Have you seen the symbols on the stamps on any other items in your envelope? Also, what is a pangram?

The symbols on the stamps can be seen on the threat letter pieces (Scrambled Letters item.) A pangram is a sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. The Post Card will help you find the right sequence of the Threat Letter pieces.

Go to the “Threat Letter” hint to continue.

Please cut the letter into 35 pieces (follow the dashed line.) If you find the right sequence of the pieces, the other side will become a text. You cannot do this without solving the Post Card.

You have two pangrams using every letter of English alphabet. You also have numbers on pieces. Some numbers are repeated. You got this!

Place all the pieces numbers facing up. 1 = A, 2 = B. If the number is repeated, you are using the sequence of symbols pictured on the stamps on the Post Card. Put all numbers in a sequence that equals the pangram sentence. Flip the pieces. The first pangram doesn’t create the text on the other side of the pieces but the second one creates the following: “I know who you are. 99 francs Pont de Tolbiac May 10 9 PM or I will tell him.”

The jewelry box looks mysterious. If only you could find a way to open it! It’s not a coincidence that there is a riddle in the mirror.

The riddle you see in the photo is mirrored. Hold it in front of a mirror or take a picture and flip it horizontally. When is it that you can’t see much? Pay attention to the number of letters (back side of the picture.)

Go to www.darkness.scarletenvelope.ca to access the lock.

Sometimes all the solution needs to be is to look at something in a different light.

Look at the source of light through the paper (facing the text.) The lines on the back of the paper highlight some of the letters.

Highlighted letters together = “High Priestess keeps secrets inside”

There is clearly some connection between the tarot card and the lock of the jewelry box. The fiance’s letter will help you understand what to do.

There are two ways to solve this mystery. Either solve the Fiance’s Letter for a clue OR investigate the card carefully and with attention to detail.

Disassemble the card and have a look inside! Be careful (!), it consists of two parts glued together. If you are careful enough you can even glue it back after :)

To unlock the lock and peek inside the jewelry box, you have to figure out the sequence of moons’ positions. The Tarot card will help you with that. Only open Help & Answer if you solved all the layers of the Tarot card (see the previous hint called “Tarot card”)

When you look inside the tarot card, you find the clue in red (mirror it to read it.) The Phrase in white sounds like something people use to remember the colors.

To unlock the lock, you need the sequence of positions of the moons pictured on the front side of the Tarot Card. The Blue moon is already in the lock.

“Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain“ is a phrase people use to remember the sequence of colors in the rainbow. It shares the same initial letters (ROYGBIV) as Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. This way, “Vain Battle Of York” = VBOY. Using the front side of the Tarot Card you use the following: Violet moon (horns facing the right side), Blue is already in the lock (facing up), Orange (facing down), Yellow (facing left.) If you’re having trouble accessing the lock, go here.

Looks like the text is color coded.

Separate the highlighted letters by color groups. The colors look familiar, right?

Use the same sequence VBOY and mix the letters in color groups to create words. Your answer is “time = letter № of ingredient”. Paracelcus is the author of the old “Encyclopedia of poisons” which page you can now open because you unlocked the jewelry box. This is where you’re going with this clue.

This page consists of two separate puzzles. The goal of this one is to figure out which poison is Colette going to use. So many ways to poison a person. Some clearly have advantages over the other.

Follow Colette’s notes and have a look inside the jewelry box. Maybe Colette has already started preparing the poison?

The symbol on the bottle inside the jewelry box means Saturn, so the bottle is the “Salt of Saturn” mentioned as one of the ingredients of the “Powder of Succession” only.

Goal - Figuring out the 10-letter keyword for the link. Solve the Lover’s Letter to find a clue and work with the ingredients section of the Encyclopedia of Poisons.

Look for the “time” in Medea’s portrait. Use the clue from the Lover’s letter to connect the time and the ingredients section. If you count all the symbols in the ingredients section, it’s a total of 10 symbols. Only open HELP2 for the full puzzle’s explanation.

Have a look at the clock on Medea’s portrait. Some hours = four different symbols. I.e., triangle facing down = 2. You can find the same triangle facing down placed on the illustration IV. “BELLADONNA”, under #5. You have a total of 10 symbols in the ingredients section and you have a 10-letter keyword. You also had a clue saying “time = letter № of ingredient”, so each of those ten symbols represents the number of the letter in the keyword. In our example the fifth letter of the keyword = the second letter in “BELLADONNA” (triangle facing down equals 2 on the clock). Your letter is E.

When you go through all the letters you find the keyword “veuvenoire” (it’s French for black widow.) Go to www.veuvenoire.scarletenvelope.ca.