A Case of The Crabs

by Point and Click Games on November 1, 2007

in Adventure

A Case of The Crabs

In A Case of The Crabs, you play the role of private investigator Nick Bounty. Something fishy has been going on when a salesperson died in your office with a box of fresh crabs. As you go on, you pick up more clues which aid you in your investigation for the murder.

Note: Mouse click on items or action to move around, look at things, use them together, and so on. Click and look at absolutely everything – and remember, the game is all about the crabs…

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alice May 28, 2010 at 1:16 am

Is a nice games.Bravo…

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Volti May 26, 2010 at 3:59 am

Ich glaube, dass die von Anonymous ist???

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Volti May 26, 2010 at 3:47 am

Part 1: The Office
A Case of the Crabs starts out with a rather funny joke. It kind of caught me off-guard that a game was making me smile in the first five seconds. ;) You’ll get a bit of the story from the game’s main character, Nick Bounty.
A man will soon walk in with a box of crabs. After talking for a few seconds, he’ll fall over dead… I think the knife in his back might have something to do with it. Pick up the crab that is wandering around the floor by using the? get? command. Then, take a look at the box the murdered dude was carrying. It came from a shipping company on the south side?. Nick will decide fairly quickly that he should go check that place out. Good idea, Nick.
You can also pick up the knife jetting out of the dead guy’s back. I suppose a knife could be pretty handy, eh? You also need to pick up the library card and the book on fingerprinting. The card can be found lying on Nick’s desk and the book about fingerprinting can be found on the bookshelf. Use your knife on the book about fingerprinting to make a much nicer little leaflet. You have just about everything you can get and have done everything you can do for now, so exit via the door. You’ll arrive at a city map. Head to the only other available area aside from the office, the Shiny Barnacle Shipping Docks.

Part 2: Shipping Docks
Arriving at the docks, you’ll see a man polishing one of the sections of the only visible dock. His name is Bill and you can try to talk to him, but you won’t get too much of a reaction out of him. Check out the small stack of crates and you’ll notice that they’re all just like the one that the dead guy brought into your office. You can use the knife that you pulled from Arthur’s back on one of the crates but there will just be more crabs inside. You already have a crab in your pocket, but you might as well look at this one. Nick will discover something so horrible, so devious… that he will shudder uncontrollably. After this gruesome discovery, pick up the toy crab.
To the right of Bill is a box containing some sea sponges. Pick one of them up. Is that Spongebob on the box? Sweet.
Next, put your live crab in Bill’s bucket. The next time he puts his hand in he will get a little surprise. Of course, the guy’s mad, so you’ll have to explain yourself. You’ll get four choices of things to say. Pick the first three. So good old Arthur had a boat down here, eh? When you want to stop talking, pick the fourth option.
Use your crab on the crate of squid. The crab will frighten the squid and a fountain of ink will go spraying out of him! Then, mop up the ink with your sea sponge to make an inkpad. Awesome. Now, let’s go back to the office.

Part 3: Office Part 2
Look at your new fingerprinting leaflet. The first step is to check to see if the victim has hands. Well, go ahead. Look at his hands. Okay, so he has them.? Great. Look at the leaflet again to get step two. An inkpad? You’ve got one of those in the inky sponge! Use the inkpad on Arthur’s hand to make his hand all inky and stuff. Then, look at the leaflet again and place the library card on his fingers to get a nice set of fingerprints. THERE! You’ve finally got a nice looking fake I.D…almost. Head to the Blue Crab Cafe.

Part 4: Blue Crab Cafe
First thing you’ll want to do here is cut the ?Lonely Guy? flyer off the wall using your knife. Then, place the picture on your fake ID NOW you have a genuine fake ID! Congrats! Use the card on the ID scanner in front of the Blue Crab Cafe.
Once you enter, you’ll notice that the place seems rather empty. Think it could have something to do with the rigorous security they have? Eh, maybe. A waitress will come running up and tell you the menu. Ask her about counterfeit crabs and she’ll say that that’s the reason business is so bad. Suuure. Anyway, you can talk to her about the other three things, but nothing will really come of it. Tell her the fourth option and she’ll leave you alone.
Walk up farther into the Blue Crab and you’ll end up in the kitchen where some rather ancient music is playing. Pick up the piece of cheese that’s sitting on the kitchen counter. Then, exit via the door to the right. One of the E Street Band will stop you and bring you to Bruce’s place… err.. forget I said that.? Apparently this fat chubby little guy is actually the head of the crab counterfeiting operation. He’ll tell you to stay out of his business and then you’ll be thrown out of his office.
Outside of his office, pick up two of the can halves from the garbage can. Not much else to do here, so use the exit that’s to the left. Then, head back to outside the Blue Crab Cafe. The gate that was locked earlier is now open, because you just came from there. Use your real crab on the fuse box. Now the power will be out in the kitchen. After that, move the empty box that’s to the left of the three stacked up boxes to find a business card. Pick it up and look at it. If you squint, you can make out the name ?Wilbur Thug? on the card.? Interesting. Take those wires hanging from the fuse box as well.
Go back inside and talk to Gutman. Talk to him about every single thing that comes up, and eventually you’ll convince him that listening to the blues doesn’t help. Thus you’ll be able to take his Victrola. We’ve taken a bunch of stuff lately, haven’t we? Next, head over to Jim’s Shack ?O Crabs!

