The Rise Of The Golden Idol: All Solutions For Behind Bars

Events seem to be ramping up in severity in this chapter of The Rise of the Golden Idol. Behind Bars takes place, as you might very well expect, inside a prison, and it's your task to work out what's caused the very hectic and stressful situation unfolding before you.

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This is quite an involved one, with quite a few characters to identify, roles to work out, and a series of events to investigate. As ever, though, you're provided with just enough information to work everything out and figure out exactly what's happened here. For hints, though, you've come to the right place.

All Word Locations

There are 43 words to find in this chapter, split between the interior and exterior scenes you can explore.

Location

Words

Interior

Men

Over, Gun, Kendal, Smith, Julia, Patrick, Climbed, Percy

The left cell

Glue, Clay, Scissors, Sculpture, Alfred, Beasley, Steven, Aria

The centre cell

Window, Bars, Sheets, Kempton, Sainsbury

The hallway noticeboard

Pakenham, Utley, Beswick, Blythe, Henry

Exterior

Graffiti on the left

Jeremy

Handyman

Pliers, Wirecutters, Henry, Wakefield

Drainpipe

Drainpipe, Saw Blade

Prison guard

Utley, Gun

The prisoners

Over, Dug, Under,

Inside the office window

Jason, Robert, Jimmy, Arthur, Daniel, Racketeering, Murder, Kidnapping, Homicide

All Name Solutions

As you might expect, the great difficulty here comes with finding out the identities of the prisoners.

• For the non-prisoners, you'll get most of your clues from dialogues and certain pieces of evidence found within a prisoner's cell.
• Working out the prisoner names will require heavy use of the notice boards in the office and in the interior hallway, as well as a close examination of their faces.
• Using dialogue, you can easily work out who the 'big girl's blouse' is.
• The handyman is carrying identification - take it at face value; the game isn't trying to trick you here.
• Most surnames are easily matched with faces according to the office noticeboard, but you may need to do some guesswork for the final face obscured by a note.
• One note mentions a guard by name and states his activities, can you match that up with a guard's belongings?

Solution

The names are as follows, in the order presented in the panel:

Patrick Kendal

Percy Sainsbury

Jimmy Beswick

Robert Pakenham

Jason Kempton

Daniel Utley

Jeremy Smith

Henry Wakefield

All Cell Solutions

Working out who resides in which cell is key to figuring out this puzzle.

• One of these identities is easy to work out - there is a missing prisoner, and there is a very strong clue as to which one is missing. Spot how he escaped, and you're already most of the way there.
• One cell has evidence of cheating. Do any of the prisoners carry something with similar qualities?
• Once you've worked out the positions of the escapee and the cheater, you can easily extrapolate the rest using their names, their dialogues, and the noticeboard in the prison hallway.

Solution

In order, the cells belong to the following:

Mystery person

Jimmy Beswick

Jason Kempton

Daniel Utley

Robert Pakenham

All Message Solutions

A coded message, as in so many other chapters, can be found and decoded here.

• The message and the key to decoding the message are found in the escapee's cell.
• The encoded message took the form of a six-digit string of numbers. Only one example of this can be found in this chapter.
• The key for a code that deals in numbers would naturally have meanings for every number possibly required. If every number is a word, you'd need something that provides a meaning for nine separate numbers.
• Codes can be cracked not only with words and numbers but also with pictures.

Solution

The code is broken using the cartoon poster in the escapee's cell.

The secret message was encoded with:

2

8

1

9

7

3

and could be decoded as:

inside

flower

book

spine

equals

saw

All Events Solutions

The series of events you have to work out here is linked closely to the escaped prisoner and how he managed this feat.

• The escaped prisoner's identity and his crime are easily worked out via a process of elimination using prisoner info available to you.
• A careful examination of the environment outside the prison is required to work out the tools he used and the order in which they were used.
• One tool must be worked out from context clues - the prison has tools, but one is missing. Are there any clues as to which tool this might be?
• Once you know the acquisitions he made, it's up to you to work out how each item was used.

Solutions

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.

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