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Title: 5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: hamish20 on Wed 15/10/2003 14:00:22
i am stuck on day 2. i have got the metal detector and it led me to one of the holes in the lawn, but do i have to dig? as i have nothing to dig with??

Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: Mats Berglinn on Wed 15/10/2003 16:03:28
Who said you have to get something in order to dig? Let me clue you: If I were you I would try to use my own hands to solve this puzzle. Get it?
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: hamish20 on Wed 15/10/2003 19:30:40
But he says he does not want to get his fingernails dirty???
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: jane on Wed 15/10/2003 19:45:56
perhaps you're not pressing in the right place  :-\
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: Crimz on Wed 15/10/2003 20:10:06
Move your mouse SLOWLY over the area

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Look for a spot where the wording changes.

Such as "dirt".
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Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: hamish20 on Thu 16/10/2003 09:22:44
Thanks. i have done that, and now on day 3. Currently i am in the basement and the salt/teddy/stick thing keeps pointing down. What do i have to do?
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: jane on Thu 16/10/2003 12:19:58
Don't suppose you've tried looking where its pointing?
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: hamish20 on Thu 16/10/2003 12:42:00
It points down, but i don't know what to do.
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: Anym on Thu 16/10/2003 14:48:02
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Perhaps there is something below the kitchen?

You have a map of the house, does it show anyhting... unusual?
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Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: DoorKnobHandle on Thu 16/10/2003 14:48:47
First thing: Check if you held it above the bed!

Second: If so, then exactly stand above the place where its pointing down asnd there will be a new hotspot nemad "Are" avialable" which you can use.
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: hamish20 on Thu 16/10/2003 14:53:46
i am below the kitchen there is no bed. Just some chains!!!
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: Anym on Thu 16/10/2003 15:05:39
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If you're already below the kitchen, use it (salty teddy with stick) again, it should point north/east/south/west. Walk a bit in that direction. Use it again. Repeat until it's point straight down. Then there should be a new hotspot where you are standing (just like mamarulez said). Use it!
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Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: hamish20 on Thu 16/10/2003 15:37:23
thanks anym

but i have done that and it only ever seems to point down.

I will keep trying though.

Thanks again
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: jane on Thu 16/10/2003 16:37:44
i had a similar problem and had to keep moving a little then using detector on floor - and interacting with it - keep trying and I sure it will work.
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: Anym on Thu 16/10/2003 17:08:21
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Just to make sure... Has it pointed somewhere else already? Or does he say that "it's either pointing down or not working properly". Re-read the instructions in the magic book! Combine Stick with String and Personal Item. Dip in Salt. WAVE OVER THE PLACE THE PERSON YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SLEPT. Have you done all that?
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Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: on Thu 16/10/2003 18:40:19
You'll know you're in the right spot when you put the hand curser over it and it says "area"
then just click on it.  You don't have to use anything in inventory.
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: Anul on Tue 21/10/2003 11:27:12
Corresponding to the hints I have read the newspaper, the book on the DeFoe family, Sir Roderick's diary and Mattew's diary as well.
But I stil can't get a book on white magic in the library with the instructions how to make a detector...
Tribly seems to be interested in blackcolour books... but as I want to take one of them he says "I can't think of a use for any of these books at the moment"...
Where have a done wrong???
help...pls  :-[
Title: Re:5 days - can anyone else help me?
Post by: jane on Tue 21/10/2003 13:52:13
if anyone else is struggling, this may help -
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http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/5daysfaq.txt
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