A note on the lock reads: REDKEYOPENSDOOR. Underneath, someone scribbled: 'Four words are hiding here, and each digit is as long as its word.' The lock takes four digits. What's the code?
Hint: Split the letters into four words, then count each one.
Answer3354The letters split into RED KEY OPENS DOOR, which have 3, 3, 5 and 4 letters.
A poem is pinned to the wall: 'Forget the closet and the hall. / Don't waste your time beneath the sofa. / I'm hidden where you'd never dream, / so read each line until you stop.' Where should you search?
Hint: Ignore what the lines say. Look at how they end.
AnswerIn the lampThe last letters of the four lines (hall, sofa, dream, stop) spell L-A-M-P.
You can only see the wall clock in a mirror across the room. In the mirror, the clock has no numbers, its short hand sits halfway between where the 4 and 5 would be, and its long hand points straight down. The lock wants the real time as three digits with no colon. What's the code?
Hint: A mirror flips the clock left to right. Straight down is still the 6.
Answer730The mirror shows 4:30. Flipping it back puts the hour hand halfway between 7 and 8, so the real time is 7:30.
The code has four digits. First: strikes for an out in baseball. Second: arms on an octopus. Third: colors in a rainbow. Fourth: the fewest straight sides a closed shape can have. What's the code?
Hint: Solve each clue on its own, then line them up.
Answer3873Three strikes, eight octopus arms, seven rainbow colors and three sides for a triangle give 3873.
A spider, a dog and a parrot are in the room with you. The parrot is standing on one foot. The two-digit code is the total number of legs in the room, not counting yours. What is it?
Hint: Standing on one foot doesn't make a leg disappear.
Answer14The spider has 8 legs, the dog 4 and the parrot 2, even while it stands on one, for a total of 14.
A three-digit lock comes with these clues. The digits add up to 18. The middle digit is the sum of the other two, and the first digit is twice the last digit. What's the code?
Hint: If the middle equals the other two combined, it's half of 18.
Answer693The middle digit is half of 18, so 9. The other two add to 9 and the first is twice the last, so they're 6 and 3.
The calendar on the wall hides a four-digit code. First: months with exactly 30 days. Second: months with 31 days. Third: months that start with the letter J. Fourth: letters in the shortest month name. What's the code?
Hint: Think April, June, September, November.
Answer4733Four months have 30 days, seven have 31, three start with J (January, June, July), and May is the shortest name with 3 letters, so the code is 4733.
Count only the vowels A, E, I, O and U in each answer to get a four-digit code. 1: the yellow fruit monkeys love. 2: what opens a lock. 3: what you walk through to leave a room. 4: the red fruit everyone calls a vegetable. What's the code?
Hint: Y doesn't count here.
Answer3123BANANA has 3 vowels, KEY has 1, DOOR has 2 (EXIT also has 2) and TOMATO has 3.
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