The 'Ruins of Alph' (Japanese: アルフのいせき, Hepburn: Arufu no Iseki, trans. literally meaning; "Historical Ruins of Alph") is a historical place located in the Johto region in the south-west of Violet City. It is a famed place for archaeologists who are researching the ruins to discover the mystery of the mysterious Pokémons called the Unown.
Puzzles
In the Ruins of Alph there are four puzzles that are considered to be the key's to enter the dimension of the Unowns in the same room as where there are no any puzzles. Those four puzzles contains a historical Pokémon or a Legendary Pokémon. The puzzles that appears in Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal are really different than the puzzles that are introduced in the renewal version of Pokémon Gold Version and Pokémon Silver Version; Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal
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| Kabuto | Aerodactyl | Ho-Oh | Omanyte |
Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver
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| Kabuto | Aerodactyl | Ho-Oh | Omanyte |
Pokémon Radio
If you tune your PokéGear radio to the right station in the Ruins of Alph, you can hear a strange radio transmitter. It will be like a song or some sort of tune. If one hears the radio tune backwards, the player can see the radio transmission is quite eerie when played backwards.
Unknown Report
In the Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version, the player will receive an Unown Report after solving one of the puzzles in the ruins of the Ruins of Alph. It takes only records of the Unknowns that the player captured which each of them contains each letter of Unown that has been has been set in a word. There are 28 kinds of Unowns in the ruins which 26 of them looks like alphabets forms and two of them that are looking like question mark and exclamation points.
Trivia
- "Alph" can be abbreviation for "Alphabet" due to the reason that the Ruins of Alph contains Unown which each Unown represents a letter from the alphabet.
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