Welcome to Gamezebo's strategy guide for Family Mystery - The Story of Amy. As Amy looks through an album of old family pictures, she discovers her family's secret history. There are 31 Hidden Object scenes in all.
The game is divided into 19 scenes.
This guide is divided into sections:
- General Tips (no spoilers)
- Walkthrough for all Photos
- The story for this game is very inconsistent with a lot of self-contradictions. So you can get the general idea of it, but don't try to follow too closely or it will just be confusing! At first I thought those were clues to a mystery, but they're not. They're just conflicting statements.
- If you are trying to follow the story, remember that the album belongs to Amy's grandmother Jen. Melissa is Amy's mother. So if it calls someone Uncle Bob, it means the grandmother's uncle, who is Amy's greatgreatuncle.
- Even though the album belongs to Grandmother Jen, some of the captions make it look like it belongs to Amy. The page about Melissa, who is Jen's daughter, is labeled "My Mother's Story." So quite often the story text doesn't match the captions.
- The game itself is a Hidden Object game. You see a line drawing. As you find objects from the find list, those parts of the drawing fill in with color. When you find all objects, the entire photo fills in.
- You can look at either the silhouettes of the objects to be found or a word list. You can switch back and forth between these at anytime by clicking on A or B at the bottom of the list. I found the silhouettes the most useful.
- I found it very hard to tell what the objects were, even after I found them! Nothing is to scale, and the colors are not right for where they are in the photo. So a soft triangular shape might turn out to be a large beetle, a small hat, some kind of flower, or even a metal pitcher, but I wouldn't know until after I'd found it and the color filled in. And sometimes not even then! So just look for them as shapes.
- The objects may be rotated in any direction, they don't have to point the way they do on the Find List.
- You have a choice of two kinds of hints. If you click the hint button on the right, white sparkles will appear over an object. These are sometimes hard to see unless you're looking right at them.
- If you click the hint button on the left, a big pink bubble will float from the bottom of the scene to the top. On its way up, it will pass over at least one hidden object.
- If you take a long time between clicks, one of the hidden objects will wiggle a little to call attention to itself.
- You can earn more hints by playing the mini-games. Otherwise they are optional. I have given the answer to the Quiz mini-game for each photo in its section.
- When you complete a page in the album, you will go to the Family Tree and the next person will be unlocked.
SPOILERS!!!!!
- There are 14 pages in the album, plus one bonus photo.
- Each page can have from 1 to 3 photos.
- Each photo can have 10 to 12 objects to find.
- There are 31 photos altogether.
PAGE 1: AMY'S MOTHER, MELISSA
Melissa as a little girl
Quiz
What is flying in the sky?
An airplane.
Woodstock, 1969
Quiz
Which year was Woodstock held?
1969
PAGE 2: AMY'S FATHER, JOHN
Wedding Day, 1970
Quiz
What is in the bride's hand?
A bouquet of white flowers
Final Journey, 1970
What is Melissa Doing?
Waving
PAGE 3: AMY'S GRANDMOTHER, JEN
The album belongs to her.
Golden Gate Bridge 1937
What is flying off the man's head?
Toupee.
1942 Factory
How many boots?
Two.
Times Square 1945
How many flags?
Five.
PAGE 4: AMY'S GRANDFATHER, MAX
Although the caption says "Uncle Max," this is Amy's grandfather, Jen's husband.
Hoover Dam 1936
Quiz
Which states?
Arizona and Nevada.
Join the Navy 1936
Quiz
What instrument?
Bugle
Wedding of Jen and Max 1946
Quiz
How many weddings?
150,000
PAGE 5: AMY'S GREATUNCLE, JACK (JEN'S BROTHER)
Magician, 1925
Quiz
How many spades?
13
Circus, 1952
Quiz
How many clowns?
4
PAGE 6: LISA, AMY'S OTHER GRANDMOTHER
Hollywood 1930
Quiz
Sign?
Hollywoodland
Mt. Rushmore 1941
Quiz
Which President?
Andrew Jackson
PAGE 7: JAMES, AMY'S OTHER GRANDFATHER
The family tree caption says James is a brother of Jen, but I don't think so. I think he's just Lisa's husband.
Empire State Building, 1931
Quiz
How many stories?
102.
Baseball 1933
Quiz
Which team?
NY Yankees
PAGE 8: TOM, AMY'S GRANDUNCLE (JEN'S BROTHER)
Wall St 1929
Quiz
Day before what event?
Stock Market Crash.
Chicago 1931
Quiz
Ho many hats?
Four.
Hollywood 1955
Quiz
What is not in the picture?
Cockroach.
PAGE 9: BRIAN, AMY'S GREATGRANDFATHER (JEN'S FATHER)
In his study, 1930
This picture is out of order in the album
Quiz
Parrot?
Smoking a pipe.
Harlem, 1920
This picture is out of order in the album
Quiz
Famous theatre?
Apollo
PAGE 10: BOB, AMY'S GREATGREAT UNCLE (JEN'S UNCLE)
San Francisco, 1906
Quiz
Year of earthquake?
1906
Bank Vault, 1922
Quiz
How may bags?
Three
PAGE 11: SAM, AMY'S GREATGREATGRANDFATHER
It's hard to tell exactly because of the errors in the family tree, but I think this part of the story means that Jen's father's father killed Jen's mother's brother in 1922.
Wild West, 1890
Quiz
How many birds?
Three.
Bank Vault, 1922
Quiz
Animal standing?
Cat
PAGE 12: STEPHANIE, AMY'S GREATGRANDMOTHER (JEN'S MOTHER)
Note that the picture on the family tree is wrong. It shows the little girl who is a customer in the grandmother's shop, not the grandmother.
Candy Store, 1905
Quiz
How many women?
Four
PAGE 13: PETER, AMY'S GREATGREATGRANDFATHER (JEN'S GRANDFATHER)
This picture is out of order in the album.
Ellis Island, 1892
Quiz
What does the dog have?
Sausages
This picture is out of order in the album.
As a Servant, 1889
Quiz
What is not in the picture?
Tea Kettle
PAGE 14: ANNA, AMY'S GREATGREATGRANDMOTHER (JEN'S GRANDMOTHER)
Princess Anna, 1885
Quiz
Which Family?
Hapsburgs
The Proposal, 1891
Quiz
The quiz asks what kind of dog "the girl" is holding, but it means the dog held by Anna's mother.
What kind of dog?
Chihuahua
Now you will see a collage of all the photos. Click on it to go to the next step.
INSIDE COVER PHOTO: AMY'S TWIN SISTER
This picture makes no sense, since early on the story said that Melissa was 8 months pregnant when the plane her husband was flying crashed, that both Melissa and John died as a result of the crash, but that the hospital was able to save the baby (Amy). Yet here is a picture of a smiling, unbruised Melissa in a hospital bed holding two healthy beautiful twins. And the caption says this is the happiest day of Jen's life, when it should be the day her daughter Melissa died. Maybe it's part of a mystery that will be explained in the sequel, but I think it's just inconsistency in the story.
Twins, 1970
