‘Going Once!’ case walkthrough, hints, and solution in Rise of the Golden Idol

As with all of our Rise of the Golden Idol case guides, our goal here is to provide a hint-based experience that will lead you to the solution without automatically showing you how to solve it. We’ll start out with small hints for the puzzle, escalate to bigger ones, and eventually just spell out the answer if it’s still not clicking for you. We’ve separated our tiered hints and answers with in-game art, but be wary of scrolling farther than you intend.

In this Rise of the Golden Idol guide, we’ll walk you through the “Going Once!” case, including hints and the full solution for the names, conference, victim, and events puzzles.

There are eight names to discover in “Going Once!”

Listed left to right, top to bottom, here are the names of the “Going Once!” characters:

There are five items being sold at this auction, and you’ll need to figure out what they are, where they are from, and who purchased them.

The event for this case is separated into three paragraphs and 29 entries.

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.