The Big Top Mannequin Puzzle

When making your way through the Big Top Showroom in Secret of the Mimic, you'll run into a puzzle you need to solve to earn a combination required to proceed with your mission. However, the solution can be quite elusive if you don't know where to look.

If you're left slightly confused about how to learn the combination required to proceed, we've got you. In this puzzle guide, we'll show you the key to cracking the code as well as show you the solution. We also cover this puzzle in our full walkthrough, so if you want to follow along there for further details and the location of the puzzle itself, be sure to check it out.

The Big Top Mannequin Puzzle

Shortly after facing off against Music Man in the Big Top, you'll head up to the second floor and discover the path to the Data Diver upgrader is blocked by a keypad. The code to this door is randomised every playthrough, so how exactly do we find it? As you were facing off against Music Man, you'll have no doubt noticed that some of the mannequins in his arena had glow-in-the-dark numbers written on their backs. These numbers are the key to proceeding on to the Data Diver upgrade.

If you look at the keypad, you'll notice there's a board beside it. The board will show four symbols next to each other. What these symbols are will change from game to game. If you look over the balcony, you'll see a group of mannequins standing in a circle on the floor below. Each has a different hat on and a number written on its back.

To find the code, search the crowd for the four mannequins wearing the hats indicated by the symbols on your board and then take note of the numbers on their backs. Once you have all four numbers, assemble them in the order of the symbols on the board. That sequence of numbers is your code.

Punch the code into the keypad, and the door will unlock, providing access to an office you can reach through a Data Diver door.