Judge Beckets house/classroom - bug?

[mrbungle]

I've got all the oar things, and explored everything, but when I go to unlock the big door that needs the oar locks, it says I'm missing information. The only thing I can't examine is the classroom layout map, but it won't let me look at it. No idea what else I can do to be honest.

[Olya.Ryzhko]

Apparently you did not explore evereything.
To proceed further you need to find 3 oarlocks and 5 papers. Once found there is a tricky puzzle to solve, kind of double puzzle - first you need to choose the right letters NZП and only after this you can set the oarlocks to the right position. Without this, he would say he's missing some information.

Does it help?

[mrbungle]

I think I may have done something out of sequence? One of the first things I checked was the jacket hanging on the wall with the sweet papers on the floor. BUT, now I know I need to check it after reading that note, nothing is happening. It just shows as being the green magnifying glass and I can't get Holmes to acknowledge it.

I will go back to an earlier save and leave the jacket until I have found the relevant note. Thanks

[Olya.Ryzhko]

Basically there is no strict order of sequence or something.
I still think you missed something but I will need you save to understand what exactly. Do you mind sharing it?

[Petowski]

You should check the cabinet with no door handles again. There are a few things in the cabinet you need to examine before you can use the layout of the chairs.

[mrbungle]

I went back to an earlier save. I am not sure, but I think what affected it was that even though I had put the oar locks into the holes in the lock, they still showed as being in my inventory. And also, when you went through the double doors between the classroom and the study, Sherlock kept showing his animation for opening the door, at the wrong door. His character would jump across to the opposite door, and then jump back across once the animation had finished.

I loaded a save just after climbing through the window into the kitchen, and it all worked this time (I hadn't missed the items in the locked cabinet :) )

Near the end now and no more issues. Loving it, but kinda wish it was a larger world like VS Jack the Ripper was. I loved wandering those streets at night - so atmospheric. This game looks lush, but I think is a fair bit shorter? Some nice texture work though, and of course, great voice acting from Holmes and Watson :)

[Olya.Ryzhko]

Glad that you managed to proceed further.
Thanks for sharing yoiur thoughts with us!

[Smeppu]

I had to skip the puzzle because of this bug.

When I put Taylor's name in place, nothing responded.

[Hipp0campus]

Originally posted by Smeppu:

I had to skip the puzzle because of this bug.

When I put Taylor's name in place, nothing responded.

For everyone having this problem 10 years later: There is a blank piece of paper that needs to be put on the empty spot.