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Video Game Day + Fan Paintings

Howdy Amateur Sleuths! Did you know today is Video Game day? If you don’t have the Dossier titles Lights! Camera! Curses! or Resorting to Danger! you have a few hours left to get the digital download for 50% off. These are quite fun to play as you wait for the next Nancy Drew game to […]

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Posted in: Artist, Birthday, Blogs, Fan, Sale

Summer Selfie: Space Ports

Hope you had a great fourth of July weekend! We have received a lot of Summer Selfies from our fans for the contest! Yay! I love seeing your pictures from all over the world! I, too, took a Nancy Drew selfie when I went to a space port…Just kidding. It’s not a space port, but […]

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Posted in: Blogs, Contest, Sonny Joon

Independence Day 2014!

Happy independence day! I hope you have plans to hang out with friends and family this weekend and have some fun! I love BBQs and summer food. My family likes to play board games and table-top games because we are “gamers.” Someday I hope we have the pleasure of making a Nancy Drew game that […]

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Posted in: Blogs, Holiday, Sale

Memorable Characters

Check out this Throwback Thursday moment: Do you remember meeting this eccentric character for the first time in Treasure in the Royal Tower? She was quite the character! Some people, I hear, don’t like Hotchkiss. I on the other hand, find her fascinating and funny. She has so many different names for Nancy. She also […]

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Getting All the Food

Do you really like food in the Nancy Drew games? Eat food? Collect food? Make food? Are you a collector of ALL the souvenirs? Then this Nancy Drew moment might totally be you: It’s like a secret mission, a big goal, an accomplishment to collect all the food and souvenirs in the game. Have you […]

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While in… Venice

Ok sleuths, do you remember the answer to this Tuesday Trivia? When I played The Phantom of Venice, I loved this room. I thought it was so cool to have a home several stories high in the middle of a city surrounded by a canal. It’s so unique! Someday I would love to visit Venice […]

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Taking Selfies

Last weekend’s puzzle was a backwards [railfence cipher]. When spelled out correctly, it says [Picture contest coming soon], which really means today! Head over to our Contest page to learn more! How creative can you get with your #NancyDrewSelfie? Can you dress up like a character? Stand in a Nancy Drew-like location? Pose in the […]

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Trivia Games (And Weekend Puzzle #243)

We have made a lot of Nancy Drew games. Therefore, we have a lot of random Nancy Drew trivia questions we could share. Do you follow us on Twitter or Facebook? Facebook especially has a lot of fun trivia questions and mini-mysteries posted to our wall. Check back each Tuesday for a new trivia question […]

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Ignoring Signs

Today we take a moment to remember way when we played a now-old Nancy Drew game. Today’s feature game: Secret of the Scarlet Hand. Did you ever pay attention to the signs that said “Do not touch” or “Keep out” or “DANGER”? I know I sure did not… haha. That’s totally a Nancy thing: to […]

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Walking the Trails

Can you relate to this Nancy Drew moment from Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake? I remember playing this game for the first time, and got lost often! Eventually I was able to recognizes little landmarks like fallen trees, stumps, random t-shirts hung up on the branches, and so on. These points helped me to navigate […]

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