Hello, I am Toad Hopper, an AVID Nancy Drew fan. This is my 3rd walkthrough, because I have played and beaten every Nancy Drew Game out there so far and I know that sometimes it really sucks to get stuck and not know what to do.
Oct 23, 2012 Get all the inside info, cheats, hacks, codes, walkthroughs for Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device on GameSpot. For Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device on the PC, FAQ/Walkthrough by The Lost Gamer.
I know that thorough walkthroughs are limited and you have to search so many different sites to get the information you need. I also know that it would be super convenient to have a thorough walkthrough just on one site. So I decided to do my 3rd walkthrough due to the response to my last blog, and my 2nd blog, by the general public.
I took a lot of time and have put this walkthrough together to the best of my knowledge and actually had a lot of fun doing it. I am also fairly new to blogging.
So I hope that I can set this up so it is easily accessible as well as organized. I would appreciate any feedback good or bad and I will do my best to make any changes. I also encourage you to let me know if I am missing anything, or if you know of any other cheats/hints that need to be inputted.
If this walkthrough is a success, I may post walkthroughs of other needed Nancy Drew games at your request. Thank you for your feedback, hope this helps. Hello all, this is my 3rd walkthrough, I decided to do this because frankly I have tried to get thorough walkthroughs before and find them somewhat left to be desired. So, here goes.
Let me know what you thinkFirst of all for those of you who are Nancy Drew fans and know how it all works, I have added specific SPOILERS to separate links throughout. For example: For all of you who want to find all of the AWARDS for the end of the game you can go to this and it will take you step by step to the awards screen.Getting Started. Once the game begins you must choose your level of expert:1.) Junior Detective2.) Senior DetectiveFor this walkthrough, I have done something different. I have done the walkthrough solutions for BOTH the Junior and Senior Detective.This is the first game that you do not begin the game at Nancy's desk! You find yourself viewing the events of the murder you will be investigating. You will have a few things in your possession, which appear on the bottom left of the screen. You have your inventory which is the bottom bar across the screen, where you can open and use, read, or select the items seen.
If it has an eye, you can look at it closer – for example read a letter. You can also select something in your inventory by clicking it and clicking on something to use it on – for example a key to open a locked drawer, you would click on the key in your bag and then click on the lock on the door and it will automatically unlock. Next to the inventory you have your journal, which has observations, and suspect information.
These can come in helpful if you get caught in what seems to be a dead end. Next is your Task List, which when you are a Senior Detective, is disabled. Finally you have your cell phone. This can come in very useful at times.To operate your cell phone you click on it. You have 5 options from there - phone, camera, games, settings and messages. Phone will take you to your cell phone, where you can make a phone call to your friends Frank and Joe Hardy and to Victor Lossett. To make a call to a contact, click their picture and then click on 'call'.
MEET, GREET, AND SNOOP - DAY 1This particular game does not have specific scenes or areas that give you an easy way to divide it up into an organized manner, so I decided to organize it based on a generalized To-Do list. So for this first page, we will focus on meeting all the characters and snooping through all the accessible areas during the first Day before we have to change the alarm. Puzzle Solutions will be listed on separate pages to avoid SPOILERS. There will be 2 puzzle solutions (if required) for Senior and Junior Detective solutions.NOTE!!! The tasks highlighted in RED are tasks that are required for the Senior Detective, otherwise, the tasks are only for the Junior Detective.NOTE!!! I covered over the SPOILERS with black, if you want a hint but not the solution, you can highlight where it is blackened and you can get a hint, otherwise if you need more than a hint and need the solution you can go to the AWARDS page or to the individual puzzle page. Let’s go back to the 1 st floor and explore Nancy’s room and the lounge and beat Mason’s score on the Aggregation Machine.Phone Charm location: Metal Robot.Once in Nancy’s room and lounge notice the bookshelf to the left, nothing to interact with.
Notice the picture on the wall, nothing to interact with. You can get a closer look at the work table, but nothing yet to work on. All Nancy says is “Hmmm”. Turn behind you and see an arcade game of“Aggravation” that you can play. Go over to the kitchen area and see that the electric burner is missing a knob – need to keep an eye open for that. You can click on the cereal box but only look at it.
Continue to Nancy’s bed and use the bathroom if you like, she does say some funny things. In the bedroom, you can look in the center locker and read through the book on Tesla.Phone Charm location: Planet Charm. Puzzle #5: Let’s go back and try to solve the puzzle in order to gain access to Mason’s computer. Go to his cubicle and look at the white dry erase board. Most of the gibberish we probably wouldn’t understand but if you really look at it there are quite a few clues. At the far bottom left corner there is a hangman diagram and 2 separate words.
