Data Recovery Puzzles Walkthrough

The first clue you get in An Elmwood Trail is the phone of the missing girl, Zoey. This will have a lot of information on it but also some lost or deleted data that you need to retrieve.

At certain points in the story you will be able to complete a mini game to recover some of the lost data from the phone. These mini games will be puzzles that you need to solve. You can only access these puzzles at the point of the story that they are needed and you will be prompted to complete them.

Below is a description of the four puzzles that are part of episode 1 and the methods you need to use to solve them.

If you have any questions about specific puzzles please head to the Answers Page.

Data Recovery Puzzle One

The first data recovery task will appear after you first talk to Lily. Switch to Zoey's phone and then tap at the top of the screen, then on the task 'Recovering data...'. This will start the puzzle.

• This is a 4x4 number grid. You will see that some numbers are not in the correct places.
• Select pairs of numbers to swap their positions. You need to move them until they are all white and in the correct places.
• You have a limited number of moves to complete this.

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Data Recovery Puzzle Two

For this puzzle you need to highlight all of the squares on the grid that do not have an X in them. Tapping a square will toggle it on/off and also those in a particular direction of it shown by an arrow, but you will not see the arrow direction until you tap it.

The arrow on each button will change between 2 different directions (and off) with each tap.

Solution:

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Data Recovery Puzzle Three

For the 3rd puzzle you will have 3 circles that you can tap to change the numbers in them. Below these is a button. When you tap the button it will make a calculation based on the 3 numbers and produce the result (71) shown above.

The method of making the calculation is hidden, you need to test it out and work out the method being used so that you can select the correct numbers.

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Data Recovery Puzzle Four

Further on in the episode you will complete the Vault8.com puzzle and use the code when calling the car wash. Then you need to complete another set of connect the clues, before getting the final data recovery puzzle.

This is a lights out style puzzle where you need to change all the squares to grey, clearing all of the black squares.

Tapping any square will toggle if from empty to black but also change those to the left, right, above and below it.

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Summary

This completes our data recovery puzzles walkthrough for An Elmwood Trail.

Next you may like some help with how to unlcok Zoey's diary pages.

Also of interest could be how to unlock Zoey's phone and how to find a way to the vault in Vault8.

If you plan to start over with different decisions, then head back to the first part of our An Elmwood Trail walkthrough to see our suggestions.