This is where we step back.

Anything more from us would basically hand it to you.

Work with what you’ve gathered, trust your instincts, and keep sending those brilliant guesses.

The vault is a combination lock.

Letters and numbers will tell you how to open it.

You can put together a Final Answer that doesn't have a vault combination as part of it.

But it won't be right.

People solve puzzles to relax, like reading a good book series.

But reading a book series can be a daunting task.

Especially when every book seems to get longer.

The second book always seems twice if not three times as long as the first.

When you write your report for this trip, think of it like a series.

A good first story is worth the longer followup.

If you're not getting the result you want, take a different view of things.

It's like whenever you meet someone for the first time, someone you think is going to be important, you want to remember the entire moment and lock in its details.

Those are the memories we treasure.

We see lots of itineraries being followed.

We don't want to interfere with you getting to your destination.

So no hints today.

Trips by Car, Trips by Horse, and Trips by Plane require different puzzle-solving skills.

We separated them into those groups for a reason, and put those groups in that order for a reason.

You can do that too.

Try doing one set at a time and you'll narrow down your options.

Then you might see something you haven't seen yet.

Yesterday we put Trips by Roamy up on Beast Travel.

Trips by Roamy isn't a puzzle.

It's a tool to organize your thoughts.

It has groups of three blanks that you must fill in with information you've already gathered.

No new information is required.

The entries follow a very specific pattern, which we've reinforced today.

Also, there's an example at the top of the page. Here's some more about it.

Consider it part of your solution.

You won't need to use the first part of it again, or the middle, but the last part shows up one more time in the list.

Beast Travel is now offering excursions in our Trips by Roamy program.

Book your itineraries today.

You might become our most celebrated world traveler.

There are two major things that we don't think anyone has solved.

One is the big thing to do with all the location names.

We'll have more to say about that later.

The other is the puzzle with a million Sudoku.

That produces a stage one answer.

There are 25 carefully-designed Sudoku numbered 000001 to 000025.

Each has a different encryption based on what its numbers do.

For each, you need to solve some Sudoku in that puzzle's sequence. When you solve them as a Sudoku solver, you'll see a pattern about that puzzle which helps crack that part of the code.

Find each one, then think of what to do with what's isolated in each of the original puzzles.

But that's not the only interesting thing about the original puzzles.

You need the total of every isolated detail in each of them to crack this.

A few more trusted Sudoku are at the place mentioned on your Puzzle Card.

Check them out. And then enjoy solving them.

You may have gotten a hint from Trips by Boat.

That's an important one. You will probably need that.

And one other.

There's another instruction in the captions of the Trip pictures.

Find that instruction and you'll have a clear route to the million.

We've seen quite a few solutions to every puzzle in the hunt.

Except one.

A computer screen gave you a lot of the same type of logic puzzle.

Like, a whole bunch.

But those of you solving alone have been limited in your ability to see more than one.

No more.

Check your Puzzle Card for this puzzle.

It'll give you quite the assortment of options.

Beast Travel is now booking travel by boat.

That's where you can assemble your entire itinerary.

Work together.

Draw up a plan.

And you'll get where you're going.

There's a million dollars at the end.

Oh, also, you should watch Hello Puzzlers' "Decoding the MrBeast Puzzle" livestream today at 6 pm Eastern/3 pm Pacific here.

We see you all are booking trips from our new travel agency, Beast Travel.

You can take trips by car, by horse, and by plane.

Those trips by car can be challenging to narrow down.

You should take them literally.

When you get a city nickname, you don't need any extra words or inferences.

Just find a place that uses that exact nickname (not the phrase as its name or translation).

Then you'll get to your destination.

See you there.

There are more things that aren't puzzles than there are things that are puzzles.

Either they came up randomly or sent you down paths we never imagined.

We don't want you to lose focus.

These things are distractions. They are not puzzles:

Those four clocks.

Mike's bat shirt.

That tank insignia that looks like a bar code.

Random anagrams.

Any X or YouTube account that has popped up since this hunt started.

The word "hopscotch."

Any other Roamy you might ever come across.

And, of course, Red Herring Bank. Because, you see, it's a red herring.

Speaking of the number 9, we said there were 9 puzzles on this site or social posts from Salesforce properties.

These are not connected to the commercials or these hints. They're in these places:

4 are in Behind the Scenes videos. 2 of those are underwater. 1 is in pieces. 1 never forgets.

3 are on large physical objects. You can see them on Salesforce's X feed. 1 may take a while to watch.

