Version 1.3 5/29/11



The Hardy Boys: Treasure on the Tracks
A Walkthrough by Michael Gray
AKA The Lost Gamer ([email protected])
Copyright 2011


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Table of Contents:
001.  General information
002.  Video Walkthrough
003.  Characters
004.  Walkthrough
 004a. Paris
 004b. The Royal Express
 004c. Vienna
 004d. The Royal Express
 004e. Prague
 004f. The Royal Express
 004g. Warsaw
 004h. The Royal Express
 004i. St. Petersburg
 004j. The Romanov Treasure
005.  Credits



001-General Information
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This is a walkthrough for the game called "The Hardy
Boys: Treasure on the Tracks" for the Nintendo DS. It's
an adventure game with several puzzles. If you want to
duplicate this guide on your website, or if you want to
contact me, do so at [email protected].

002-Video Walkthrough
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For those of you who would like to watch how to beat the
game, instead of reading how to beat the game, a set of
videos can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F8008C31E8E44BD4

Links to the individual videos can also be found in this
guide.

003-Characters
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Frank and Joe Hardy: Brothers and amateur detectives.
Frank has dark hair, and Joe has blonde hair.

Alexey Konstantinov: A genius and art expert who has been
asked to solve the mystery. He talks a lot, and he is
pretty self-centered.

Isabelle DuPont: A waitress on the Royal Express.

Baron Von Ekartsburg: A bearded man who claims to be the
heir to the Romanov Fortune. He is somewhat rude.

Carol Stephenson-Hughes: A Cambridge professor who has
been asked to solve the mystery.

Fez Man: A mysterious villain who seems to be trying to
kill everyone on the train.

Samantha Quick: A mysterious stranger who calls the Hardy
Boys from time to time. She is on the trail of the man in
the fez.

004-Walkthrough
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The Hardy Boys are going to Paris, where they have been
asked to solve a mystery. Several other people have been
asked to solve the mystery, too. It's about the legendary
Romanov fortune, which was hidden on a train called the
Royal Express.

004a-Paris
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Video #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xfXtQTN1r0

The painting in the museum has a clue to finding the
fortune, so that's the first stop of all of the fortune-
hunters. However, the location of the museum is hidden on
the map.

The map puzzle is a simple nonograms puzzle. Fill out
squares in the grid, according to the numbers. The
solution is this:

XX X
XXXXX
XXX X
XXXXX

The three blank squares are marked as locations you can
visit in Paris. These are the river, Notre Dame, and the
museum.

Go to the museum and try to go inside. Oh no! The map is
broken. Our heroes will have to fix the map, by finding
all the missing map pieces. The first piece is
automatically found for you.

Go to Notre Dame, and pick up a map piece in the
lower/right. Then, go to the river and pick up a map
piece near the base of the statue. Look into the trash
bin in the lower/left corner, and in the upper/left part
of the trash bin, you find another map piece.

Return to the museum. Now that you have all the map
pieces, along with four fake ones, you need to rebuild
the map. The piece with the red X goes in the upper/right
corner.

Figure out where the other pieces go, based on their
shape and if the match the pieces that are already there
(namely, the piece with the red X and the left-hand side
of the map shown on the top screen). Once the puzzle is
solved, the Hardy Boys can go inside the museum.

Video #2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmy55VsUkM

In the museum, go left. You can see a display about the
Romanov children, who have five distinctive colors. Go
left again to meet Alexey, the art critic and genius.

Alexey is not very nice to the Hardy Boys, and he makes a
huge fuss about the painting. This is the painting with
the clue that will allegedly lead to the Romanov fortune.
Examine it.

This is a puzzle. Find the five matching objects. They
are pear-shaped dolls, made up of five colors, just like
the Romanov children. Those colors are red, green, blue,
yellow and purple. To get you started, one doll is on the
shoulder of the statue, and another is on the red tree.

Once you find all five dolls, draw lines between them to
form a star. Is the painting trying to say that a key in
the hand of a statue will solve the mystery?

