#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.
- 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.[4] 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
Footnotes
- ↑ https://www.doctorwho.tv/mystery
- ↑ https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1427241999824998401
- ↑ https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/118164341164227766191/place/ChIJ-W_XvZ2CeUgR_F8gW3HiXMY/@53.3802575,-1.4589828,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m7!1e2!3m5!1sAF1QipPki_vn7dLT_wBko5CY-HN8hNGFxW57udBWPVHi!2e10!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPki_vn7dLT_wBko5CY-HN8hNGFxW57udBWPVHi%3Dw389-h260-k-no!7i5749!8i3833!4m6!1m5!8m4!1e2!2s118164341164227766191!3m1!1e1
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CRSv2tbrqxX/