Hello, and thank you for purchasing "Seven Dial Murders". A few rules here to help you with your game.

1: DO NOT close the page that contains the game. This will log you out completely and you will be taken back to the start. You can move through the quest by pressing next and previous however do not close the page it is on. You can swap tabs and switch pages with no problems. 

2: You will have to solve a series of clues and puzzles to work through the game. Please note; there are hints you can ask for to give you a nudge what to do however if you are well and truly stuck the downloadable answer sheet with the correct answers was emailed to you on purchase. (Only look if you are in desperate need - no peeking). The answers may be drop down answers, multiple choice or require you to write in a word/letters or numbers. Just make sure to always check the spelling.

3. You can go forward and backwards in between pages so you can check on orientation and where you have been.

4. If you click on an image to open it, it will open in a new tab. When you are completed with it and want to shut it down just make sure you do not close the original page. You could also just zoom in on the picture instead of opening it. 

5. You will also learn lots of interesting facts about London as you progress through. Just make sure to tick the box after the fact to allow you to continue.

6: There is absolutely no time limit, so feel free to pop into any bars/pubs or shops that you want on your way around; sampling the delights that Covent Garden has to offer. 

7. Lastly; have fun and good luck.

“The stranger who finds himself in the Dials for the first time…at the entrance of Seven obscure passages, uncertain which to take, will see enough around him to keep his curiosity awake for no inconsiderable time…” - Dickens

There’s been some strange goings on. A string of mysterious murders have taken place around Covent Garden and seven dials over the centuries. Some people think there may be something other worldly going on.

Many have looked into this phenomenon, however as of yet no one has been able to uncover the truth. 

You have been researching this for years; and feel you now have all the information to get to the bottom of these vicious murders; once and for all. No matter what it takes. You are on the trail of the would be killer....but can you get to him before it is too late? 

Once you are at your start point of Covent Garden Station, London WC2E 9JT, click ready and begin your quest.

"Ah a site with a history of gruesome goings on…. One evening, in the December of 1897, an actor, William Terriss was entering the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre. Unbeknownst to him, round the corner stood Richard Archer Prince, a fellow actor who was jealous of Terriss’ success… so jealous, he stabbed Terriss to death. Prince fled to James’ street, where he was caught. However, that was not the last the crowds saw Terriss perform - sightings of his ghost around Covent Garden station remain to this day…"

Looking out from the station, turn right onto Long Acre then immediately left  and walk down Neal Street  till you get to the crown and anchor pub. As you reach the pub, you find a note on the ground - at the top of the page is a letter S. The note reads: 'Ah I’ll never forget this first murder of this lazy oaf I found around here all those years ago.. I hid his body under a pub that was just about to be built, his skeleton remains right under the bar… but can you think what year that was?'

Covent Garden was once the bustling centre of an Anglo-Saxon trading town.

Established about a mile to the west of Londinium—the old Roman settlement now known as the City of London or “the Square Mile”—was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon trading town called Lundenwic, centered around the area that is now Covent Garden.

Described by the English monk, Bede the Venerable, in the 8th century as “a trading centre for many nations who visit it by land and sea”, the Old English term -wic derived from the Latin word vicus for “trading town”—so Lundenwic meant “London trading town”.

During Viking invasions in the 9th century, the Danish “Great Heathen Army” sacked Londinium and held it until 886 when Alfred the Great, “King of the Anglo-Saxons”, recaptured it and repaired the Roman walls.

As trading shifted to Londinium once more, Lundenwic was abandoned and became a wasteland.

Lundenwic became known as Ealdwic, meaning “old trading town”.

Recent excavations in Covent Garden have revealed that the early Anglo-Saxon settlement once stretched from where the National Gallery is now to the area called Aldwych—some 150 acres.

Excellent. Well done team... a good start. You know the next murder committed wasn't far away.

You know you need to get to 7 dials, you don't stay on Neal Street for Long, turning right out of the front doors of the pub you look for Earlham Street, and keep walking until you get to the Cambridge Theatre.

