KateModern puzzles
This is an index of all the puzzles that have taken place in the KateModern web series.
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Carnaby Street
After Kate lost her memory, Steve found pictures on her cell phone, and uploaded them to Bebo so that fans could help them figure out where Kate had been.
These pictures led fans to Carnaby Street, where they met up with Sophie on Saturday August 18th, 2007 at 10 AM.
Police Calling Card
On September 2nd, 2007, Kate decided to take a closer look at the calling card that Dudley left her on Carnaby Street. She posted the following message to her Bebo blog [3]
When calling the number, the following message plays.
Note: The original message can be heard at: http://www.acidfingers.com/hosted/Recording.MP3
If you look at the first letter of each topping and put in a space wherever the word "or" is said, you get the following message: SPEAK TO THE UNDEAD DOCTOR. This indicated that Dr. William Griffin had faked his death and was going to attempt to speak to Kate. The message also says "Wait for the knock on your door," indicating that the doctor would knock on Kate's door and contact her.
Pizza Puzzle
After Dudley came and dropped off a CD at Kate's flat, she uploaded the file to her Bebo so that her friends could help her decode it.
Breaking It Down:
- .tsnihcnip looked at backwards is Pinchin St.
- The calendar in the picture indicates Sunday 9th.
- .-.. ..- -. -.-. .... - .. -- . is Morse Code for lunch time.
- XV is the Roman Numeral for 15.
- The code at the bottom of the picture is fmwvimvzgsgsuzixsvh is an Atbash Cipher, which decodes to "underneath the arches".
THE SOLVE: 15 Pinchin Street, Sunday the 9th at Lunchtime. Underneath the arches.
Charlie, Kate, and Tariq followed the clue and met Dudley at the specified time & place.
Lee's Treasure Hunt
Lee was being bullied by Gavin and Tariq since the day he came working for them at their office. After the video Subservient Lee, where Gavin gave him commands to do various embarrassing acts, Lee had enough of it. He made a video where he exposed the secret software Gavin and Tariq had developed. He then wiped every trace of it from everywhere, except from his own drive. He announced that Gavin and Tariq could only get their software back if they played along in Lee's Treasure Hunt. Lee said that he'd give clues in videos and on The Sun online [4] to Gavin and Tariq. Each clue led to new a place and a time. Gavin and Tariq had to be at the location at the right time. If they were, they got the next clue from Lee for the next location.
On November 16th 2007, this message was posted on the KateModern Production Bebo page [5]:
Shortly after that, Lee posted Let the Games Begin!, in which he gave his first clue. Multi-colored alphanumerics and punctuation symbols flash on the screen, first all over the screen, then backwards and then upside-down.
When you put this code into Live Search Maps, you got this: http://maps.live.com/?v=2&cid=116264F0DD5D8C5F!103&encType=1. This was a map with a perimeter within London.
On The Sun online was this image posted from the Big Ben:
Because of the picture it was clear that the location was somewhere near the Big Ben.
November 19th 2007
On November 19th 2007, Lee posted the video Before the Clock Strikes Six.... In this video, he gave another clue about the time and location:
Because of this clue, Gavin and Tariq knew they needed to be at Parliament Square (which is in front of the Big Ben), before the clock struck six times, so before 6pm.
In the video Parliament Square - 6pm, 19th November 2007 Gavin and Charlie went to Parliament Square, where they bumped into Tariq and Julia. In front of the Winston Churchill statue, they found a lawn gnome. On the bottom of the gnome, there was a handwritten note with the next clue from Lee.
The clue says:
You’ll need your platforms tomorrow,
When I hear Abba it makes me want to go.
Hands that don’t wave, a face that won’t laugh,
the time and the place is thirteen and a half.
The solution of this clue is:
- Location: Waterloo Station [6] (Waterloo is a song from ABBA and the platforms in the clue are referring to a train station)
- Time: 1:30pm (the time is thirteen and a half, what means 13:30 or 1:30pm)
- Where exactly: Under the four-faced clock (the line: Hands that don't wave, a face that won't laugh refers to the hands and face of a clock. There hangs a large and famous four-faced clock in the middle of the main concourse. Meeting "under the clock at Waterloo" is a traditional rendezvous.)
Discussion about the clue at the forum: http://www.lg15.com/katemodern/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=400&start=30
In the evening, Lee posted a new video, where he confirmed that Gavin and Tariq needed to be at Waterloo Station at 13.30.
Lee also updated his map, where he pointed out where Waterloo Station is:
November 20th 2007
Gavin and Charlie got stuck in traffic, so they couldn't be at Waterloo Station on time (13:30):
Luckily for Gavin, Sophie was at Waterloo Station on time and she got the gnome, with the next clue on the bottom of it.
Lee also updated his map [7], with a clue about the new location on it.
The green arrow is placed on Waterloo Bridge and the red one on the Royal National Theatre.
Sophie posted a video where she is seen picking up the gnome with the clue on the bottom of it. At the station, Terrence was also looking for the clue about the software. When Lee saw him, he looked scared and ran away.
The solution of the clue was found at IRC and on Sophie's Bebo page[8]
Solution:
'A station today is tommorow a bridge'
Waterloo Bridge was the location for the next day. The location for that day was a station (Waterloo) and the next day, the location was a bridge (there's a bridge in London called Waterloo, so Waterloo Bridge).
'Act fast to get to England's stage'
The Royal National Theatre was also a location for the next day. (England's stage -> a stage in a theatre and the word national refers to England. Act fast refers to acting and that's what takes place in a theatre).
The Royal National Theatre is right next to Waterloo Bridge:
So the location for the next day must be at the Waterloo Bridge, in front of the Royal National Theatre.
Later that evening, Lee posted a new video, in which he confirmes that the next location is at the Waterloo Bridge, looking at the Royal National Theatre.
He also gives the time: before 6pm.
Lee updated his map [9] again. The right location is now on the map, together with a picture of what you see when you're standing at the right location.
November 21st 2007
After he went to the Waterloo Bridge, Tariq posted a blog on his Bebo page [10]: