Hints take about 5 minutes off your clock, so use them only when you’re absolutely stuck.
When you go back to play the mini games from the main menu, you will be able to enjoy more levels than you had originally on some of the games.
Once you’ve unlocked a mini game you can go back to the main menu at anytime and play it again.
It really helped me a lot at when I did not understand what they wanted me to do. It will give you a brief video sample of what you need to do.
For the mini games it’s important to look at the small video that is on the lower left hand corner.
I played the whole game without skipping a mini game and I was never able to earn an extra skip. You have the ability to skip 2 mini games throughout the whole game so make sure to only skip only the ones that are hardest for you. You need to complete the mini games in order to advance in the game.
There are a lot of mini games in between levels, most of them different.
Some games have 2 or more steps needed in order to complete the game, sometimes as many as 10 steps.
The small round blue lights on the right of the screen will tell you how close you are to completing a level.
In addition to that each mini game may have 2 or more games that need to be solved before you can move on. In this amount of time you have to solve the room puzzle and either one or two mini games within the time allotted.
You start off each chapter with a certain amount of time to complete the chapter.
To take an item over to inventory, you can either drag it there or click it twice to send it automatically.
Once you’ve found all the items, the blacked out shapes will disappear. These shapes represent the items you need to look for in the room, those are also considered your inventoried items.
At the beginning of every level, look at the top right side of the screen and you will see blacked out shapes.
A good example of this is when you are placing the batteries in the remote, you have to pick up the batteries first and then the remote, not the other way around. It is important when reading the walkthrough that you do certain things in the order that is described or it will not work.
At times you have to use one item in conjunction with another in order for the clue to work (like placing batteries inside the remote control).
You will see a glimmer appear when you are close to an object that you need to either pick up or open up.
You will have to search different rooms for hidden clues, combine items in order to make them work and play various mini games in between.
In this game you have to find clues that will unlock each mystery.