Delving into the hidden secrets of the past, we have found a set of puzzles, each of which holds the key to a different mystery. Help us solve these puzzles in order to reveal the truth, discover a new secret, and solve the Year of Mysteries! Each month, we'll reveal a new puzzle. Solve it to reveal more of the truth, and add your name or alias to the leaderboard to see how you rank among the other detectives in the Roll for Combat community!

Get the Year of Mysteries for D&D 5E and Pathfinder, and play as a mysterious creature from folklore and urban legend! Discover the hidden secrets and solve the puzzles of 13 unique mysterious ancestries throughout the year!

Mystery Shack

Stumbling across a small, unobtrusive shack at the edge of a swamp, you step inside to find it abandoned. The only indication that anyone has used the building is a tattered notebook on a wooden table. This seems to be the journal of an unlucky thief who was planning a journey into the swamp to find “something priceless.” The final pages contain four lists; glancing at the phrase written above each list, you surmise the thief was speculating on what the treasure could be, what they might need to procure it, and what threats they might encounter along the way. Each list is encoded with a different cipher where one letter is substituted for a different letter; this substitution is consistent for all words in one list (for instance, if OLQPIDQ decoded to “burglar,” you would know that Q should be decoded to R for all words in that list). If you can decode everything, you might solve the mystery of what happened to the thief!