilee223]

So far this is the hardest Nancy drew game I've played and I have played quite a few . the puzzles are advanced even for me in junior detective mode .

[TheSneak06]

It's a very puzzle-centric game. Personally, I love the puzzles in this one, but there definitely are a few that are trickier than most.

Are you having trouble with any particular puzzle?

[sammilee223]

I made it to the bento boxes for yumi and although I somehow have solved 2 of them I still do not quite understand them , also how do you do the card puzzle behind muakos robotic cat ?

[TheSneak06]

The bento boxes can be a bit tricky to understand at first. Basically, Yumi's given you some clues about where each item of food goes. For each bento box, these two rules are the same:

1. There are three animal shapes (of four possible animals - cat, bear, rabbit, and pig)
   
2. There will be three rice dishes, three sandwiches, and three egg dishes (one per animal)

I find the best way to start is to look at the clues on the right and find the largest one, because then you can narrow down where to place it. For instance, if she's given you a set of diagonal foods, running from the top left to the bottom right, then those clues only fit in those same places in the bento box. Some clues tell you outright what the dish is (animal face with a food; for example, if you see a cat face and a bowl of rice, that means the dish for that square of the bento box is rice in the shape of a cat). Sometimes she gives only the animal or the food type. In these cases, you would look at the other clues to narrow down the specific dish. Blank boxes sometimes show up, and those really just help with placing where those clues go. For instance, if you have a clue with two boxes, side by side, and the one on the left is a cat-rice and the one on its right is blank, then that tells you that the cat-rice does not go in the right-most column (because there's another food on the right of it, so either the cat-rice is in the far left column or the middle column).

I don't know if that clarifies things well or not. It might be easier if we had an actual bento box to look at.

As to the card puzzle, you'll first need to find the missing card. Have you done that yet?