The Answers
Answer 1
The answer is “IORT”.
The text above the door next to the arch has the words “London Leather, Hide and Wool Exchange”. The code is SGFRGF, STQZITK _O_ _ & VGGS TEIQFUTW. You need to identify that the alphabet the code spells out the words “London Leather, Hide and Wool Exchange” with a different alphabet. Looking at the other words in the text, you can identify that the rule in the new alphabet is that H=I, I=O, D=R, T=E.
Answer 2
The answer is “pawn”.
You turn down Leathermarket street, walk past the archway with number 22 above it and then a little while ahead, opposite the gardens, is a gate in Leathermarket Court with an image of a weather vane with a pawn-shaped base etched onto the gate.
Answer 3
The answer is “The Morocco Store”.
Continue down the street you are on and you will see a bookshop with green doors, which is the reference to the “green entrances”. Opposite this is another building with a horse or “stallion” head on the side and the round worded corner is the store entrance that is on the corner of the building with the words “The Morocco Store” written above it.
Answer 4
The answer is “6”.
Continue down the road away from The Morocco Store, where you see the sculpture, which includes skulls and elephants. To the right of the sculpture, there is a depiction of Tower Bridge and to its right, there are the words “League of Legends” written. To the left of this, are compass arrows, with “North”, “East”, “West” but not “South” inscribed. Under where “South” should be, there is the letter “6”. Hence, this is the number of the missing direction.
Answer 5
The answer is “Lassco / Lassco Flooring”.
Continue down Tanner Street and you see “Hatchers” written along a building on the left-hand side which you follow along until you arrive at the crossroads. “Continue tanning” is telling you to stay on Tanner Street until you see a store called “Lassco Flooring”, hence the “floored” reference.
Answer 6
The answer is “Tin Box”.
(+1)(+2)(+3) (+3)(+2)(+1) = UKQ EQY
You move the letters on the right side of the equals sign based on what is in the brackets in the corresponding placement on the right-hand side of the equals sign.
E.g. if X+1 = U, then X must be T.
If you do this for each letter, you will arrive at the answer, TIN BOX.
Answer 7
The answer is “Simon Andreyev”.
Identify the correct dealer via the process of elimination.
Dennis cannot be the drug lord in question, as he only smuggles drugs via plane, which is not possible for London. Gretta is also not the drug lord, as she doesn’t operate in the boroughs that are of interest to us.
Between Jane and Simon, on the face of it, they both look like viable options. However, Jane recently took a hit to her net worth, so no longer meets the requirements.
This then only leaves Simon as a possibility.
Answer 8
The answer is “34”.
You had to move the first moveable disk 3 times anti-clockwise and the second disk 4 times clockwise to create boat-related words such as “Wharf”, “Winch”, “Wreck”, “Waves”, “Waded”, “Wells”, “Walls” and “Weirs”.
Answer 9
The answer is “Butler / Butler’s Wharf”.
The words “Butler’s Wharf” are written on a building slightly up-river, towards Tower Bridge. A butler is a form of servant, and therefore this wharf is where the “servant” lives.
Answer 10
The answer is “18”.
Walk away from Paul McCartney’s home, straight all the way to the City Cruises station, which is at the wall where the first segment of the path directly along the river ends. The stripy buildings are the homes on your right-hand side and just ahead of them, you will see Angel Wharf and on this building is a plaque about Corbetts Wharf and the year it was built – 1934.
If you take 19, subtract 3 and add 4, you get the number 18.
Answer 12
The answer is “5”.
At the point 1 on the image you were sent, look at Dr Salter’s info board. It is stated there that Ada was elected National President of the Womens’ Labour League in 1914. Adding the final two digits (4 and 1), gives you 5.
Answer 13
The answer is “16, 1, 9”.
Find location 2 on the image. This will take you to the Angel pub. There’s a sign outside the pub states that, although the pub was rebuilt in the 19th century, the pub was originally built in the 17th century, so it’s in the 1600s. So the first two digits are 16. You can see that the pub’s street number is 101, on which the calculation of 1x1-0=1 is done. This gives the second digit, 1. For the final digit use the 101 street number to do, 10 minus 1, which gives 9.
Answer 14
The answer is “18”.
Point 3 on the image you were sent takes you to an info board titled “King Edwards III’s Manor House”.
The warehouses were redeveloped in the 1980s. If you swap the second and third digit, this gives you 1890. Taking the first two digits of this number is the answer (18).
Answer 15
The answer is “6, 12 ,5”.
At the railings near the river, with the white house located directly in front of you, you will see a steel map. Compare the steel map to the image you were sent.
The difference is at numbers 6, 12 and 5.
The 6 is from 20 Fenchurch Street that has been changed to 6 Fenchurch street.
The 12 is from Tower 42 that has been changed to Tower 12.
The 5 is from 30 St Mary Ave that has been changed to 5 St Mary Ave.
Answer 16
The answer is “5, 20”.
The “golden engravings” are found on the statue dedicated to Elizabeth the 2nd. For the first number, you’ll see the number 5 that is written directly above the letter E (it’s alphabetical twin - as it’s the 5th letter in the alphabet).
The second number is 20, as this is the mirror image of the year 2002. The mirror image of the last two letters, 02 are 20.
Answer 17
The answer is “SOCKET”.
The plaque identifies that the graveyard walls were repaired in 1886. Enter the graveyard here and cross to where you see the free convent school. In the image you were sent that sketches the buildings nearby.
The numbers in front of the brackets relate to which set of text to look at on the buildings, and the numbers in the brackets relate to the letter being referred to. So, the first letter, the code is 1 (16), you look at the first building and the 16th letter within that text (which is S), and so on. All the letters together are SOCKET.
Answer 18
The answer is REPAIR. FLEET. SOCKET.
Turn each number into the letter they represent in the alphabet (e.g. 1=A). These three words are used as what3wrds coordinates, which finds the location “Greenland Quay”.