One of the words has a hyphen and the other does not. So this is a clue that it is someone’s thing. Now, the color of the hangman diagram is orange, and if you look at the other writing on the board you see many individual letters on the board in orange. Count the spaces of letters you need to complete the puzzle and count how many letters there are on the board and what do you know?
A perfect match. Lots of places to look here, so we will explore from the left of the double door as you look straight at them and go around the room to the right of the double doors.
First, take a closer look at the machine with the plastic black cover that opens. Take a close look at it as it has a screen showing “No Files in Queue” on the left and the plastic cover opens on the right.
Also, look at the book “Battle of the Currents” on the shelf to the right. Back up from there and look closely at the large machine with the glowing blue domes, no interaction there. Next, look at the far panel to the left with the levers and lights with the sticker “Danger, High Voltage”, no interaction there. Back up and pan the room left. Skip the metal exit door for now and move on to the contraption just left of the upright toolbox. If you click on the box part the doors will open and if you click on the spigots with the doors closed it resembles some sort of shaking machine, as you turn more spigots the more intense shaking occurs.
Back up and pan left, you will next come across a machine with dials on it, no interaction here, but to the left of the machine on the table you can pick up a leather booklet on Etching Solutions which will prove very useful. Back up, pan left again, and just to the left of the machine is a messy workstation with a couple of white jugs. Locate and pick up the glass beaker for future use. Back up, pan left and you will next see, to the right of the yellow door, a set of 3 cylinders with gauges; no interaction here. Skip the yellow door for now and continue to pan left. To the left of the yellow door is another contraption which is a small Tesla Coil, that you can interact with but it does not seem like you have the parts yet, all Nancy says is “Hmmm” When you click on the flat black screen, Nancy says, “Something must be broken”.
Back up again and pan left. HF – Stands for Hydrogen Fluoride. If you look in your inventory you will see in the Leather booklet on etching solutions that there are 3 Hydrofluoric Acid mixtures, 2 being the same with different measurements and 1 being different. Under normal circumstances we would pick and choose and finally find one that works. This particular time, I am going to choose the one that is different. The “Si” solution for Amateur Detective is with 3 parts Hydrofluoric Acid, 1 part Nitric Acid, and 4 parts Water. For Master Detective is with 2 parts Hydrofluoric Acid, 2 parts Nitric Acid, and 1 part water.
Nitric Acid is Nitrogen Dioxide and Water which if you look again at the periodic table or HN03 would be that mixture along with Water, which is H2O. Let’s mix them up. Amateur: Take the “HF” Container and pour it into the little measuring cup with the 3 on it and dump it into the white beaker, Take the “HNO2” Container and pour it into the little measuring cup with the 4 on it and dump it into the little measuring cup with the 3 on it and that will leave you with the 1 part that you need to add into the white beaker solutions. Finally, take the “H2O” Container and pour it into the little measuring cup with the 4 on it and dump it into the white beaker solution.
Master: Take the “HF” Container and pour it into the little measuring cup with the 4 and dump it into the little measuring cup with the 3 on it and that will leave you with the 1 part that you need to add into the white beaker solution. Dump the remaining amount back into the “HF” container and repeat the step again so the paper above the sink shows “2”parts measured. Take the “HNO3” Container and pour it into the little measuring cup with the 4 on it and dump it into the little measuring cup with the 3 on it and that will leave you with the 1 part that you need to add into the white beaker solution. Dump the remaining amount back into the“HNO3” container and repeat the step again so the paper above the sink shows“2”parts measured. Finally, take the “H2O” Container and pour it into the little measuring cup with the 4 on it and dump it into the little measuring cup with the 3 on it and that will leave you with the 1 part that you need to add into the white beaker solution.
Turn to the other part of the room and see a Photolithography Etching Machine. Before attempting to work the machine, click on the book that is located on the top of the monitor to the right of the machine. Here you can read the info on the Rapid Prototyper, Circuit Design, and the Photolithography Etching.
To work the Etching machine, you will need to follow the 4 steps in the book. We already created the solution, so select it from the inventory and add it to the machine as illustrated in the book under #1. Second you will need a circuit design. Probably going to need some help from Ryan getting that.
You can also talk on the intercom next to the door, but no answer.