KateModern puzzles
This is an index of all the puzzles that have taken place in the KateModern web series.
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Carnaby Street
After Kate lost her memory, Steve found pictures on her cell phone, and uploaded them to Bebo so that fans could help them figure out where Kate had been.
These pictures led fans to Carnaby Street, where they met up with Sophie on Saturday August 18th, 2007 at 10 AM.
Police Calling Card
On September 2nd, 2007, Kate decided to take a closer look at the calling card that Dudley left her on Carnaby Street. She posted the following message to her Bebo blog [3]
When calling the number, the following message plays.
Note: The original message can be heard at: http://www.acidfingers.com/hosted/Recording.MP3
If you look at the first letter of each topping and put in a space wherever the word "or" is said, you get the following message: SPEAK TO THE UNDEAD DOCTOR. This indicated that Dr. William Griffin had faked his death and was going to attempt to speak to Kate. The message also says "Wait for the knock on your door," indicating that the doctor would knock on Kate's door and contact her.
Pizza Puzzle
After Dudley came and dropped off a CD at Kate's flat, she uploaded the file to her Bebo so that her friends could help her decode it.
Breaking It Down:
- .tsnihcnip looked at backwards is Pinchin St.
- The calendar in the picture indicates Sunday 9th.
- .-.. ..- -. -.-. .... - .. -- . is Morse Code for lunch time.
- XV is the Roman Numeral for 15.
- The code at the bottom of the picture is fmwvimvzgsgsuzixsvh is an Atbash Cipher, which decodes to "underneath the arches".
THE SOLVE: 15 Pinchin Street, Sunday the 9th at Lunchtime. Underneath the arches.
Charlie, Kate, and Tariq followed the clue and met Dudley at the specified time & place.
Lee's Treasure Hunt
From the first day he started working at Tariq and Gavin's office, Lee was bullied by them. After the video Subservient Lee, where Gavin commanded him to complete various embarrassing acts, Lee was fed up and made a video where he exposed the secret software Gavin and Tariq had developed. He then wiped every trace of it from everywhere in the office except from his own drive, holding it ransom. He announced that Gavin and Tariq could only get their software back if they played along in Lee's Treasure Hunt. Lee said that he'd hide clues in videos and on The Sun online [4] for Gavin and Tariq to find. Each clue led to new a location and time where they were supposed to arrive. If they were there, Lee would provide the next clue to lead them to the next location.
On November 16th 2007, the following message was posted on the KateModern Production Bebo page [5]:
Shortly after, Lee posted Let the Games Begin!, in which he revealed his first clue. Multi-colored alphanumerics and punctuation symbols appeared on the screen. They appeared randomly and then were backwards and upside down
When this code was entered into Live Search Maps, you got this: http://maps.live.com/?v=2&cid=116264F0DD5D8C5F!103&encType=1. This map defined a perimeter within London.
On The Sun online this image was posted from the Big Ben:
The picture revealed the location to be near the Tower of Big Ben.
November 19th 2007
On November 19th 2007, Lee posted the video Before the Clock Strikes Six... which announced another clue about the time and location:
Because of this clue, Gavin and Tariq knew they needed to be at Parliament Square (which is in front of Big Ben), before 6 o'clock pm (when the bell tolled six times).
The video Parliament Square - 6pm, 19th November 2007 showed Gavin and Charlie arrived at Parliament Square, where they bumped into Tariq and Julia. In front of the Winston Churchill statue, they found a lawn gnome. On the bottom of the gnome was a handwritten note with the next clue from Lee.
The clue read:
You’ll need your platforms tomorrow,
When I hear Abba it makes me want to go.
Hands that don’t wave, a face that won’t laugh,
the time and the place is thirteen and a half.
The solution of this clue is:
- Location: Waterloo Station [6] (Waterloo is a song from ABBA and the platforms in the clue are referring to a train station)
- Time: 1:30pm (the time is thirteen and a half, what means 13:30 or 1:30pm)
- Where exactly: Under the four-faced clock (the line: Hands that don't wave, a face that won't laugh refers to the hands and face of a clock. There hangs a large and famous four-faced clock in the middle of the main concourse. Meeting "under the clock at Waterloo" is a traditional rendezvous.)
Discussion about the clue at the forum: http://www.lg15.com/katemodern/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=400&start=30
In the evening, Lee posted a new video, where he confirmed that Gavin and Tariq needed to be at Waterloo Station at 13.30.
Lee also updated his map, where he pointed out where Waterloo Station is:
November 20th 2007
Gavin and Charlie got stuck in traffic, so they couldn't be at Waterloo Station on time (13:30):
Luckily for Gavin, Sophie was at Waterloo Station on time and she got the gnome, with the next clue on the bottom of it.
Lee also updated his map [7], with a clue about the new location on it.
The green arrow is placed on Waterloo Bridge and the red one on the Royal National Theatre.
Sophie posted a video where she is seen picking up the gnome with the clue on the bottom of it. At the station, Terrence was also looking for the clue about the software. When Lee saw him, he looked scared and ran away.
