Adventure Escape Mysteries – Canine Cases
By: Haiku Games
Haiku Games is back with a new Adventure Escape game, and this time you’re helping a dog named Nitro. He may look like an ordinary dog, but Nitro’s actually a seasoned private investigator. When a supermodel’s assistant mysteriously disappears, Nitro and his human partner Alex are on the job. With the help of expert witnesses like a goldfish and a squirrel, they’re sure to solve the case. This walkthrough guide should help you if you get stuck on any of the puzzles in Canine Cases. Feel free to ask for extra help in the comments section.
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Walkthrough:
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4
Chapter 1:
You can watch my video for Chapter 1 or continue below for my step-by-step guide:
1. It’s been months since Nitro the dog has had a case to investigate. Alex is enjoying the lazy life, but Nitro wants to get back to work. Just in time, Alex receives a call from the supermodel Stella Watson. She and her agent are headed over to discuss a case. While Alex gets ready, you need to clean up the place. There’s a lot to do here. First, move the blanket and grab the photo. There’s another photo under the desk. Clean up the Chinese food and grab the chopsticks. Look at the mirror and grab the pencil. Also, notice from the photo of Nitro and Mateo that we need Nitro’s backpack, bandana and badge.
2. Look at the desk. The drawer is locked, but if you pick up the documents, there’s a a wheel under there. You can also see that Mateo Torres, Alex’s father, died. And if you pick up the magazine, there’s a notepad underneath with some pencil scribbles on it. Use the pencil with the notepad to see a secret message that Alex will read for you. It says:
“To my forgetful Monkey,
It’s farm animals, big to small.
Love, Dad.”
3. The clue is referring to the locked briefcase under the painting of a guy with a horse. You need to select all farm animals and they should go from big to small. So it goes Horse, Cow, Pig, Goat, Chicken. Then take the buckle from inside.
4. Attach the buckle to the backpack and then grab the backpack.
5. Attach the wheel to the ladder and then move the ladder to the left. Grab the photo and key from the top shelf.
6. Use the key to unlock the desk drawer. Take the photo from inside. You should now have four of them.
7. There’s a single family portrait under the flower painting. Tap on it and then add the other four photos to it. Rearrange them in order from oldest to most recent. It should look like the image below, with Mateo gone in the last one.
8. Now we have all the info we need to unlock the other briefcase. Look at each photo to find a number: 4 candles, 3 tennis balls, 1 award, 5 gold medals, 7 flowers. So you get 43157. Enter that into the briefcase to unlock it and take the badge from inside.
9. Look inside the mouse hole to see your bandana. Your friend Humphrey took it as a blanket and will only give it back if you find him some pepperoni. Open the pizza box to see that it’s empty. But we can follow the smell to the pepperoni slice. In this puzzle, you need to move Nitro around the floor. Whenever he steps on a trail segment, he’ll swap positions with it. Keep on swapping trail segments around until they all connect. I made a video if you need help.
10. Now you have the pepperoni, so give it to Humphrey. Then use the chopsticks to reach your bandana.
11. Look in the mirror again and put the bandana, badge and backpack on Nitro.
12. Stella arrives with her agent, Frederick. Stella’s assistant, Emily, is missing and it’s not like her. They need someone to help find her, but they were hoping to hire Mateo. Alex manages to convince them to let her take on the case and they head over to Stella’s townhouse. Timothy the butler greets you and doesn’t seem too pleased about having a dog in the house. But he lets you look around. To start, look at the painting of Stella. Notice her jewelry and count how many there are of each shape. You get 1 diamond, 2 teardrops, 3 bangles (circles), and 4 flowers. So tap on the locked box on the table and press the shapes in that order: Diamond, Teardrop, Circle, Flower. Then take the whistle from inside.
13. Talk to the cat. Her name is Chanel and she’s sitting on something but won’t move. She also tells you that she saw Emily and Stella arguing before Emily disappeared. Open the door to the terrace and head outside.
14. Eat the croissant and then take the plate. Also, find the wrench hidden in the flowers. You should also try to open the glass doors in the back. We have to ask the butler if we can look in there.
15. Use the wrench to open the metal panel, revealing a pipes puzzle. Solve the puzzle by connecting the pink and purple pipes on the edges to the ones in the center. Tap a silver pipe to rotate it. Tap two gold pipes to swap them. You don’t need to use all the pipes. And you can copy my solution below if you’re stuck. Once you’re done, the bird bath will start working again.
16. Use the whistle with the bird bath to call a blue jay to it. Nitro will ask the bird to fly up and lift the latch on the glass doors, but the bird is too afraid to move because of the cat staring at him. And you can see now the cat came to the door to watch the bird. So we have to deal with that.
17. Go back inside and talk to the butler. He won’t let you open the glass doors, but Alex starts talking to him to distract him. Notice that there’s a key on the chair now that the cat got up. Grab it and then look behind the painting on the right to reveal a locked safe. Use the key to unlock the safe and take the pet passport and plate from inside. Then look at the food on the table.
18. The butler was in middle of preparing lunch for the cat. If you finish the job, the cat will come to the table to eat. Place the two plates down on the table. Then look through the passport to figure out how to make the three plates, based on the flags by each plate. You can copy my solution if you’re stuck. The first plate is for England and it gets bread, cheese and prosciutto. The second plate is for Paris and it gets a cracker, lox, and black caviar. The third plate is for Japan and it gets rice, raw fish and orange caviar.
19. Now the cat is eating and won’t bother the bird. Go back outside and talk to the bird again to get it to open the window for you. Then look inside and grab the backpack. Look through it until you find Emily’s ID. And that’s the end of the chapter!
And that’s the end of Chapter 1! Click here to continue to Chapter 2 or choose a chapter below.
It’s not available yet. You must have early access…?
Make sure to update the app.
I had to delete it and download again. Thanks!
How do I look behind the painting? I tap the painting and it just shows it to me close-up. I’m tapping around the wall. I can’t get anything.
Duh, nevermind. Just realized I was on the wrong painting, lol.
I’m on the whistle one, it doesn’t open. I’m putting it into the right order and it does nothing.
That happened to me when I first played. I had to wait a second or two between hitting the second and third buttons (the teardrop and the circle) and then it worked. I thought there was some clue I was missing but didn’t see it mentioned here and, when I went to replay the chapter after beating the game, I had to to download an updated version of Chapter 1 and the buttons worked fine.