Note: There are a few things that you should do to be successful in the game. Make sure you save often, especially during the later acts! One thing you should do is ask everyone (major characters) about everything in your notebook.

Secret passageways: There are a number of secret passageways in the museum they include one in Wolf's office,  one in Olympia's office and one in the back room in the basement. You can access the one in Wolf's office by looking behind the painting for a button, it leads to Carrington's office. In Ernie's office you can press the button on the left wall, then head to the back room to follow it, this one leads out through the middle coffin in the Egyptian display room. In Olympia's office you can touch the horned thing on the desk to enter a passage into the vat room. Make sure you turn on the lantern before entering any passages, you WILL die if you don't have it turned on.

Money: You don't need any, you can get cab rides by showing the driver your press pass.

Before playing the game: Watch the introduction before the game in order to understand who's who and what's what, as well as pick up vital clues to the case.

    You begin in the New York Registered News Tribune building. You have been hired to work there, and your first assignment is to investigate the theft of the priceless Egyptian artifact recently discovered ... The Dagger of Amun Ra! But you are Laura Bow, not only will you write a great story covering the theft, but you solve the case as well (if you play the game properly)! You start by your desk, Sitting beside you working on an article, is Crodfoller T. Rhubarb, who was previously assigned to the dagger case and has left some notes for you in your notebook. Ask him about everything in it. Then click your hand on the garbage can, and you will find a baseball, take it, you will need it later. Now sit down at your desk and peel up the bottom right corner of your desk blotter, you will find a key. Use the key to open your desk drawer. In the desk you find a press pass which you take. Now click EXIT, to get out of the desk screen and now go over and read the bulletin board. On the board one of the notices will say something about wearing descent clothing when attending public formal functions. Go outside and hail a taxi by clicking on the TAXI sign. Show the driver, Rocco, your press pass and he will take you anywhere in your notebook (accept New York, because that would just be stupid). At this moment ask him to bring you to the police station (you can also walk across the street from the Trib, but you must look both ways or you will be run over. NOTE: You will know that you have looked both ways, and there are no cars when the voice-over says "There are no cars coming in this direction" once you have clicked the eye icon on either side of the road. Don't cross until this happens.). Once you are outside the police station, click on the homeless man sleeping under the newspaper, to try and wake him up. After he doesn't wake up, go into the police station and talk to the desk clerk. Now go back outside and you will see that the homeless man in gone, but his newspaper is still there. Get the coupon for a free sandwich at Luigi's and cross the street (or take a cab), back to the Trib. A sandwich stand is outside of the newspaper building, give the vendor the coupon and take the sandwich. Go back to the police station and give the clerk the sandwich. He will tell you the password to the speakeasy when you ask about it. Take this time to see O'Riley, he is in his office, the back room of the police station. You will get to talk to him and look at his file before he throws you out. Leave to police station and take a cab to the 12th street docks. At the docks you will meet a hottie dock worker named Steve, talk with him. He seems very interested when you mention that you are going to a formal party at the museum tonight. When he takes off, call the taxi and ask the driver to take you to the flower shop/speakeasy. Go to the door at the side and knock. When the man says business hours are over tell him you know the secret word. Choose the word 'Charleston' from your notebook (under miscellaneous). He will let you in and you will find yourself in a room with a bar, dancers singers and a table full of people. The little man in the tux, sitting on the right is Ziggy. Tell him Crodfoller sent you, then talk to him about everything in your notebook. Leave the speakeasy and cross the street to the laundry mat. Talk to the kids and trade your baseball for their magnifying glass. Now cross the street again and hail a taxi. The taxi will be filled with garbage. Stay in the taxi and rummage around until you find a yellow laundry claim ticket. Ask the man to bring you to the laundry mat. Go inside and talk to Lo Fat. Give him the claim ticket and get your dress. Now go back the speakeasy and go into the bathroom at the back of the room on your right. The hooker in there knows about the countess. Ask her about the stuff in your notebook, she doesn't know much though. Now get changed into your dress and leave the speakeasy. A taxi will come and bring you to the party.
 
