The Rise Of The Golden Idol – Going Once Hint Solution Guide

In The Rise Of The Golden Idol, Chapter 2, Case 4: Going Once – A Shocking Murder at the Auction House; the simple auction turns out to be a shocking moment for an unfortunate person. Let’s study the scene from the beginning to the end and uncover what happened at the Auction House. Who was the victim and the prime suspect in the murder?

In this Rise Of The Golden Idol guide, we have listed all the important names with proper reasoning, and filled in all the blanks that are required to solve the case. Read it to the end to learn everything about the case.

The Rise Of The Golden Idol, Going Once Hint Solution Guide

Words

Light’s On

Area 1 [Auction Room]

1. Blue wooden standee – Nils, Wilmington
2. Man with brown coat – Robbie, outbid
3. Ginger head lady– steal, stealing, stole
4. Redhead lady – Albion, Adria
5. Blonde lady – mask, Lemuria
6. A wooden cane – cane
7. Auctioner – sell, gravel, keys
8. Bartender – Robbie, Froberg, Bogart

Area 2 [Upstairs]

1. Security Guard – Knightley, keys
2. Circuit box – circuit box

Lights Out

Area 1 [Auction Room]

Starting from left

1. Black Silhouette 1 – Oriel, seal
2. Black Silhouette 2 – Lanka
3. Black Silhouette 4 – Tesa, Erwin, Summer
4. Black Silhouette 5 – Moumaati
5. Black Silhouette 6 – statue, pushed
6. Note on bar – Toussaint, Dasilva, Nevari
7. Creature 1 – creature
8. Mask on the floor – Mask

Area 2 [Upstairs]

1. Black Silhouette 2 – statue, Bogart, keys
2. An esoteric totem – totem
3. Safe – Aurelia, Winston

Names

1. Oriel Toussaint
2. Tesa Nevari
3. Summer Knightly
4. Aurelia Winston
5. Moumaati Sasilva
6. Nils Wilmington
7. Robbie Froberg
8. Erwin Bogart

Reasoning

1. The guy had 3.1k in his pocket during the light’s-on scene and during the light’s-out scene, he had 3090. The only thing Dr. Toussaint could have purchased is the cocktail “Death in the Evening” which can be fact-checked during the light’s-out scene at the bar counter yellow note.
2. Ms. Nevari purchased 3 Seven Seas Special (SSS) for 30 bucks each according to the bar counter yellow note. During the light’s-out scene, a silhouette can be seen drinking from a mug and 2 copper mugs already emptied on the floor. Someone named Tesa purchased the drink. The black silhouette number 5 has 90 bucks missing i.e.17,910. Originally Tesa Nevari had 18k.
3. The security guard during the light’s-on scene wondered if he would get an autograph from Ms. Knightly. During the light’s-out scene, black silhouette number 4 had a note or fan letter signed by Summer suggesting that she was present in the auction.
4. The redhead had a chequebook. The cheque in the safe at the lights-out scene highly suggests that she is Aurelia Winston.
5. The black silhouette number 5 urgently speaks and spills the name of black silhouette number 6 during the light’s-out scene as Moumaati. Mrs. DaSilva had purchased a Martini which cost her 20 bucks according to the bartender’s yellow note. The only person who had 20k during the light’s-on scene and 19,980 on the light’s-out scene is none other than the blonde lady.
6. The host’s name is written on the blue wooden standee.
7. On the instruction note, the name of the bartender is mentioned.
8. Silhouette number 4 is not of Ms. Nevari as it seems that Tesa Nevari bought 3 drinks for someone who has a fan letter signed by Summer. The note mentions Erwin‘s name which highly suggests that it was the owner of the signed letter. The one who seems to be on the job would be the security guard, therefore the name Bogart mentioned on Bartender’s instruction note is him.

Lots

Item

1. seal
2. creature
3. mask
4. statue
5. totem

Origin

1. Lemuria
2. Lanka
3. Albion
4. Lemuria
5. Adria

Buyer

1. Aurelia Winston
2. Summer Knightly
3. Summer Knightly
4. Moumaati Dasilva
5. Aurelia Winston

Reasoning

1. According to the logbook, bidder A bid on lots 1 and 5. Lot 1 was paid via cheque, and the name is mentioned as Aurelia Winston. She also bought Adrian’s lot (during the light’s-on scene), suggesting that one of the relics she bought should have originated from Adria.
   The blonde lady confirms that Lot 1 and Lot 4 originated from her motherland Lemuria, therefore Lot 5 should have originated from Adria.
2. Lot 2 and Lot 3 are paid by cash according to the logbook which was confirmed in a safe box. The lots are purchased by a single bidder named S. Ginger bids on the mask according to the scene. During the lights-out scene, her cash seems to have gone down by exactly 7k pointing out that she collected both Lot 2 and Lot 3. She is also worried about her Lankan centerpiece and only two relics are on the ground i.e. mask and creature. So, either of these two can be Lankan. Additionally, during the light’s-on scene, Aurelia Winston seems to remark on the current ongoing bid Mask that she doesn’t need the Albion relic. Hence, the creature relic should be from Lanka.
3. The blonde lady wanted to buy Lot 1 and Lot 4. Since Lemuria is her motherland, both the artifacts originated from Lemuria.

Events

At the Seven Seas Auction, Tesa Nevari was outbid by Moumaati DaSilva for the statue from Lemuria, and so decided to steal it instead.

Tesa Nevari distracted Erwin Bogart while Robbie Froberg stole their keys.

Nils Wilmington discovered Robbie Froberg stealing the statue upstairs, and a fight ensued.

Robbie Froberg pushed Nils Wilmington into a circuit box with a cane, causing instant death