Part 5: Jim’s Shack ?O Crabs
You can’t talk to Jim right now, because he’s deathly afraid of that large rat that’s tormenting him(I wonder if he locked himself out too?). So, make a nice little rat trap by combining your cheese and toy crab. Use your trap on the rat and away he will go. Jim is still suffering a bit of a twitch though.? Talk to him to help get rid of it for him. Speak to him about all three topics.
Hmm.. sounds like something we could help with.
Give the poor man Wilbur’s business card. He’ll call him up, giving you a nice shining opportunity to use some stuff. Next, we’ll need to go back to the boss? office.

Part 6: The Boss
Once you get here, combine the can halves and the wires to create a ?state of the art? listening device. If you try to use it on the window to hear what the boss is talking about on the phone, Nick will tell you that he’s having an ?incriminating conversation?. So, combine your Victrola and hearing device to create a perfect spy machine. Use the machine on the window.
After Nick gets all the evidence he needs, he’ll dump the spy equipment and you’ll be left with a record. Head inside to the Boss? office and confront him.? However, the Boss would rather not be thrown in the slammer, so he does away with your evidence! Pretty soon, he points the gun at you! If you try and select ?Shoot?, Nick will unfortunately inform you that he has actually never had a gun! So instead, throw the crab you’ve had all this time at him.

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Ultimategamer92 May 25, 2010 at 2:14 pm

Great game. Very funny. lol he didn’t have a gun XD

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plip January 11, 2010 at 6:42 pm

IF YOU D*** MOTHER F****** CANT BEAT IT THEN CHECK YOUTUBE.COM YOU DUM A**ES *** D***** MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous May 25, 2010 at 10:53 pm

you dont have any friends do you?

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doc June 27, 2010 at 3:37 am

LOL too funny!

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asdf June 21, 2009 at 7:03 am

dang i’m stuck…. how do i get the ID?

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LoVeThEjOkEr April 12, 2009 at 8:37 am

” They don’t even taste like crab, they taste like… shoe!” ahahahahah thats hilarious

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lucy October 25, 2008 at 1:54 pm

you get the buisseness card by moving that crate at the back of the restrunt duh people use the hints thats wat there for

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lucy October 25, 2008 at 1:52 pm

well this game is easy when you play the game click hints and there you av it

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breanna October 14, 2008 at 8:47 am

can you help me kitten

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breanna October 14, 2008 at 8:40 am

i need help

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belicia September 18, 2008 at 12:39 am

cool i won i know go see the hints!

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belicia September 17, 2008 at 11:53 pm

any hints?

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belicia September 17, 2008 at 2:43 am

pls i need some hints!come on

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jayjay August 27, 2008 at 9:01 am

how do you get the business card???

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Help August 2, 2008 at 2:13 pm

it wont even load past 24% for me…

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someone` June 23, 2008 at 12:10 pm

really good game,ok plot line,music is fitting, i say 4.5 out of 5.0. goooooooood job.

~someone

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Kitten June 10, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Need a walkthrough…am stuck with the office and the docks!!!

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ke May 22, 2008 at 9:21 am

do u now

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ke May 22, 2008 at 9:20 am

i need help how to get past the first part and the office and the house how do i get in

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HeatherLee May 16, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Brevity is? I have to dssagree, and anyways, what post are you talking about? Not a single post here is longer than 2 sentences…

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Dotty April 6, 2008 at 11:55 am

Humph. Someone has to force me to read this post. It’s too big and boring. Brevity is the sister of talent, remember that.

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suck March 7, 2008 at 4:39 am

nice game :D

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suck March 7, 2008 at 4:06 am

u get past the 1st bit by looking at the box

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Hiphopbabe February 21, 2008 at 12:45 pm

This wasn’t so bad =) it was OK=) not that difficult, but sure it rocks!

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ANONYMOUS February 19, 2008 at 11:31 am

STUPID GAME

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Sickness (FD) February 1, 2008 at 1:29 pm

haha chicken :P XD i liked this game man guys a smart ass XD

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Arielle January 31, 2008 at 6:26 pm

The best thing about this game is the animation…it’s almost like watching a film noir movie…fantastic…I don’t know how they did those cuts either…good job!

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slice January 28, 2008 at 4:52 pm

I LIKE THE MUSIC GET DOWN AND BOOGIE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Caitlin January 5, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Does anyone have a complete walkthrough?

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Erik R December 29, 2007 at 8:47 am

This Was GREAT

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pete December 14, 2007 at 8:23 pm

y cant i go anywhere other than the office? 0.o

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Rhia December 8, 2007 at 1:07 pm

cant do it im dumb! lol XD

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alli December 2, 2007 at 6:18 pm

hahaha that was really funny, i liked the humor

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ecoulier December 2, 2007 at 12:07 pm

lol he doesn’t have a gun

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saz November 21, 2007 at 3:27 am

this is stupid i cant do it

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Tom November 14, 2007 at 12:03 pm

Awesome game

Took me a while to complete, but i LOVED it.

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jaazy November 13, 2007 at 6:35 pm

ugh. i cant get past the first part even.

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jason November 13, 2007 at 4:15 pm

haha way too easy

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TB Tabby November 2, 2007 at 6:19 am

Ack, I can’t get anywhere with either restaurant! I don’t know how to get rid of the rat, or get fingerprints for the ID card!

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BusyPie November 1, 2007 at 10:35 am

harharharhar first

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