2 are on this site. 1 is in a helpful video. The other follows our advice.

If you haven't found those, find those.

Take your 50 locations and your crossword to Beast Travel and go on many a wild vacation!
The world is at your fingertips!
Adventure is out there!

If you're ready to check in, then your endgame is near.

One clue tells you to inquire with Slackbot about a specific kind of number puzzle.

If you do that in a Puzzle Card, you'll get a place to look.

But you'll always get the same one.

You need friends for this puzzle.

Maybe a million of them.

We are pleased to announce that all the clues for stage 1 are out.
You probably want to know which ones you're missing.
It's Valentine's Day, so as a gift from us, here's a list that might help.

Players have found:

• The 9 stage 0 puzzles on the playlist. (These answers do not match the others. IYKYK.)
• The 1 puzzle that sets up the playlist.
• The 12 puzzles contained entirely in Sunday's commercial.
• The 12 puzzles in the bank video. Each goes with one of the screens in the commercial.
• The 10 gifts given out to our friends.
• The 1 puzzle that unites them.
• The 2 puzzles on YouTube and TikTok shorts that aren't related to the gifts.
• The 9 puzzles you'll find on this site or social posts from Salesforce properties.
• The 3 puzzles on Lone Shark's socials.
• And, of course, 1 crossword puzzle, which also sets up stage 2.

Happy Valentine's Day!

This hint was updated on February 15.

If you want to keep up with MrBeast, Salesforce, and Lone Shark Games, find our social pages.
We like putting clues in what we talk about there.
You might like to find our companies' social pages.
But only if you want to win a million dollars.

This special version of Slackbot can help you with general puzzle knowledge and information about how to play the game.

Puzzle cards have additional support from Beastbot that can give you more specific hints and support on things you find you think are a puzzle.

If you have questions about puzzle cards, check the new HOW TO PLAY and QUESTIONS pages or ask Slackbot.

But the key here is:

Puzzle cards are key to using Slackbot for help.

We've told you about some of the main parts of this first stage:
Sunday's commercial and the bank video. You also know about the video playlist.

As you've probably started to see, the 9 playlist puzzles (what we call Stage 0) told you that all the puzzle answers in stage 1 are all of a certain type.
Keep that in mind: If you found a puzzle and your answer is not of that type, then you're not done with that puzzle.

Now we want to tell you about more:

The first place you should be looking is obviously this site, the Inside the Beast video, and our social posts. If you find one, you can put it online so others can see.
The second place is a group of gifts that Jimmy gave a number of his friends. Most of them look like this. You might find a poster of who got a gift somewhere.
The gifts all have answers of the same type as every other puzzle in stage one. But here's a thing:
All of their answers can be used to get another answer. You just have to figure out how.

Those are all the parts of stage 1.
Together they account for 50 puzzles.
50 answers of the same type.

But there's one other puzzle many of you already have: a crossword. That has a 51st clue of this type.

And it's starting to get a lot different.
Take another look at it.

Here's a hint about the bank. Some of you have already figured this out.
The video in the bank was released before the Big Game. We didn't want anything solved before that point.
So we made the bank video clues extra hard in a very specific way:
We tied each screen in the Salesforce computer lab to one clue in the bank video.

Which screen goes with which clue ... that's up to you to figure out.
Each is used only once, so once you tie a screen to a bank video clue, you won't use it for any other clue.
Oh, there's one other thing we want to tell you about today.

In one of the Behind the Scenes videos, you might have seen puzzlemaster Mike drop a crossword puzzle. That crossword is here and was a gift to Jimmy. That crossword might also be a key to STAGE 2. Maybe you can find it out there. or maybe you can zoom in.
Either way, it doesn't have any clues ... yet.
The more progress you make, the more the clues will fill in. You'll need those for the endgame.

OK, that's it for today. Happy puzzling!

Some of these puzzles use codes you can find online.

With the Super Bowl ad, almost everything Jimmy passes by is a clue. Look up, down, forward, backward, and behind the scenes. Figure out how to get an answer from each weird thing.

In the bank, the same is true, but you will need specific content from the Super Bowl ad to solve anything there.

Last, but not least, if you found the video playlist's pinned comments, each puzzle ends in a word that makes part of a 9-word clue, in order.

The word lengths are 5, 9, 5, 7, 8, 4, 9, 6, and 5.

That will help define the nature of the search.

If you can get that 9-word clue, you'll take the first step on your journey.

There is a direct way through this ultra-hard puzzle hunt.

You can find it.

Then you can win a million dollars!