Publisher: Artifex Mundi       Developer: Tap It Games       Release Year: 2013 A detective visits a strange New England town where her reporter friend has disappeared. The town, Serpent Creek, has a strange obsession with snakes, a creepy mayor, and the citizens act like they're under some sort of spell. The "9 Clues" gimmick is like a hidden object scene where you're not told what to find, and just have to hunt around the room for things that are out-of-place. Your character then pieces together the crime scene from the clues she finds. Type: Node Maze Comment: Make the tourist visit all nodes on the way to the goal. He can only visit each node once. Here is the solution. Type: Color Wheel Comment: The first of three puzzles of this type, you need to turn all the snake heads green. I don't have specific instructions for these types of puzzles, I just typically hit the 2 button, then use the 3 to offset it when 2 can no longer turn any heads green. It's apparently possible to do it the other way around, too. Type: Tetris Blocks Comment: Put together the circuit boards on the electronic toy mouse. You can rotate parts to fit them in. Here is what it looks like solved. Type: Correct Order/Sequence Comment: Click the medallions in order from cheapest to most expensive. You'll have to match each dollar value to a colored string, and follow it to the proper medallion. here it is anyway. Type: Gear Fitting Puzzle Comment: Form a chain of gears from the upper to the lower to get the machine running. Here is what it looks like solved. Type: Electric Connection Puzzle Comment: Turn the connectors so that the electrical current is directed to all three lights at the bottom. Here it is solved. Type: Color Wheel Comment: Same as the first, only now it's 3 and 5 instead of 2 and 3. Type: Jigsaw Puzzle Comment: Piece together the picture of the mural. Here is what it looks like solved. Type: Screen Maze Comment: Not a true puzzle, but I document HOG screen mazes. The clue for this is on the wall. The correct path is: Up, Right, Right, Up, Left, Right. Type: On/Off Puzzle Comment: Ignore the game's clue about "the right order", this is just a super easy on/off puzzle. You need to lower all the bars. Clicking one affects others near it, but I got this in less than 30 seconds. Type: Color Wheel Comment: For this one, I kept clicking the 2 until it would no longer make the heads green, clicked the 3 once, then kept clicking the 2 and that worked. Type: Sliding Tile Node Variant Comment: Move the cups around until they're placed on the nodes of the same color. Here is what it looks like solved. Type: Swapping Tile Comment: Swap tiles to put together the really bizarre painting of the Tree of Life. Easiest to start with the borders. Here is what it looks like solved. Type: Screen Maze Comment: Another screen maze, the trick to this one is to always take the path that the glowing cable feeds through. Type: Cat's Cradle Comment: This made me facepalm. The final puzzle in the game is a Cat's Cradle. Really, 9 Clues? Not only that, but one of the nodes got stuck when I was trying to solve it, so I was just lucky I was able to work it out with it being in that condition. Here is my solution, complete with node stuck in the upper left above the door handle.