Halloween at the Portal. The Hollow, a haunted cipher maze, is free to play until 2 November. Enter The Hollow

๐Ÿงญ This chain is also a 3D maze

The Construct is this same chain as a place you walk through. Each stage is a terminal beside a locked gate, and solving it opens the gate. The maze also hides data fragments with a bonus message you can only get there.

Your progress and score are the same either way, so you can start in one and finish in the other. If you want the maze to be a surprise, start there.

โ–ถ Play it in the maze Solve it here as a page โ†“

๐Ÿ“œ Briefing
The Construct was never meant to be walked. It is a loading program, a white room the operators forgot to switch off, and somewhere in the years since it has grown walls. Green code runs down them like rain on glass.

Three gates stand between you and the way out. Each has a terminal beside it, and each terminal holds a message left by whoever came through before you. Decode a message and its gate opens. The words you recover are also the key to the next terminal, so nothing can be skipped.

Walk in. Read the walls. The exit is further than it looks.
  1. 1 First Gate - The Mirror Lock
  2. 2 Second Gate - The Colour Key ๐Ÿ”’ opens with stage 1's answer
  3. 3 Third Gate - The Wrapped Message ๐Ÿ”’ opens with stage 2's answer

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