Leave the painting and go right to meet Isabelle, who is
a servant on the train. Talk with her, then leave the
museum.

You can now visit the train station, from the map area.
Go to the train station to see a scene between the Baron
and a man in a fez. Talk to the Baron after the scene is
over.

Go up two screens and pick up a piece of candy from the
ground. Then go down a screen, and use the Golden Ticket
from your inventory on the train to go inside.

004b-The Royal Express
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Video #3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ERhpkivLg

The train has three compartments for our heroes to visit
at this point in time:

1. The Sleeper, which has all the sleeping rooms.
2. The Salon, which has green furniture.
3. The Gallery, which has a lot of artwork.

This first compartment has the sleeping rooms belonging
to the various characters, but right now, you can't go
inside any of them.

Go to the next compartment, where you can look at various
things. More importantly, you can meet Carol. She seems
like a helpful lady. Talk to her about everything. Two
things of note come up: the samovar, and the fact that
the Hardys plan on snooping in her room as long as she's
here.

Go to the next compartment, where you have a lot of
artwork. On the left wall is a samovar painting. It's
another puzzle where you find five identical things in a
painting. One item is inside the boot, another is on the
red carpet, one is in between the two tree trunks on the
left, one is the yellow thing in the bottom/left, and the
last item is the blue one in the middle, sort of hidden
by a hill of grass.

Draw lines between the five items to form a star. This
highlights a samovar. We'll have to make sure to find
one.

Step forward to the next part of the Gallery compartment.
Check out the hand of the statue in the upper/left. It
has a key, just like the painting in Paris pointed out!

Video #4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S307JmMgZn8

Examine the exhibit near the statue. It's the Russian
Dolls that Isabelle said the Baron was examining earlier.

You want to make a flower design appear on the front of
the doll by moving the four levels of the doll left or
right. Keep moving them until the flower appears.

Make the flower picture appear on the front of the second
doll. Then, for the third doll, take the key out of the
inventory and use it on the keyhole. Turn the key with
the stylus until the lock opens, and our heroes get a
golden train piece.

The only other thing that the Hardy Boys have to do on
the train now is snoop in all of the various rooms, in
the sleeper compartment. When searching rooms, tap on
items with the DS stylus to get the items to disappear.
If a guard catches you, tap on the circles that appear,
and eventually the guard leaves.

In Carol's room (Room 2), look in the corner of the
cushions (on the left). In the corner is a piece of paper
that shows Carol thinks the globe in the salon
compartment is related to the diary in the salon
compartment.

In Alexey's room (Room 1), look in the corner of the
cushions (on the left). Hidden at the bottom of a pile of
things, you can find a picture of Isabelle. Once you
leave Alexey's room, the Hardy Boys have a close run-in
with the guard.

Video #5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv3qDa3Lhcw

When you try to look in the Baron's room (Room 3), the
Baron catches you. The Hardy Boys become upset, and they
question the Baron's heritage. Go inside his room and
look inside his suitcase. At the bottom of it is the
family tree, which shows that the Baron is a Romanov.

Once you meet Carol, solve the samovar painting puzzle,
open the Russian doll in the Russian doll puzzle, and
find a piece of evidence in the three sleeper rooms,
you're finished with this part of the train trip. When
you try to leave for another train car, the Hardys get a
phone call from Samantha Quick, a mysterious woman.

Samantha is on the trial of the man in the fez who
bothered the Baron earlier. She sees this man on the
tracks.

Go forward and look at the tracks. The man in the fez
left a piece of paper on the tracks, which looks like a
timetable. The word on it is in...Turkish?

More importantly, the fez man also left a bomb. Examine
it, and Samantha decides to disarm it.

This is kind of a tricky puzzle. The picture on the top
screen says to make a RED connection. Grab the loose end
of the red wire, which is the end touching the square in
the middle. Draw a line from that to the red node, on the
top row. Samantha puts the red wire in place.

Next, do the same thing with the blue wire. Now you have
to cut the yellow wire. Do this by moving the stylus
across the wire, like you're drawing a line through it.
The wire is cut.

