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The Testament of Sherlock Holmes (Nintendo Switch) SIMPLE Walkthrough

written 2/17/25, updated 2/17/2025

This is a Simplified Version of the game without spoilers. For a Detailed Walkthrough CLICK HERE

Necklace at the Marquis of Conyngham’s Mansion

  • Follow prompts
  • Get Magnifying Glass, use on sheet music
  • Find print
  • Inspect all clues

221B Baker Street – 1

  • Solve Necklace Puzzle
  • Go to Diocese of Knightbridge on map

Diocese of Knightsbridge – Bishop Maitland’s Murder

  • Get Piece of Rope
  • Get Finger
  • Get Broken Phial
  • Get Metal Rod
  • Get Scalpel
  • Solve Footprint Puzzle
  • Inspect all clues
  • Solve Deduction Board
  • Use Metal Rod on door lock
  • Solve Lock Puzzle
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Horse’s Head, use on floor
  • Solve Knight’s Tour Puzzle
  • Use Knife
  • Choose one of available options
  • Solve Chest Puzzle

221B Baker Street – 2

  • Use Broken Phial on desk
  • Solve Chemical Analysis Puzzle
  • Use any remaining clue on the desk
  • Analyze
  • Get book
  • Solve Deduction Board 1
  • Choose the right location
  • Solve Deduction Board 2
  • Choose 1 of 3 locations to start an investigation

Investigation A: Westgate Jail

  • Go to the Director’s office
  • Inspect clues
  • Get Pass
  • Talk to receptionist
  • Use Pass on room near entrance
  • Ask about all subjects
  • Go into prison
  • Talk to Hans Schielman
  • Talk to Warden
  • Talk to Receptionist and Director
  • Talk to Warden
  • Use Keys on door across from Director’s office
  • Inspect locker
  • Solve Schielman’s Puzzle Box
  • Get Hans’s Pen
  • Talk to entrance guard Brighton
  • Get Key for Brighton’s Locker and Brighton’s Suit
  • Use Brighton’s Key on door next to Director’s Office
  • Get Key “Jenny Patterson”
  • Place Brighton’s Suit in locker
  • Use Jenny’s Key on her locker
  • Solve Patterson Puzzle Box
  • Get Brighton’s Locket, Letter from Brighton, and Guard Duty List
  • Talk to receptionist
  • Talk to Warden
  • Give Schielman his Pen
  • Talk to Director
  • Inspect alarm
  • Talk to Warden through the bars
  • Get Keys
  • Go out and around the corner to prison door
  • Talk to “Warden O’Sullivan”
  • Use Keys
  • Use Keys
  • Solve Alarm Puzzle

Investigation B: Kensington Gardens

  • Talk to Landlady
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Spade, Rake, and Clothes Pegs
  • Use Spade on fence
  • Get Newspaper “The Strand”
  • Inspect clues
  • Use Rake on tree
  • Get Tattered Clothes
  • Talk to landlady
  • Get Scarf
  • Inspect clues
  • Get Torn-up Pieces of Paper, place on desk
  • Solve Paper Puzzle
  • Use Clothes Pegs
  • Use Matches
  • Solve Invisible Ink Puzzle
  • Use Spade near window
  • Solve Combination Puzzle Box
  • Solve Missing Pieces Puzzle
  • Have Toby follow footprints
  • Get Grease, use on lever
  • Solve Pillar Puzzle
  • Lower bridge
  • Try door
  • Undo Rope
  • Unlock door
  • Get Iron Bar, use on big doors
  • Inspect clues
  • Go towards side of locked gate
  • Pull lever on wall
  • Remove chocks
  • Inspect clues
  • Go up ramp of items
  • Inspect clues
  • Remove sacks near crates
  • Go in
  • Pull rope pulley
  • Follow footsteps until reach concrete stairs
  • Go through door
  • Head down