You search the area diligently, and can just make out some writing carved into the walls outside of the theatre, with the letter P on top this time : 'Ah I remember this one. The actor, William. An awfully arrogant man. As was the gentleman who killed him. You see, it was all too easy. Of course the other actor wanted to kill him, but it was me who made him do it… Some say it was Terris’ fault for uttering the name of a play he shouldn’t have…'

What three letters sit beside the Cambridge Theatre?

Covent Garden derives its name from the French word couvent meaning Convent

“Covent Garden” is essentially a corruption of “Convent Garden” using the French couvent derivation as opposed to the Latin conventus. Couvent means a religious building such as a nunnery or monastery.

By the 13th century, most of the present Covent Garden area was land belonging to Westminster Abbey which included a walled vegetable garden tended by the monks.

As you read the three letters out loud a darkness surrounds you, a piercing scream fills the air and a loud menacing voice resounds in your ears. 



"You dare to follow, and try to find
What I tried to leave behind.
This will be the last thing you ever do
Work out these words or to Hellfire with you."

"When you have me more, you can see only less. What Am I?"

You now need to find and then walk up Short's Gardens , turning left into Neal's Yard.

You arrive in Neal's Yard and find some more writing...etched in to the bottom of a barrel. The letter on this is a G: 'Oh how I enjoyed this one. A group of endless-stomached pigs, stuffing their faces with food and drink. They didn’t even know what they were putting in them, so I knew I could slip some poison into their meals with no question. I was narrowly avoided by a young Nicholas Saunders, celebrating his 21st birthday in the square. But what year did he escape me?'

Covent Garden was the first piazza in London.

Influenced by the grand piazza’s of Europe, Covent Garden’s piazza was originally bounded by “portico houses” on its north and east sides with continuous arcades running underneath, creating a passageway reminiscent of the Place des Vosges in Paris.

Known as the Great Piazza and the Little Piazza respectively, the houses sold quickly to aristocrats and court society.

Excellent. You know you must be getting closer...the little clues leading you ever nearer.

You exit Neal's Yard, making sure you come out on Monmouth street then turn right, the veer right again onto Neal's Street and look to the astrology shop. You see the fourth piece of writing...this tie engraved into the window, titled ‘V’.  You take a look at the writing underneath..:  'The foolish lady who used to run this the shop, so obsessed with her tarot cards and using her little magic to keep herself young and beautiful… she should have known better than to think she could cheat me - no one can beat me! I took her life on her birthday, the 7th of August, then fed her to my pets to be eaten. But what beast enjoyed her for a meal?'

Covent Garden has run a market since 1656.

Setting up stalls against the garden wall of Bedford House, the early market traders served mostly wealthy tenants.

Wooden rails were erected around the piazza and traders with baskets, trestles and carts congregated on the south side outside the rails.

After the Great Fire of London in 1666, scores of Londoners left the City and descended on Covent Garden.

Dozens of traders hawking fruit and vegetables became an established feature of Covent Garden.

Granted a Royal Charter in 1670, the Earl of Bedford sought to regulate the market’s spread.

And in 1830, his descendant John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, commissioned English architect Charles Fowler to build a neo-classical market building that remains at the heart of Covent Garden today.

Suddenly....thunder and lightning converge on you; with rain beating down into your face. In the window of the Astrology Shop two images appear...you know you need to read out the right word to stop this weather...but what is it? Can you piece together the two images to come up with a 5 letter word?

As you read out TRIKS the weather suddenly turns good...with the suns rays beating through the dark clouds.

You rush on to the next murder....knowing you are getting closer, but things seem to be getting more and more dangerous. 

Turning left from the Astrology shop, you pass down Neal Street, turning right onto Short's Street. You then cross over the roundabout onto Earlham Street. Looking out for the Vintage Showroom. You and your team rush into it, searching it for any further signs from the killer. "A-HA" shouts someone from one of the back rooms. They have noticed a small envelope stuffed into a cracked wall. It is headed with the Letter ‘L’: 'This street is full of sin. Brothels and parlours filled each house in another century. You could say I prepared the inhabitants for where they ended up, surrounded by fire. Yes, the warehouse was all too easy to set alight. I stood outside and watched it all burn. Now if I say F E G L G G I W… what letter is missing to you?'

Covent Garden was an 18th-century red-light district

Published from 1757 to 1795, Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies was an annual directory of prostitutes working in and around Covent Garden.