Then, cut the green wire, and cut the blue wire. Put the
purple wire in place. Cut purple, cut red, connect brown,
then cut brown. The next move you have to make is always
detailed on the top screen, and you can retry the puzzle
as many times as you want.

Back away from the bomb once it's defused. Samantha calls
the Hardy Boys, and she sends them the timetable.

The game switches to the Hardy Boys. Look at the yellow
plaque. It's a map of Vienna, Austria. That's our next
location.

004c-Vienna
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Video #6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S2eqm9h5iw

The map of Vienna has a puzzle on it, just like the one
in Paris. Hooray for nonograms! Here's the solution:

XXXXXX
X XX X
XXXXXX
 XXXX
 X XX
XXXXXX

Just like in Paris, the Hardy Boys will collect scraps of
paper.

One is near the base of the statue on the street,
specifically, on the right-hand side of the base. One is
on the tree by the Ferris wheel. One is on a bench at the
train station. Go forward a screen, and another piece of
paper is in the trash can, underneath the hat.

Go to the palace and tap on the ticket window. Put the
ticket together. There are four pieces in total, and the
final ticket reads "ADMIT ONE Vienna Museum".

Once the ticket is reassembled, go inside the museum.
Listen to Alexey argue with Carol, then talk with him. He
lies about his relationship to Isabelle, saying he's
never seen her before, even though he has her picture in
his sleeper.

Look at the painting. The five objects in this painting
are oval-shaped. The red one is in front of the red
planet, the green one is left of the book, the blue one
is up/right of Earth, the yellow one is on the bottom of
the page of the book, and the purple one is in the corner
between the purple planet and the train tracks.

Form a star between the five objects to get a clue: a key
inside a book. This book is the Tsar's diary in the Salon
carriage.

Leave the painting, and then go right to see Carol. Talk
to her about everything, and she lies about the fact that
she is broke. She also says you need to solve the
paintings in order, which is a hint telling us that we
need to solve the puzzle behind painting #2 (the samovar
painting) before solving the puzzle behind painting #3
(the key in the diary painting).

We'll solve both painting puzzles during our next trip on
the train, so let's return to the train now. Go right to
reach the exit. Go through the exit, then go to the train
station. Board the train.

004d-The Royal Express
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Video #7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD_reuXdCgo

During this train trip only, our heroes have access to
two new compartments: the dining room and kitchen. These
can be found by going through the door in the Gallery.

First though, let's check for clues in the sleepers. In
Alexey's room, under the newspapers in the bottom/right,
you find a letter which says that Alexey is using his
artistic talent to make forgeries. In Carol's room, in
the bottom/right, there is a note to Carol which shows
that she is completely broke.

Head towards the Gallery. The guard isn't here anymore,
so you can examine the display with the coins. And by
"examine", I mean "take everything out of the display".
Do that, then leave the Gallery into the now-open dining
room.

At the other end of the dining room is Isabelle. Talk to
her about everything, and a fire will break out in the
kitchen. Oh no! A scene occurs, in which our heroes rush
into the kitchen and put out the fire.

Talk to Isabelle again. She says that the mysterious man
in the fez started the fire. She also says that the
samovar is here in the room, which is important, because
Painting #2 indicated that the samovar holds a clue.

Isabelle will give you a key to this room, the kitchen.
You'll only be able to use it in this section of the
game.

Video #8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQSgurz_QJI

Explore the kitchen, if you want. When you try to leave
the kitchen, you find that the Baron is blocking the path
in the dining room. He is hungry, and he forces the Hardy
Boys to make food for him.

Use the key to open the door to the kitchen. Go to the
stove to start a cooking minigame. First, use the stylus
to cut the vegetables, by drawing vertical lines in the
indicated places. Second, tap on the three vegetable
pictures to add them to the soup pot.

Now to add seasonings. Move the stylus left and right to
add salt, and the salt meter on the left goes up. Make
the meter go up to the green area and stop there. Do this
for both the salt and the pepper.

Finally, move the stylus in a clockwise or counter-
clockwise circle, in order to imitate stirring the soup.
The soup is then finished, and the Baron will leave.

