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This is a comprehensive and complete roundup of the answers submitted by various users and brought together by the OP. A lot of this was solved in chat, mainly by Deusovi, Rubio, Techidiot and Volatility. The answer to this is Because Each algebraic equation: Doing this for every equation gives: So Transcribed this is If we use However EPILOGUE ...

Solution: Explanation: When the QR code is decrypted, we are given NGnc7. As @LeppyR64 figured out, this is an Imgur address, which leads us to this image: Open this image with a text editor and you will find the bitcoin address at the end (see here for an image): Running a blockchain search for this address gives us : And that address belongs to... ...

Solved Map: Individual Puzzles: As per @Henkie's post, the second door from EXAMPLE ROOM solved COLLISIONS solved REASSEMBLY solved GET TWO FREE solved MAZES IN MAZES solved HALF THE PICTURE solved MIND GAMES solved WHERE ARE YOU? solved ILL OMENS solved ACCOLADES solved BACKTRACKING solved GOAL IN SIGHT solved BLOCK CIPHER solved BLOCK ...

Partial - No time to finish it now As was mentioned by Beastly Gerbil the QR-Code decodes to: This points to a new image: With this image: Next Step:

Solution: EDIT FROM OP

Partial... We get Hence, Which when applied on the meaning less letters gives - Lets try solving the algebraic equations - With the help of @Rubio and @Deusovi it seems like a pattern stating (Paragraph Number-Letter+Number of characters to move towards Direction(E,W,N,S) Applying this on the image of the page we get Hence the sequence we get is - ...

The first stage leads us fairly clearly to And here are the clues in total this leads us to Which clues The spoiler text is This brings us to The title of which is While the text decodes to All credit to everything going on here

Partial answer Following from @Techidiot's finding, which seems to be the clue for what @Deusovi figured out with the "meaningless letters".

Final Complete Answer: The original image QR gives: Clicking on the image and reading the QR there gives Notably it's upside down The barcode on the cereal says: And the QR says: The barcode on the side gives a link to here The QR there says: The barcode there says: there is also a hidden imgur address which leads to: The solution to the ...

(OP Edit: This answer solves the final (and crucial) part of the puzzle. For a complete answer, please see BeastyGerbil's answer, which includes the works of BeastlyGerbil, olesaw, MOehm and Xenocacia.) I feel bad posting this as an answer when other people have done so much of the work, and I'm missing some of the details, but I believe the answer to the ...

Partial answer: Maze 1 Maze 2 Maze 3 (solved by ffao) Maze 4 And 2012rcampion has solved the fourth maze! ...Maze? 5

Full answer: First: Second: Third: Fourth: I noticed few things: Thanks to @Techidiot: I've already guessed the correct solution, but he gave me the right way to approach the answer. Fifth: Sixth: 7th:thanks @Sid for the tip: Notes: 8th: 9th: Last: The solution: That was so much fun, thanks @Techidiot for the puzzle I learned a ...

On the first page, the right side Collisions:

Step 1: The Music Box Transcription: Transcribed Values: (using @supinf method) BASS CLEF (ROWS): 7 1 2 3 7 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 4 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 2 1 1 5 5 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 9 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 4 1 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 3 9 1 2 2 2 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 8 1 3 ...

Clicking on the picture gives an image with the text The answer must be 5 letters. It is Which using the conversion table gives Which is Which is @oleslaw got it. It is Which is @oleslaw got this too, it is Which is The answer (from @MOehm) is Which is The answer from @MOehm is Which is So we must look at the signs we've seen through our ...

Partial Answer The meaningless letters Each line seems to clue some word:

The person who emailed you is trying to tell you Your mind wanders back to the effort they put into hiding this message... Clicking on the image you found a picture of a bookcase and a computer. The bookcase contained links which led to other images. A lot were filler images, but there were a few that caught your eye... The trickiest to find Ordering ...

Grandpa has gone to The first note - Box One - Box Two - Back to Box One -

Which finally gives Text version - Decoding the above Now Text version As @Gareth already figured out the key, trying to look at the note we get Finally Which is

(Don't worry, I haven't been spoiled for this! I just know the final passcode and that's it.) After a few story images, we get to this: Now we have a branch! That final image contains a code using the same method as the other codes we've seen so far. That code decodes to the password:

The missing door is - > Explanation - Hence - Which gives - Next... More findings - So, So The Door!

Following on from rhsquared: Now to decipher that: Could that be the final answer, or is there more to discover?

Continuing from oleslaw's answer: I go to ... This leads us to ... So I say: The last image has ... So there's a final answer that we can find in the journey.

Ignoring all the other smart discoveries, So, this means either or

Working from Sid's answer, and taking into account that: New image! which is: So, another image! And we find the final solution hidden in this riddle:

Solution of mazes 2 and 3 Maze 2 Sounds like you guys need some programming duty! Thanks in huge part to @Anton's huge help in organizing all the paths in a friendly format, I was able to quickly cook a Python script that goes through all possibilities: import itertools BASE62 = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" def ...

Community Wiki from OP with complete answer: By clicking on the image we get To get the next image Which is This is So Giving which is This is If part of the image is higher up then it represents capitalization. This gives Giving The They give Which is Sign language for which is the final image The answer is which is hidden

Partial solution (puzzles 1-5) First puzzle: Second puzzle: Third puzzle: Fourth puzzle: Fifth puzzle: Sixth puzzle:

Using a QR Scanner, I get the text NGnc7 I imagine that in the list of suspects the line of letters and numbers will have the first two capitals N and G, the two lowercase letters after that n and c and the first number after that 7 Alternatively it could be something to do with the initials EDIT: The others realized it was an imgur adress, which lead ...

Continuing on @LeppyR64's answer: Which belongs to: