Open Doors (1995-1997)

Old C-AAA02 Puzzle

PREVIOUS RECEIPT
5 CHARACTERS 1 WORD
“Baltimore Mrs. Heelfront.”

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Clue 1: The name itself should provide some clues as to who we're looking for.
Clue 2: Imagine you have your toes pointing where you've been. Who walks like that?
Clue 3: Caribbean customers with no face and a penchant for pranks.

Answer: Douen

Explanation: The Douen's most recognizable characteristic is their feet, which is backwards, with the heel facing the front (hence Heelfront), and the knees backwards.

Old CD-TTE01 Puzzle

#62 TRIVIA
25 CHARACTERS 5 WORDS
“Buy into the Hype, it’s only $19.89.
Part 1-1 Part 2-2 Part 3-2 Part 4-4 Part 5-3”

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Clue 1: It might be better to think of the price as a year.
Clue 2: #62 likes some sci-fi in their free time. And maybe some persimmons.
Clue 3: The parts signal the index.

Answer: The War Cantos Taste Good
Explanation: Dan Simmons published the first Hyperion novel in 1989. Indexing into the parts' names gives "The War Cantos Tastes Good".

Old CD-TTE02 Puzzle

PREVIOUS RECIEPT
8 CHARACTERS 1 WORD
“The Cafe and Diner Rosetta Stone of sorts.”

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Clue 1: Read the previous one real careful.
Clue 2: Why does John Doe need this?
Clue 3: dCode/Rumkin/Cryptii, but for Coffee-related Ciphers.

Answer: CaDCom88
Explanation: In CD-TTE01, John Doe says that they "secure an original BaristaTech CaDCom88 system due to its ability to decrypt various CaDCode Ciphers". So they are, in a way, the Rosetta Stone for the CaD Ciphers

Old C-COS02 Puzzle

PICTURE CLUE
13 CHARACTERS 2 WORDS
“Incoming alert on all spectrums.”

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Clue 1: That's some strange color bands we have there.
Clue 2: Colors can be read as a 6-character Hexadecimal.
Clue 3: Each color component (Red, Green, Blue) occupies two Hex spots.

Answer: Mrs. Pleasant
Explanation: Read the colors' hexadecimal value as three hexadecimal characters yields "Don't look in her eyes." and "Mrs. Pleasant." The second line fits the requirement.

Old C-WFS01 Puzzle

LOGIC PUZZLE
10 CHARACTERS 2 WORDS
“Check in the shadows below.”
Mrs. Umbra

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Clue 1: Who lurks in the shadow?
Clue 2: They perfectly blend into the shadow.
Clue 3: Not surprising, since they are a shadow.

Answer: Mrs. Umbra
Explanation: One of the monikers for Mrs. Umbra is the Shadowman. Their name can be found blending into the background, to the left of the clue.

Old C-WFS03 Puzzle

PREVIOUS RECEIPT
18 CHARACTERS 4 WORDS
“Translation request approved.”

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Clue 1: What is Mrs. Umbra whispering?
Clue 2: What language is it?
Clue 3: The angels speak it.

Answer: There Is No Church
Explanation: The first line of Umbra's whispering in WFS02 is the Enochian letters mashed together. They spell out "There Is No Church."

Old C-DPG05 Puzzle

DIFFERENT RECEIPT
26 CHARACTERS 3 WORDS
“Chart a flight via this Lone Star Airport.”

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Clue 1: Don't Put Gary off. One time is enough. He doesn't know where Bird's River or Violet Crown is.
Clue 2: Deftly Putting Gerald off Three times, really? Where should you act like a student?
Clue 3: Damian Pays Gold? Four gold? To do some basement crawling in the college?
Clue 4: Piece all of that together, and figure out the name of the building then, not now.

Answer: Animal Industries Building
Explanation: DPG01 gives "Bird's River" and "Violet Crown". Bird's River is Brazos River, a famous place for birds to come by. Violet Crown, given that we're in Texas, is Austin. A famous haunted college building with a basement, situated near the Brazos River? That'll be the Animal Industries Building. (But now it's called the AI Engineering Building)

Old C-AAA04 Puzzle

PREVIOUS RECEIPT
8 CHARACTERS 1 WORD
“Sodium chloride on strings.”

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Clue 1: What is sodium chloride?
Clue 2: What is usually on string?
Clue 3: Read the previous one real careful.

Answer: Santilli
Explanation: Sodium chloride is salt. Puppets are usually on string. In AAA03, #53 said that Ray Santilli can be a "salty puppet".

Old C-WFS05 Puzzle

DIFFERENT RECEIPT
7 CHARACTERS 2 WORDS
“Maiden name of Mrs. Umbra.”

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Clue: What is a moniker of Mrs. Umbra that fits the required length?

Answer: Hat Man
Explanation: One of Mrs. Umbra's moniker is the Hat Man.

Old C-COS04 Puzzle

COMMON KNOWLEDGE
4 CHARACTERS 1 WORD
“The 26th Division.”

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Clue 1: Whose organization divides up into Divisions?
Clue 2: What else has 26?
Clue 3: NATO Alphabet.

Answer: Zulu
Explanation: The 26th Division of Astoria 23 is Zulu.

