How to solve the Indiana Jones bookshelf puzzle in Snake in the Garden

Dec. 6, 2024



How to solve the Snake in the Garden bookshelf puzzle in the Great Circle

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The Indiana Jones bookshelf puzzle for the Snake in the Garden mystery is easy to solve once you know where to look. It’s confusing though if you don’t. For example, there are two notes mentioned in the journal summary that might make you think there’s more to find. But once you have the first note explaining what’s going on, you already have everything you need inIndiana Jones and the Great Circle, even if it isn’t clear. Here’s how you can work out what to do.

Indiana Jones bookshelf puzzle solution

Indiana Jones bookshelf puzzle solution

The Indiana Jones bookshelf puzzle is found in the Apostolic Palace, in Father Ventura’s office, shown here on the map. You’ll find a note on the desk that says the bookshelf has been redesigned, and certain books must be pulled from the shelf alphabetically. For reasons…

If you then check the bookshelf just in front and to the left of the desk you found the note on, you’ll see there are four books you can interact with and pull out. However, they only have symbols on them so there’s no way to work out what order they would be alphabetically. Pull them out at random and you’ll here a wrong sounding donk and they’re reset.

At this point, the information the the Snake in the Garden mystery will say you’ll have one of two notes in your journal. I made the mistake of thinking that the second note must have the alphabetical information on it and went off looking for that. However,the information you need is actually on the back of the first note. So flip that around to see these symbols and names:

This list gives you the book names, letting you alphabetize them. As a resultto solve the Snake in the Garden puzzle in Indiana Jones you pull the books from the shelf in this order:

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