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March Madness and Charlotte

Hey all! We are doing another Nancy Drew: March Madness this year, but this time, instead of voting for the best games, you vote for the best character of all time. You can keep updated with our brackets on this page here and download the chart yourself if you’d like to fill it out for […]

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International Fans

Check this out! Our fan Martha is from Israel, and to celebrate Purim, she dressed up as Charlotte from Ghost of Thornton Hall! Here in America we have a day in our yearly calendar where we dress up for holidays: Halloween. Even though it is still months away, it is never too early to start […]

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Planning the Red Carpet for SEA

Even those Sea of Darkness will not be available until May, we still have lots to do in preparing it for the world. The game is still getting its tweaks and being fixed to work perfectly, the cover art is nearly done and is being formatted for the box, and I am going snooping for […]

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Hidden Things

Looks like you all cracked the weekend puzzle really fast! It was a cryptogram, where you must assign objects to a letter. The Clock is a W, and the cowboy hat is the letter K. Here are the answers to the rest: Koko Kringle = T Horse shoe = H Glow stick = E Jr […]

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Clues, Koko Kringles, Fans, and Weekend Puzzle #267

Hooray for Fridays! Tomorrow is the last day to order games and receive a Koko Kringle (and yes, we still have some!). You can learn more details here. We also received this picture of Joanna M’s Nancy Drew collage. Pretty cool, so I had to share this with you! Clue #2: the hat is K. […]

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Spring Jackalope Eggs

So this happened at my desk yesterday… The mystery of the egg culprits is back on. Unfortunately this giant egg that showed up has a matte texture, and is not glossy or smooth enough to capture decent fingerprints. I guess I will have to figure out a way to find out who the culprit is. […]

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Fan Phone Screens

I’ve been noticing a bunch of images on our Facebook page sent in by fans. These fans are sharing what their phone screen looks like with Nancy Drew-themed pictures. Therefore I HAD to join in on the fun. Here are my phone screenshots: If you’d like to use these images yourself, I uploaded them here […]

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Jigsaw Puzzles

I went hunting a bit in our archives for a couple of puzzles and came across the Gold Leaf jigsaw tile puzzle in Treasure in the Royal Tower. I do adore these types of puzzles in the games! I grew up solving puzzles on my own table, and I think it is a ton of […]

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Early Guide Steps

Not to make you jealous or anything… but I get to play our latest game (that we are working on currently). Actually I get to play it a few times. This time I am playing it to start early work on the strategy guide. I break the project down into sections: walk through text, puzzle […]

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Talk of Chocolate! (And Weekend Puzzle #266)

Here’s the video I worked on, just talking about one of the best topics in the Nancy Drew universe: KoKo Kringles! And here’s your weekend puzzle: -Little Jackalope

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