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 Lost Temple 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.

๐Ÿ”’ See the maze (Elite) Solve it here as a page โ†“

๐Ÿ“œ Briefing
Long before machines, people hid messages with nothing but an alphabet and patience. The Lost Temple is built from those ciphers: the shift a Roman general used, the zigzag of a rail fence, letters carved as numbers, and the mirror alphabet of the scribes.

Four gates. You can see over most of these walls, which helps less than you would think. Each answer hands you what you need for the next.
  1. 1 Gate One - The General's Shift
  2. 2 Gate Two - The Zigzag ๐Ÿ”’ opens with stage 1's answer
  3. 3 Gate Three - The Tally ๐Ÿ”’ opens with stage 2's answer
  4. 4 Gate Four - The Scribes' Lock ๐Ÿ”’ opens with stage 3's answer

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