The Collinwood playroom was a corner room in the house's west wing filled with toys for Tad Collins and Carrie Stokes in 1840. A musical toy carousel sat on a table in the room's center and played a tinkling tune that became associated with the room (1065, 1081). A hidden door in the back of the room accessed the original Quentin Collins' stairway into time (1070). The room was magically hidden in 1970, and in its place was a small linen closet. No one in 1970, including Quentin Collins II, whose immortal existence had begun only decades after the period of the room's use, had heard of a playroom existing at Collinwood (1071). A riddle, discovered by David Collins and Hallie Stokes, described that entry into the playroom was possible in 1970 when the musical carousel stopped playing its tune (1075).
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