The next time you go to the dining room, you get a phone
call from Samantha Quick. She is in Prague, on the trail
of the Fez Man. She is really close to him, when the
phone goes dead. Did she get captured?

Now that the Baron is gone, you can solve the Samovar
puzzle. The Baron left his boot in the dining car (on the
shelf of the server's area, where Isabelle was standing),
so pick that up. Go to the kitchen. You can pick up
matches from a shelf here, and you can pick up coals from
the ground, near the side of the boiler.

Video #9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVzsX5otnNk

The samovar itself is in a corner in this room. First,
add the coals to the samovar. Second, add the matches.
Third, add the boot, which acts as a bellows.

Now, you need to drain all the water out of the samovar,
by tapping the handle on the right. Then, move the boot
up and down with the stylus, until the fire meter goes up
all the way. Your reward is a golden train piece. So,
solving the mystery behind Painting #2 leads to a golden
train piece, just like solving the mystery behind
Painting #1 did. I wonder what will happen if we solve
the mystery behind Painting #3?

Let's answer that question now. Painting #3 depicts a
diary, which is the one in the Salon. You open it with
coins, but you can't open it now.

Go to the Baron's sleeper. Under his three suitcases, you
find a coin.

Return to the Salon. On the desk with the diary, near the
base of the lamp, you can find another coin. In total,
there are five coins: three from the display case in the
Gallery, one from the desk in the Salon, and one from the
Baron's room. Place all five coins in the holes on the
diary in order to open it.

Flip to the last page of the diary to find a key, just
like Painting #3 indicated. The key works on the globe in
this room. Carol is standing next to the globe, so you
can talk to her if you want.

Look at the globe, and specifically, look at the base of
the globe. Use the key on the hole in the base. Spin the
key around to open the glass. Use the tweezers from the
display case in the Salon (the same display case you got
the coins from) on the needle here.

Step back. Use the needle on the top of the globe to open
it. You get another golden train piece.

We've solved the puzzles behind all of the paintings so
far, so there's nothing else for us to do. Go to the
Hardy Boys' room and look at the invitation to Prague to
go there. In Prague, you will find another painting that
leads to a golden carriage, and you will also find out
what happened to Samantha Quick.

004e-Prague
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Video #10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HY4ePZAXBY

The map here has another nonogram puzzle.

XXX  XX
XXX  XX
XXXXXXX
X  XXXX
X  X  X
XXXX  X
XXXXXXX

We have two locations to visit at the start: the museum
and the bridge. Go to the bridge. In the green trash can
in the lower/right, under the garden gnome, you find an
ID card.

Go to the gallery. It seems that a careless patron
damaged the painting, so it has been removed. Our heroes
suspect that this is sabotage, and not an accident.

Go to the right. The painting is inside the Restoration
Room, where Alexey is talking to the guard. When you try
to use the ID card to get inside the room, the guard
stops you. Talk to Alexey, then use him to distract the
guard.

Thanks to the Hardy Boys' clever manipulation of Alexey's
temper, he starts yelling at the guard. The guard becomes
so distracted that he won't notice when the Hardy Boys
use the ID card to enter the restoration room.

Once you're in the room, turn around and pick up the
tools on the counter. Then turn around and use the tools
on the painting. You want to run your stylus over the
touchscreen, in order to clean the painting. Make sure to
run the stylus over every part of the painting; you can
hear a sound effect every time you run the stylus over a
new part of the painting.

Once you've rubbed your stylus over the entire painting,
you can examine it. This time, the five matching objects
are triangles.

The green triangle is above the green candy, in the upper
part of the screen. The blue one is in the upper/left,
above the blue candy. The yellow one is on the base of
the cake. The purple one is under the rightmost hand of
the cake. The fifth one is in the bottom/left hand
corner.

Make a star with the five objects, and your clue is that
the cake is important. I'm guessing this means we'll have
to solve a puzzle with the cake in the dining room, in
order to get a golden train piece.

