The Hollow Tide
Some doors should stay beneath the water.
One case. A table full of theories.
Thirteen strikes sound from a drowned church. A disconnected telephone rings. Mara hears a voice that sounds like her missing brother.
$12.00 USD
- 2–4 adults
- Everyone investigates
- Print at home
56 pages · all four print editions.
Digital download. No physical item is shipped.
Made for your printer.
All four print editions are included as separate ZIP downloads. After purchase, download the one for your paper size and ink preference.
Extract that ZIP, open START-HERE.txt, then 00-Read-First.pdf. Print the numbered packets or the Complete Game PDF, not both.
A4
Colour
Low-ink
US Letter
Colour
Low-ink
Case details & content notes
On Halloween night in Blackwater, thirteen bell strikes cross the harbour, and a disconnected telephone speaks in a voice Mara Voss recognizes as her missing brother’s. Harbour warden Ada Fen sends you the night’s letters, testimony and instrument records: follow what the town would rather dismiss and uncover what its lantern ritual protects.
Follow the paper trail through three acts and six linked puzzles. Read the people behind the evidence, test your deductions, then open the sealed ending when your case is complete.
Your download includes 56 pages: 33 player pages, 18 optional hint pages, and five pages of solutions and ending. Each puzzle has separate Nudge, Method and Check files, so you can open or print only the help you need. Choose A4 or US Letter, in colour or low-ink; all four editions and plain-text companions are included.
Begin with START-HERE.txt and 00-Read-First.pdf. Print at home, gather a pencil and follow the packet order. No app, account or internet connection is needed after downloading. This is a digital game; no physical item will be shipped.
Content notes: grief, a missing family member, borrowed voices, deep water and cosmic dread. No graphic injury.
Open a page before you open the case.
Read the opening pages and meet the world of The Hollow Tide before you buy. The sample contains no puzzle answers.
Read the opening sample PDF“You have left one of us outside.”
