As with all of our Rise of the Golden Idol case guides, our goal here is to provide a hint-based experience that will lead you to the solution without automatically showing you how to solve it. We’ll start out with small hints for the puzzle, escalate to bigger ones, and eventually just spell out the answer if it’s still not clicking for you. We’ve separated our tiered hints and answers with in-game art, but be wary of scrolling farther than you intend.
In this Rise of the Golden Idol guide, we’ll walk you through the “Behind Bars” case, including hints and the full solution for the names, conference, victim, and events puzzles.
There are eight names to discover in “Behind Bars.”
Listed left to right, top to bottom, here are the names of the “Behind Bars” characters:
There are five cells for the five prisoners, including the mystery one. You need to determine where they each reside.
From left to right, the inmates display as:
In the escapee’s cell, you’ll need to do some secret message decoding, which is mercifully much simpler than it initially seems.
The secret message was encoded with:
Inside flower book spine equals saw
The event is three sentences long, and can be solved mostly with visual ques once you get the rest of the puzzle down.
Arthur Blythe, who was in prison for murder, got out of his cell through a window, using a saw blade he got from Steven Aria.
He entered the yard via a drainpipe, and breached the fence using wire cutters he got from Percy Sainsbury.
Finally, he climbed over the wall by attaching sheets, which he got from Jimmy Beswick, to the bars from his window.