Leave the museum, and you find a new area for you to go
to: a street.

Video #11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGYkLl8spnU

This street is the Golden Street, and our heroes hope it
has something to do with the Golden Bow that Samantha
Quick mentioned, before the phone call was dropped.

Go down the street, and check out the building to the
left. At the top of the door, you find a note from
Samantha. When you go backwards, Samantha calls. It turns
out that she is completely fine, and she was never in any
danger. She just turned off her phone unexpectedly.

Talk to her about everything. She is wearing a wig to
disguise herself, as she sneaks onto the train. Fez Man
is on the train, too. Go on the train to have a minigame,
where you tap on the footprints on the bottom screen.
Don't tap the red footprints, and tap all the black
footprints when they appear. Do this long enough, and you
get part of a password: 2, 3, something, something.

Samantha overhears a person giving the Fez Man orders.
Fez Man is working for someone on the train? Who?

Leave the train, and the game switches back to the Hardy
Boys. Samantha suggests that the password is for the
Children's Carriage, which is the carriage that leads off
of the sleeper carriage. We haven't been there before,
but we will go there soon.

Go to the train station and board the train.

004f-The Royal Express
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Video #12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asz5fNClMAY

First off, try to go to the Salon. Isabelle appears. She
promises to help the Hardy Boys by distracting the guard.
The footprint tapping minigame happens again, and when
you finish it, you learn that the password is 2, 3, 8, 6
and 5.

Go to the door leading to the Children's Carriage, on the
opposite end of the exit that leads to the Salon. Insert
2 3 8 6 5 on the keypad, and the door will unlock.

Go forward twice to the castle. The Hardy Boys note that
the castle looks familiar. It resembles the castle in a
painting in the Gallery.

Turn around, and go forward. By the corner of the easel,
you have a clue. The bear has a key, and the girl has a
snowglobe. Both the bear and the girl (which is really a
doll) can be found in this room. You also find a cake
decoration in the corner of the easel.

Leave the Children's Carriage and go all the way to the
Gallery. On the wall to the left, if you're facing the
guard, you find the picture of the castle.

The five things in this painting are stars. The yellow
one is in the bottom/left part of the yellow balloon. The
blue one is on the top of the screen. The purple one is
on top of the tent on the left. The red one is on the
tent, by the ribbon. The green on is on top of the bushes
in the middle of the screen.

Draw a star between the five stars to find that there is
a snowglobe in the castle. Aha!

Return to the Children's Carriage. Go to the castle in
the back, and examine the tower to find a key. Turn
around, then go to the table in this room. Use the key on
the bear, then turn the key a few times, in order to get
a golden key.

Go towards the door that leads out of the Children's
Carriage, where you can find the doll. Tap on the doll to
find a snowglobe. Use the tweezers to pull out the two
plugs in the base of the snowglobe. One plug is on the
left, and another is on the right. A keyhole appears.

Use the golden key on the keyhole. Turn it around and
around until you find the golden train piece. Turn the
key around some more, and the Hardy Boys will be able to
pick it up.

Video #13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QrMF8l_3wQ

Okay, so there is only one more painting puzzle for us to
solve here on the train. Remember the painting in Prague,
which indicated the cake is important? That's the
painting puzzle we have to solve.

First, though, the game wants you to talk to the various
characters. Go to the Salon, then talk to Carol about
everything. She lies and says that she is rich, when we
know for a fact that she is broke.

Go to the Gallery and talk to Alexey. Our heroes ask him
about forgery, because they suspect that he has forged a
painting or two. At least, the evidence that was found
inside Alexey's room indicates that this is a likely
possibility.

Now that we know where Alexey and Carol are, we know that
they are NOT inside their rooms. The Hardy Boys decide to
go the sleeper compartment and search the various rooms.

In the Baron's room, under the suitcases, our heroes find
a copy of the Rasputin's family tree. Oddly enough, this
looks a lot more official than the certificate that shows
the Baron is a Romanov. Could it be that the Baron is
related to Rasputin, and not the Romanovs? Isabelle did
mention that she thinks the Baron is related to
Rasputin...

