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It's been a long wait, but hidden object game fans finally have a new excuse for their bloodshot eyes and twitching click-happy hand spasms... because today marks the debut of the newest entry in the Mystery Case Files series. I hope you like cotton candy and the macabre and magic and macabre-stuffed candied spider hot dogs because you'll find all that and more in Big Fish Game's Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate. Whether your taste runs to Ray Bradbury... or Tod Browning... or just plain vanilla Otto Schmitt, there's something for you waiting at Fate's Carnival.
Madame Fate is a veiled French fortuneteller from Transylvania, and she has a big problem. Along with a garbage dump's worth of knicknacks, over the years she has collected an assortment of oddball characters to showcase in her traveling carnival. They're shifty Jim Varney types and as fortune has it, one of their number plans to murder Madame Fate at the stroke of midnight. How does Madame Fate know? She saw it in her crystal ball, of course. The only problem is that the ball is kind of vague on the details... so she needs to collect some personal items of each suspect, extract their energy, and obtain a more exact idea of what the carnie will be doing at midnight.
Why didn't she or her wobble-necked black cat take action sooner? (After all, she's known about her fated death for days.) It's simple: she also foretold your arrival. In Madame Fate you play the same master detective that adventured in Huntsville, that the Queen of England sent to haunted Ravenhearst, etc. Whenever a spider or an oversized novelty pencil needs to be found in a cluttered room of junk, you are the person people call. Madame Fate is putting her fate in your hands.
So all you have to do is sort through the junk scattered around the hangouts of 15 suspects, gaze into Madame Fate's crystal ball to solve whatever puzzle is blocking the fortuneteller's seering, and determine the innocence or guilt of the suspect. Easy as peanut butter pie!
Mystery Case Files: Madame Fate is another in a long line of hidden object games. You're presented with a screen filled with junk, and a grocery list of items to find in each scene. When you've found them all (or the necessary number of objects needed for each suspect) you move on to the next area. Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst was the first hidden object game I ever played, and is still one of the better looking ones. But Madame Fate is even more beautiful, with what seems like twice as many hand-drawn scenes. Also included are the puzzle locks from Ravenhearst, so if you enjoyed those you'll have a crystal ball with this game. But be warned: some of them are extremely difficult! To access the private areas of some suspects, you need to solve word puzzles. The game sometimes doesn't give you hints that you're on the right track, which may trip you up if you're trying to solve the puzzle while driving to work. (Note: don't try that - it's dangerous.)
Big Fish Games has also taken a page from more recent games such as Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile. In some scenes you may be asked to find multiple objects or manipulate items to solve a simple puzzle. Like spelling a word, or solving a pun. For the most part these work well, but sometimes you know what you want to do... it's just that figuring out how to do it using the simple click and drag interface takes a few tries.
Also, be on the lookout for objects which change appearance - find enough of them and you'll open up new locations to explore.
To my shock and delight, there seems to be no penalty for random clicking! As a lifelong random clicker, my heart is warmed by this gesture from Big Fish Games. Let's hope they've started a trend. For far too long us random clickers have been penalized for our impatience. If you do get discouraged, you have five hints (though you can get more) for all the locations involving each suspect. If you can't find a paintbrush at the embarkment platform for the Insane-erator, for example, just click on "get hint" and you'll be shown a circle of stars surrounding the brush.
Madame Fate is a large download, but comes with gorgeous carnival graphics and each scene includes a nice ambient background soundtrack to keep you in the fairway mood. Every now and then the voice of Madame Fate herself drifts into earshot, to congratulate you for finding an object or to warn you that her appointment in Samarra is nearing. It's not a perfect game - sometimes you'll run into an unfairly hidden or awkwardly named object, but overall this is an excellent new hidden object game from the developers who created the genre.
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Help! How do I solve the card puzzle lock? It’s the one in the screenshot on the right up above? I need a tip or hint or walkthrough. I get that I can switch around cards by clicking on two of them, but what does it mean? I click on the hands and see the cards move but what does it mean? It’s confusing.
It’s too hard!
I got past that one by clicking on the hat. It shuffles around and you have to keep track of the hat with the rabbit inside. Like those three card monty games.
You can do that three times, and each time you get a card suite symbol to place in the slot above the clown at the bottom.
For the last symbol, I matched the cards on each side from lowest to highest. For example, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King all from the same suite. I’m not sure if clicking on the other buttons affected the cards or if that’s the way you’re supposed to do it, but it worked and I got the 4th symbol.
