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- From: eric@Turing.ORG (Eric Prestemon)
- Subject: Masquerade Solution (spoiler)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.215248.3553@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
- References: <1992Nov17.091948.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:52:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.091948.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> mdorfman@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:
- >Is anyone familiar with the children's book "Masquerade" by Kit Williams?
- ...
- >has anyone here solved any of the puzzles in the book? Does anyone know
- >what the clues were that led the finder to the treasure?
- I bought the solution explanation. Here is the solution to the main
- puzzle in the the book, which, by itself, was intended to give exact
- directions to the hare. Unfortunately, the person who solved the riddle
- missed getting the hare by about a day.
- The person who did dig it up just did some good detective work (and
- some puzzle solving).
-
- The picture of Sir Isaac Newton and the world is the key. From the colors
- of the puppets' rings, and some magic squre somewhere, you can put the
- limbs of the puppets in numerical order. (Something like L hand, R hand,
- L foot, R foot, although maybe not that order). Then, each picture uses
- the limbs of all the people and animals to point to letters on the border.
-
- That's the basics, figureing out the whole thing from this semi-
- explanation should be easy.
-
- I'm still mad I didn't get this, I was very close to it, and had guessed
- both that there was a word per page, and that the letters around the edges
- were how those words were described. Oh, well, I didn't get it. =)
-
- Later,
- Eric
- --
- Eric Prestemon (ecp2z@virginia.edu)
- "Jesus saves! Gretzky steals! Gretzky scores!"
-