 

    Show your press pass to Wolf, he will keep it and let you into the party. The first thing you should do is go into the gift shop (the door on the left). Look at the case at the back of the store with your magnifying glass until you find a dagger without the inscription 'made in Pittsburgh' on it. When you have found this Wolf will kick you out of the gift shop. If Wolf doesn't come keep trying because you cant progress past the party in the game unless he does. 7:30- When you leave the gift shop, start questioning. Question every key person at the party (they include, the Countess, Dr. Carter, Dr. Carrington, Ziggy, Yvette, Dr. Myklos, Detective O'Riley and Rameses Najeer). After you have done this, listen to all of the private conversations, while doing this, if you visit the main screen often enough, you will meet Steve, the hottie dock worker. Steve and you will go outside for a little talk. When you return, continue to listen to the conversations until you hear one between Steve and Yvette. You will notice that the room is now empty, the party is now over. Grab a glass off of the left table on the second screen and enter the door behind the giant mask of Tutankhamun. You are not allowed to go the the Old Masters Gallery yet, so lets look at the dinosaur display. Exit the mastodon room to the right of the screen, and go into the door at the top of the screen. Take the bone at the left side of the screen. Walk over and push the button on the right side of the screen, the dinosaur will start talking (his voice seems very similar to Steve's, doesn't it?). Leave the room and go left, to the armor room, now go up twice, to the ancient Egypt display. Take a look around, look at the dagger case, but don't touch and read some of the things on the wall, you might learn something. Go left, look at the Rosetta Stone with your magnifying glass. The egyptian translation of half of the english alphabet will be in your notebook now. Look at the blood on the floor next to the gold medallion ... hey, haven't you seen that around someone's neck before (Ptahsheptut Smith if you didn't catch that.)? You will notice a footprint in blood on the floor, look at it closer. Open the right coffin to discover the body of Dr. Pippin Carter! Search his body with the magnifying glass, look at the grape stains and get his notepad. Exit the scene of the body.
 
 

