The Night Market – 4-Stage Cipher Puzzle

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

🧭 This chain is also a 3D maze

The Night Market 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 market only opens after dark, and nothing in it is sold by its real name. Somebody inside wants to be found, and has left word with the stallholders, each message locked with a word from the one before.

Four gates. Watch "Keys you hold" at the top of each terminal. And watch the sky: the drones do not like visitors, and their lights will walk you back the way you came.

1 Gate One - The Ticket
2 Gate Two - The Shuffle 🔒 opens with stage 1's answer
3 Gate Three - The Price 🔒 opens with stage 2's answer
4 Gate Four - The Back Door 🔒 opens with stage 3's answer

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