The Nancy Drew game, "Curse of Blackmoor Manor," features a triangle puzzle as one of the challenges players must solve. This puzzle can be found inside a secret room in the manor, and it presents a fun and intriguing challenge for players to overcome. The objective of the triangle puzzle is to rearrange the pieces so that all sides of the triangles match in color. The puzzle consists of a large triangular board divided into several smaller triangular sections. Each section is further divided into smaller triangles that can be rotated. To solve the puzzle, players must strategically rotate the smaller triangles to align the colors correctly.

Nancy Drew: The Curse of Blackmoor Manor (Part Two)

Previously on Nancy Drew: The Curse of Blackmoor Manor: Nancy’s dad’s neighbor’s secretary’s dog-sitter’s daughter, Linda, is turning into a werewolf (as you do) after marrying some British dude and moving to his spooky manor on some abandoned moor somewhere. If fiction has taught me anything about England, it’s that the entire country is just a bunch of abandoned moors with a population of “rich people and their servants”, and everyone else lives in London.

The next day, Linda’s all like, “Nancy? You’re still here?” like, come on, Linda, do you know how much a transatlantic flight costs? We’re not about to head back after one day just because you’re being weird. Anyway, she tells us a little more about how she got into this mess: she found a mysteriously mysterious secret passage one day, and there was a carving with an ANCIENT CURSE engraved on it at the end of the tunnel. And then when she got back to her room, she found a note with the VERY SAME CURSE written on it! And now that she’s told us about it, we’re PROBABLY CURSED TOO, and NO ONE CAN HELP HER, and we should just GET OUT WHILE WE STILL CAN. My God, Linda, chill out.

It’s kind of stupid that we have to get up at 6, since the only person who can help us out is Jane, and we can’t talk to her until 2, when her lessons are over. Whatever. Anyway, we can ask her if she knows of any secret passageways, but she won’t tell us unless we beat her at a game. Blah blah I lose like 8 rounds of Bul in a row blah. Jane tells us that the secret passageway is in the East Hall, which is locked, but she found a spare key. When we use it, we find the aforementioned green dragon.

There are actually two passages to be found here. There’s the one that we were told about after beating the ghost game, where you just pull a lever and there’s a slide that goes down to the hall. That’s about it. The other passage opens up after you arrange the dragon’s hands in the right directions. This is the passage that’s actually relevant to our needs right now. Unfortunately, it’s too dark for us to look into. I don’t know why Nancy never packs a flashlight when she goes traveling. She has to know she’s going to end up exploring a dark secret passageway. It’s like a law at this point. Anyway, the only person who has a light in this house is Jane. She laughs at us for calling it a “flashlight” — everyone knows it’s called a “torch”! Whatever, Jane. Not that she has one anyway — you have beat her at a game, as always, and then she’ll fork over a glowstick. Down the secret passage!

We find a weird spider with giant eye on the door, and the word “barber” next to a picture of a parrot. All very creepy, to be sure, but not exactly curselike? Linda has some explaining to do. She flips out on us for finding the wrong passageway, because there’s more than one, and HOW COULD WE HAVE MISSED IT? IT WAS RIGHT THERE. WAITING TO BE FOUND. WANTING TO BE FOUND!! Sweet baby Jesus, she crazy. She tells us the passageway she found was near the gargoyle statue in the hall. Fine, we’ll go into that one, too. Calm down.

We find the gargoyle accordingly, but Nancy doesn’t want to go into the passageway yet. This is weird, because we all know charging in without a second thought is Nancy’s M.O. But okay, fine, exercising caution it is. We don’t know the exact method of getting the passage open up, but we do know that one of the Penvellyn ancestor’s portraits has the gargoyle statue in the background. Unfortunately, his crest is missing, and thus our clue. Luckily for us, there’s someone in this house whose very existence is dedicated to knowing random shit about the Penvellyns. To Nigel!

