“it’s just a phase…”

You’re almost to the end! The next clue lies in the night sky, a familiar of Dracula’s in its own right. You travel outside into the blackness, with only the moon to light your way. Ancient peoples often used the moon as a sort of calendar, the changing phases as an indicator of time. Your next clue involves noticing the same kind of patterns.

You look at a diagram of the moon’s phases well as a peculiar list of numbers. What could be your next clue?

list: 1620, 1867, 1966, 2020

You hear the whisper of the wind:

“On All Hallows Eve, the moon doth burn bright,

Three dates have passed, the fourth near in sight.

Thou’st phase tells a tale, go forward or back,

The final place rests, one number to crack.”

to solve:

• Use the moon calculator here to see the phases of each year.

• Think of the image above as a number line.

• Find the final number.

When you’re ready, click below to enter the passcode:

Hint: The final value is one digit.