In lurid detail, the pocketbook described the physical appearance of the Covent Garden Ladies and their sexual specialties.

Miss B of Old Compton is described as:

Miss R from Rathbone Place:

Walk to Monmouth street entrance then walk down - You find the 6th letter, on it is a big ’G’: Once upon a time, this place was full of the wealthy - bankers, landlords, businessmen. Some of them wanted to be so successful, three even tried to make deals with me. I had great joy in bringing them down to my domain… There are 11 crosses on the odd side of this road, all indicators of where I killed these parasites. I took great pleasure in bringing three of them down with me, and marked the cross in my favourite colour...but what is it?

Both the Royal Opera House and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane are said to be haunted

During construction work in 1999, workers were struck by flying debris.

Bits of brick and metal would be flung at them throughout the day.

Since security was so tight, it was thought almost impossible to be someone who walked in from the street.

Could the work have awoken the resident poltergeist?

Paranormal expert Tom Ogden calls the Theatre Royal one of the world’s most haunted theatres.

Frequenting the theatre, the appearance of any one of its ghosts is said to signal good luck for the actors or production.

According to legend, a famous ghost called the “Man in Grey” was an 18th-century nobleman who was stabbed to death in the theatre, his skeletal remains having been found in a walled-up passage in 1848.

He wears a cape, a tricorne hat, riding boots, and a sword and is often seen in the upper circle moving along the rear gangway near the royal box where the remains were discovered.

As one of you mutters the words upside down; yet again the blackness comes in.....a solitary raven flies towards you, sitting on the floor in front as it stares at you; unblinking. 

You are shocked as the raven opens its mouth, and starts to speak to you in a deep, slow voice: 

"I see all and know all. But do you? Do you know what comes next in the sequence?"

A slip of paper falls from under his wing.

 Three...you all shout together!!! As you do the raven explodes into dust.....however the dark clouds remain. You know you must be getting closer...in fact; there is only one place left.

You know where to go. Seven Dials itself. You rush to the centre point of the area. 

Covent Garden has over 60 pubs and bars

There’s no shortage of liquid refreshment to accompany the cultural entertainments in Covent Garden.

Listed as historically important buildings, several pubs will transport you back in time.

With a reputation as the oldest pub in the area, the Lamb and Flag will take you back to a time of bare-knuckle prize fights in the early 19th century.

So gruesome were these gladiatorial clashes that the pub earned the nickname “Bucket of Blood”.

The Freemasons Arms on Long Acre is linked with the founding of the Football Association in 1896.

Charles Darwin attended the annual meeting of the Philoperisteron Society for pigeon fanciers here on 8 January 1856 and became a member later that year.

As you read the name out loud....two notes fall from the top of the monument...but from where you ask yourself. One is covered by a special seal which won’t open. You manage to wrench the other open and read it out loud

"You’ve found my messages, now come face to face with me. What letter did I miss from the top of this note?"


You check the letters... they read: S: G: P: G: L: V: ? 

Can you work out the missing letter?

Suddenly, the seal from the locked one melts away, and a huge form, growing larger and larger exits form the seal: The Devil himself.

'Finally, you made it. Yes, it is me, Beelzebub. I’ve been coming back to 7 dials since 1773, the original sundial was torn down by an angry mob. The terror and anger in the air made it the perfect place for me to come and wreak havoc. The streets have always attracted the wicked, and I simply love having my fun with them. But alas, you clever individuals have tracked me down. One thing I value most is a crafty person, one who can think as creatively and cunningly as me. For that reason, I will give you one chance to save your life...otherwise these streets will be covered with your blood.

"It took me 200 years to kill 100 people,
and there is no stopping me from killing 900 more. 
However, I plan to kill people at twice the speed as before.
How long will it be until I reach my 666th kill."

Covent Garden is the birthplace of the sandwich. John Montagu, otherwise known as the Earl of Sandwich, first ordered a slab of meat between two pieces of bread in 1762, at a society club called the Beef Steak Club at the Shakespeare’s Head Pub, thereby inventing Britain’s most popular lunchtime meal. The sandwich was invented out of necessity to keep the Earl’s fingers and playing cards clean from grease while he was gambling.