As usual, we have to extend an offer of unpaid labor to get on Nigel’s good side. He tells us the dude in the portrait was Corbin Penvellyn, and he’ll find his crest for us if we type up his memoirs for him. Siiiigh. Nigel’s memoirs are mostly him rambling on about his friend John’s birthday party, and how one time he had a dream he rode a phantom horse in the American Southwest. Hey, that was our adventure! I can’t believe Nigel is jacking the plot of one of Nancy’s games for his book. Rude as hell.

Anyway, we finish typing up Nigel’s book, and he draws the missing crest for us. It’s like 3 AM at this point, and we can’t do anything with this information yet, so let’s go to bed.

When you leave the library, the game switches to a cutscene. Ethel and Jane are ominously chanting their way down the hall, wearing some very unattractive headgear. They repeat “No key without toil, no fire without oil,” over and over. Jane actually has some oil with her, and she pours it into the hole in the hall floor. Then they whisper “PENVELLYN” and head upstairs. So…that was a completely normal thing that happened. Nancy goes over to the hole in the floor and says, “Hmm, smells like oil.” Duh, Nancy, you just heard them chanting about it.

The game fades to black, and it’s the next day. Let’s go tell everyone about what we just saw!

I decide to air my concerns to Mrs. Drake, because she’s basically the closest thing this house has to an authority figure. She laughs us off, re: Ethel recruiting Jane into a secret society. “What nonsense!” Mrs. Drake condescends us out of the conservatory, which is fine because we were done talking to her anyway. No, wait, I lied, we have to come right back because we need help with Loulou. You will recall that we went down a Spooky Passageway™, and it hinted that we need Loulou to solve the puzzle at the end. Unfortunately, Loulou won’t help us out unless we say the “magic word”, which is not “please”, so we’re stuck. Mrs. Drake tells us that the magic word is “Loulou is a very very clever and beautiful bird.” That’s not a word. That’s not even a phrase, that’s a whole sentence. Whatever.

Loulou tells us that the answer to the “barber” riddle is “leech.” K. We give Linda’s mom a call first, since she hired us and everything, and I’m a responsible detective. We ask if she noticed anything while she was visiting Linda, and she says nothing much, “[e]xcept that most of the rooms I saw looked like they’d been decorated by a medieval monkey.” Ha! I knew I wasn’t alone with judging the Penvellyns’ interior design skills. Linda’s mom doesn’t have anything useful to tell us, although somewhat cutely, she keeps offering up her observations as clues. She tells us that she saw Nigel speaking FURTIVELY into his cell phone one time. Surely he must be up to something! Aw. She’s trying so hard, you guys.

Then I call Ned, because I’m overly excited about having him in this game, and I plan on calling him a lot. Also cutely, he and Nancy banter a bit over whether or not they should be studying-slash-detecting. Nancy fills him in on how Linda thinks she’s becoming the “beast of Blackmoor”, and Ned’s like, “So like…does the beast actually do anything?” Answer: nothing besides sully the family name, to which Ned says, “Kind of like my cousin Higby.” Nancy: “The one who wrestles hogs for a living?” This entire conversation is amazing.

I also called Hugh, because I can. He doesn’t say anything of interest re: the secret passages or the beast of Blackmoor, but he does have some information on Nigel. Apparently Mrs. Drake hired Nigel to write a biography of the Penvellyns, because they don’t have a book written about them yet, therefore they might as well be PEASANTS! Nigel assured Hugh that the book will only paint the Penvellyns in a positive light, instead of exposing their weird Satanic rituals and possible werewolves in the family. Boo, Nigel! That’s like when I read Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicholson, and the whole thing was just about how awesome it was to be rich in 1911, and had nothing interesting to say about history at all. I may have digressed there just to be mean about Perfect Summer. That book sucked. Sorry, where was I?

We can go ask Jane what’s up with the whole chanting in the middle of the night thing, and she tries to tell us we’re making it up. Gettin’ real sick of everyone in this house trying to convince Nancy that she’s hallucinating, tbh! Anyway, we let Jane’s lies slide for now, and hustle off to solve the secret passage puzzle. There are couple of rounds of word association, but after barber/leech, all the word pairs are related, so it’s not too hard.

