Arrival on Island- Washington D.C
Jump down to the left when you arrived on the island. Continue walking till you see a guy pushing his luggage which is Thomas Edison (the inventor of light bulb) on Washington D.C train station. You’ll offer him a helping hand. You need to form a ramp out of the other luggage. To do so, you need to re-arrange those, from smallest to largest which will be from left to right. Just follow the simple instructions that will prompt and you’re good to go. After the ramp has been formed, push Edison’s luggage on the train. When you completed this mini game, Edison will give you a train ticket to Chicago as a reward. Follow him on the right and ride the train with a poster of Chicago World’s Fair.
Welcome Aboard!
When you get inside the train, go to the left till you get on the next zone. You’ll meet Ferris, the guy that will give you a telegram stating that “Latest Attempt, to fix wheel failed stop, need more power stop”. Continue to go left and talk to the guy outside his cabin which is Nikola Tesla and then go inside the cabin of Susan B. Anthony. Talk to her and she’ll give you a Women’s Suffrage Pamphlet. Leave her room and head your way still to the left and talk to the other guy which is Gustave Eiffel. After your conversation, enter the next room with Erik Weisz name. After you talk to him, exit his room and continue walking to the left.
You’ll meet a guy with a hat which is a reporter from New York Times. Talk to him and will tell you that the fair is a second rate because it will be held on Chicago instead of New York. Next, you need to enter Mark Twain’s cabin and go to the left and talk to him. Leave the room right after and walk to the left. Pick up the pencil you’ll see along your way. Next enter Thomas Edison cabin and talk to him as well, and then leave. Proceed to Mlle Moreau’s room and will give you Le Monde newspaper. Go back to Edison’s cabin and he’ll show you his new device which captures moving pictures. When you try it out and see it’s working, Edison will go outside to call the New York Times reporter. A cut-scene of the train will be shown entering a tunnel. Suddenly lights will be gone and when it comes back, you’ll be surprised that the device had disappeared. When Thomas Edison and the reporter arrive, they’ll confront you for the missing machine. A message will appear…Now you’re on the Case! You must prove that you’re not the thief by uncovering the real criminal. Good luck, Detective!
Start of your Detective Mission…
Every passenger will give you different clues. First click on Thomas Edison and then a box of clues will appear, click on the box and Edison will tell you that the device will make him star of the fair. While when you click on the reporter he’ll tell you that Mark Twain was hiding something on his secret compartment in his cabin. Leave the cabin and go to Mlle Moreau’s cabin. She’ll tell you that the device is still on board and will not put anything against Mark Twain. Leave her cabin and go to the right on Mark Twain’s cabin. You’ll ask him about his secret compartment but he’ll deny it. However he’ll let you look around. So click on the wall behind you, the sixth panel will be open which his secret compartment is. But it was just his manuscript for the “Adventure of Huckleberry Finn that was hidden there! And then suddenly the train stopped. Go outside and talk to the NY Times reporter to get another clue. Then you’ll be back on board, at the train’s engine. So go again to the left and when you click on the coal man, he’ll tell you that he’s been in the engine room the whole time. You’ll meet George Ferris again and will tell you now that he’s sorry to hear about Edison’s troubles but he got his own problems too. Now go to Susan B. Anthony Cabin and will tell you that Nikola Tesla has been locked in his cabin, which seems suspicious for her, same with Gustave Eiffel Statement. Continue to go left and talk to other passengers to get more clues and when you meet the reporter again, he’ll ask you if you found the device on Twain’s cabin. You’ll say nope and it was now a dead end!
Still you’ll need to continue to walk to the left and you’ll notice some stains on Edison’s front door which you conclude as prune juice stains. Head your way all the way to the left till you reach the dining car of the train and then talk to the train’s porter and click on the glass of prune juice to get his clue. He’ll say that passengers order information was confidential, so he’ll throw away the order sheet. Get the porter’s notepad on the counter and use your pencil to scratch the notepad to see the imprint that was left behind. You’ll see that Nikola Tesla was the one who ordered prune juice.
Head your way now all the way to the right till you reach the luggage area. There’s a chest there with a black handprint on it. Click on the chest and you’ll find another clue out the coal smudges. And then someone will throw a scissor at you. Looks like someone doesn’t like you snooping around anyway pick the scissors and put it on your back pack. Proceed to right and talk to the coal man. Click on the coal smudge at the clue box and the coal man will say that he leave his post to get a snack when the train stopped, but he didn’t go near the luggage and tell you to ask the porter to confirm his statement.
So go to the porter at the left, which is now near Le Monde reporter’s room. Talk to him and click the “coal man left for a snack clue”. He will confirm the coal man’s statement and that clue will disappear on the clue box. Return to the luggage area and you’ll meet Le Monde reporter near the chest with coal smudge. When you talk to her, she’ll have an idea of you dressing up just like the porter and bringing Mr. Tesla a drink. Go ahead at the porter’s closet at the right side. Get inside his room and click on his porter’s outfit, click the customize button to put it on. Leave the room after.
Still head your way to the right at Mr. Tesla’s cabin and then enter his room by knocking on the door so that he will let you in. When you talk to him, he’ll ask for a refill of prune juice. Get the pitcher located at the dresser and just keep refilling his glass. He will soon leave to use the bathroom and that will be your chance to search his cabin to find another clue. There’s a little window that will appear on screen, which you can view Mr. Tesla leaving and going to the bathroom. Just keep clicking around because the game looks like it was arranged that you’ll find something at the last possible moment, which might get you panic. You’ll get the Luggage key when Tesla was already in front of his cabin.
Leave Tesla’s room and go back to the luggage area. Use the key to open the trunk with coal smudge. Finally you found the device on Tesla’s trunk and said that he’s the thief! The Le Monde reporter then informs the security guards. The Pinkerton guard arrives with Tesla and the porter. And then the porter will ask you to return the said device to Thomas Edison.
You’ll re-appear on Edison’s room and will be thankful but still can’t believe that Tesla stole his device. So both of you examine the device’s film and you will get a grainy picture. You’ll found out that when you went around the curve, Tesla was all the way on the other side of the train. So the thief is still on the loose. Leave Edison’s cabin to do more investigation.
First return to the luggage area and then jump on the barrel and go up on the roof through an open hole and then run to the right while dodging on the obstacles until you see another hole you can enter. Jump down to see Tesla in the coal’s car. He will give you a sketch of his cabin looked like when they locked him up and ask you to go to his room to see if you can find anything different.
Go to the left and go inside Tesla’s cabin. Get the sketch on your back pack and use it. Click on the pencil at the bottom left corner; circle the trunk on the right corner near the bed and you’ll win the game. Go back to the left at the luggage area and jump up onto the roof and go right back to the coal’s car. Again talk to Tesla and you’ll find another clue of how did somebody open the luggage?
You need to go to Erik Weisz cabin at the left. Ask him about the “open briefcase clue” and he’ll say that the lock look s like it was picked by an expert and you’ll get another clue of Eric Weisz odd behavior on your box. Exit his room and go to the left and talk to the NY Times reporter about the new clue you have on Eric Weisz and he’ll give you a copy of a New York Times newspaper. When you examine it, you’ll see an article of Harry Houdini, master of escape.
Go back to the right at Eric Weisz cabin. He’s not around but you will find a lock pick bag on the floor near the cabinet. And then Weisz will appear and you will confront him about his true identity. He is the real Houdini! He jump and climbs up on the roof. Follow and chase after him, still dodging on the obstacles. Go down on the storage area and use the scissors to cut the rope and click the large curtain to uncover the large box. Houdini got trapped! You’ll play a mini game now using your lock pick bag. You have four padlocks that you need to open. Click on each lock and then click and drag the lock picks and push them with the matching shape symbols until it sets on the red line and opens it. When you’re done with the four, Houdini will be rescued! He will tell you that he’s not the thief and he’s been trying to crack the mystery himself. You’ll ask for a proof that he is not the culprit, and so he tells you that someone stole one of his lock picks that is why he couldn’t escape on the water tank. Also he said that find what Tesla was hiding and you’ll find the thief. Suddenly Eric Weisz vanished.
Run to the right and go to the luggage area and enter the hole on the roof and go back to Tesla at the coal’s car. You need to use your lock picks to open up his handcuffs so he would talk about something he was hiding. He will tell you that he was carrying a small transformer capable of generating an enormous amount of wattage and that the only device which can provide enough electricity to power the Ferris wheel. He will also give you a transformer sketch.
Go back to left and enter Mark Twain’s cabin. Talk to him and he will tell you about a mysterious fellow in the last car which may lead you to the truth. Leave his cabin and continue to run to the left until you reach the Pinkerton Security car. You need to jump on the crates to reach the platform and then jump down to the next platform with the hanging bucket and again leap down to the left past the sleeping guard. And finally you’ll be on another cabin. You’ll meet a guy with moustache which is US President Grover Cleveland. He is also following your investigation with the help of the Pinkerton man. So both of you will put all together the evidences you have: a glass of prune juice, coal smudges, key, Tesla’s briefcase, transformer sketch, just click the clues in order to continue the statement of the president. The president will tell you then to go back to the luggage area and take a closer look at the trunk and identify its owner to reveal the true identity of the thief as well.
Run as fast as you can to the right at the luggage area. Again use the luggage key to open the chest with the coal smudge. When you open the trunk, you’ll see that it is full of things from France and that concludes you that the thief is from that place. Go to the left and talk to Gustave Eiffel, he admitted that he’s French but will tell you that you overlooked one very important detail. The handkerchief belongs to a lady. So you realized that the culprit was the Le Monde reporter, she doesn’t want the Chicago Fair upstage Paris! Finally the train stopped because you have already arrived at the fair. Gustave added that she might try to destroy the transformer and you need to stop her!
Your Final Mission… Saving Chicago World’s Fair!
You’ll re-appear outside the train and you’ll see the Le Monde reporter at the left. She has the transformer and plans to destroy the Ferris wheel and then she’ll run off to the left. Chase her but you need to surpass the obstacles. First the lions have the right timing to jump on their mouth when it closes. Next the jugglers, just jump on the overhangs to avoid them and when you get on the snake charmer, wait for the snake to go down to jump on the lid on his head. The snake will lift you up and you can jump on the platform on the left. Continue to run to the left past the belly dancers. The Le Monde reporter will run away again and the guards will come after you. Jump on the giant totems to avoid them, but when you get to the last one, they will knock the first totem making the other totems fall like dominos. Now you’ll be on the last area of the fair, The Ferris wheel. Jump to the Ferris wheel to the left and climb on the ropes. When you get on the #13 seat of the Ferris wheel, she will throw out a crate on you. Jump up on top and swing the rope attached to #14 seat to the right. Jump up again till you reach the top and you’ll see the Le Monde reporter throws down Tesla’s transformer. Swing the rope on the left to catch the transformer and go back to her. When you get closer to her, she will fall on Houdini’s water tank trap. Jump down after her and use the transformer. Ferris will thank you for saving Chicago World’s Fair and the President will appreciate you for a job well done! Then he will give you the Presidential Medal of Honor which is the Island medallion.
Congratulations!