Once I put it at the bottom, too, the puzzle was solved.
So far the puzzle that took me the longest was that stupid fricking word puzzle in front of the bearded woman’s tent. It doesn’t tell you if you got a word right, you have to get them ALL right. If you’re stuck on that one, here’s a hint- stnemurtsni lacisum
I do not understand how to find the mystery/mysterious items. Help!!! Supposedly they morph???? Has anyone found any??? Please let me know if you do, I can’t seem to figure this out.
Yeah, Tamara I found some of them. They look like one thing, but then they fade into another. Like they slowly fade back and forth, not like flashing or anything. They’re kind of hard to spot because lots of areas have animations.
One was a bunch of bananas and then it blurred (not really morphed, at least not like morphed in the movies) into a single banana.
Another was a flashlight and then something else with a similar shape. It was in the first room I visited, the one with the ticket booth at the start of the game.
Thank you Christy, I will try to be more observant. After I posted that I clicked around and found a couple, but had no idea what I had clicked on. I also am stumped by Sea Maiden Madness. I had no clue what to do there. I am tired though, and guess I will see if I can figure that one out tomorrow. Thanks again for getting back to me so quickly, I hope I will be more successful finding the mystery items.
Help!
Can not figure out how to do the crystal ball puzzle for the “Contortionist”.
Sue, you probably know in that crystal ball puzzle you have to change all the pegs to the same color.
If you don’t move your mouse the ball will fall the same way every time, so leave the pointer where it’s at if you still have pegs to change. First change them to blue, then green in the second round, and then purple, and then red. Each time you change them all to that color you get the tooth.
hi im on the very last stage of madame fate you have to get all the coloured blocks in order to the are all touching back to back the same colour. ive done the first 2 but cant get past that its soooooo hard is there a pattern to it or something does anyone no how to solve it
How to select colors to match up in sea-maiden (madame Fate)? I am just clicking and I may get one then I lose it. Where do you start? Help me!
hi im on the last crystal ball puzzle and i am VERY STUCK any no how 2 do it???
i have unlocked all the mystery spots, but i can never get the outhouse to appear on the map. is there really an outhouse location?
Andrea,
You must place all of the cards in order. On the right side place all diamonds in order 7 8 9 10 J Q K than the same with the spades. In one section you will a club i think it was..drag it to the buttom and a hat should appear and you play the hat game till you have all the suites at the bottom..Good Luck hope that helps
How do I solve the sea maiden puzzle?
For the Sea Maiden puzzle, match each large and companion small cell the same color (which you probably already know). Clicking on a color sends it clockwise, but also alternates it from the large cell to the small one before moving on. Decide on a small cell you consider “furthest away,” find it’s matching color, click it until it reaches the counterpart large cell above it. Both cells will glow when matched. Once the first set is complete, the small cell in front of this set is your next goal. Each set to solve is closer than the one you just completed. I’d have answered sooner, but I just found this site.
Note: If you’re convinced a “crystal ball” game won’t let you advance without using the “Call for Help” feature, you may need to uninstall/re-install the game. This happened to me while playing the puzzle for the “Contortionist.” After changing all the pegs and getting the four teeth, the mouth never appeared. I thought I just couldn’t figure it out and used the phone. I played the entire game a number of times and finally told the support guys my problem. They said it needed to be re-installed (at least I was able to do it without buying the game again). I wouldn’t have cared except my name wouldn’t show up in the “Top Detectives” list until I completed all the puzzles myself. It’s there now!
I’ve played the game through a number of times…unlocking all the mystery spots…still no outhouse. Is there some trick I’m missing?
About the Madame Fate outhouse, after you finish the game you have to restart with the same name in a new game, and then the outhouse appears on the map after a while (not at first).
Hope that helps!!!
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help!!!I cant find the screwdriver in the INSANE-nerator…
Its location is top left of the scree…actually, i already saw it but when i clicked on the picture, nothing happened…
Hey, game is great but just exactly as jayson says, nothing happens when clicking on the screwdriver, so I’m stuck
can not clk on screwdriver in insane-nerator can any help me finish it
Hey, can anyone help me find the screwdriver in insane nerator. I’m stuck!!!
me too, for some reason I can’t click on the screwdriver.
im stuck on the word puzzle with the musical instruments too whats the last word
How do you get into the outhouse on Madame Fate? I found all of the changing items, it said it was unlocked, but when I went to the map, it never showed up.