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Batman sprinted after the suit and shot out a zip line, wrapping it around the base of the suit’s helmet and drawing himself close enough to get a look at the puzzle again. The suit was so strong that it hardly shifted as he pulled himself nearer.

It was a circular construction, in four concentric layers. Around the outside layer were letters, fourteen of them. The next two layers were blank. The inside circle was a clock face, with numbers, indicating ten minutes after five. The mounting shaft holding the hands of the clock was hollow, and the hole in the center of it was grooved. It didn’t appear to be quite circular.

The suit tried to shake him off, but he held on.

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The guardian stopped trying to shake him off and instead worked its fingers into the zip line coiled around the base of its helmet. The cord was rated for a thousand pounds, but it snapped like cheap string when the gauntleted hands grasped it and pulled. One half of the line dangled from its right hand. Batman was holding the other half, and so was the guardian.

Batman: Arkham Knight: Riddler's Gambit, Chapter 27, Pg. 279