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 “Academic Impact” case, including hints and the full solution for the names and events puzzles.
‘Academic Impact’ names
Finding out everyone’s name in “Academic Impact” is pretty quick but critical to solving the rest of the case.
Listed left to right, here are the names of the Academic Impact characters.
‘Academic Impact’ events
The event puzzle for “Academic Impact” requires eight words in this vignette.
Cyril Bagman and Debra Bagman discovered the body of Isaac Nowak, which was there because he fell from the bridge.
After “Academic Impact,” you’ll tackle the second case of Chapter 1, “Under Construction.”