FindTheDoctor (series)

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#FindTheDoctor
Publisher:	BBC Wales
Release date:	2021

#FindTheDoctor was clue-finding game set up and released in late 2021 as a promotion for the forthcoming Series 13. The ultimate goal was to determine the password to a hidden page on the official Doctor Who website. Each clue held a consisted of one letter of the password as well as a hint towards finding the next clue.

Clues

• The first clue was hinted at in the Series 13 trailer released on the Doctor Who YouTube channel on 26 July 2021. The video had a very faintly written "/mystery" at the bottom of the screen, leading to a web page on the Doctor Who website, which revealed the first clue as D, in the word hidden in the welcome message, and hinting that it begins: 13:13.13.

• On 13 August, the next clue was released on the same web page as the webcast A message from Yaz. The video ended with the text "The next clue is coming soon", with the C coloured red.

• The third clue came on 16 August with a promotional image from upcoming series, which was posted exactly at the time 13:13 and held a set of graffitied co-ordinates for Yaz's Park Hill flat in Sheffield. The number 5 in the co-ordinates was coloured green, giving it away as the next clue.

• The fourth clue was gained by following the co-ordinates of the previous clue, where a recent Park Hill photo on Google Maps (uploaded by a user called "John Smith") contained a TARDIS that had "FIND ME 14/07" graffitied. The E was uniquely coloured red, making it the fourth clue.

• The fifth letter was obtained by finding an Instagram post from 14 July, from the Doctor Who account which depicted of the Doctor holding up a piece of morse code reading Liverpool Gallery. The letter G was highlighted.

• Indeed, at the Liverpool Gallery a painting entitled La Boîte Bleue showed a landscape featuring the TARDIS and an anachronistic rocket in the 1860s. The letter Y was capitalised, making it the sixth clue.

• The rocket in the painting is found at the Science Museum. An exhibition at the museum was called Unknown object—RHCTDM-OEI-OLOAW/0209, and was a display of a sonic screwdriver, with the letter V capitalised.

• The next clue will likely be derived from the display name: "RHCTDM-OEI-OLOAW/0209" with the letters being an anagram of "DOCTOR-WHO-EMAIL", with the numbers "0209" representing the date "2 September".

Entries

#	Title	Cast & crew	Format	Release date	Clue	Notes
1	/mystery	None	Web page	26 July 2021	D	A mystery unfolds.
2	A message from Yaz	Mandip Gill	34 seconds webcast	13 August 2021	C	Yaz sends a voice message to the Doctor.
3	Promotional Image	Team TARDIS (picture)	Promo picture	16 August 2021	5	Co-ordinates are found on a promo picture.
4	Google Maps	Uncredited	Location	[16 August 2021	E	A graffitied TARDIS is found at Park Hill on Google Maps.
5	What’s the Doctor reading?	Thirteenth Doctor (image)	Image	14 July 2021	G	The Doctor is reading a Morse code
6	La Boîte Bleue	Uncredited	Short story	August 2021	Y	A portrait of a landscape featuring a strange blue box is mysteriously donated to a museum in Liverpool.
7	Unknown object—RHCTDM-OEI-OLOAW/0209	Uncredited	Display	13 August 2021	V	An unknown object is put on display at the Science Museum

Notes

• The first D in the welcome text on the official page on the Doctor Who website "Welcome to a mystery across space and time. Work together to solve the hidden clues and reveal a password below. #FindTheDoctor" was written in capital.

External links

• FindTheDoctor page on the official Doctor Who website