In Alexey's room, in the area in the back, under the
curtains, you find a threatening note. Someone is forcing
him to do something, but the note doesn't say what.

When you leave the room, you run into Isabelle. Why is
SHE sneaking into Alexey's room? Our heroes talk to her
for a bit, and she reveals that she has a crush on
Alexey. She left a photo of herself in his room to catch
his attention, but it didn't work.

Carol's room is locked, so you can't search it. Instead,
go to the Salon and talk with the Baron. He is sitting on
a couch here, and he says that he would never have been
allowed on this trip, if he didn't have a certificate
which said he is a Romanov.

Okay, so much for talking to people and searching rooms.
Now it's time to solve that cake puzzle! The cake is in
the gallery, and it needs three decorations.

One decoration is in the corner of the easel, in the
Children's Carriage. A second is on the table in the
dining room, the table with the white tablecloth. The
third is inside the cabinet in the dining room, the
cabinet with a lot of white plates.

Put the three ornaments on the cake. You can now spin
around the three cake layers. Spin them around, so the
ornament designs are complete, and you get a golden train
piece.

And that's it! Return to the Hardy Boys' room and pick up
the train ticket to Warsaw.

004g-Warsaw
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Video #14: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ks-7Q9AYA

As you might expect, the map has a nonogram puzzle.

XXXXXXX
XXX  XX
XXX  XX
 XXXXX
 XX  X
XXXX  X
XXXXXXX

You can go to the street or the museum. Go to the street
and take a piece of paper from the lamppost. Examine the
trash in the lower/left, and under the banana peel, you
find another piece of paper.

When you try to go to the museum, you learn that someone
stole the painting and replaced it with a forgery. Oh no!
Pick up the two pieces of paper here, one on the ground
in the bottom/right and one in the alcove on the left.

Back away from the museum, and the Hardy Boys will decide
to make fake police IDs for themselves. Put the pieces
together to form an ID for the brother in blue, one which
reads "Full Access" in red on the bottom. It says
"Forensic Scientist" on top.

With the fake ID in hand, you can enter the museum. Go
left and pick up a piece of paper on the ground. It's a
ticket to somewhere. Go through the door the ticket is
close to. On the ground, under the window in this room,
you find the other half of the ticket.

Our heroes put the two ticket halves together. It's for
the Lubanski Plaza. Samantha Quick calls, and by complete
coincidence, she is there now. The game switches over to
her.

Talk to Alexey here. He has just left a building, and he
seems upset. Once he leaves, talk to the girl. It's
Isabelle! She gives Samantha the key to the building that
Alexey just left. Use the key to get inside.

Get inside the trunk, in this room. You have a challenge.
You want to hold up the lid of the chest by sliding the
stylus up. Remove the stylus once an exclamation mark
appears above the characters on the top screen.

Do this five times in a row, and the people inside the
next room will leave, meaning it's okay for Samantha to
go there.

Video #15: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SbDQbvFbsY

Go to the next room, where the two men were talking.
Under the window, you can find a painting. Scrape off the
fake layer of paint, by running the stylus all over the
touchscreen, and the real painting is revealed.

The five items this time are circles. The purple one is
under the purple pillow. The red one is right of a
bedpost, one is at the top of the screen, one is under
the red bed, and one is under the blue bed, by the
leftmost foot of the bed.

Draw a star between the five objects. The clue is a
window, but believe it or not, we won't actually solve
this clue to get a golden train piece. Alexey has already
found it.

Samantha calls the Hardy Boys. This is the last time she
will appear in the game. Aw...

004h-The Royal Express
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Go back on the train. Go to the Salon and confront Alexey
about his work as a forgerer. Then, return to the
sleepers. You see Isabelle fight with Carol, but the
Hardy Boys come to Isabelle's aid. Talk to Carol about
everything.

Video #16: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxV4lXiOvA8

There is one more painting puzzle, in the Gallery.
Remember the display case that used to have coins? Go
there, and pick up the tools. Then look up at the
painting.