The solution of the clue was found at IRC and on Sophie's Bebo page[8]
Solution:
'A station today is tommorow a bridge'
Waterloo Bridge was the location for the next day. The location for that day was a station (Waterloo) and the next day, the location was a bridge (there's a bridge in London called Waterloo, so Waterloo Bridge).
'Act fast to get to England's stage'
The Royal National Theatre was also a location for the next day. (England's stage -> a stage in a theatre and the word national refers to England. Act fast refers to acting and that's what takes place in a theatre).
The Royal National Theatre is right next to Waterloo Bridge:
So the location for the next day must be at the Waterloo Bridge, in front of the Royal National Theatre.
Later that evening, Lee posted a new video, in which he confirmes that the next location is at the Waterloo Bridge, looking at the Royal National Theatre.
He also gives the time: before 6pm.
Lee updated his map [9] again. The right location is now on the map, together with a picture of what you see when you're standing at the right location.
November 21st 2007
Tariq posted a blog on his Bebo page [10], after he came back from the Waterloo Bridge:
Tariq posted his video a few hours later. In the video, we see him en Julia waiting for Lee on the Waterloo Bridge. Charlie and Gavin showed up a few minutes later. Gavin had a golfclub in his hands, where he wanted to hit Lee with. But Lee never showed up, because a woman delivered the gnome with the next clue on the bottom of it. Gavin wanted to smash the gnome with his golfclub, but Charlie held him back, so that she and Tariq could read the clue first. After that, Gavin smashed the gnome with the golfclub to pieces.
The solution to the clue:
The location where the next clue is, is St. Paul's Cathedral.
"Chris made Paul a lovely home. He built it with a great big dome. But there’s one little catch, wherever you go, there’s a watch."
- Chris made Paul a lovely home. He built it with a great big dome.
Sir Christopher Wren [11] was a 17th century English designer, astronomer, geometer, and the greatest English architect of his time. Wren designed 53 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral. So Chris(topher) designed St. Paul's Cathedral, which has a great big dome.
- But there's one little catch, wherever you go, there's a watch.
There was never given an explanation for this line. Lee probably wanted to say with this line, that he would watch every move of Gavin and Tariq.
Lee updated his map [12] again, with this picture:
The exact location of this statue has never been found, but people assuming that it's a statue that stands at the St. Paul's Cathedral.
Later that night, Lee posted a video in which he confirms that the next location is St. Paul's Cathedral, at 6pm. After he posted this video, the description on his map changed to: See you on the steps at 6pm!
November 22nd 2007
Sophie agreed with Gavin on Windows Messenger that she would go to the St. Paul's Cathedral to pick up the gnome with the next clue on it. After a few hours, she said on Bebo:
On which Gavin commented:
After this, Sophie posted a video, in which we see Lee putting his gnome and some flowers for Sophie on the steps of the St. Paul's Cathedral.
When Sophie arrives, she picks up the flowers and looks at them. But then a Watcher sneaks up behind her, picks up the gnome and walks away. Sophie, alarmed by the fans, goes after him and tries to get the gnome back, but the Watcher doesn't listen to her and pushes her on the ground. Sophie blames herself for not paying attention to the gnome and only to the flowers. Then she walks away, without the clue.
Lee didn't posted a video that night and also didn't updated his map.
November 23rd 2007
Lee posted a video today, in which he says that Gavin and Tariq didn't tried hard enough to find the software. Lee gives them one more chance to get to the software, before The Order does. There's one more clue and they have to find it as quick as they can.
Description of the video:
After a few hours, Charlie posted a video which reveals what happened to the secret software:
Charlie is recording a video blog when the doorbell rings. When she opens the door, she sees nobody but there's a gnome on the ground. Julia comes to Gavin and Charlie's flat and reads the clue on the bottom of the gnome:
There are only 7 ways to get here, but only shadows tell the time. Where am I?
Julia immediately knew which location was meant: Seven Dials [13].
Seven Dials is a small road junction in the West End of London, near Covent Garden. Lee refers with the sentence "There are only seven ways to get here", to the seven roads who are converging at the junction.
Charlie and Julia go to Seven Dials where a gnome is placed at the steps of the the sundial pillar.
Julia gets the gnome while Charlie is running after Lee, who had just placed the gnome and was still around. Julia and Charlie follow Lee into an appartment building and catch up with him. But Terrence, who had followed Charlie, is also there. He hits Lee on his head with the gnome and starts beating him up while asking where the software is. Lee says the software is in the gnome, the one that Julia had picked up at the pillar. Charlie quickly picks up the gnome with the software in it and runs away. When she comes outside, the Watcher is waiting for her and throws her at the ground and picks up the gnome. Terrence, who ran after Charlie, gets throwed at the ground also. Then the Watcher walks to his car and drives away, with the gnome where the software is inside.
This is the end of Lee's Treasure Hunt. Gavin and Tariq have lost their secret software to the Watcher.
