Tintin Cigars of the Pharaoh Chapter 5: Indian Jungle Walkthrough and Puzzle Box

1 – The Unexpected Guest: Meet the Guests and Find Snowy

Location: Indian Jungle – The House
Quest Step: Socialize with the other attendees, Find Snowy

There are five people in the house you can talk to:
Mr. Zlotzky and Mr. and Mrs. Snowball: on the couch in the lounge on the ground floor
The Major: on the balcony, through the dining hall
Doctor Finney: upstairs

Before you head upstairs, read the newspaper on the table in the entrance hall and look at the dagger on the wall. Upstairs, Snowy is asleep on the couch.

2 – Diagnosis of the Pharaoh: A Blanket for Sarcophagus

Location: Indian Jungle – The House
Quest Step: Find something to cover Sarcophagus

After talking to Doctor Finney about Sarcophagus, the professor seems to feel cold. Look for a blanket on top of a woven round stool. A short cutscene shows a cigar band falling from the blanket back into the basket.

3 – Trail of Kih-Oskh: Zlotzky’s Puzzle Box Solution

Location: Indian Jungle – The House
Quest Step: Find a link to the Cigars plot

Go back down to the ground floor and talk to everyone in the lounge and on the balcony. Check the ashtray on the balcony and the one in the lounge. The room that was locked earlier is now open: it is Mr. Zlotzky’s room. Check the ashtray on the fireplace in there too.

Talk to Mr. Zlotzky. He is nervous and won’t let you into his bedroom. Leave him be and go to the dining room to talk to Khitmagar, the servant. He is about to serve a spicy starter, but Mr. Zlotzky gets a non-spicy version because he can’t handle spicy food, so his plate is labelled.

Go back to Zlotzky’s room and interact with the empty plate on his table. Tintin takes the chicken stick marker from it. Back in the dining room, tell Khitmagar you would prefer a non-spicy starter like Zlotzky, and he leaves to tell the kitchen. Interact with the starters next to the door: Tintin puts the marker into one of the spicy ones and takes the plate. Serve it to Zlotzky in his room.

Zlotzky’s Puzzle Box Under the Bed
Mr. Zlotzky rushes off to drink water. Now go into the bedroom and pull the puzzle box out from under the bed. It has five sides with pictures of animals, the Chinese characters for those animals and items like a Chinese coin or a mountain. It also comes with a note that shows which pictures belong together.

To open the box, turn each side so that every picture lines up with its matching item or character on the neighbouring side. Solve the sides in the order below, turning the box to the left after each one.

Side 1: On the left, line up the Chinese coin with the bull and the fire with the horse. On the right, line up the mountains with the monkey and the wave with the mouse.

Side 2: The right edge now lines up with the bull and the horse. On the left are the pig and the Capricorn, which have to line up with their Chinese characters on the next side.

Side 3: This side only shows Chinese characters, so use the note to find the right ones. The characters for the mouse and the Capricorn line up on the right. The characters on the left have to match the mouse and the chicken on the next side.

Side 4: The mouse and the chicken now line up on the right. All that is left is lining up the tiger and the rabbit with their characters on the last side.

Side 5: Set the fifth side as shown below and the box opens.

4 – Scary Sounds: Check on the Professor

Location: Indian Jungle – The House
Quest Step: Find the source of the noise

Go upstairs to check on the professor and close the window. The professor is gone.

5 – A Scream in the Night: Mrs. Snowball’s Ghost

Location: Indian Jungle – The House
Quest Step: Attend Mrs. Snowball downstairs

Hurry downstairs to Mrs. Snowball in the lounge. She claims she saw a ghost.

6 – Ghost Sighting: Follow the Footprints

Location: Indian Jungle – The House
Quest Step: Find out who is behind the supernatural issues

The front door in the entrance hall is open. Go to Mr. Zlotzky’s room and examine the footprints leading to the bedroom. Then go back to the entrance door and head outside. In the jungle, you see Professor Sarcophagus running off with the white blanket, and the group decides to search for him in the morning.

7 – Rage of the Pharaoh: Escape from Sarcophagus

Location: Indian Jungle
Quest Step: Escape from Sarcophagus

The next day, Tintin finds the professor’s hat in the jungle, and Sarcophagus attacks him. Run from the professor through the long chase until Tintin manages to disarm him.