Use the tools on the painting to clean it up. Then,
connect the five items. This time, they are ovals. The
yellow one is in the upper/left. The red and green ones
are on the green banner. The purple one is in the
lower/left, on the dress. The blue one is left of the
woman's face.

Draw a star between all five things to find your next
clue: a jewel box and a gold brick. This will be found
inside the Children's Carriage.

The Baron appears. Talk to him about everything. He
notices that there is a castle in this painting, which is
your clue to go to the castle in the Children's Carriage.

Head that way now. Before going in the Children's
Carriage, let's snoop around in the rooms for the final
time. In the Baron's room, on the desk in the back, you
find a note that makes it seem like the Baron and the Fez
Guy are partners in crime.

Now enter the Children's Carriage. Go to the castle, and
press the gold brick, like the one from the painting. You
can now go inside the castle itself.

In the lower/right, you have a jewel box, like the one in
the painting. It is missing some jewels. Five jewels, to
be exact. One is in the light, above the mirror by the
jewel box.

Two jewels are on the sink in this room. Specifically,
they are on the knobs to the water faucets. Go to the
dresser in this room. One jewel is on the dress on the
left, and the final jewel is on the hat box, above the
dresser.

Isabelle appears, and she admits that most of the things
in the hat box were stolen from various people.
Apparently, Isabelle is a kleptomaniac. Isabelle also
reveals that the ballerina necklace she has comes from
her grandmother. Her grandmother said that she is a
Romanov princess, but that might not be true.

Go to the jewelry box. Use all five jewels on the box,
then turn on the light switch.

Video #17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbhP2URoMjA

When you turn on the light switch, you get another golden
train piece. All right!

Time to leave the castle. The way to leave is by pulling
on the lamp near the sink. This opens up an exit.

Go to Alexey's sleeper. Under the desk, you can find his
forgery materials, which pretty much proves that he
forged the painting in Poland.

Go to the Salon to look for Alexey. He walks past our
heroes when they switch compartments, so turn around and
return to Alexey's sleeper. Talk to him, and the Hardy
Boys confront him. Alexey admits that he forged the
painting, and he begrudgingly gives up the golden train
piece that he found, after solving the mystery behind the
painting.

Go to the Salon. Have you examined the large diorama yet?
Use all of your golden train pieces on the diorama. It
seems that you are almost finished with this puzzle!
There's just one more train piece to find, which means
we'll have to look at the final painting, in St.
Petersburg.

There's only one more thing to do: find a clue inside
Carol's sleeper. Under the pile of things in the
bottom/left, you find a copy of the painting in Poland.
Carol was probably lying when she said she never saw it
before.

Go to the Hardy Boys' sleeper and pick up the ticket.

004i-St. Petersburg
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Video #18: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSk2i_jMqQE

Time for the final nonogram puzzle. This one is an eight
by eight.

XXXXXXXX
XXXX  XX
XXXX  XX
XXXXXXXX
 XXXXXX
 XXXXXX
XXXXX  X
XXXXX  X

Once again, Frank and Joe Hardy have to act like they're
on litter patrol and pick up every piece of paper they
can find. Go to the river and pick up a piece of paper on
the railing. Then look in the trash for another piece of
paper.

At the train station, there are two pieces of paper, one
on the first screen and one on the second screen.

At the gallery, look at the entrance booth. Our heroes
will then rearrange the pieces of paper to make a ticket.
The ticket reads "Gallery Pass" in red, at the bottom. On
the top, in the white banner design, there is one piece
of writing in the middle, which reads "Gallery".

Go inside the gallery once you make the ticket. Go all
the way through the gallery to the end, where you find
the painting.

You have the painting cleaning puzzle again. Use the
stylus to clear off the painting. The find the five
matching objects. These are gears. One is right of the
mustache of the guard in the bottom/right. One is under
the arm of the soldier with a sword in his left hand. One
is above the hat of the soldier in the lower/left. One is
above the hat of the soldier in the lower/right. One is
directly above the middle of the screen.

Make a star appear, and the clue is gears.

