Legends of Alcatraz Puzzles 26-30 Solutions 11

Below you can find the solution to each puzzle, just click on the title to reveal the solution.

Puzzle 28 seemed to give people the most trouble this time, although the answer is relatively simple now we know what it is !

Thanks again to everyone that assisted in the comments.

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Puzzle 26 - Note To Self

An excercise in lateral thinking to translate the seemingly random characters.

Puzzle 27 - Boxed In

The clue here is "running in circles", follow the text in a circle to read the message.

The difficult bit is knowing where to start.

Puzzle 28 - Dearly Departed

From the two grids find the letters that match in both.

Then read the required answer by reading the first letter in each column and then the second letter in each column.

Puzzle 29 - Secret Decoder

As the description says, we have to decode the password. Each time this puzzle loads there is a different word to decode.

Start by entering seven letters and seeing if any of them are green (correct letter in the correct place) or yellow (correct letter in the wrong place).

By the time you get to the final try you should have been able to eliminate letters and have most if not all of them, if they are not in the right place then anagram them until you get an answer.

Once you have entered the correct password you get two emails and the answer for the puzzle is the two words in uppercase.

The content of the emails is interesting if you are following the story of this section of the Legends of Alcatraz.

Puzzle 30 - Poison Pen

The hard puzzle isn't that hard again, once you know what you are looking for.

There are two clues "This letter spelled the beginning of the end for Jasper" and "To make sense of my ramblings take note of where my words end and begin to see that I am actually quite direct."

Look for words that have the same end and start letter and take that letter as each part of the answer.

Legends of Alcatraz The Heists - Puzzles 26 - 30 26

The weekly set of puzzles has been unlocked and are ready for all you amateur sleuths.

Note To Self

(Easy)

Boxed In

(Easy)

Dearly Departed

(Medium)

Secret Decoder

(Medium)

Poison Pen

(Hard)

Body of Evidence - Legends of Alcatraz Event Report 15

The Crime Scene - @AlcatrazLegends

What is there to do in Brooklyn on a Friday night ? That's right discover the identity of a bank robber, the answer was obvious !

We still don't know 100% what went on during the night, but thanks to one excellent twitter and Alcatraz fan, we know a lot more than we might have done.

A huge thanks to @WildeKitchen for all the information and pictures.

Thanks also to @SkyLightNYC and of course @AlcatrazLegends for tweeting information and pictures.

Earlier in the day I had searched for potential people that might be attending but by searching I found out a lot more about Brooklyn than I did about Alcatraz. Mainly that it is mandatory for someone to tweet a picture of the Brooklyn bridge or mention "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" at least once every 10 minutes.

Serious point though, I really could't find anyone to follow, apart from people setting up the event, up until a few minutes before the event started. There were lots of late tweets sent out telling people about the event, but to honest I think that it was far too late to attract people to attend.

Reading the case file - @WildeKitchen

Anyway people did start to arrive at the bank and we had information about what was happening so I will try and describe what we know.

There has been a robbery or "A Heist" to put it in 1960's terms. The crime scene has been prepared ready for investigation. It is your task to solve the crime.

From what we can see this involved examining the evidence as displayed and completing paper reports with the answers to the various questions. A police report stated that shots were fired and upon police attendance two dead bodies were found at the scene. A large amount of cash was missing and Jasper LeForte was arrested, but claims he is innocent.

As with the previous event on Alcatraz, completing one investigating form allowed the "investigator" to move on to the next section of evidence.

Again in a similar vein to the previous event there was an interactive element where one of the suspects had to be interviewed to determine some evidence about them.

Gettaway Car - @AlcatrazLegends

There was even a gettaway car to examine, A Ford Mustang, of course !

So after all the investigations where did that leave us ? A final report was handed out to those that had completed their investigations and that had some interesting information.

Gerald Mulhaney, a security guard at the bank, was arrested as a prime suspect due to his fingerprints being at the scene. He maintained his innocence and that the two dead men, Fredriq Blanc and Zeke Creitzer, were the bank robbers.

In the bank managers office a false wall was found that concealed the rest of money and a gun.

It looks like the fingerprints on the gun, which was used to shoot the men, were from the Bank Manager (name unknown but see below). Due to the evidence found Mulhaney was exhonerated of the crime.

Report - @WildeKitchen

On the final report there is one more thing, a scribbled note from Doc Soto with a phone number. When called there is a voice mail message from Soto -

"Good news bad news time.

The good news, you solved the crime and identified Landenberg as the true robber slash murderer.

The bad news he just took off. Yeah, so you gotta track him down.

The trail is heating up on LegendsOfAlcatraz.com."

Thanks to ObFuSc8 for the transcription.

So the we are assuming the bank manager is "Landenberg" and that he is the target of the next phase of Legends of Alcatraz, which starts on Monday.

There's More - @AlcartazLegends

That leaves us with a few unanswered questions -

- Who is Landenberg and what has he got to do with Alcatraz

- Where is Percival Stenardson ?

- What happened to Jasper, mentioned in the original crime report.

Your thoughts and theories on this event and the information, as always, are welcome in the comments section.

More pictures from the evening -

No Sleep Till Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower 114

The second Legends of Alcatraz event takes place tonight at the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower at 7:30pm

Information updated on the LoA site says the event will last 2-3 hours, parking not provided, and if you are under 18 you must be accompanied.

There is also now a link to a Google map of the location people will have to be at.

I have set up a List on Twitter so we can follow anyone involved in the event. However the list looks very bare at the moment, so if you know of anyone attending that uses Twitter then please let us know who they are.

The Heists - Brooklyn - 17th of February

We have just noticed that the second section of the puzzle page is open.

There will be a Legends Event on the 17th of February at 7:30pm.