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Room 214

Medium difficulty · Fictional mystery

The investigation

Can you see what the scene is hiding?

A hotel owner is found dead behind a locked door. A key, a length of string, a heater, and a melting puddle turn an impossible room into a solvable mechanism.

Evidence noteThe lock was operated by something designed to disappear.

This is an original fictional fair-play mystery. The clues are presented for entertainment; no real people or events are depicted.

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