Investigation C: Whitechapel Street

  • Go into public dispensary
  • Talk to doctor
  • Go out to the church
  • Go into cemetery
  • Get Flyer from shed
  • Inspect all clues
  • Talk to man running soup kitchen
  • Inspect table next to cart
  • Ask man about “money game”
  • Play Money Game
  • Talk to man
  • Go back to dispensary and talk to doctor
  • Take list of dead
  • Inspect jacket
  • Use Scissors from worktable
  • Get Metal Core, Keys, and Plan
  • Go back to cemetery
  • Solve Locked Box next to shed
  • Get Note from Cemetery
  • Get Axe, use on box
  • Use Knife
  • Get Note from the Cemetery Bandits
  • Inspect and solve Tree Puzzle
  • Find symbol on gravestone
  • Get Shovel from shed, use on grave
  • Solve Grave Puzzle Box
  • Get Key and Hammer
  • Inspect other shed
  • Choose from options
  • Get Kurtz’s Address
  • Leave cemetery
  • Find Kurtz’s house and use Key
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Kurtz’s Letter
  • Solve Deduction Board 1
  • Go to morgue, talk to doctor
  • Examine body
  • Get Kurtz’s Map and Full Pipette
  • Solve Chemical Analysis
  • Solve Deduction Board 2
  • Go to opium den
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Ashes + Tea + Dirty Water = Lousy Booze
  • Use on only awake patron
  • Solve Chinese Key Puzzle
  • Get Stick and Bilhook
  • Inspect clues
  • Get Barbituric Acid, Syringe, and Teaspoon with Opium Beads
  • Use Teaspoon and Matches
  • Get Liquid Opium + Barbituric Acid + Syringe = Syringe with Soporific
  • Remove cloth, use Billhook and Stick
  • Use Syringe with Soporific with perfect timing

221B Baker Street – 3

  • Choose Farley’s Office

Farley’s Office

  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Cigarette Case
  • Try door
  • Get Hanger, use on electrical box
  • Solve Electrical Box Puzzle
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Message from Farley’s Writing Desk and Brush
  • Move to other room
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Burnt Paper, Bunch of Keys
  • Call Scotland Yard
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Photo of Prince Woodville, Note from Farley, Newpaper Article, and Ashes
  • Use Ashes on notepad in other room
  • Get Note from Farley’s Writing Desk
  • Go to filing cabinet and open “DF”
  • Find and get Index Card from Farley’s Secretary
  • Be sure ALL clues are inspected (Hint: end of cigarette if you missed it)
  • Solve Deduction Puzzle
  • Inspect bookcase
  • Solve Bookcase Mechanism Puzzle
  • Get Hat

221B Baker Street – 4

  • Inspect 5 clues on Hat
  • Get File from bookshelf
  • Solve Deduction Puzzle

Judge Beckett

  • Ring doorbell
  • Enter gate
  • Inspect window
  • Talk to Lucy the Florist
  • Get Hairpin
  • Talk to Holmes
  • Use Hairpin
  • Solve Window Lock Puzzle
  • Get Oarlock
  • Get School Book
  • Inspect clues
  • Solve Seating Chart Puzzle
  • Get Door Handles, use on cupboard
  • Get Greek Book
  • Solve Roman Numeral Puzzle Box Puzzle
  • Get Oarlock #2
  • Inspect chalkboard
  • Get Letter from Lord Benagard
  • Get Cooking Oil from kitchen, use on chalkboard
  • Inspect chalkboard contents
  • Get Letter from Judge Beckett, Judge’s Wedding Photo, and Photo of the Judge and His Wife
  • Solve Classroom Map Puzzle Box
  • Get Key
  • Go out door
  • Inspect clues
  • Get Lord Beckett’s Note and Warning
  • Use Key
  • Get Oarlock #3
  • Get Photo of a Symbol
  • Inspect clues
  • Solve Safe Door Lock Puzzle
  • Solve Locked Safe Puzzle
  • Attempt to take Oarlocks from lock

221B Baker Street – 5

  • Read Reporter – The Sherlock Holmes Affair
  • Inspect all clues
  • Inspect drawer
  • Get and use Nail on the corner of the drawer
  • Solve Holmes’ Disguise Puzzle
  • Go into room