    8:15 pm - Watch while detective O'Riley interrogates possible witness'. 10:00 pm - You talk to Ernie Leach, the museum janitor, he informs you that the doors are now locked and that you will have to go to him to get out. You speak to Detective O'Riley for a minute, after this enter the mastodon room and go right twice, to the armor room. Open the middle armor and discover Dr. Carter's body once again. Go back to the mastodon room and left, to the old master's gallery. Go down to the offices' and you will hear muffled voices coming from the door to Yvette's office. Click the drinking glass from the table on the door and you will hear an interesting conversation between Yvette and Olympia. Go into Olympia's office (to the right) and uncover the Rosetta stone (under the white sheet). Grab the snake oil on the desk and Olympia will come in and take it. Leave the office and enter Yvette's office. Click your hand on the lamp to turn it off, now look at it with the magnifying glass to see the light bulb. It is too hot to take just yet. Look in the garbage and you will find a piece of carbon paper, take it and enter the back office. You are now standing in Dr. Carrington's office. You should hear the muffled voices of Yvette and Rameses, use the glass to hear their steamy conversation. Look at the purple phone book on Carrington's desk, remember the number under B-Sayff - 0527. Click on the picture on the back wall, it will open to reveal a safe, open the safe with the code from the book. Once the safe is opened read the diary of the former president of the museum. In the diary he expresses his concerns about his wife, the countess. Take this time to look at the red book in the book case, 'Crime and Punishment' and get the file on Watney Little. Also look at the note on the desk - Countess and Ziggy at 1:00, medieval armor display. Look at the intercom with your Magnifying glass, click the high button closest to you then any of the first three, you should overhear three conversations, one between Yvette and O'Riley, one between Ziggy and Ernie and one strange one between Wolf and Olympia. Look at the fireplace and get the charcoal. Use the charcoal on Pippin's notepad and read it, it lists some of his appointments. Leave the office and get the light bulb from Yvette's desk lamp. Leave this office and touch the head of the statue outside, go left. You will see a passageway leading down. You will notice the light goes out, but guess what? We have a light bulb! Replace it and head downstairs. Using the bone smash the glass on the left of the screen and take the lantern. Don't worry about Wolf, just keep trying until you get the lamp. Once you have it, go  into Wolf's office (the door at the top of the screen). Use the dinosaur bone on the mousetrap on the floor, a little harsh! Poor mice! Take the cheese on the floor. By now you should hear the dirty message for Wolf from Olympia. Look at the bookshelf on the left side zoom in on the third to the bottom shelf, a book will be backwards. Remove this book, it has and awfully odd bookmark, a garter! Yvette's garter (what a surprise)! Take it and read the note attached. Leave the office and enter the door to the right. Listen to the conversation in Ernie's office, you can walk into the room but you will get kicked out. You can also walk into the room at the top of the screen but you will get kicked out of there too. Go back upstairs and take this time to look at the carbon paper from Yvette's garbage, hold it up to the light bulb. Go left and listen to the conversation (using the cup) taking place in Yvette's office. You can also walk in there but you will get kicked out again. 10:15 pm - Go to the Egyptian room to speak with Dr. Smith (he is suppose to be meeting Carter, remember?). Now go to the pterodactyl room. Oh no! The bodies are pilling up! We don't yet know who this is, it's not easy to identify him for some reason (hmm). Look at the body carefully.  11:15 pm - go left and down, into the life mask room. Look at the grayish head on the wall. Hey! That's not a life mask! It's, it's, it's Ziggy's head!!!! Detective O'Riley and Wolf seem to think YOU have something to do with the deaths! (Well you have to admit it is a LITTLE suspicious). Go downstairs and try to enter Ernie's office. Get the white thing on the floor (the snake lasso). Open the toolbox and get the pliers. If you can't go into Ernie's office, try going to Wolf's office and then try again to get into Ernie's office, if you still can't, never mind you can go later, but you must get the snake lasso and pliers eventually. Return to Yvette's office and look at her paper cutter. Go into to Dr. Carrington's office to find HIS dead body. Search the body for clues, look at the clock next to the body and examine the letters written in blood, they spell "C.P." 12:15 pm - Enter Yvette's office and return to Dr. Carrington's office. Listen at the door and you will hear a conversation between Dr. Smith and Yvette, she is asking him to help her cover something on her carpet. Go to the armor room and hide behind the tapestry on the left wall. 1:00 am - The countess will enter the room with paintings. After You accuse her of stealing the paintings (automatic). Now is a good time to question her about Sterling's diary (it should be in the miscellaneous part of your notebook). If you have the wire cutters from Ernie's office look at the dead body of Ziggy. Click the cutters on the wire to the left to take it. Go into the alcohol vat room and click on vat #13, warthogs. You will go fishing inside the vat and find .... the Dagger of Amun Ra! Go back upstairs to the Old Master's Gallery. Look at the shining thing on the painting on the right with your magnifying glass, look at it again, and you will see a key. Take the key with either the wire cutters or, if you don't have them, the dagger. Go downstairs, if you have not gone into Ernie's office, go now. If he is there talk to him. Go into the back room, where you saw Olympia before. Get the snake oil on the table, and the slab of meat out of the freezer. Open the steamer trunk under the table using the key and QUICKLY click the meat on it (to avoid being eaten by the beetles)! Look inside the trunk, ach! A skeleton! But who is it? Lets inspect it, search it for clues. You will find a watch, inspect it closely (click the finger on it then the magnifying glass) and you will find that it belonged to Dr. Carrington! Could the skeleton be Dr. Carrington himself? Yes! Somebody is impersonating him! 1:45 am - Return to Ernie's office, not again! That Yvette! Leave and go upstairs. Listen at Yvette's office, she accuses O'Riley of having something to do with the dagger theft. Ohh! It's almost time for Olympia to meet Wolf, quickly go to the medieval armor display and hide behind the tapestry. 2:00 am - listen to Olympia and Wolf's discussion, you don't WANT to hear the rest of THAT one! Go to the mastodon room, Oh no! Ernie is dead! Search his body, you will find animal hairs and smell  alcohol, he was drowned in an alcohol vat! 2:15 am - Go into the Old Masters Gallery and report the murder.
 
 

