Hints
Hints will be ranked 1, 2 and 3. With Hint 1 being the most vague and Hint 3 being the most detailed.
We strongly recommend using hints as a last resort.
Be aware that the location names are also hidden, reveal them as you go to avoid any spoilers.
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1st Location:
Mass Escape
Hint 1: Open the folder in the locker. Inside you will find a QR Code that reads START HERE, scan the QR code. It should take you to a website that begins with the locker combo and backstory. You also have a transparent paper with symbols on it and a map. Where is your next location?
Hint 2: Inside the locker it referring to two numbers, I would look at ledger in the map.
Hint 3: The numbers inside the Locker door are the same as the location Sixes and Sevens on the map, number 23. Head to Sixes and Sevens.
2nd Location: 6's and 7's
Hint 1: One of the pictures inside Sixes & Sevens has the Cipher Collective Symbol. It might be hard to notice.
Hint 2: The picture you're looking for is for an ad in a gold frame. Is there anything in your bag that might help you out?
Hint 3: If you go right after entering the restaurant, there is a picture of an Ad for Cipher Tea Co. under the big tv in a gold frame. Using the transparent paper in the back pack, place it just right on the teapot with the same Cipher Collective symbol on it. The location name Besteas and the number 184 will be revealed. Use the code 184 to open the bag with matching symbol on it and head to Besteas, number 4 on the map.
3rd Location: Besteas
Hint 1: Stand outside Besteas. Is there anything familiar about the store front?
Hint 2: The shape of the windows in Besteas store front look similar to Cipher Collective Diagram in the left most window. Is there way to solve it?
Hint 3: Using the diagram on the window while standing outside Besteas looking at the store front. The different colored outlines represent different numbers, you find the numbers by adding up all the windows in each colored section. You get the numbers 813.
Hint 4: Use 813 to open the bag with the same symbol on it as you see on the diagram. Inside is mini skate board with the words, "Longest Day & Shortest Day" which represent your next location, Solstice, number 24 on the map. Head to Solstice.
4th Location: Solstice
Hint 1: Find the Cipher symbol outside or inside of Solstice.
Hint 2: That gumball machine looks suspicious. Do you have a quarter?
Hint 3: Inside Solstice there is a red gumball machine. If you put the quarter in it, you will get a paper with numbers on it. The numbers 284 will open the Bag with the same symbol on it as the gumball machine. Inside is a small paper with a riddle on it to your next location.
5th Location: Custom House Square
Hint 1: Head to Custom House Square, number 9 on your map. Using what you see around try to solve the riddle with the rainbow on the back.
Hint 2: "To the West to a ship with two RED flags above its sail." Red on the back side of the card represents 1. Can you figure out the other three digits.
Hint 3: Solving the riddle, you will find the colors YELLOW bait, RED flags, BLUE door, and PURPLE signature. So, the number combo for the box is 3156. Inside you will find riddle, telling you to go to PLAY. That's referring to PLAY arcade, number 21 on the map.
6th Location: PLAY
Hint 1: Any out of order of order signs on any of these machines that might look familiar?
Hint 2: The Pac Man Machine in the room off to the right, near the basketball machines, has a Cipher symbol on it. Some of the buttons have the same colors as the riddle from Custom House Square.
Hint 3: Pressing on the Yellow, Red, Blue, and Purple buttons at the same time on the Pac Man machine hanging on the wall, will start an animation, revealing a location down the street and around the corner.
Hint 4: The high score looks like a 7-digit phone number. If you follow in the Pac man’s footsteps, it will lead you to a payphone in an alcove near The Barre, number 3 on the map. Head there.
7th Location: The Barre/S Water St.
Hint 1: Is there an alcove around where the Pac Man ended his run on the machine in PLAY arcade? The Cipher Symbol should be close by.
Hint 2: The payphone in the alcove, looks like you need to dial a number. Have you see any phone numbers? Hint: The cipher Collective High Score
Hint 3: Using the Cipher Collective High Score, 867-5309 in the pay phone. you will get a message. It will direct you 3 blocks west and one block north. If you follow that riddle it will take you to Painting at Splash, number 19 on the map. Head there.
8th Location: Painting At Splash
Hint 1: Did that riddle in the phone say something about glasses? And something about a Message Code?
Hint 2: Using the red glasses in the Message Code bag, using 867 to unlock it, are there any paintings in the windows on Painting At Splash that might help?
Hint 3: If you look in the window of Painting At Splash there is a canvas that is all red with a black cipher symbol on it. If you look through the red glasses at the painting you will see three number 689. Use that to open the corresponding bag
Hint 4: Inside you will get a wooden card and a paces card. Follow the paces to the tile collage on Williams St. Right next to 96 Williams St.
9th Location: No Problemo/Williams St.
Hint 1: Can you find the Cipher Symbol? Might be above the tile collage
Hint 2: Starting at the tile with the heart, following the diagram, how many tiles to the next one?
Hint 3: If you find the correct tiles, you will discover the code 8479. Use that to open the Box with the corresponding symbol on it. Inside you find a clue to get to the last location. Look on the map to find the x marking the spot. Head to Mass Escape.
10 Location: Mass Escape
Hint 1: Third floor of the stairwell might be a good start.
Hint 2: Open the top of the big desk at the top of the stairs has papers strewn about. Can you link the wooden cards to the numbers somehow?
Hint 3: The third floor of mass escape has a large wooden desk on the stairwell landing. On top of the desk are papers with numbers on them. If you place the wooden cards, you have been collecting throughout the game on the correct numbers you will get a key to open the front drawer and sign your name into the book. Bobba=Besteas #4 Devil skull=No Problemo #18 MA NB=Solstice #24 Pineapple= Sixes and Sevens #23 Play=Play #21 Whale = Painting At Splash #19