CarrieE Blog 4

Entry 4 – Dad’s secret box …

I found an old plan of the attic in the library. Apparently there is something hidden in one of the boxes – the others are empty. I’d really like to know what is kept there. Maybe I can find out …

Sketch of the attic, found in the library — Find from the library – a hand-drawn plan of the attic.

The floor creaks, dust swirls in the light. Somewhere up here my father hid something – I can feel it. If I find the right things, I can see what is hidden in the dark.

Puzzle 1 – Dad’s secret footsteps

I found an old recording. Someone – presumably Dad – is moving across the attic. If I listen closely and read the plan correctly, I might reach the right spot.

Step 1: Listen to the recording

Start the recording and listen for the footsteps and the creaking door.

Listen closely and count the steps until you hear the first door creak. On the plan, follow the dots starting at the blue arrow to the first red door. Then count the steps again to the next door. This combination gives you a specific letter.

Which letter do you get from your evaluation?

Puzzle 2 – The number lock

Carrie has found the room with the box. The heavy chest can only be opened with a four-digit code. On the chair in front of the chest there are strange markings – and some objects are marked with numbers.

Match the shapes of the numbered objects to the corresponding markings on the chair. The resulting sequence of numbers gives you the code for the number lock.

Enter the 4-digit code (numbers only).

Puzzle 3 – Who is behind all this?

Carrie opens the box – and you get a horrible suspicion. Maybe someone in her own family is more involved than anyone suspects.

What did Carrie find in the attic? Who is she protecting? The police are especially interested in the male first name connected to this story.

In the newspaper text, some letters are circled – as if someone wanted to thank the perpetrator. If you read the message correctly, you’ll see who Carrie’s loyalty belongs to.

What is the male first name you are looking for? (Tip: What would Carrie tell the police?)

Carrie’s diary – Message in a bottle from the deep

Beneath the surface, fragments from Carrie’s diary drift like messages in bottles through the black water. Move the search beam across the map and click / tap or hold still for a moment to locate a bottle. Three finds unlock an entry.

Finds: 0/3 Hint: The compass needles roughly whisper where Carrie’s bottles have drifted.

✓ Unlocked: Excerpt from Carrie’s diary.

“Not all wrecks are made of wood”

Tonight I dreamed again of ships that never come home. Mom says the sea is only water and waves. But I know there are things sleeping underneath that nobody is meant to see. Sometimes I hear them whisper when everything is completely quiet.

In the books down in the basement they write about islands that simply swallow ships. Map cutouts, coordinates, black arrows scribbled into the margins. The adults call it the “Bermuda Triangle” as if it were just a shape. But shapes can cut.

When a ship goes down, it doesn’t really disappear. It waits. For divers, for treasure hunters, for those who are too curious. Maybe one day I’ll sit in a boat like that, sailing right through that place. Maybe then I won’t just be a spectator.

I drew a small cross into the atlas. Under the water, in that corner of the ocean. When someone opens the page, they should see it and know: down there lie answers. And not all of them want to be found.

Tip: Where several needle directions intersect, one of Carrie’s bottles is usually nearby.