#FindTheDoctor (series)

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#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[1], 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[2] 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.[3] The E was uniquely coloured red, making it the fourth clue.
  • 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 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.

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