Titanic’s Keys to the Past Walkthrough

Welcome to the Titanic’s Keys to the Past walkthrough on Gamezebo. Titanic’s Keys to the Past is a hidden object game created by National Geographic and Play Way. Travel back in time to the Titanic’s maiden voyage to solve a mystery and save your grandmother. Gamezebo’s quick start strategy guide will provide you with detailed images, tips, information, and hints on how to play your best game.

Game Introduction – Titanic’s Keys to the Past

General Tips

Difficulty Modes

Difficulty modes aren’t prompted automatically when you start the game. However, when you go to “options” in the main menu and select the “difficulty” tab, you can choose between Casual, Advanced and Hardcore modes.
The default mode, if you do not specify a difficulty mode, is Advanced.
You can change difficulty mode at any point during the game by exiting to the main menu and selecting “options”.
It isn’t entirely clear what the differences are between the various modes, but it appears that the hint button recharges more quickly in the easier modes. Also, in Hardcore mode you do not get the option of skipping a puzzle by playing a match 3 game.

General

There are no cursor indicators anywhere in the game. Instead, you have to find your way around simply by randomly clicking items on the screen to see what happens.
As navigation can be a bit unclear in this game, this walkthrough will describe the routes you have to take step by step. Directions in images will be clearly indicated with green arrows.
There are many hidden object scenes (HOS) that are pretty straightforward – you simply need to find all items on a list. Note that there may be multiple items of the same kind even if you need to find only one. For example, in one scene there are three clearly visible spoons but you only need to find two. This means you need to figure out which of the spoons the game wants you to find.
There is a hint button in the bottom right of the screen that recharges pretty fast in all three difficulty modes. Using the hint button in HOS will clearly circle the general location of one of the unfound objects. Use of the hint button in general scenes is a little more obscure as it generates a tiny white sparkle in the direction you need to go. If you look at the wrong part of the screen when it appears and miss it, you need to wait till the hint button has recharged and try again.
In Casual and Advanced mode mini games can be skipped by selecting “match 3 mode” at the top of the screen. In match 3 mode you need to collect 200 points in a certain amount of time. The game ends when time runs out, not when you reach your target. If time runs out before you’ve reached your target, you can play again or go back to the original puzzle.

Walkthrough

Read and confirm the invitation.
Find all objects on the list.

The Titanic ship is in the left drawer of the desk (green).
Grandmother’s medallion (orange) will appear at the bottom right of your screen, above the hint button.

When you’re in the underwater museum, go to the information boards at the base of the ship.
Click on the screen beside the memorial boards for a HOS.
There are two pages of items to find.

When you’ve completed the HOS a part of grandmother’s medallion will be added to the medallion above the hint button.
Exit to the right of the memorial boards.

Find the 27 photo fragments.
You can check the information boards for more info in the Titanic.
Walk towards the entrance.
The information board on the right contains another HOS.

Enter the boat.

Go through the door on the left.

Collect the 14 photograph pieces.
After speaking to Rosemary, go through the mirror.

There is nothing to do in this room right now, so exit left.
Click on the clock above the stairs.
In Casual and Advanced modes you can choose to either do the puzzle or play a match 3 game.
Click on the center of the clock to open it and put the roman numerals back in place. Note that some numerals are made up of various sections. For example VIII is made up of a V, a II and a I, so you need to find the correct V, II and I to make up the VIII. When a numeral is placed correctly, it will snap in place and stay fixed.
Play the next HOS.

You will receive the first of the 6 keys you need to find.
Walk down.

Find 14 more photo fragments.
Go down the hallway.
Go through the door.

Find 14 more photo fragments.
Open the first aid kit for another HOS.

You receive the second key.
Exit the room on the right side.
Exit the hallway on the right side so you’re back in the white corridor.

This time, exit left to the officer’s cabin.
Open the trunk by the desk and play another HOS.

You receive the third key.
Back out of the room.

Exit right this time.
In this part of the ship is another chest with another HOS.

After this HOS you receive documents with a code.
You can now zoom in on the locked gate at the back of the corridor.

To open the bottom lock, refer to the document and find the letters that match the numbers 3, 15, 4 and 5, which are C, O, D and E (code!). Click the buttons beside these letters on the lock.
The top lock is a bit more difficult as the code on the paper is almost invisible. There is a series of 4-digit codes, but most of them contain numbers that are not on the lock. The circled area in the screenshot above contains code 1912, although this is pretty much invisible in the image. Enter 1912 into the top lock.
Go through the gate

Find 14 more photo fragments.
Go through the door to the bridge.

After the conversation, find the clue on top of the beam in the corner.
Exit bottom left.

Find 14 more photo fragments.
Go down the corridor.
Inspect the pile of junk for another HOS.

You receive a wheel.
Put the wheel on the door and go through the door.

