Madison Clock Puzzle Guide - Safe Combination And Walkthrough

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Clocks always seem to be the hobby of madmen. An obsession with time would be enough to make anyone crack. Albert Maxwell, the grandfather in Madison, is no exception. Once you have the clock key and can descend into the house’s third(!?) separate basement, you’ll find what he was up to in his final days. But what could they mean? Let us tell you. Here's how to solve the Madison clock puzzle.

Before you can start mucking around with time itself, you’re going to need an important item. You’ve probably noticed the cuckoo clocks scattered around the house. Interacting with them prompts you for an item you won’t get your hands on until you have the clock key. The clock key unlocks the clock door, obviously. Once you’re in the workshop, you’ll need to find a notebook in one of the drawers near the far corner of the room.

The notebook gives two instructions, “3 left. 12…” If you’ve visited the bathroom at any point, you’ll probably remember a similar notebook. Reading it, you get the message, “… Right. 8 left.” Put these together and you have the combination of a safe: 3 left, 12 right, 8 left. This is used on the green safe in your grandfather’s office. Opening that, you’ll find a clock with two nubs on the back of it.

The clock you found in the safe matches the pattern on the cuckoo clocks that have been following you around. If you place it in one of them, you’ll find that a pair of bars snap closed on it, while the other set releases its other face. This means that you can take any cuckoo clock face, but only move one at a time.

That brings us back to the basement. Observe the clocks and you may notice that all the faces on a particular wall are in sync. That is to say, if you face the stairs, all the clocks in that