Haunted Paws Clues

Sniff is the default in the apartment

The messy-room prompt asks what happened. Sniff the evidence it is pointing at. The broken window is the entry. Claw marks beside it are a second pin. The owner's shoe is the "where are they" object, and it is evidence because it is theirs. A second shoe shows up later, near the factory, and that is another sniff: the owner is nearby. It does not replace the apartment pin.

Bark has a volume problem

Bark at the small creature in the fridge when the apartment is quiet. That bark is how demo play surfaces the snack ad the board uses for why the owner was taken. The same ad is also on the apartment computer. Pin the ad the board asks for.

Later, a hiding worker will tell you the monster hears a bark. That warning is literal. Barking beside a chase, or beside the spider-bodied figure on the factory approach, calls it onto you. Movement for those rooms is on the creatures page. This page only needs the rule: bark at objects in an empty room.

Dig is a search with a camera

Dig when the ground is the prompt. At the locked factory doors, the hideout line says an ID card is hidden nearby. Dig there. The camera lifts from behind the puppy to a top-down view of the hole. Stay until a puppy is holding the card. Using the card on the doors is a puzzle, and so is going back if someone dropped it. A second hole stays Unverified.

Those three verbs are the whole kit. The next section is the room where the first sniffs live, in the order the board will accept them.

The window is the first pin

Demo play sniffs the broken window as soon as the messy-room line appears. The claw marks next to it are easy to walk past because they look like texture. Sniff them. If the board still says it needs more evidence, it is telling the truth. The window alone will not close the room.

Apartment doors between you and that window are a shared hold. If your half does nothing, the other puppy is not on the handle yet. That hold is written up on puzzles. Finish it, then come back to the sniff.

The shoe before the toys

The owner's shoe is the object that smells like the owner. Pin it when the board asks where they are. A matching shoe later, sniffed in the factory approach, means you are close. It is the same kind of clue. It is not a reason to skip the apartment board and run outside early.

The fridge sits in this room too. Open it when the floor is clear, bark at the small creature, and take the ad. The letters on that ad, in demo play, are the company name the next section has to get right.

Chompos is the name on the demo board

In demo play the board answers the kidnapping with a snack ad, then a factory. The letters on that board read Chompos. The factory approach and a map credit in the same sessions use that name. Analysis writeups of the demo use Chompos for the same company. A jingle in the apartment sings Chompers, and one spoken line slips to a close misspelling. Those are the same lead.

Copy the spelling on your board if the letters differ. A writeup is not a second case file. The owner's personal name is a separate problem: some previews say Kira Pawsley, and that name stays Unverified. The board says owner. Use that word with your partner. A black cat as the cause of the kidnapping is also a media claim and stays Unverified. You do not need a black cat in the apartment to unlock the factory sentence.

Say the factory sentence before you leave

The useful stop is the sentence that tells you to find a way to the factory. Until it is on the board, the street fish and the factory doors have nothing to aim at. Those errands are puzzles. The smell that justified them is this board.

Hats, breeds, and the kitten-in-disguise fur do not add a pin. They are looks, on the breeds page. The next section is the handful of clues that only exist after you leave the apartment, and which verb each one still is.

Follow the letters you can see

A construction sign and the factory gate repeat the company from the apartment ad. Read them. If they match the board, you are in the right place. If a caption, a jingle, or a writeup disagrees by a letter, the board wins. Chompos is the demo-play spelling and the analysis spelling. It becomes Unverified the moment your screen shows different letters.

Stop when the board is ahead of you

You are finished with clues for this build when the board has a destination and every later object is either pinned or deliberately left. The fish, the card tap, and the car are the puzzle page. A creature in the hall is the creatures page. There is no verified hidden ending hiding in an extra bark.

If the apartment board still says it needs more, you left too early. Go back to the window, the marks, the shoe, and the ad. The beginner guide is that first-night order. The demo page is how far the build lets the factory go. The FAQ is the name question and the bark question.