Holmes’ Hideout – Whitechapel, 6 Buck’s Row

  • Go down street, look at door
  • Choose answers
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Holmes’ Pipe
  • Get Musical Newspaper
  • Use Holmes’ Pipe on crystal glasses
  • Get Musical Score, use on microscope
  • Get Reacting Agent, use on microscope then water basin
  • Get Blotting Paper
  • Inspect microscope
  • Use Reagent and Blotting Paper
  • Get Key, use on briefcase lock
  • Solve Combination Lock Puzzle

London Countryside

  • Go to door
  • Get Vodka

Switch to Holmes

  • Get Rope
  • Inspect chest
  • Inspect ALL clues on magician’s coat
  • Get Fergusson’s Diary and Master’s Key
  • Inspect clues
  • Use Knife on moldy flour sacks
  • Get Safe Conduct Passes, Information Card, and Cog
  • Use Cog on mill axle
  • Go outside
  • Inspect clues
  • Use Master Keys on shed
  • Inspect clues
  • Get Screwdriver, use on broom near house
  • Get Wooden Handle, use on spade in shed
  • Use Screwdriver
  • Get Shovel
  • Go into attic
  • Use Shovel on wall
  • Use Rope
  • Use Shovel on repaired floor boards
  • Get Chain, use to attach millstone to rope

Switch to Watson

  • Inspect clues
  • Get Paintbrush
  • Get Gear, use on mill mechanism
  • Solve Locked Chest Puzzle
  • Get Key, use on medicine cabinet
  • Get Hydrogen Peroxide and Bandages
  • Hydrogen Peroxide + Vodka + Bandages = Bandages with Disinfectant
  • Use on man

Switch to Holmes

  • Inspect Trapdoor

Switch to Watson

  • Talk to man
  • Get Gear, use on trapdoor

Switch to Holmes

  • Use Gear on mill axle
  • Inspect clues
  • Get paper from hand
  • Get Petrol

221B Baker Street – 6

  • Inspect clues
  • Get Daily Report Newspaper
  • Go into Holmes’ room

The Sewers

  • Go backwards
  • Pull rope
  • Get Hook and Rope
  • Inspect cigarette
  • Inspect ladder, get Ladder Rung
  • Get Rusty Metal Bar
  • Get Wire
  • Use Hook and Rope
  • Inspect service door at water’s edge
  • Ladder Rung + Rusty Metal Bar + Wire = Long Iron Bar
  • Use on service door
  • Get Old Scarf and Piece of Iron
  • Inspect footprints
  • Inspect grate
  • Solve Sewer Grate Lock Puzzle

221B Baker Street – 7

  • Listen to the truth

Abandoned Fun-Fair

  • Get Iron Bar
  • Inspect all clues of the motor
  • Get Pliers
  • Use Knife
  • Get Bottle of Oil
  • Use Iron Bar, get Crank
  • Go down path
  • Get Vodka
  • Use Vodka, Bottle of Oil, and Crank on cable car motor
  • Get Piece of Rope (x3)
  • Get Dry Duster
  • Go down stairs
  • Get Empty Bottle
  • Inspect window
  • Use Dry Duster
  • Piece of Rope + Piece of Rope + Piece of Rope = Tied Rope + Empty Bottle = Attached Empty Bottle
  • Use on water tank
  • Water Bottle + Dry Duster = Wet Duster
  • Use on window

