The prequel to The Keeper's Last Light
Caloundra, late 1942. The lighthouse keeper rings you in the night: something in his own log is wrong, and he needs a stranger's eyes. Five puzzles, three phone calls, one night. Free, and it plays anywhere.
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The case
All week, without a word of explanation, Walter Pendleton has posted you carbon copies of his lighthouse log. You are a volunteer coastwatcher at a post up the coast, and you have never met him.
Tonight your phone rings. Something in his figures has been nagging at him, and he needs someone nobody at the signal station has ever heard of. By first light you will know why, and he will put you on tomorrow night's roster at Caloundra Head.
The Keeper's Log is the free prequel to The Keeper's Last Light. Play it on the couch, on the bus or at your kitchen table: it needs no travel and no location.
Good for A quick puzzle breakPlaying anywhereHistory buffsTrying The Hunt Is On for free
Characters and events are fictional. The place and the wartime setting are real.
Yes. It is free, and it plays anywhere.
About 10 to 15 minutes: five puzzles and three phone calls.
No. You play it seated, on your phone, wherever you are. It is set at the Caloundra lighthouse in late 1942.
No. It plays in your phone's web browser, and every spoken line is also on screen.
It is the free prequel. The Keeper's Last Light is the outdoor mystery played on foot at Caloundra Head.
Not yet. Get the launch email on this page and we will tell you the day it opens.
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