Return to Monkey Island: How to Decrypt the Map
Much like its many predecessors, Return to Monkey Island is chock-full of puzzles, ensuring that players spend just as much time thinking as they do pointing and clicking. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, many of these puzzles can be found on the game's titular island, which is where players find themselves during the game's third act.
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Their main objective while on Monkey Island is to decrypt the map that leads to the island's secret. To do so, they'll first need to uncover three pieces of LeChuck's personal information; these being his theme song, his catchphrase, and his favorite food. They'll then be able to use this information to help Lila to perform a ritual to decrypt the map and reveal its hidden secret.
By the time they've completed the first half of Return to Monkey Island's third part, players will know LeChuck's theme song (Do, Do, Mi, Sol, Fa, Fa, Re), his catchphrase (Brandish the seven bilges!) and his favorite food (Tentacles with daisy sauce) and should also have a portion of the latter in their inventory. With that in mind, they'll have almost everything that they need in order to perform Lila's ritual.
In fact, there's a good chance that players will have already found four or more of the six skulls that are scattered around Monkey Island, in which case, they can make their way straight over to the giant monkey head to get started. If not, they'll need to explore the island a little more until they have the required number of skulls. For those struggling to find them, the locations of the six skulls are as follows:
Whenever they're ready to begin the ritual, players should make their way to the giant monkey head and begin placing skulls on the spikes to
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