I'm about to give up on this game. I've put 5 hours into it and haven't gotten anywhere. I'm getting seriously bored! I am trying to play both the original and the anniversary game. I thought one might help with the other if I got stuck but they seem to be very different.

I am in Day 1 trying a) get to a crime scene by somehow distracting a cop in the park, and b) trying to do something with a clock in grandma's attic (in the original game). (In the anniversary game, I cannot get to grandma's house at all. In the original game I spent days before I realized I could click into a different map.) I have looked at the 2 walkthroughs here which state to pick up the sketch book in the trunk in the attic. WHAT SKETCH BOOK??? I don't see any sketch book.

I don't know how those of you who played all of these classic games did it. There doesn't seem to be any direction in the games as to what to do. Click everything everywhere and maybe you'll get lucky.

Edit: I have finally figured out how to move the clock "hands" and the walkthrough says the dragon head should be at the top. I think I have tried every item at the top and "nothing happened" when I turned the key. Which one is the dragon head? They all just look like blobs and the wheel is very hard to turn.

In the park, you need to get the mime to follow you to the cop and the cop will go after the mime. It's hard to do because the mime might get distracted and follow the woman or the man. Then you can interact with his radio to go to the crime scene. Good luck.

I haven't played the anniversary edition so I don't know how much this game diverges from the original in terms of puzzle solutions. Knowing which version of the game you would be referencing for any particular puzzle would be helpful. It has been too long since I played the original to remember puzzles in detail.

OB, for the 20th Anniversary Edition, check "Messages" with Grace in the Bookshop. She should inform Gabriel that a package was received from his Grandmother. The sketchbook is in that package.

Pressing the spacebar in any scene will highlight all the hotspots.