Old CD-TTE04 Puzzle

PICTURE CLUE
5 CHARACTERS 1 WORD
“All tied up and tied to.”

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Clue 1: Have you fiddle with the picture yet? GIMP should work just fine.
Clue 2: There's a difference between this and the original image it spawns from.
Clue 3: If you found it, what is John Doe worried about?

Answer: Maeve
Explanation: Find the picture itself, and take the difference. In the letter, Owner said John Doe's worry is tied to Maeve.

Old C-COS06 Puzzle

AMBIGUOUS KNOWLEDGE
15 CHARACTERS 3 WORDS
“COS.”

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Clue 1: Charming One Says Three, among them Mrs. Pleasant, is working where?
Clue 2: Now we go out of this, and jump into Twice Third Temple, specifically when Matthew Tartell Misses Naomi Sevenfold. Mrs. Pleasant say she was once with which organization?
Clue 3: Now, combine them together. What amalgamation of those two things would start with C, O, and S?

Answer: Church Of Satan
Explanation: In COS03, Pleasant is working for the Open Doors Church, and in C-MTMN07, Pleasant said she was once with the House of Satan, so the Church and the House of Satan are one and the same. The Church Of Satan, if you will.

Old C-ASG01 Puzzle

OWNER TRIVIA
12 CHARACTERS 1 WORD
“Deep in what hollow do the stern gods keep their bitter silence?”

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Clue 1: The Owner likes some poetry in his free time.
Clue 2: From which collection does this come from?
Clue 3: John Gray would know more about this.

Answer: Silverpoints
Explanation: The clue is from a poem called Summer Past, which is, itself, from a collection called Silverpoints, penned by John Gray.

Old C-BBVR02 Puzzle

#44 TRIVIA
12 CHARACTERS 2 WORDS
“Saw the disks of fire in 1479–1425.”

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Clue 1: #44 likes to park out-of-this-world cars.
Clue 2: Have you seen the Tulli Papyrus?
Clue 3: Who reigned from 1479 BC to 1425 BC?

Answer: Thutmose III
Explanation: Thutmose III reigned from 1479 BC to 1425 BC. The Tulli Papyrus, which is supposedly from that time, has descriptions of "fiery disks", which some construe to be flying saucers.

Old C-MOP02 Puzzle

#1313 TRIVIA
9 CHARACTERS 1 WORD
“A cat that always grins at 3:06, what a terrible blinking noise that'd be.”

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Clue 1: #1313 is in her element when listening to alternative music.
Clue 2: Which cat always grin? Who is blinking?
Clue 3: This song runs for 3:06.

Answer: Cacophony
Explanation: In the album "Cheshire Cat" (who, in the Alice stories, always grins) by Blink-182, 3:06 is the runtime for the song Cacophony.

Old C-DIS02 Puzzle

#62 TRIVIA
11 CHARACTERS 2 WORDS
“Ten years from now “Tom” will return.”

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Clue 1: #62 likes to curl up with a science fiction novel or two.
Clue 2: Don't burn paper.
Clue 3: Who is "Tom"? And why ten years?

Answer: The Martian
Explanation: In The Martian, a story from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (who is famous for his novel, Fahrenheit 451), a Martian takes the place of Tom, the son of a couple. The story itself is set in September 2005, ten years from when this receipt is written.

Old CD-MOP04 Puzzle

LOGIC PUZZLE
20 CHARACTERS 2 WORDS
“The key to life is to watch out for a SNAKE in the grass.
Dlgumehgh? I? Ggoiyzs”

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Clue 1: Number the letters in SNAKE in alphabetical order.
Clue 2: Here
Clue 3: Move up.

Answer: Dracaena Trifasciata
Explanation: First, number the letters in SNAKE in alphabetical order, which would be 54132. This will be the key. Then construct the grid, and for each number, move up the corresponding amount of rows. So for the first D, you move 5 rows up from D, it's still D. Repeat this for every character to get Dracaena Trifasciata, the scientific name of the snake plant.

Old C-CIC02 Puzzle

WORD PUZZLE
13 CHARACTERS 2 WORDS
“Ag going once, going twice, no tricks to be taken here.”

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Clue 1: What is Ag?
Clue 2: Which game takes tricks?
Clue 3: Together, they reference Mrs. Pleasant.

Answer: Silver Bridge
Explanation: Ag is Silver. A game that takes tricks is Bridge. Silver Bridge, the famous incident caused by Mrs. Pleasant.

Old C-BBVR04 Puzzle

#71 TRIVIA
8 CHARACTERS 1 WORD
“My dear Sophia, remember to be calm, be loving-unto-men, be gentle, be peaceful, be... CCXVII-G.R.S.”

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Clue 1: #71 likes to read apocrypha.
Clue 2: Sophia or Sofia? And who is this G. R. S.?
Clue 3: Page 217 of the Pistis Sofia, as translated by G. R. S. Mead.

Answer: Merciful
Explanation: Sophia is a reference to the Pistis Sofia, a Gnostic work translated by G. R. S. Mead. Page 217 contains the phrase "Be ye X" repeatedly, with X being, in order, calm, loving unto men, gentle, peaceful, and merciful.