The story
A story you don’t read. One you walk through.
The watchmaker Elias Brandt vanishes without a trace from his workshop in the courtyards off Rosenthaler Straße. He leaves behind an unfinished pocket watch, a locked drawer — and a single note: “For whoever keeps looking.”
Ninety years later, a letter arrives at your address. It’s addressed to you. And it’s written in his hand.
Your trail begins where Berlin’s time began. Eight stops. Eight riddles. One secret that has waited ninety years for someone to keep looking.
“For whoever keeps looking.”
Chapter 3 · The Clockmaker’s Hand
The letter leads you through an archway into the first courtyard. Elias’s note is short: “Time doesn’t run here. It stands — high above the street, for everyone to read.”
Riddle 3
I have hands, but no arms. I have a face, but no eyes. The whole of Mitte reads me every day. What are they reading?
8 hand-crafted riddles
Every riddle is solved by looking at the real city — façades, courtyards, details you’d otherwise walk past.
A chapter of story at every stop
You’re not collecting tasks. You’re following a narrator through a mystery that unfolds with every step you take.
3 hints per riddle, if you need them
Stuck? Every riddle comes with three graduated hints. Using them costs nothing — except a little pride.