Room 8: Living room

You’ve procrastinated long enough. Time to move on to the main show of the house: the living room. Weirdly, it’s in the middle of the house, with not a single window. It reminds you of a medieval castle, with its huge fireplace on your left. You also spot a large leather sofa in front of a tiny and immensely thick TV — even your grandmother doesn’t have one of those anymore.

Despite the darkness, it’s kind of cosy, and you can imagine the Count spending his days here coming up with the puzzles you are now solving. What would the next one be?

You see a comfortable chair next to the fireplace, and in front of that a lounge table with a chess board on top of it. Except this board has letters written all over it…