There are a bunch more puzzles, but I am going to skip them because they are lame. Anyway, we end up in this room, which is the worst puzzle ever and is maybe 70% of the reason I don’t like this game much. Basically we’re in the room in the center, and there’s a door ahead of us (marked by the wonky Venus symbol). But, butbutbut, every time we move, the room rotates. We want the symbol to face the angel sign, so we can get out of here and not be stuck underground forever. It’s very confusing and stupidly, there’s no shortcut once you solve it the first time. This is the kind of shit people get up to when they don’t have day jobs, tbh.

In the interest of not being epically boring, I rearranged my screencaps a little so you don’t see me running around the castle, doing a puzzle, running back, doing another puzzle, blah blah to infinity. Anyway, while we’re in the secret passage, we realize there are some peepholes — we can see into the library (unfortunately, Nigel is no longer furtively whispering on his Nokia), and into Linda’s room. Linda reaches for her lotion and we see that her hand is covered in hair! ~*~SCARE CHORD~*~ Nancy flips out, because she can google werewolf mythology on her phone but not hypertrichosis.

Ethel looks so goddamn smug all the time.

As we’re leaving the East Hall, Ethel pops up and scares the bajesus out of us. She asks what we were doing in the East Hall, and you can tell the truth or lie. To be honest, I feel like chirping “I found a secret passage. ” is the much more Nancy-like thing to do, but I choose to lie because I’m the hardboiled type, like Humphrey Bogart, if Humphrey Bogart played Nancy Drew games. Ethel makes a dig at us about being interested in the treasure of Blackmoor, and we can grill her a little about the family history and stuff. It’s pretty boring, although we do find out that Ethel’s family has been serving the Penvellyns for a mega-long time. “I feel honored to continue that tradition,” she says, flipping her hair. No, she seriously does. I love Ethel a little. Then she leaves and we don’t see her again for the next third of the game. Nice talking to you, Ethel!

(Sidebar: if you do reveal to Ethel that we found a secret passageway, she gets all threateny and tells us that it would SURELY be TERRIBLE if SOMETHING HAPPENED TO US, wouldn’t it? Be creepier, Ethel.)

Back in the library, Nigel asks if we’ve discovered anything interesting about Blackmoor yet. Hey, step off, Nigel! You’re a suspect here, you know. We noted the image of a snake eating its tail in the passageway, and asks Nigel what it means. He sadly does not make a [title of show] reference, to my eternal chagrin. He babbles on about ouroboros, and alchemy, and do you see what’s going on here yet? Do you think maybe the Penvellyns dabbled in alchemy? Do you think maybe they have a secret alchemy lab somewhere in their secret tunnels? (Did one of them make the sorcerer’s stone?)

I’m getting ahead of myself. ANYWAY, Nigel also rags on Ethel a bit, as she has no background in education whatsoever. And yet she’s Jane’s tutor! Nigel thinks they should fire Ethel and hire him. Heh. I ship it a little, I won’t lie.

My next screencap has me back in the tunnels again. I have no idea how I got back down here. Maybe I just didn’t bother to take pictures of the whole tedious journey back down. Maybe I shouldn’t leave two years between the playing of these games and the writing up of them. Well, whatever. We can google for the alchemy symbols on Nancy’s phone — the big symbol on the right is the mixture we’re supposed to make, and you just press the correct symbols for its ingredients on the left. That was easy. This is not a very well-guarded secret room.

And we find the Penvellyns’ underground laboratory! Creepy. I feel like there are some issues here, re: fumes and ventilation? I don’t know. Whatever, who cares. There’s a huge statue of some guy in the corner, and Nancy’s like “Hey sexy” to it, for no reason that I can see. I swear to God. We poke around, with Nancy helpfully identifying everything in the room. “This looks like a medieval forge!” she chirps, as we stare at a big hole in the wall.

“Looks like a chunk of metal,” Nancy says, as we look at a chunk of metal. I know I’m playing on Junior Detective mode, but I don’t need this much help, Nancy.