Switched to Holmes

  • Inspect wall
  • Get Iron Ladder from cable car location, use on wall
  • Use Pliers
  • Inspect clues
  • Get Giraffe-Shaped Target
  • Go into tent
  • Inspect account book, use available knife
  • Get Secret Accounts
  • Inspect all clues in tent
  • Get Lion-Shaped Target
  • Use Knife under animal game
  • Get Note in Pencil
  • Get Monkey-Shaped Target
  • Use all 3 Targets on animal game
  • Solve Animal Puzzle
  • Get Wads of Banknotes
  • Leave tent along fence and go into building
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Key, use on medicine box
  • Get Bottle of Ether
  • Use Wads of Banknotes on 5 locations
  • Use Bottle of Ether
  • Get Rope
  • Go into door, inspect all clues
  • Get Part of Crank, use on pole
  • Use Rope
  • Inspect table on stage
  • Get Hans’ Diary and Note from the Funfair’s Director
  • Inspect poster, get Key
  • Knock over bottles
  • Use Key on door
  • Open cage
  • Go to caravans
  • Inspect all clues
  • Look into window
  • Get Metal Plate and Propaganda Tract
  • Go to theatre
  • Talk to Woodville, choose options
  • Remove red rope
  • Solve Rope Puzzle
  • Pull lever
  • Get Diamond Ring
  • Get Magician’s Belt + Knife = Magician’s Powder and Leather Belt
  • Use Magician’s Powder and Metal Plate on broken pipe
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Saw, Letter to the Anarchists, and Wire
  • Solve Russian Dictionary Puzzle
  • Use Saw, get Ladder (x2) from caravans
  • Go to left side of haunted house
  • Ladder + Ladder + Wire = Large Ladder
  • Use under window
  • Solve breaking and entering puzzle

Switched to Watson

  • Return to caravans
  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Rag
  • Get Key
  • Use Rag
  • Get Watering Can, use
  • Use Key
  • Get Key, use
  • Get Bag of Marbles, Letter in Russian, and Clock’s Hand
  • Solve Russian Padlock Puzzle
  • Get Crowbar, use
  • Solve Explosives Paper Folding Puzzle
  • Inspect all clues
  • Solve Bomb Assembly Puzzle
  • Use Bomb on carousel
  • Solve Bomb Location Memory Puzzle
  • Use Bag of Marbles

Switched to Holmes

  • Inspect all clues
  • Get Key, use
  • Get Act of Transfer, and Metal Core
  • Get Bedsheet + Bedsheet = Cloth Rope
  • Use Metal Core
  • Solve Moriarty’s Room Padlock Puzzle
  • Get Oilcan
  • Get Planks x5
  • Use Cloth Rope
  • Use Plank
  • Use Oilcan
  • Push door
  • Use Planks
  • Solve Planks on Maze Puzzle
  • Use Key
  • Inspect clues
  • Use Telephone
  • Solve Bomb Control Puzzle
  • Go to cable car
  • Get Bucket + Bomb = Bomb in a Bucket + Leather Bucket = Bomb Ready!
  • Attach to overhead rope
  • Use Knife
  • Pull lever
  • Return to Haunted House
  • Try door to the left
  • Watch Ending

GAME COMPLETE!!

DIY: Frame it All System Raised Bed Install Replacement

written 4/13/2024, updated 4/13/2024

Overview

What

Replacing an old, rotted, worn wood raised bed border with a food-safe composite board made from “38% HDPE plastic and 62% certified sustainably sourced wood fibers” which is equivalent to 97 single-use plastic bottles. Bug resistant, no rot.

Time and Effort

Dependent on condition of yard and slope

Time: 4 hours

Effort: Easy – Moderate

Materials and Cost

Garden Tools, Soil, Rock, Rubber Mallet, Gloves, Elbow Grease

Product: 4′ x 12′ Raised Garden Bed

Options: 2″ thickness, 11″ height, Weathered Wood color

Price: $429.99 – $64.49 (coupon) + free shipping = $365.50 (no tax)

  • In comparison, Paver wall retaining blocks like, Mini Beltis 3 in. H x 8 in. W x 4 in. D Ashland Concrete Retaining Wall Block, need 96 total blocks to get 2 courses, but only sits 6in high. Would need 4 courses of pavers to reach a similar 12″ height (compared to the 11″ of the Frame it All system).
  • Cost: 96 blocks x $1.38 = $132.48 (6″ height)
  • Cost: 192 blocks x $1.38 = $264.96 (12″ height)
  • Cheaper until you remember you need paver base, leveling sand, and to get almost 200 retaining blocks to your house. Then to heft them to the garden
  • Pros of paver wall blocks: Won’t break if hitting with lawn mowing equipment or other rocks, bug and animal proof, easier to work with uneven terrain, can be replaced easily or moved/changed or expanded

Installation

HERE is a link to the product page that includes the video walkthrough of installation

HERE is their official YouTube channel

Before and After

Preparation

Removing Rebar: the original, rotten wood was held in with at least 15 pieces of rebar of varying lengths. How do you remove rebar stuck in the ground? Turns out it’s really easy: Vise Grip Pliers.