Isabelle is here. Look at her for a cutscene. It looks
like she IS related to the Romanovs! After all, she looks
just like one of the girls in the painting.

When you try to leave, the Hardy Boys run into the Baron.
He admits that he is related to Rasputin, which is why he
wants the Romanov fortune.

The Baron signs the ticket belonging to the Hardy Boys,
so now we have a sample of the Baron's handwriting. The
Hardy Boys then split up. One follows the Baron, and the
other returns to the train.

On the train, go forward a few steps to the desk. Grab
the magnifying glass, and the Hardy Boy examines the two
samples of handwriting that he has. The Baron's
handwriting doesn't match the note found in the Baron's
room. Who wrote the note, then?

Video #19: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCqYdtpXT_s

Time to solve the final painting puzzle. The gear machine
is in here, but we need to find four gears. One is inside
the clock in the corner of this room. One is on the
shelf, on the desk in this room. One is on the faucet,
for the sink. One is on the same wall as the clock, on
the left.

Then, examine the bottom of the diorama. Put all five
gears into place. From left to right, they are red,
yellow, purple, blue and green. Pull the lever and you
get the final golden train piece.

Leave the train compartment. Talk to Carol here about
everything, and Joe gets her signature. Then, go down a
screen and enter the train.

When Joe looks at the diorama in the Salon carriage, he
checks Carol's handwriting. It shows that SHE is the
person who wrote the note in the Baron's room. Why was
she trying to frame the Baron?

Put the final train piece into the diorama in the Salon
carriage, and...

Joe finds a tiny map, then gets clobbered by the Fez Man.
The train leaves the station, heading towards an unknown
destination. Frank calls, and Joe describes the map to
him.

The game switches to Frank. He can now visit the location
marked on the map, which is a village. Go there and talk
to the old woman. It turns out that she is Anastasia
Romanov, the lost Russian princess! She's still alive!

In real life, Princess Anastasia died. However, this was
not officially proven until the year this game was made.

Anastasia is interested in the train, because it is
something she remembers from her youth. She gives Frank
the final piece of the train: a golden carriage. She also
tells Frank where the Romanov Treasure is probably
hidden: the Spring Palace.

Anastasia is very interested in meeting Isabelle and
seeing if Isabelle is indeed her great-granddaughter.

004j-The Romanov Treasure
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Video #20: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxh9lCY8t8s

Go to the Spring Palace.

The game switches to Joe, on the train. He is speaking
with the culprit, who is none other than Carol. She is
also going to the Spring Palace, along with her henchman,
the Fez Man.

Carol, Fez Man (whose real name is Jabar), Frank and Joe
all arrive at the Spring Palace. They put the train
pieces in place to open the door and reveal the treasure.

However, because Carol doesn't have the golden train
engine, which Frank got from Anastasia, the door doesn't
stay open. It shuts and traps them inside.

Needless to say, Frank and Joe need to escape before the
door shuts. There are a few minigames to play, in order
to escape.

First is a memorization challenge. Tap the piles of gold,
in the order indicated. The order is randomly determined
each time you play the game. Do this for three locations
in a row, to move on to the next challenge. Don't worry
about messing up, because you get an infinite number of
chances to win this challenge.

The next challenge is the footprint tapping minigame
again. Remember this? Tap on the footprints on the bottom
screen. Don't tap the red footprints, and tap all the
black footprints when they appear. Every time you tap,
the Hardy Boys take a step. Take enough steps to reach
the exit before the Fez Man does. If you're too slow, the
exit will close before you reach it, or the Fez Man will
catch you before you reach the exit.

Again, you get an infinite number of chances to win this
challenge.

When you finish the footprint minigame, the Hardy Boys
escape! They then get in contact with the police, and
they return to arrest the criminals.

The ending scenes then play. It turns out that Isabelle
really IS the great-granddaughter of Princess Anastasia,
and the two of them are happily reunited. Alexey is no
longer being blackmailed into making forgeries, so he's
happy. The Baron seems kind of upset that he didn't get
any treasure, though.

005-Credits
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