More pertinent than chunks of metal: diaries! Secret diaries, spanning the entirety of the Penvellyn dynasty. You can tell they are very old because the first pages are written in Palace Script. Microsoft Office has really evolved from the 1300s to now! Nancy marvels over one of the letters — “This was written more than two hundred years ago!” like she’s never seen the Declaration of Independence at a history museum or something. Blah blah treasure and puzzles blah. The diaries hint at a bunch of puzzles the Penvellyn heirs have all set up to protect their treasure, Sorcerer’s Stone-style. Actually, I kind of hope the end of this game will be like the end of the first Harry Potter book, as I was never able to make it to that point in the actual Harry Potter game, and I still need closure :( Anyway, the diaries also reveal that the Bosinnys have been serving as tutors for the Penvellyns for hundreds of years, so that’s where Ethel’s job security comes from. And Nancy decides that the key to solving the mystery will be to solve the Penvellyns’ puzzles to activate the forge, because…we can help Linda…by making metalwork? Well, if Nancy says so, so it must be.

“A KEYHOLE,” Nancy muses. I don’t know how she knows this is a keyhole. I guess this is why she’s a super sleuth, because it looks like a library deposit box.

We can solve a couple of the puzzles while we’re still underground. The one in the forge involves trying to land the helmet guy on each of the windy guys’ faces, until you get all four winds. When you’re done, air will start being pumped into the forge. Again, ventilation problems? The other puzzle is near the door with the eye-spider thing. The room is a well, apparently? I don’t know. Anyway, solving that puzzle will fill the well with water. We also find a note from Jane’s Uncle Roger, addressed to Jane. I wonder how this got down here! Roger tells Jane he’s sending some medicine for her guinea pig. If you call Hugh, though, he’ll tell you that Jane’s guinea pig died years ago. Weird. (Note: I didn’t call Hugh, I’m just cobbling stuff together from various walkthroughs.)

Back upstairs, we get a call from Ned. It’s basically an excuse for Nancy to explain all the stuff we’ve found, for anyone who didn’t have the patience to actually read through all those diaries. Which was me, so this is useful! Nancy and Ned explain what a forge is for the 9-year-olds playing this game. Nancy says the forge resembles one of the drawings in Jane’s picture book and it’s hella old, but weirdly, just looked like it’s been used recently. “Certainly within the past fifty years or so.” Ned asks what’s being forged, but Nancy says she didn’t see anything besides indiscriminate chunks of metal. But she did find a keyhole, without a key! Nancy is really off her game, because Ned has to point out that the key is probably what has to be forged. Come on, Nancy. We also tell him about Linda being all werewolfy, and Ned says there has to be a scientific explanation. He has no idea what it could be, but there probably is one. Thanks, Ned.

We pop back in on Linda, who’s still too angsty to talk to us, but we can check out a hunk of bloody meat that she had delivered to her for lunch. Totally normal!

Over in the conservatory, the fountain has filled back up with water. There’s a puzzle where you have to direct a frog tile across some tiles to a princess tile. It’s easy. Whatever. We get a key shaped like a helmet, and that’s that. Our next puzzle is that sliding bolt in front of Jane’s room, which I guess has just been standing there the entire time? Keeping Jane from leaving her room for like three days? I mean, she’s still alive, so I guess it’s no big thing. You have to slot the tiles around the doorframe in an order based on the poem in Nancy’s room, like so:

It’s boring, like all of the puzzles in this game.

When that’s done, we get a key shaped like a lightning bolt. This is just like Harry Potter.

The next puzzle involves going down the slide in the green dragon room. We steal the cricket ball from Brigitte Penvellyn’s trophy, because the revolution is now. Anyway, you use the ball to hit a target on the wall when you’re going down the slide, and we’ll get a key shaped like a clock. And then Ethel busts us having fun! She’s all like, “I see you did not heed my warning! These passages can only lead to DOOM. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.” Then she threatens to kick us out of the manor and swishes off. I think this is the last conversation we have with Ethel, so we’re definitely parting on good terms!