Lock it on, give it several spins, then spin while pulling upwards. It really is as simple as that. Some pieces can be still stubborn, but just give it a few more spins, some back and forth, and nice steady pressure upwards.

Old pieces of wood and rebar removed, as well as some wayward patio pavers. Then laying out the composite boards, and the bulk of the entire job: leveling, fixing the bed plot, removing weeds and rocks, relocating any existing plants. Muscle and elbow grease, FTW

Assembling

Yay! Finally assembling the frame system, but don’t be fooled into ease! Now for the technical part.

There is one Stacking Bracket kit for every 2 boards. Making sure to alternate the up and down orientation of the brackets on either end, secure them to the boards using the little plug. Frame-it-All recommends either using your palms or a mallet to push it in, but you’re guaranteed to want to use a mallet unless your hands are made of something harder than mine (kept getting my palm flesh stuck between the plug and the bracket…) especially the more boards you’ll be securing.

I’d recommend attaching brackets to just enough boards for the bottom layer for now because installing the crossbars will mess things up if you try to do them all at once.

Following Frame-It-All’s instructions, it’s time to dry fit the lowest level together by placing the stakes in upside down. This is a super important step that you do not want to skip because it allows you level the pieces and see how it all lines up.

Similarly, it’s extremely important to dry fit the crossbeam stabilizing boards… I wish I’d paid more attention to this part because my pieces ended up juuuust a little too far in the final install and it was a pain to try and fix at the end (when you’re tired! Or at least I was with all of the leveling I had to do of the bed plot).

When you’re ready, it’s hammer time!

Even with it all hammered into the ground, this is the best time to double check your evenness and leveling. You can still lift the stakes and fix things. I had a lot of work to do in that department

And now on to the tricky part. It’s time to assemble the rest of the boards and brackets, but first, you have to understand the bracket orientation of the crossbars using the 4-Way Bracing Brackets before assembling the rest of the brackets to the boards

Dry fit all the boards again, and using the 4-Way Bracing Bracket kits, figure out the stabilizing crossbeam 3-way orientation. Attach the rest of the brackets to the boards after figuring it out. If you mess up, it’s not a big deal. Just use a flat-head screwdriver in the little notch and twist out the plugs

Now to set up the 3-way bracing brackets for the crossbar. You need 1 Regular Stacking Bracket, 1 Mid 4-Way Bracing Bracket, and 1 Top 4-Way Bracing Bracket.

Referencing the image above and ignoring the bottom level, the leftmost board has a Regular Stacking Bracket (bottom of stack), the crossbeam has a Mid 4-Way Bracing Bracket, and the rightmost board has the Top 4-Way Bracing Bracket (top of stack).

**However you end up orienting them, make sure the top of the cross-board is flush with the rest of the boards**

When you’re ready, hammer them all in! Keep in mind that hammering in the top might cause the bottom layer to sink into the ground a bit if you didn’t use any paver/rock base. You can just lift up from the bottom and fix it.

Yay!

Fix anything you need to, and then cover up the holes with the Finishing Caps!

Now, for some soil. I decided to add some rock underneath since the ground is basically all clay

ALL DONE. Sort of. I need some more soil.

Soil Quantity

In these images used 1.5cu. ft Garden Soil (Qty: 4) + 1 cu. ft Garden Soil (Qty: 4) + 0.5 cu. ft River Pebbles (Qty: 2) = 11cu. ft total

I think I still need another 8 bags of the 1.5 cu. ft Garden Soil before I’m satisfied, taking into account settling from rain and weather. Mulch will go on top

Total Volume: 12′ x 4′ x 0.92 ‘ = 44.16 cu ft

My ideal total garden soil volume: 22 cu. ft (remember the bed already had existing soil, plus rocks, and mulch will top it)

Instruction Manual

NOTE: Step 4 is only for 3 and 4 tier layouts