No Foul Intended

It's midweek, but the office will be shutting down today for Thanksgiving. We've released a most excellent special for one of your favorite games, Secret of Shadow Ranch. Be sure and check out the homepage for more details. Plus this is just the start of a bunch of holiday specials...

More importantly though is... food! Yup, that's right, we had our own little celebration here this morning. Nope, no turkey just yet. For us it was another round of delicious pancakes. (what can I say, we're breakfast lovers) What kind of things are you all planning to make for Thanksgiving? just plain turkey? or are you going wild with Turducken? or maybe even Tofurkey? Whatever you have, I hope it's a happy and merry one!

Oh and a little aside; crafty and cunning designer Ben pointed out a lovely flaw in his Monday hint... "I think I meant to say 'three words make four'..." oops. Quality control is killer... but he's promised to make it up with an extra tough puzzle next week. Enjoy the time off and we'll see ya Monday.

- Novel -

Last Minute Stuffing

So if you don't know, we're starting a promo tomorrow on our website in preparation for the holidays. (All of them.) We're going to be doing a whole slew of things this season. I'll make sure you all get the heads up on this stuff. As far as the announcement for tomorrow goes, we'll be changing the news on our main page. If you've been following our facebook page, you might have heard that it's 50% off a particular title, but which title? Well if you want to burst that surprise a little bit early, you'll be pleased to hear that it is the solution to puzzle #33! Now how's that for a hint!

Tune in tomorrow.

- Novel -

Thanks on the Way

Hey Everyone!

I've returned from my short time away. I'm much obliged to the wonderful lady who filled my shoes while I was gone. It looks like she posted some fun stuff. (btw, I've fixed the KoKo Kringle picture post ^.^) A big thanks to her, and be sure to check out the Dare to Play blog that she writes on!

So it looks like we've got a short week on us, so we'll try to cram in as much as we can. We've got specials starting this week, pictures to post, plus puzzles to finish, and all before the turkey comes calling. Let's start with a hint from designer Ben.

-- Puzzle #33 Hint --

"Three words make five."

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Cya tomorrow!

- Novel (28) -

Breaking Friday

Whew, it's finally Friday - time to head off for the weekend! But, before we head off, here's the weekend puzzle #33.

5, 6, 7

Solve the puzzle to find out what we are going to feature in our big Thanksgiving Special next week!

KoKo Kringles

Occasionally you'll see a Koko Kringle bar in our Nancy Drew games - stuffed in a drawer, hidden in a desk - they're Sonny Joon's favorite chocolate. Nancy is also a fan of the chocolate bar, and so are our fans apparently!

A fan wrote to us that wanted to create a Koko Kringle bar by replacing the wrapper of a normal Hershey's chocolate bar with the KoKo Kringle wrapper. She gave us the exact dimensions of a 4.5oz bar and requested the wrapper art. One of our artists, Zach, took it upon himself to make the wrapper for the candy bar life sized.

We thought we'd share this life-sized wrapper with the rest of our fans in case they were interested in making their own Koko Kringle bars. We'd love to see pictures if anyone decides to use the wrapper!

Click on the image to print it full-sized.

YUMMY!

Past(times)

Dare to Play blogger filling in for Novel today - he referred to me as his "lovely assistant" huh? HARDLY!

Some of you guys might have seen this picture from an interview we did with Adventure Classic Gaming back in 2000 floating around, so I thought I would go into our own archives and pull out a picture from way back when as well.

This is Hidden Valley Guest Ranch in Cle Elem, Washington. We stayed on this working dude ranch and it was the inspiration for Secret of Shadow Ranch. This is just one example of how we draw from our real life experiences in our games. And just for fun, here's a picture of two of us playing some ping pong. Enjoy!

Tues. too much

What better way to hit day two than a big rush of writing! Blogs, bios, and bonus content. Today looks like a FIN day, with some slight showers of CLK, maybe rounded out at the very end with WAC.

We're constantly working on keeping the website up-to-date and bursting at the seams with information on all thing Nancy Drew. Course it's a pretty big job, and sometimes we make little errors here and there on the site, though we like to keep that to a minimum. :P Course if you happen to spot one, don't hesitate to tell us (that's certainly not a challenge ^.^ ) And sometimes we're looking to add new screens or character shots.

Have you ever thought there was something missing, or do you think we've managed to summarize the games in good way? If you could add even more to the site, like info or screen shots, what would it be? Think on it and give me your input.

Oh and I'll be passing the pen to my lovely assistant for the remainder of the week, but worry not, we'll have an excellent puzzle by Friday. Stay amazing!

- Novel -