The three bookshelf games, Captive Princess, Tournament, and Pathfinders, published by McLoughlin Brothers. in 1875, are designed and formed to mimic books when folded. McLoughlin Bros. made many of these triple style game books during the late-mid to late 1800’s. The instructions and pieces for the games were usually housed …
This segment of MW Codes, Ciphers, and Puzzles talks about the Ottendorf Cipher. Those of you who have watched the movie, National Treasure, are probably familiar with it, but just might not remember the characters saying the specific name for what the cipher was in the movie. In the …
Between the years 1947 and 1954, in 11 caves on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, a group of 930 ancient texts, dating back to 250 BC to 50 AD, were discovered. They amazed the world. Biblical texts, along with other sectarian and nonsectarian Jewish works were brought to …
The 1965 Dana Girls game by Parker Brothers is based off a story in a series of mystery books (The Dana Girls) published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1934 to 1979. The books were written by Carolyn Keene, a pseudonym for a group of writers, who also wrote the Nancy …
Forrest has been quoted numerous times saying, “I never said I buried the treasure. I have said I hid the treasure. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t buried.” The reason he often gives for being so particular about saying ‘hid’ and not ‘buried’ is because he says he doesn’t …
Top Ten Lost Tombs Still to be Found Article written by Duncan Burden In this modern age it is hard to believe that there are any famous lost graves to be discovered, but this has proven not to be true, especially when given the fact the body of the famous …
What an awesome pleasure it is to have the opportunity of asking Six Questions to the Award-Winning Puzzle and Game Designer, Cliff Johnson. Cliff gained wide recognition after creating his captivating computer puzzle game, The Fool’s Errand, in 1987. From this successful endeavor of weaving storytelling in with puzzle solving, …
The Thrill of the Chase by Forrest Fenn was published in 2010. This launched the search for Forrest Fenn’s hidden 1150 AD bronze treasure chest. The chest, filled with gold and other extraordinary artifacts, is secreted somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe (New Mexico). More specifically, it is …
There are many variations or types of substitution ciphers. One of the more simpler types is a number cipher. A number cipher is where a number takes the place of a letter in the alphabet. This can be done by numbering each letter of the alphabet, 1 thru 26, and …
Samuel Prichard’s Masonic Secrets: Part Two This post has been consolidated into Samuel Prichard’s Masonic Secrets. Please join us there.
