Case File: The Monopoly Murders

Clue Answers

At a dead end? On this page are the answers for each clue. Try your best not to use them, though, detective!

Note: The answers below are for Version 2.0.0 and beyond. If your trail is an earlier version (1.3.4 or lower), click here to see the answers for your trail.

Answers

Clue 1
  • Jubilee Jellicoe

Clue 2
  • Charing Cross (the symbol looks similar to the Coco Chanel logo)

Clue 3

  • If you read the text over the pair of 8s (with page 1’s 8 of Hearts on the left and page 6’s 8 of Clubs on the right), it says, “Much like the pub on this street, this clue is split in half! The last word in the pub’s name features in a suspected property. Remove it from your list.”

    So the answer is…
    • Shovell It Inn

Clue 4
  • Tooting (The angel is ‘tooting’ a trumpet)

Clue 5
  • Elephant & Castle

Clue 6
  • Sara Knight

Clue 7
  • Pyramids (the number of sides on each shape denotes the order of the masked letters)

Clue 8
  • Train 2 Act

Clue 9

  • If you read only the misspelt words in the excerpt, it says, “Remove the implicated property which shares this street’s former nickname that you can find on a green plaque.”

    So, the answer is…
    • Flicker Alley

Clue 10

  • 1794 – 1740 = 54

    So, in Roman numerals…
    • 54 = LIV. The answer is Olive Shovell.

Clue 11
  • Victoria Lion

Clue 12
  • Walter Portcullis

Clue 13

  • The statue just after The Athenaeum Club commemorates Keith Park. The other three tube stations required are Charing Cross, Tooting, and Elephant & Castle.

    So the answer is…

    • Adelphi Pesci (if you connect Charing Cross > Tooting > Elephant & Castle > Keith Park on page 5’s tube map, you will draw the number 9, Adelphi’s suspect number)

      The number

Clue 14
  • Staged

Clue 15
  • The Mousetrap

Clue 16
  • Piccadilly Keys (the Piccadilly tube line in real life is Dark Blue)

Clue 17
  • Hamlet

Clue 18.1

  • The initials represent the months of the year.

    So the answer is…

Clue 18.2 (online)

  • The distortions in the audio file block out the shapes and colours of implicated property symbols. One symbol’s shape and colour aren’t mentioned, but which?

    So the answer is…
    • Cloud 9 (orange circle). The other shapes and colours blocked by the distortions in order are: white, triangle, black, cross, red, square, blue, stars, green, moon.

Clue 19
  • LOADED DIE

Terminating Grid

  • Are you sure?
    • FINAL ACT: IT WAS ACE IN A BOOKSHOP (i.e. Writers House)