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

4 stages · Hard · Premium

THE TIDEWIRE STATION

🧭 This chain is also a 3D maze

The Tidewire Station 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.

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📜 Briefing
Long before satellites, every word between two continents crawled through a cable that came ashore at Tidewire Station. The station was sealed when the lines went quiet, but last night its dead console blinked once and printed a single line: someone is still sending.

You have slipped through the sea gate with a torch and a borrowed pass. The engineer who ran the place hid four notes inside its halls, and the notes are the only way to reach the control room before the water rises again.
  1. 1 Gate One - Winch Room Slate
  2. 2 Gate Two - The Cable Hall 🔒 opens with stage 1's answer
  3. 3 Gate Three - Glass Gallery 🔒 opens with stage 2's answer
  4. 4 Gate Four - Flooded Corridor 🔒 opens with stage 3's answer

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