8 – The Eyes: Follow the Kih-Oskh Symbols

Location: Indian Jungle – Ruins
Quest Step: Help the professor find “the eyes”

The professor keeps talking about “the eyes”, so Tintin lets him go and follows him. Sarcophagus walks along the Kih-Oskh symbols. Whenever a symbol is hidden or the path is unclear, help him along without being seen.

At the first stop, the professor waits at a symbol painted on a raised path but won’t go on. Pick up one of the stones on the ground nearby and throw it at a coconut to knock it down and distract him.

Bug tip: This part was buggy for me, as the professor kept examining the coconut and nothing happened. If that happens to you, take the path up to the left of the symbol. Once you are up there, the professor disappears at the coconut, reappears further up and continues on his way.

Next is an overpass with a hanging plant. The professor wants to pass but is scared, as he thinks the plant is a snake. Climb on top of the overpass and interact with the plant to make it drop.

After the shock, the professor doesn’t know where to go. Follow the path beyond the overpass, out of his sight, and look for a symbol on a tree hidden under a leaf. Remove the leaf so the professor can carry on.

Sarcophagus then enters some ruins and gets stuck again. On the ground level, find the symbol that marks the way out of the ruins and interact with it, staying out of sight. The screenshot shows the symbol.

The next part is the trickiest. The professor has to go up a staircase, which means he needs to walk counterclockwise, but he starts out walking clockwise. To turn him around, change the direction of the symbol below the stairs so he walks underneath them.

There are two swappable symbols near the base of the stairs. Set the one opposite the stairs as shown below, and the professor follows the path counterclockwise.

Make sure the symbol right by the stairs is visible, as shown below. As soon as Tintin follows the professor up the stairs, he finds out who “the eyes” are.

9 – A Tough Coconut to Crack: Drop the Coconuts as Snowy

Location: Indian Jungle – Ruins
Quest Step: Throw a coconut onto the fakir’s head

The Fakir has hypnotized Tintin and the professor, so now it’s up to Snowy. Snowy has to drop one coconut on each head: first the professor, then Tintin, then the Fakir. Follow the quest marker to a coconut tree and climb it by walking up the trunk.

Follow the path and the quest marker all the way to the top of the tree, then interact with the coconut to drop it on the professor.

Next is Tintin. Head to the small plateau on the right side of Tintin’s patrol area. The climb starts in the small dead end marked in the screenshot below.

In this alley, jump up to the plateau on the left with the dead end behind you. White paint marks the climbing points.

From up there, cross over to a horizontal tree trunk to reach the second coconut and interact with it to drop it on Tintin.

Now it’s the Fakir’s turn. From the second coconut, jump over to the tree next to the Fakir and climb it. At the top, jump over a gap and cross over again to reach the coconut. The quest marker shows you where it is. Interact with it to drop it on the Fakir.

10 – Off the Map: Drive to the Hospital

Location: Indian Jungle – Jungle Roads
Quest Step: Drive to the hospital in time

After the conversation with Mr. Zlotzky, you have to drive to the hospital before time runs out. Mr. Zlotzky gives more accurate directions than the professor. If you are unsure where you are heading, check the bar at the top of the screen and see whether your car is more to the left or to the right.

Yellow arrow road signs often show the way, and asphalt roads are a good sign too. There is plenty of time to get there.

11 – The Garden Patients: The Racing Car Driver

Location: Hospital – Garden
Quest Step: Talk to the patients

There are five people you have to talk to or see before the doctor returns:
Napoleon
The Narcissistic Inmate
The Racing Car Driver
The sleeping man in the back alley
The gardener: knows a lot about the other inmates, especially the Racing Car Driver

Talk to Napoleon again and choose “Leave your position as Napoleon’s ride”, then talk to the Narcissistic Inmate and choose “Reassure the distinguished man”.

Go back to the Racing Car Driver and have a mock race with him. You don’t need to let him win. Afterwards, he answers three questions: ask him about the cigars, the secret meeting and the opium trafficking. Finally, thank the gardener for his help.

12 – Off the Wall: Escape from the Hospital

Location: Hospital
Quest Step: Escape from the hospital

This is another chase. To get a rough idea of where to go, tell the Narcissistic Inmate that he is beautiful. The way the camera moves also gives you great hints.

To find Snowy, let the chase take you up to the third floor, run across the outside balcony and then, after the balcony, take the stairs back down to the second floor. Tintin then shouts “Snowy!”.

Tintin jumps out of the window and uses the sleeping patient’s belly as a trampoline to get over the hospital walls. Outside, the chase continues all the way to the train. Tintin makes it on board, but Snowy does not…