Blue Prince: How To Solve Baron Bafflers

Solve the Baron Bafflers puzzle in Blue Prince with our step-by-step guide to map placement, clues, and cipher decoding.

As you explore Blue Prince, some discoveries will feel accidental. One of those is the Baron Bafflers puzzle—something that’s easy to miss if you’re not paying attention to small details. You won’t get a hint through story dialogue or an obvious clue. Instead, the pieces fall into place slowly, and only if you’re willing to experiment a little. If you enjoy crosswords or layered riddles, this section of the game will likely grab your interest.

How To Solve Baron Bafflers in Blue Prince

Solving Baron Bafflers is a mix of observation, patience, and logical deduction. If we divide the whole process into five steps, they are:

1. Spot the Hand and decode its meaning
2. Understand the mechanism of Treasure Maps
3. Trigger the Interaction With the Shovel
4. Solve the Clues
5. Churn out the final phrase

Now, we will discuss each of these steps in detail. Dig in!

1. Spot the Hand and Decode Its Meaning

Inside the Bedroom, you’ll see a large statue. It features a hand pointing down at the floor. The meaning of this gesture won’t be clear right away. At this point, nothing happens when you interact with it. If you’re wondering whether it’s decorative or part of a hidden mechanic, your instincts are right—it’s connected to a secret. But for it to activate, conditions have to match.

Before you can trigger anything, you’ll need three specific things:

• A Treasure Map
• A Shovel
• The Bedroom placed at a precise location

This is not a task that unfolds in one go. It relies on how you build out your rooms, and that’s tied to the map’s layout.

2. Understand the Mechanism of Treasure Maps in Baron Bafflers

The Treasure Maps in Blue Prince are unpredictable. Each one leads to a location marked with an “X” on the manor grid. The destination changes from map to map. Sometimes, it might point to a room you’ve already unlocked. Other times, it will land on a square you haven’t drafted yet.

The Baron Bafflers’ secret depends on the “X” aligning with the Bedroom. If it doesn’t, you can’t interact with the statue, even if you’re carrying the map and the shovel.

Here’s what you should do:

• Check the position marked on the map.
• If the Bedroom isn’t placed there, use reroll or redraw options to shuffle your room draft choices.
• Keep rerolling until you can assign the Bedroom to the same grid space the Treasure Map is pointing to.

This process requires patience. You might go through multiple rerolls before you get the layout you need. But once the match is made, the puzzle officially becomes accessible.

3. Trigger the Interaction With the Shovel

Once the Bedroom is correctly placed, walk into it and approach the hand statue. At this point, you should be holding a Shovel. If the placement and items are aligned, a prompt will appear.

When you follow through with the dig, you’ll receive something called the Baron Bafflers Cipher. That’s where the second half of the puzzle begins.

There is a chance you might stumble into this solution by accident. For example, if you draft the Bedroom early and later find a Treasure Map pointing to that exact square, you may complete the conditions without effort. Still, most players will need to actively manipulate room drafts to make it work.

4. Understand the Cipher’s Structure

The cipher comes with six clues. Each one describes a word—but not just one. You’re solving for two words per clue:

• A longer word that fits the full description.
• A shorter, three-letter word that sits inside the longer one.

These embedded words aren’t random. Their letters appear in sequence within the longer word. They also share meaning with the larger word’s clue.

You also need to keep track of the first letter of each short word. If you gather all six, you can form a final word from those letters. That word completes the cipher.

Solve the Clues in Baron Bafflers

Let’s look at how each clue functions, with the correct answers explained:

First Clue

“Kept behind locked doors.”

• Full word: INMATE
• Hidden word: MAT
  • Both relate to confinement—inmates are secured behind bars, and mats are often used in holding cells or gated areas.

Second Clue

“Can affect one greatly when made by someone with a strong spirit.”

• Full word: MARTINI
• Hidden word: ART
  • A martini is a strong drink, and art made with emotional strength can stir powerful reactions.

Third Clue

“Makes the validity of a statement clear.”

• Full word: NOTARY
• Hidden word: NOT
  • A notary legally confirms documents, while not indicating a clear denial or rejection.

Fourth Clue

“On a certain scale, this is very hot.”

• Full word: MOLTEN
• Hidden word: TEN
  • Something molten is intensely hot, and a rating of ten is often the highest on temperature or intensity scales.

Fifth Clue

“Informs you that there is no school today.”

• Full word: NOTICE
• Hidden word: ICE
  • A notice delivers such announcements. The word ice hints at snow days or icy conditions that cause closures.

Sixth Clue

“A group composed of members that have similar characteristics.”

• Full word: INSECT
• Hidden word: SECT
  • An insect is a classification within biology, while a sect is a group of people bound by shared beliefs or traits.

5. Churn Out the Final Phrase

Now focus on the short, three-letter words:

• MAT
• ART
• NOT
• TEN
• ICE
• SECT

Taking the first letter of each gives you: M, A, N, T, I, S

That spells MANTIS. This final word ties back to the sixth clue about insects. The game connects the hidden word and the final solution cleverly through theme and structure.

Final Notes: Managing Rerolls and Map Placement

If you’re struggling to draft the Bedroom at the right grid spot, you can use any reroll or redraw options available during that run. Don’t expect the room placement to align on its own—it rarely happens that way. The best approach is to stock up on rerolls and use them only once you know what room type the Treasure Map needs.

Timing is also important. If you pick up the Treasure Map before the Bedroom appears in your draft options, you’ll have more flexibility to manage the match. If you pick up the Bedroom first, you might have to delay your draft until you get a Treasure Map to match.

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