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Mirror Investigations

  • Getting Started
  • Encrypted Messages Hints 
    • Odessa's Practice Notes
    • Ella's Letter to Leonie
    • Leonie's Letter to Ella
    • Xander's Letter to Maya
    • Stick Figure Dancers Note
  • Passwords Hints 
    • Odessa is Perfect Website
    • HerediTrace Login
  • Eliminate a Suspect
  • Suspect Elimination Help
  • Identify the Killer
  • Full Solution
  • …  
    • Getting Started
    • Encrypted Messages Hints 
      • Odessa's Practice Notes
      • Ella's Letter to Leonie
      • Leonie's Letter to Ella
      • Xander's Letter to Maya
      • Stick Figure Dancers Note
    • Passwords Hints 
      • Odessa is Perfect Website
      • HerediTrace Login
    • Eliminate a Suspect
    • Suspect Elimination Help
    • Identify the Killer
    • Full Solution

Mirror Investigations

  • Getting Started
  • Encrypted Messages Hints 
    • Odessa's Practice Notes
    • Ella's Letter to Leonie
    • Leonie's Letter to Ella
    • Xander's Letter to Maya
    • Stick Figure Dancers Note
  • Passwords Hints 
    • Odessa is Perfect Website
    • HerediTrace Login
  • Eliminate a Suspect
  • Suspect Elimination Help
  • Identify the Killer
  • Full Solution
  • …  
    • Getting Started
    • Encrypted Messages Hints 
      • Odessa's Practice Notes
      • Ella's Letter to Leonie
      • Leonie's Letter to Ella
      • Xander's Letter to Maya
      • Stick Figure Dancers Note
    • Passwords Hints 
      • Odessa is Perfect Website
      • HerediTrace Login
    • Eliminate a Suspect
    • Suspect Elimination Help
    • Identify the Killer
    • Full Solution
  • Hidden Encrypted Messages

    The following notes/messages/letters are encrypted. Click for hints on decrypting them.

    1. Ella's Letter to Leonie

    2. Xander's Letter to Maya

    3. Leonie's Letter to Ella

  • Ella's Letter to Leonie

    Hint 1 — Ella's Letter to Leonie

    The key to decrypting this letter is Ella's smoothie recipe.

    Hint 2 — Ella's Letter to Leonie

    Pay attention to the numbers in the smoothie recipe.

    Hint 3 — Ella's Letter to Leonie

    This letter is encrypted using a skip cipher. Skip ciphers work by "skipping" words in a letter (i.e. only reading certain words).

    Hint 4 — Ella's Letter to Leonie

    To decrypt the letter, read the following words: the 6th word, then the 1st word (i.e. the next word), then the 4th word, the 8th word, then the 15th word.

    Decrypted the letter reads: "perfect I'll do it today"

  • Xander's Letter to Maya

    Hint 1 — Xander's Letter to Maya

    The blocking notes at the bottom of the letter are the key to decrypting this letter.

    Hint 2 — Xander's Letter to Maya

    The first blocking note says start at the "center". The word "center" is in Xander's letter.

    Hint 3 — Xander's Letter to Maya

    All of the blocking notes give directions about how to move on the stage.

    Can you apply these directions to the letter itself?

    Hint 4 — Xander's Letter to Maya

    Start at the word "center" and then follow the blocking directions to navigate between words in the letter. "Upstage" means go up one word. (i.e. look at the word that's above the word you're currently on).

    Solution — Xander's Letter to Maya

    Decrypted, the letter reads: "can’t first cast follow up that day how about next"

  • Leonie's Letter to Ella

    Hint 1 — Leonie's Letter to Ella

    The "Beginner Ballet Routine" is crucial to decrypting this letter.

    Hint 2 — Leonie's Letter to Ella

    Look at what's underlined in the "Beginner Ballet Routine".

    Hint 3 — Leonie's Letter to Ella

    This is a skip cipher. In a skip cipher, you only read certain words in an encrypted message. A skip cipher can have one key (e.g. if the key is 3, you would read every 3rd word), or multiple keys (if the keys are 3, 10, 12, you'd read the 3rd word, then the 10th, then the 12th, and repeat).

    Hint 4 — Leonie's Letter to Ella

    Each line in the "Beginner Ballet Routine" tells you which word to read. Start at "Hey" (that's word #1).

    Notice that two numbers are underlined in each line. If one number was underlined, you'd just skip ahead to read that word (e.g. if "two" is underlined, read the 2nd word). Each line corresponds to one word. Do not add the two numbers in each line together — combine them in a different way.

    Hint 5 — Leonie's Letter to Ella

    Multiply the numbers in each line together, then read that word. For the first line, the numbers are 8 and 1 ("first"), so 8*1=8. Read the 8th word. For the second line, the numbers are 4 and 2 ("second), so 4*2=8, so read the 8th word again (after the word you just read. The first two words in the decrypted message are "how about".

    Solution — Leonie's Letter to Ella

    Decrypted, the letter reads:

    "How about valium instead of melatonin? That will do her in for sure."

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