The final puzzle involves using a giant pair of hands that we find underground to move the statue in the library. Once it faces north, we can steal the key from it. You will recall that Nigel is also in the library, and he starts freaking out when he sees the statue moving. Vengeance is ours! That’s what you get for insulting our education and ripping off our cowboy adventures, Nigel! Anyway, once he flees from the library shrieking, we can duck in and steal the wand from the Mercury statue. And now we have 4/6th of the keys! Christ, this is boring. Anyway, I have just enough of the game left for a third part, so we’ll end here.

Up next: the end of the game! Linda keeps insisting she’s a werewolf, and Nancy has another hallucination, which makes me wonder if maybe there’s just something in the water here, and everyone in this manor is tripping balls.

Walkthrough Part 8 - Alchemy and Triangles for Nancy Drew: Curse Of The Blackmoor Manor

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• Developer: Her Interactive
• Publisher: Her Interactive
• Genre: Adventure
• Release: Oct 5, 2004
• Platform: PC
• ESRB: Everyone

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Curse of Blackmoor Manor

The cover of the 11th installment in the Nancy Drew series.

Curse of Blackmoor Manor is the eleventh installment, released in 2004, in the popular Nancy Drew computer game series created by Her Interactive. The game puts the player in Nancy Drew's shoes, where they must solve the mystery. The game features 3D graphical environments, interviewing suspects, and solving many different challenges and puzzles. The game is often abbreviated by fans as CUR or CBM. The game is based on the book The Bluebeard Room. It has received the highest PSV rating out of all of the games to date in the series.

In June 2006, Her Interactive released a DVD version of this game

To solve the puzzle, players must strategically rotate the smaller triangles to align the colors correctly. Each time a triangle is rotated, it affects the neighboring triangles. Therefore, players need to carefully plan their moves to avoid creating new problems while solving one.

Contents

• 1 Plot summary
• 2 Characters
  • 2.1 The Penvellyn legacy
  

  The triangle puzzle in "Curse of Blackmoor Manor" requires players to think logically and use trial and error to reach a solution. It can be a bit challenging and may require some patience, especially as the puzzle becomes more complex with each level. However, finding the correct arrangement of the triangles can be incredibly satisfying. This puzzle serves as a unique gameplay element that adds an extra layer of intrigue and challenge to the overall game experience. It encourages players to think critically and analytically, making it an excellent brain-teasing feature. Overall, the triangle puzzle in "Curse of Blackmoor Manor" is an exciting and enjoyable challenge for players to solve. It tests their problem-solving skills and adds depth to the game's storyline. So, if you enjoy puzzles and mystery-solving, this game and its triangle puzzle are definitely worth giving a try..

  Reviews for "Unlocking the Secrets of the Triangle Puzzle in Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor"

  1. Jennifer - 1 star

  I found the triangle puzzle in "Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor" to be extremely frustrating and poorly designed. The puzzle lacked clear instructions or hints, making it difficult to even understand what the objective was. Additionally, the controls were clunky and unresponsive, which only added to the frustration. Overall, this puzzle felt like a tedious and unnecessary addition to the game.

  2. John - 2 stars

  The triangle puzzle in "Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor" was a major letdown. The puzzle itself was repetitive and lacked any real challenge. It felt like a step back in terms of gameplay compared to the other puzzles in the game. The lack of variety and creativity in the puzzle design left me feeling bored and unengaged. I was hoping for a more exciting and thought-provoking challenge, but unfortunately, the triangle puzzle fell flat.

  3. Sarah - 2 stars

  The triangle puzzle in "Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor" was incredibly frustrating and overly complicated. The instructions were unclear, and there was no logical progression to the puzzle. It felt like a random assortment of shapes and symbols thrown together without any coherent solution. After spending a significant amount of time trying to solve this puzzle, I gave up in frustration. It was a disappointing and underwhelming experience that only detracted from my overall enjoyment of the game.

  4. Mark - 1 star

  The triangle puzzle in "Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor" was by far the worst part of the game. The puzzle itself was convoluted and needlessly complicated. It required a lot of trial and error, with no clear indication of progress or what the correct solution should be. I found myself getting frustrated and bored trying to solve this puzzle, and it ultimately felt like a waste of time. I would have much preferred a more intuitive and engaging puzzle that added to the overall enjoyment of the game.

  Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor - How to Master the Triangle Puzzle