Mr. Lemoncello asks if Charles, who is simply waiting, will go to the Dewey rooms or look for a book. Charles says he is holding out for his Uncle Jimmy.

Mr. Lemoncello announces the re-opening of the Dewey Rooms above them, but no one makes the mad dash he expects. Kyle and his team study the contents of the memory box. Kyle reminds them of the clue in the Extreme Challenge riddle: “My first idea is your certain solution” (246). In the memory box, an envelope labeled “First and Worst Idea Ever” they find a simple decoding game in which words in a message are spelled out with whole words whose first letter is a letter of the coded word. They try this with the titles list, tinkering until they get it: “In 1968, the way out was a way in” (264). They determine that the rhyme with “Andy” they guessed earlier (candy) is wrong and set off to the third floor to try something else.

In the Art and Artifacts Room, the clues come together for Kyle and his team. Akimi mentions again another possibility for the “Andy” rhyme, “the Dandy Bandits,” as she looks at the hats.