Unsolved mysteries

This page contains a list of all our "known unknowns" - questions that we don't yet have answers to. There is also an oft-unused page of False Puzzles & Speculation.

Current Hot Topics

Since the demise of the Third Power and Violet coming clean about the Cube, most of the loose ends have tied themselves up. V is presumably still on the loose, and we don't know what Claire Castille was really digging for. But that's about it.

Unsolved Puzzle Cards

See: Puzzle Cards for more on these.

• Riemann (Season 1 Card #238 - Reimann)- It's not really meant to be solved.

• Shuffled (Season 1 Card #243 - Shuffled) - Once the method is discovered, it'll be easy...

• The Thirteenth Labour (Season 1 Card #251 - The Thirteenth Labour) - Come join the concerted effort to solve this puzzle, download the client from here, and follow progress at the Assault on 13th Labour site.

• Billion to One (Season 1 Card #256 - Billion to One) - A person must be located by just a photo; the card is meant to test the "six degrees of separation" concept by having us send emails around the world. A website dedicated to the card is here.

• Many of the Cards have Playing card symbols, and their various respective Letters. There are also strange shapes and number strings. The full message and meaning is still unknown, although it appears the card metapuzzle will lead us to the location of the cube.

On The Back Burner

No news from Perplex City lately:

• What is at Viendenbourg? What did the Castille family do there? We know it's some kind of military installation, and that they're trying to put together something that used to be there, according to Claire Castille's story to Scarlett. The sound of drilling emanates from a long, low-slung industrial building. It's very heavily protected by a neurodisruptive field built by Claire that renders intruders confused and ultimately unconscious. It was implied that Sente knows about its existence, but the employee might have assumed this from Scarlett's presence at the facility. Does it have something to do with content in the previously mentioned Granier Diary?

• Who created the Djinn virus? This was a virus that destroyed or accessed data on people's keys, and was transmitted key-to-key. It was created by someone who accessed insider information at the Centrifuge labs - a company that manufactures keys. The answer to this question is also the answer to the silver Shuffled card.

• Do the symbols and references to Anarchists made by the vandals Malcolm and Spencer Kaplan mean anything important?

• Who, and where, is Cyrus Quinton? We think Cyrus Quinton was the operational mastermind of the Cube Theft Team (codename: V) who disappeared once he had murdered Monica Grand. V's DNA records are not on the city databases, according to police leiutenant Helena Frye, which means he is either from outside the city, or has been able to hack into their records. Kurt can't find the name Cyrus Quinton on any databases either.

• Who was Miranda working for? She talks about being a "lesser evil" -- does that imply there is an existing group which represents a greater one?

• When Monica died, she told Sylvia that the original theft team "never held it" - meaning The Receda Cube. Claire told Scarlett "We never got our hands on the target. ... Someone else was there. I don't know who and I don't know why. But to do what they did, they must have been a better programmer than me. That's not a large group." There was most definitely someone else there. However, Miranda didn't seem to know about them, and in V's talking with the operatives on Earth, he sounds confident and upbeat. So does someone else have it or not?

• Who was above V in the chain of command? We know he has a Bigger Boss, possibly representative of an even bigger Conspiracy. Who are these people?

• Inari Ekeba is a Professor Of Natural Sciences and wanted to do Cube Research, but Sente Kiteway wouldn't let her. The meeting flared up and she rashly threatened to steal the Cube. Significant, or a red herring?

• Now that The Cube has been found on Earth, how are we meant to get it back to Perplex City?

Loose Threads

Some unresolved questions are unlikely to tie back into the plot, but remain hanging nonetheless:

• There are numerous unsolved questions from the online component to The San Francisco Connection.

• The London Morse Code Message - WTF? We have snippets that are possibly decoded, but no concrete solve for the full message. We were possibly meant to go to the Tate Gallery at some point, but clearly haven't. Chalk another one up to the 3P, y'all!

• On the Receda Trail, what was the missing link? Players traveled to a 9/11 memorial obelisk at Jones Beach, New York, but found no clues. Players then located the next step by checking for registered domains containing the word "receda". But what was the missing link between the two?

• Some while ago, a special offer was sent out from Firebox, which contained the Firebox 100 Letters. Many have speculated this is a global sudoku. While it is not directly tied to the rest of the story, the question remains, what is the correct solution?

• The Backdoor to the Crypto department is still somewhat mysterious in operation and scope, but since it is no longer accessible there's no way to figure it out further. There were two open questions: first, there was some method of crashing the system Caine found which pulled up a file we never saw. Secondly, when starting the commands with a single END, it was possible to extract single letters and punctuation -- were there more, and did they anagram together to form a password or the like?