Mystery Shack Mystery
Disney's Gravity Falls is about a small, rural town in Oregon where strange, occult happenings are an undercurrent to every day life. But for two of its denizens, Dipper and his sister Mabel, the outside world is out of reach when Grunkle Stan accidentally locks them in the attic of his museum/home/bizarre curios shop. Now it's up to you to help them break free in this point-and-click adventure game, the Mystery Shack Mystery.
Play as either Dipper Pines, the intelligent and insatiably curious young adventurer, or as his adorably goofy sibling Mabel. Each character offers a slightly different experience while you collect items, search for clues, and most importantly, escape! A changing cursor helps to eliminate most of the pixel hunting and a hint button exists to offer a useful nudge if you need it. The game isn't particularly difficult or long, and Mystery Shack Escape probably would have been a more fitting title given the lack of any one overlying mystery. However, these shortcomings are counterbalanced by a bunch of laughs, secret easter eggs for fans of the show (including a very esoteric coded message), and some inventory-based puzzling that's suitable for kids and inner children alike.
Walkthrough Guide
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Mystery Shack Mystery Walkthrough
Playing as Mabel
The Attic
Open the bottom drawer of the cabinet to find the BATTERIES, THE KEY TO GOOD FORTUNES, and the STRANGE OLD COINS.
Look inside the top drawer next and take the SHRUNKEN HEAD.
Put the BATTERIES inside the lantern on top of the cabinet to light a section of the room.
Click the hand sticking out behind the headboard of Mabel's bed to pull out SHMEBULOCK (he is completely useless, even for a gnome).
Take the LIGHT BULBS x3 from the top of the arcade machine of the right side of the room.
Put the first LIGHT BULB in the lamp on the table to illuminate a little more of the room.
Pick up the note on the floor, then view the image of a clock on the note and read the message: "The time is 12:00".
Click the framed picture on the wall above Dipper's bed for a closer look.
Note that the picture of two shrunken heads on stands reminds Mabel "of something in the living room".
Click the right bed to jump on top of it.
Put the second LIGHT BULB into the red socket at the middle of the support beam to light the whole room.
Open the trap door in the floor, then go down into the Living Room.
The Living Room - Right
Pull the rope hanging above the doorway.
Pick up the STATUE HEAD that falls to the floor.
Place the third LIGHT BULB into the lamp beside the armchair to light the room.
Click the owl-shaped clock on the wall for a close-up view.
Refer to the note in your inventory again to find the solution.
Turn the arms on the face of the clock to set the time to 12:00.
Pick up the T-REX TOOTH 1/5 that falls from the clock to the floor.
Lift the sofa chair cushion to find the T-REX TOOTH 2/5.
Remember the framed picture in The Attic?
Put the SHRUNKEN HEAD on the left pike on top of the salamander aquarium.
Put the STATUE HEAD on the right pike.
Look inside the open drawer under the aquarium and take the T-REX TOOTH 3/5.
Move left to the other side of the Living Room.
The Living Room - Left
Click the pants hanging over the seat of the right chair to reveal the T-REX TOOTH 4/5.
Click the loose board on the right side of the wood paneling under the air conditioner to find the T-REX TOOTH 5/5.
Return to the right side of the Living Room.
The Living Room - Right
Put all 5 of the T-REX TEETH into the dinosaur skull beside the sofa chair.
Take the KEY TO THE GIFT SHOP from the skull's open mouth.
You will also receive the "dinosaur" secret code.
Go left again to the other side of the Living Room.
The Living Room - Left
Use the KEY TO THE GIFT SHOP to open the door on the left.
Continue through the door to the right side of the Gift Shop.
Gift Shop - Right
Use the THE KEY TO GOOD FORTUNES on the keyhole at the bottom of the fortune telling machine.
You can click the fortune teller to hear some random joke fortunes.
Open the cupboard under the diving helmet to find a note - "I IZ TRAPPED IN UR RUG".
Look under the corner of the rug on the floor to find a hole in the floorboards.
Take the CORKSCREW from the hole.
Use the STRANGE OLD COINS on the vending machine to knock over the boxes on top of it.
Pick up the GREEN DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT that falls to the floor.
You will also receive the "emerald" secret code.
Move left to the left side of the Gift Shop.
Gift Shop - Left
Use the CORKSCREW on the jar of eyeballs on the counter and take out the EYEBALL.
You will also receive the "eyeballs" secret code.
Put the EYEBALL in the skull on the shelf beside the exit door.
Pick up the RED DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT after it falls from the skull to the ground.
Open the freezer and take out a POPSICLE.
Give the POPSICLE to the Grizzlycorn mounted on the wall above the freezer.
Take the OLMEC KEY the Grizzlycorn drops on the floor.
Use the OLMEC KEY on the Olmec statue head in the space under the cash register counter.
Pick up the YELLOW DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT after the statue head spits it onto the rug.
Go left to the souvenirs area of the Gift Shop.
Gift Shop - Souvenirs
Click the carved stone tablets on top of the display case for a closer look.
Click the runes on the left tablet so that they match the runes on the right tablet.
Screenshot.
After the tablet puzzle is solved, the door to the display case will open.
Look inside the display case and put the ornaments in their matching slots.
The RED DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT goes in the top slot.
The YELLOW DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT goes in the middle slot.
The GREEN DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT goes in the bottom slot.
Click the opened floor board to the right of the rug to find the KEY TO THE GIFT SHOP.