Play the card game with the ghost or switch to match 3 mode.
The card game is a memory game in which you have to find pairs of identical images. If you make a wrong match, your opponent will have a turn. If you make a correct match you can go again. You need to make more correct matches than your opponent. The positions of the cards are different in each game, so they are not shown in a screen shot.
Next you need to play tic-tac-toe. Fortunately the ghost isn’t very smart so you’ll have no problem winning.
The ghost will give you the second half of the medallion. You can now talk to grandmother whenever the medallion is flashing.
Exit left.
Inspect the hatch on the right for a slider puzzle.

This puzzle has been made a little easier by the fact that it has two empty spots rather than one.
You need to find the two missing pieces of the hatch.
Back out to the engine room.
Exit right to the room with the ladder.
The medallion will start to glow, so click it to talk to grandmother. She will tell you that you need to look in the reception room.
Go up the ladder.
On the deck with the two doors exit right – you should now be back at the great staircase.
Go right to the reception room.

Zoom in on the cabinet in the back.
Pick up the screwdriver and place the tip on one of the screws. Click to turn it.
Do the same with the second screw, then click on the lock to remove the screws.
Play the HOS inside the cabinet.

The butterfly is behind the sugar basin.
After the HOS, do the jigsaw.

You will also receive the yellow crystal.
Exit left to the staircase and left again to the Turkish baths.

Click on the drawer unit for a puzzle or to switch to match 3 mode.
For the puzzle you need to swap drawers until the wood grains all line up. You will hear a slightly louder sound when a drawer is in the correct place. Also, the drawer will look slightly more closed than the others (the black outline is narrower). It’s quite hard to see, though.
You get another HOS.

You receive the blue crystal.
Back out to the staircase and go right to the reception room.

Zoom in on the mirror on the left wall and put the two crystals on the mirror for another puzzle or match 3 game.
This is a really unusual puzzle that’s quite tricky to explain. Basically, all the crystals on the mirror frame have a piece of the image attached to them. If you move a crystal, the image fragment will move with it. So, start by moving a random crystal one place up or down and watch what part of the image is attached to it and where it is in relation to the crystal. For example, a crystal may have the tip of the flagpole to the right and slightly above it. From that you can deduce that that crystal should be on the left side of the frame, near the top, so that the tip of the flagpole falls into place.
Behind the mirror is another HOS.

The hammer is behind a stack of items and not really visible in the screenshot.
You receive the two pieces for the hatch puzzle.
Exit left to the staircase.

Find 14 photo fragments.
To go back to the hatch, walk down to the white corridor and go right.
Go through the gate and then through the door until you reach the bridge.
Exit bottom left and go down the corridor so you’re at the foot of the metal ladder.
Go through the door to the engine room and exit left.
Zoom in on the hatch and put the two missing pieces in place.
Play the HOS.

You receive the fourth key.
Back out to the engine room, exit right and go up the ladder.

When you’re on the deck with the two doors, click on the medallion to talk to grandmother.
Now go through the left door to the kitchen.

Find more photo fragments.
There is a HOS in the drawer in the left back corner.

You get the fifth key.
You need to return to the officer’s room.
Exit right to the deck with the two doors.
Exit right again to the staircase
Back out to the white corridor and go left.
Play the new HOS in the chest by the desk.

Talk to grandmother in the medallion.
You’re taken back to grandmother’s cabin.
Play the HOS on the desk.

You receive the ring.
Talk to grandmother in the medallion, then go through the mirror back to your own time.
Exit left and find 14 photo fragments.

Back out three times until you’re outside of the ship.

Go to the dock in the back.
Exit right to the office.
After the conversation, inspect the table for another HOS.

You receive a photo of the bathyscape.

Click on the image of the bathyscape on the wall.

Find the 10 differences between the postcard and the photo on the wall, or play a match 3 game.
Take the map from the opened safe and exit through the door.
Inspect the trash can (green in the image above) for a HOS.

The shell is behind the fins.
You get the missing piece for the map.
Zoom in on the terminal (red in the image above) and touch the screen twice.

Enter “15 April 1912” (with spaces) as the password and click enter.

Connect the three colored lines from the right side of the screen to the left side, using the blocks above. You can scroll through the available blocks using the arrows on the side. Note that not only the lines need to match, but also the small black dots on the edges of the blocks. Correctly placed blocks will snap into place.
Click on the door of the bathyscape to enter it (the animation is a bit clunky but you only need to click once).
Click on the window and find the 14 photo fragments.

Click on the window again to enter the wreck.

Give Margaret’s ring to the ghost.
Play another HOS.

The rhino is behind the wine.
You find a puzzle box.

Put the letters back on the box to spell out “the National Geographic Magazine”.
Open the box and take the last key.

Back at the memorial boards, pick up the torn photograph.
Do the jigsaw.

Congratulations!

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