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Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon Hints
How can I decode the letter in the envelope?
1 of 17: You'll have to first figure out what order to put the decoder's five rotors in, and what letters to set on each one.
2 of 17: Get the coded letter out onto the table to see that it doesn't have a helpful header on it like the other page did.
3 of 17: However, the envelope has a postmark on it. Maybe it can tell you what month to use.
4 of 17: Click on the envelope for a close-up, then point the cursor at the top of the postmark to see that it was stamped on August 28.
5 of 17: So you'll be using the letters A, U, G, U, and S on the rotors, but there's no point in setting their letters until you get them put in the correct order.
6 of 17: To help with that, look at the "Janos's note" document.
7 of 17: It has the days of the week written in German, with five numbers (in regular numerals) written to the right of each day.
8 of 17: If you translate the five Roman numerals that are on the other page's header, you'll get 4, 3, 1, 5, and 2.
9 of 17: Checking the note, you'll see that those go with Dienstag (Tuesday).
10 of 17: So now you need to figure out what day of the week the coded letter is associated with.
11 of 17: Perhaps it's the day the letter was postmarked.
12 of 17: You'll find that it was a Saturday, which is bad news, since the numbers for Friday and Saturday are unreadable on Janos' note.
13 of 17: You'll have to analyze the number orders for Sunday thru Thursday to see if you can find a pattern to use in deducing Friday's and Saturday's number orders.
14 of 17: Saturday's numbers are 2-5-4-1-3, which is II-V-IV-I-III in Roman numerals.
15 of 17: Put the decoder's rotors in II-V-IV-I-III order, then set their letters to A-U-G-U-S.
16 of 17: After you do that, you can start carefully typing in the coded letter like you did with the other coded message.
17 of 17: If you get halfway through the third line without making too many mistakes, Father Arno will automatically finish it and put the decoded letter in with your documents.
