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Case File · Cipher · No. 033

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The Commodore's Crossed Flags

4 min

On the morning of the final regatta race, race officer Peg Dunn arrived to find the master scoring ledger balanced open on its spine and a folded note tucked beneath the bronze starting-gun weight. The note is written in a hand no one in the club will claim, and the day's results cannot be certified until someone makes sense of it.

The scene

Seacroft Yacht Club Regatta Office — the race committee's scoring table inside the clubhouse, where printed start sheets and protest forms are clipped to a corkboard above a battered oak desk

Possible authors

  • Callum FirthClub Treasurer
  • Nora MastClub Archivist
  • Desmond HaleHead Rigger
  • Vera StrandRace Officer's Assistant

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This case first aired on July 31, 2026. A fresh cipher runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.