Hints

Grasshopper Print

• A print of a grasshopper surrounded by letters in a circular formation. This print is used in conjunction with the letter from Jasper.

Jewelry Box

• A small jewelry box with a mirror inside, crafted by Sylvia. It can be used with another item from this episode.

Letter from Jasper

• In this letter, Jasper recounts Aesop's fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper. The answer to Jasper's joke at the end of the letter can be decoded using the grasshopper print.
• The provided radians (2π/3, etc.) and their corresponding angles can be found on a standard radian circle. These angles match up with the positions of the letters in the grasshopper print.

Letter from Sylvia

• In the fifth paragraph Sylvia hints at a "rail fence" cipher, which is used to decode the message hidden in the bottom-right corner. Also note the timeline of the letter versus the previous letter from Sylvia that Jasper sent you.
• The hidden message "IFDY'EONAAVUW" can be decoded using a rail fence cipher with a height of 3 rows and a cycle of 4 units. To decode the message, we must arrange the message across the 3 rows of the "rail fence".

Listening Friends of America Letter

• In this letter, Meg checks up on you and compares the LFoA inspection process to photo development.

Scanned Journal Page

• This page is from Jasper's journal and can be read by using an item from this episode. There are several sketches and notes related to time. Also, one of the sketches is a hint to which PDF to open in the LFoA hidden archive.
• The writing on the page is backward and can be read by using the mirror inside the jewelry box.

Reveals

Letter from Jasper

• The answer to Jasper's joke is "HANDS" - this is the password for one of the PDFs in the hidden LFoA archives. The scanned journal page will reveal which PDF to apply the password to.

Letter from Sylvia

• To find the top row, divide the total units of the message by the cycle number, then round down to the next whole number. For this message, there are 13 units (12 letters and an apostrophe and 4 cycles. So, 13/4 = 3.25 = 3 full cycles. Because we had to round down, we also need to include 1 partial cycle to the top row. So the top row of the cipher has 4 units (3 full cycles + 1 partial cycle). These 4 units are the first 4 letters of the coded message, "IFDY". So far, the cipher will look like this:

  I . . . F . . . D . . . Y

  . . . . . . . . . . . .

  . . . . . . . . . . . .

• To find the middle row, we multiply the number of full cycles by 2. So, 3x2 = 6, which is the number of units in the middle row. This row is comprised of the next 6 letters in the message (including the apostrophe), "EONAA". The cipher now looks like this:

  I . . . F . . . D . . . Y

  . ' . E . O . N . A . A .

  . . . . . . . . . . . .

• To find the bottom row, we simply multiply the numbers of full cycles by 1. So, 3x1 = 1, which is the number of units in the bottom row. This row is comprised of the last three letters of the message, "VUW". The completed rail fence cipher looks like this:

  I . . . F . . . D . . . Y

  . ' . E . O. N . A . A .

  . . V . . . U . . . W . .

• Following the up-and-down pattern, the decoded message reads: "I'VE FOUND A WAY".