Lucid Nightmare
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Look it up on WowheadHow to get it
The prize of the Riddle of the Lucid Nightmare, a chain of eight hidden notes. It starts with the Inconspicuous Note upstairs in Curiosities & Moore in Dalaran (Broken Isles) and runs through a lights puzzle in Ulduar's Scrapyard, a match game at the Mind Larva past C'Thun's chamber in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, the Strange Skull in the Deep Cavern under Deepholm's Crumbling Depths, ten number consoles in Gnomeregan (set to 1222176597), a line-untangling game in a house at Ash'theran in Val'sharah (66.4, 36.5) and the Endless Halls maze, entered from an urn in the Tomb of Secrets in Kun-Lai Summit (53.3, 49.3). The last note opens the Forgotten Crypt behind Karazhan, where the chest Puzzler's Desire on the bone pile in the Pit of Criminals holds the mount.
Time there about 5 min a visit
Before you go
- A Shadoweave Mask to wear in Deepholm (Classic tailoring; the pattern drops from Dark Iron Steamsmiths in Searing Gorge) · about 1 h
- Notes 1 to 6 in order: Dalaran (Broken Isles), Ulduar (Scrapyard), Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (past C'Thun's chamber), Deepholm, Gnomeregan, Val'sharah · about 2 h
- The Endless Halls maze from the Tomb of Secrets in Kun-Lai Summit: five orbs carried to their runes in one sitting · about 2 h
In all: about 5 h of play, starting from nothing.
Getting there
/way Deadwind Pass 38.5 74.7 - Fly there
- Take the zeppelin from Orgrimmar to Stranglethorn Vale*
- Fly the rest of the way
/way is for the TomTom addon. Travel times are estimates: flying at 55 yards a second in a straight
line and 30 seconds for a portal. A star marks a portal that needs a quest or other unlock done first.
Notes and sources
The place given above is where the mount is picked up; the crypt stays shut until the riddle is done. The riddle begins in Dalaran above the Broken Isles (Curiosities & Moore, 50, 56), and each note leads to the next, so the eight places are visited in order.
The maze is the unpredictable part: its runes and orbs reset if it is not finished in one login session (wiki), and commenters recommend a mapping addon (Lucid Nightmare Helper). The Mind Larva game took players 10 to 30 minutes (warcraft-secrets.com). The Shadoweave Mask binds when equipped, so it need not be made by the character that wears it.
Wowhead comments up to 2026 show the riddle still being done; a 2026 one found the Gnomeregan consoles missing until War Mode was turned off. Puzzler's Desire is object 272270; Wowhead and the wiki agree on its place.
Confidence in this entry: medium. Looked up in 2026.
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