Hint #2 & Answers
Stuck on a clue? On this page are the second hints and answers for each clue.
Hint #2
Clue 1
- On the Guildhall building, on the corner of The Broadway and Abbey Passage, are some inscribed locations and the distances to them. What location listed here isn’t mentioned in the clue? Location = Suspect’s surname.
Clue 2
- On the building next to the Guildhall, spot the two lines of nine shields covering the windows. Translate these shields to letters using page 1 of the trail document. What letters do the shields point to?
Clue 3
- Spot a sign for the former pub called The White Horse Inn, which is now a shoe shop. What item of clothing is hanging next to the old pub’s sign?
Clue 4
- Opposite God Begot House (currently an ASK Italian), spot the protruding clock and a statue of Queen Anne. Below the statue are the words “Regina, Anno, Pacifico,” and which other? The missing word from this list is a suspect’s first name.
Clue 5
- AIR’s poem on page 5 contains an acrostic. The first letter of each line spells “SPIRAL IN”, which is a hint for how to read the letters in the square grid. Start from the top-right corner and read the letters in the grid clockwise. The statue you’re looking for to solve the clue is outside Hampshire County Council.
Clue 6
- Outside The Great Hall is a bench. The inscription on the bench’s lip reads, “A PROMISE HONOURED”. Use letters from this inscription to create a weapon marker shape and colour.
Clue 7
Outside Winchester Crown Court, near the Castle Passageways, is The Hampshire Jubilee Sculpture. On the sculpture is the cluster of inscribed words, “Alfred, King, Mitre and Overflow”. “Overflow” is the missing word from the list you require.
On page 5, draw between the WATER Sigil Stones that contain the letters of this word to write a number.
Clue 8
- Along Southgate Street, find The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum and Memorial Garden (AKA Serles House). Just past the entrance is a small white plaque. The inscription on the plaque starts, “Serle’s House was built about 1730 for William Sheldon…”. The example words all contain some letters that are also Roman numerals. The word = the value of the Roman numerals within. So, what does 4th word on the 3rd line of the plaque equal?
Clue 9
The clue wording, which has been reflected, says, “Spot a helmet on display built to be submerged in this element. Which pub does it belong to? Take the first, second, third, fourth and fifth letters from its name, and rearrange them for a suspect’s surname to emerge. Remove this suspect from the case.”
Spot the old SCUBA helmet to solve this clue.
Clue 10
- If you remove the letters “EXCALIBUR” from the stone, you’re left with “JOB”. Find Thomas Thetcher’s grave stone to discover the name of his job. One of the implicated weapons is two letters shorter than this (remove an ‘I’ and ‘R’).
Clue 11
On the Royal Coat of Arms, above the crown is E II R. If you rotated the Roman numerals (II) 90 degrees, it would look like E = R. This is the cipher’s key!
Tear the grid from the corner of page 6 (under Rumpel’s thimble), and place it over the AETHER symbol on page 5. Match up the ‘E’ with the ‘R’, then decipher the two words.
Clue 12
- The black tile has J730 inscribed on it (see the tile location on Google maps). Who lives at these co-ordinates on page 6’s map in a fortified building?
Clue 13
- On the commemorative plaque with the map of the old Roman walls, mentally draw between the locations for each “gust” to write three letters. These three letters spell a weapon.
Clue 14
- In Abbey Gardens, find the sundial on a plinth next to an inscription which reads, “Here lie the hopes and fears of the people Winchester 2000”. Fold pg5 along the Sigil Board’s equator line. Place this folded sheet of paper behind the sundial arm. Which location does the sundial arm match up to on the EARTH quadrant of the Sigil Board?
Clue 15
- See the Breaking Clues here or at threads.net/mirrorofmischief. What fairy tale do the emojis depict? It’s a story about a delicate princess who is restless due to a legume.
Clue 16
- See the Breaking Clues here or at threads.net/mirrorofmischief. What fairy tale do the emojis depict? It’s a story containing a glass slipper. Which suspect is a character in this traditional fairy tale?
Clue 17
See the Breaking Clues here or at threads.net/mirrorofmischief. On the FIRE Sigil Stones, draw on the missing lines from each segmented circle. The missing lines spell an eight-letter word starting with “HO”.
Clue 18
- See the Breaking Clues here or at threads.net/mirrorofmischief. If you read the elements’ quadrants around in the correct order (starting with AIR), they say, “What was the name of Alphaville’s debut album and hit single in 1984?”. How’s your music trivia knowledge? Use the internet if you’re not sure!
Terminating Grid
- The Terminating Grid metapuzzle uses letters from the Double Cross Clue Table answers to spell a sentence, revealing the murderer and weapon. C = Clue, L = Letter. So, for example, C1,L1 = the first letter from Clue 1 = S.
Answers
Clue 1
- Serle Salisbury
Clue 2
- The Fairest Out Of All
Clue 3
- Boot
Clue 4
- Anna Quay
Clue 5
If read in the correct order, the grid says, “Spot a 4-legged suspect across the road who built his house from brick. Their predator can’t blow it down. They found this material did the trick!”
Which statue across the road from the Westgate Museum could fit this description? The answer is an innocent suspect.
So the answer is…
- Little Pig
Clue 6
- Scarf (red moon)
Clue 7
- 9
Clue 8
The 4th word on the 3rd line is Saxon, which contains the Roman numeral X.
So the answer is…
- X (or ten) minus nine (the previous clue’s answer) = one. Suspect #1 is Blind Mouse.
Clue 9
- Snow White (rearrange the first five letters from ‘The William Walker’ to spell White)
Clue 10
- Grenade
Clue 11
- Wicked Witch
Clue 12
- Bigbad Wolvesey (lives in Wolvesey Castle)
Clue 13
- AXE
Clue 14
- College
Clue 15
- The Princess And The Pea
Clue 16
- Fairy Godmother (in the traditional fairy tale Cinderella)
Clue 17
- Hoodwink
Clue 18
- Forever Young
Terminating Grid
Are you sure?
- RED FED THE VICTIM A DEADLY FRUIT.