Click the dancing fish under the souvenirs sign to find the "furry fish" secret code.
Click the UFO models hanging above the tablets to find the "spacecraft" secret code.
Go right to the left side of the gift shop.
Gift Shop - Left
Use the KEY TO THE GIFT SHOP to open the exit door.
Success! You have solved the Mystery Case Mystery, congratulations!
Playing as Dipper
The Attic
Open the bottom drawer of the cabinet to find the BATTERIES, THE KEY TO GOOD FORTUNES, and the STRANGE OLD COINS.
Look inside the top drawer next and take the SHRUNKEN HEAD.
Put the BATTERIES inside the lantern on the left side of the table to light a section of the room.
Click the hand sticking out behind the headboard of Mabel's bed to pull out SHMEBULOCK (he is completely useless, even for a gnome).
Take the LIGHT BULBS x3 from the top of the arcade machine at the left side of the room.
Put the first LIGHT BULB in the lamp on the cabinet to illuminate a little more of the room.
Click the framed picture on the wall above Dipper's bed for a closer look.
Note that the picture of two shrunken heads on stands reminds Dipper "of something in the living room".
Click the left bed to jump on top of it.
Put the second LIGHT BULB into the red socket at the middle of the support beam to light the whole room.
Open the trap door in the floor, then go down into the Living Room.
The Living Room - Right
Pull the rope hanging above the doorway.
Pick up the STATUE HEAD that falls to the floor.
Place the third LIGHT BULB into the lamp beside the armchair to light the room.
Lift the sofa chair cushion to find the T-REX TOOTH 1/5.
Remember the framed picture in The Attic?
Put the SHRUNKEN HEAD on the left pike on top of the salamander aquarium.
Put the STATUE HEAD on the right pike.
Look inside the open drawer under the aquarium and take the T-REX TOOTH 2/5.
Move left to the other side of the Living Room.
The Living Room - Left
Click the pants hanging over the seat of the right chair to reveal the T-REX TOOTH 3/5 and the MAGNET.
Use the MAGNET to move the antenna on top of the television and uncover the T-REX TOOTH 4/5.
Click the television to turn it on.
Click the air conditioner to remove the front panel.
Pick up the T-REX TOOTH 5/5 that falls to the floor.
Return to the right side of the Living Room.
The Living Room - Right
Put all 5 of the T-REX TEETH into the dinosaur skull beside the sofa chair.
Take the KEY TO THE GIFT SHOP from the skull's open mouth.
You will also receive the "dinosaur" secret code.
Go left again to the other side of the Living Room.
The Living Room - Left
Use the KEY TO THE GIFT SHOP to open the door on the left.
Continue through the door to the right side of the Gift Shop.
Gift Shop - Right
Use the THE KEY TO GOOD FORTUNES on the keyhole at the bottom of the fortune telling machine.
You can click the fortune teller to hear some random joke fortunes.
Open the cupboard under the diving helmet to find the CORKSCREW.
Use the STRANGE OLD COINS on the vending machine to knock over the boxes on top of it.
Pick up the GREEN DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT that falls out of the vending machine dispenser.
You will also receive the "emerald" secret code.
Move left to the left side of the Gift Shop.
Gift Shop - Left
Use the CORKSCREW on the jar of eyeballs on the counter and take out the EYEBALL.
You will also receive the "eyeballs" secret code.
Put the EYEBALL in the cyclops skull on the shelf beside the exit door.
Pick up the RED DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT and the OLMEC KEY that fall from the skull to the ground.
Use the OLMEC KEY on the Olmec statue head in the space under the cash register counter.
Pick up the YELLOW DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT after the statue head spits it onto the rug.
Go left to the souvenirs area of the Gift Shop.
Gift Shop - Souvenirs
Click the carved stone tablets on top of the display case for a closer look.
Click the runes on the left tablet so that they match the runes on the right tablet.
Screenshot.
After the tablet puzzle is solved, the door to the display case will open.
Look inside the display case and put the ornaments in their matching slots.
The RED DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT goes in the top slot.
The YELLOW DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT goes in the middle slot.
The GREEN DISPLAY CASE ORNAMENT goes in the bottom slot.
Click the opened floor board to the right of the rug to find the KEY TO THE GIFT SHOP.
Click the dancing fish under the souvenirs sign to find the "furry fish" secret code.
Click the UFO models hanging above the stone tablets to find the "spacecraft" secret code.
Go right to the left side of the gift shop.
Gift Shop - Left
Use the KEY TO THE GIFT SHOP to open the exit door.
Success! You have solved the Mystery Case Mystery, congratulations!
The Super Secret Message
NOTE: The following content includes spoilers pertaining to both the game and the animated show Gravity Falls. Please do not continue if you do not wish to view these spoilers.
Play the game normally as either character until you reach the Gift Shop Souvenirs area.
Move the cursor over the stone tablets before you solve the puzzle to view a coded message:
"HYHU QRWLFHG VWDQV WDWWRR"
The only way to decode this message is to know the secret cypher played at the end of the intro to the Gravity Falls animated show.
A voice heard under the intro music whispers a message that, when played backwards, says "Three Letters Back".
Using this clue, go three letters back for each letter of the coded message found in the game to decypher it.
For example, Three letters back from H is E, from Y is V, and from U is R.
Thus, the first word "HYHU" translates to "EVER".
The final decoded message is: "EVER NOTICED STAN'S TATTOO?"
Posted by: Trinn
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July 26, 2012 5:42 PM