Happy Thanksgiving from the Portal. The Gathering, a harvest cipher maze, is free to play until 30 November. Enter The Gathering

3 stages · Hard · Premium

THE HARVEST SIGNAL

🧭 This chain is also a 3D maze

The Harvest Signal 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.

🔒 See the maze (Elite) Solve it here as a page ↓

📜 Briefing
The last wagon rolled out of the field hours ago, and the corn now stands dry and rustling in the low golden light. Somewhere inside the maze, a retired farmer who once repaired radios hid a trail of messages for anyone patient enough to follow it.

You slip in through a gap between two hay bales as lanterns flicker on along the paths. Leaves drift down, turkeys eye you from the corners, and the scarecrows seem to face whichever way you are going. Three gates stand between you and the farmer's final note.
  1. 1 Gate One - Scarecrow Crossroads
  2. 2 Gate Two - Pumpkin Wall 🔒 opens with stage 1's answer
  3. 3 Gate Three - Hay Bale Gate 🔒 opens with stage 2's answer

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