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Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Carmen Sandiego.
For more information on Carmen Sandiego beyond this walkthrough, check out the official website here.
Note that some elements of the game are randomized, or change depending on your successes and failures. Your experience may slightly vary from what’s shown in the Carmen Sandiego walkthrough below.
Cutting Edge – The Space Race Caper
We start this mission in Istanbul, Türkiye. We’ll begin our investigations with the Grand Bazaar.
Here, choose to hide out on the rooftops, as the Grand Bazaar is a covered market. If you instead choose to hide in the subway, choose to blend in after that. Either of these routes will get you a City Lead. You will not get the City Lead if you choose to run after hiding in the subway.
Next, we head on to Tesak. This is a pickpocketing section, so chase down the VILE operative and pick his pocket. You’ll get a City Lead from this.
Finally, head over to Topkapi Palace. Here, we’ll explore for facts first.
Go north to find a plaque that’ll get you a fact.
Then, go far east to find a hollowed-out tree. Check the plaque in front of it for another fact.
With all that done, approach the VILE agent in front of the sofa. Pick her pocket and you’ll get a City Lead.
Our next destination is Barcelona, Spain, so head there now.
We’ll start with the National Art Museum of Catalonia. You may have already got the facts from this location, but if you haven’t – one can be found on a plaque to the far west, underneath a painting. Another can be found to the far east, just to the left of a cross.
When you’re ready to proceed, go to the far right and interact with the door to the security office.
Pick the lock here and Carmen will then get rid of the crowd.
Head back to the statue that was crawling with museum goers before, and interact with it. After solving the hacking puzzle, you’ll get a City Lead.
We next head to Barcelona Cathedral. This is a gliding section, so stay in the air until you get to the end and you’ll get a City Lead.
Finally, we go to La Rambla. Here, you can pose as either an ACME agent or a VILE thug.
If you go the VILE thug route – mention that you know the other person is an ACME agent.
If you go the ACME agent route – mention you’re the contact, and then that you work in Lavish Exports.
Either of these two paths will get you a City Lead.
Our next destination is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Here, we’ll begin with Ipanema Beach. Here, you’ll find a couple of places to pick up facts. Both are information panels, one on the right of the beach entrance and one to the left.
When you’re ready to move on, pickpocket the ACME rookie to the left of the juice bar. You’ll get a City Lead.
Next, head on to the Rocinha Favela. Here, answer with “signal transmitters”, and then “a powerful router”, and finally, “a satellite dish”. You’ll get a City Lead from this.
Finally, we head to the Royal Portuguese Reading Room. This is a laser dodging section, with some questions mixed in. Thankfully, Carmen will handle the questions on her own.
After dodging the lasers, do the vault door puzzle and head on in to solve a hacking puzzle and get another City Lead.
Our final destination was Tokyo, Japan. Here, simply solve the location clue to apprehend Dee Cryption.
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