    Be careful in this act, save it often! Go into Yvette's office, she will tell you about Ernie and why he may have been killed. When you leave her office you will meet Steve (the hottie), in the hall with Olympia. But you don't get a good chance to talk to him, Yvette grabs him too fast! 2:45 am - Listen to the conversation through the door. You will go in and then leave, disappointed in Steve. Go into the vat room in the basement, you will notice that Yvette and Wolf did not meet as planned. 3:00 am - Return to Yvette's office. You will notice that there was a struggle here. Inspect the altered items carefully and leave the room. Enter the Old Masters Gallery and you will notice a new piece with a slightly familiar subject. Crack the statue using the bone and you will notice that it is Yvette. 3:15 pm - Examine Yvette's body. Look at the "necktie", get the glasses and the red hairs. Head to the Medieval armor room and get the boot. Return to the area where the offices are and you will see a conversation between Olympia and the Countess. Apparently the Countess isn't doing to well, actually she is dying. Visit her in Olympia's office, uh oh! The snake is loose! Use the snake oil on it three times to corner it, then use the snake lasso from Ernie's office on it and put it back in it's cage. Go into the basement vat room. Refill the snake oil (click it on the liquid on the table in the bottom left hand corner of the screen). Go back upstairs and inspect the body of the countess. Get the smelling salts and the grapes. Look at her left ankle, she has been bitten by a snake. Exit the image of the body. 4:15 am - Exit Olympia's office.
 
 

    This act is very fast paced, you are being chased by the killer! You must use your wits (and this walkthrough) to escape him. Save often. You start off being chased, run right into the pterodactyl room. Close the doors and bind then with the wire. Run left into the medieval armor display, go up once. Move the chair in front of the door and open the little window above it. Get down and run into the Ancient Egypt display (up). Go left and hide in the left coffin (the one that the guy DIDN'T die in). When the killer leaves get out of the coffin and run right, then down. You will notice that the door to the storage room is open, enter the storage room and push the box above your head in front of the door (just click on it). Move the box to the right of the room to reveal a secret elevator. Go down into the Egyptian coffin storage room (you'd think that they would be on display!). Take the lid off of the coffin on the floor and jam the door closed with it (how on earth did Laura get that into her purse?). Use the snake lasso on the snake on the head of the standing up coffin to the left of the screen. Open it to reveal another secret passage, this one leading somewhere very different! Enter the passage. You will enter the ceremony room of the cult of Amun Ra, and guess who the cult leader is, (my favorite character) Rameses Najeer! He wants to SACRIFICE you! In order to live you have to answer a riddle - "What room to you leave without entering?" Go to miscellaneous section of your notebook and spell out "WOMB" in hieroglyphics. The second part is "What room to you enter without leaving?" Spell out "TOMB." Personally I think that they should have used the riddle of the sphinx a real riddle from ancient times, - "What has four legs in the morning, two legs at midday and three legs in the evening -- man" (man crawls on all fours as a child, walks with two legs as an adult and walks with a cane in old age). But what can ya do. N E ways, you will exit the secret cult room into the furnace room. You will notice something, no, SOMEONE in the coal heap. Clear of the face and you will recognize Steve. Use the smelling salts to revive him and quickly give him his boot. Once he is up, get him to help you move the huge stone plaque on the wall. You will enter a narrow, dark passage. To brighten up the room, turn on your lamp by clicking the finger on it. You will see the Olympia's lost snakes, good thing you have your trusty snake oil. Use it on them and follow the passage further. You will hear some gunshots coming from behind, you have to hurry. When you see the rats, throw the cheese from Wolf's office into either the far opening (to get rid of them without hurting them) or the near one (to send them into the furnace). Enter the far passage. You will come out of (a very odd place), Rex's mouth. Quickly push the button to make him talk, Rex will take a bite out of crime. BREATH!
 
 

    This act is rather boring, but it determines your progress in the entire game. The coroner asks you a bunch of questions and you have to answer them correctly. Here are the questions and answers:
 
 

Question	Answer	Motive
Who murdered Carter?	Detective O' Riley	Financial gain
Who murdered Ziggy?	Detective O' Riley	Cover another crime
Who murdered Ernie?	Detective O' Riley	Cover another crime
Who murdered Yvette?	Detective O' Riley	Jealousy
Who murdered the Countess?	Detective O' Riley	Cover another Crime
Who was the skeleton?	Dr. Carrington	N/A
Who murdered Carrington?	Watney Little	N/A
Who murdered Watney Little?	Detective O' Riley	Cover another crime
Who stole the dagger?	Watney Little	N/A
Who manipulated Watney?	Detective O' Riley	N/A
Who was the woman stealing paintings?	The Countess	N/A
Who was the man stealing paintings?	Watney Little	N/A
Who was the middleman in the painting scheme?	Ziggy	N/A
Who is the high priest of the sun worshippers?	Rameses Najeer	N/A
Who owns a fencing business?	Ernie Leach	N/A