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Episode 4: Closer to Zero (latest revision: 2006/2/10)

length: medium long

difficulty: very hard

Week 4, Game 4.
Many found #3 too hard, and while we could edit that game, it makes more sense to move forward - though I may add more clues to #3 at a later date for future players.

In this one the standalone puzzles are straightforward, but you still will need to take some notes in order to get to the end.

We also advance the story more through found pages from a diary of one of the main villain's primary henchmen.
I had become fascinated with Turing's cracking of the Nazi's Enigma machine, and tried to replicate one for this game.
It came off rather well, and it will be a pity if we can't use it again in a future episode.

We had thought that not using English (or any language) would make the game more accessible to international players, but we chose to do so anyway in this game just because that option opened up so many more possibilities for leaving clues and hints in the game.

edit 2006/2/10: added some additional hints in game

edit: people were managing to get to the end through trial and error on the last puzzle, but now they have to figure out the rest of the game before they'll know what to do.