Dracula: Origin Hints

How can I open the locked tool shed?

  • 1 of 19: In order to open the door, you need to find the combination to the four-digit lock.
  • 2 of 19: Find somebody in the cemetery who can give you some advice on what that combination might be. There's someone quite close by.
  • 3 of 19: Head up one screen from the shed, and you will meet Mr. Paul Long, the gravedigger.
  • 4 of 19: He doesn't know the code, but he will give you two crucial hints to finding it.
  • 5 of 19: His master told him the combination could be found on the mausoleum of J.B. Lemon and his wife.
  • 6 of 19: And, once you have found that combination, he also said his master told him to swap the numbers around, so that a 6 becomes a 9, and so on.
  • 7 of 19: He also tells you that the mausoleum in question can be found on the far side of the cemetery.
  • 8 of 19: Van Helsing will let you know which is the right one when you examine it, but for a shortcut head as follows:
  • 9 of 19: From the tool shed, head one screen to the right, then down the steps, around the side of the circular building and up the steps on the far side, then up one more set of stairs.
  • 10 of 19: It seems the information on the mausoleum is dirty and you are going to need to find a way to clean it.
  • 11 of 19: Once the writing has been registered in your notes, process it.
  • 12 of 19: Work out what four numbers might be the code to the door.
  • 13 of 19: You have the birth and death dates of John and Suzy Lemon. They both died in their sixties.
  • 14 of 19: One was 69, and one was 68.
  • 15 of 19: Now remember what the gravedigger told you about swapping the numbers.
  • 16 of 19: The sixes should become nines.
  • 17 of 19: And, the nine should become a six.
  • 18 of 19: The eight will stay the same.
  • 19 of 19: The code to the combination lock is 9698.