New armchair puzzle - Ye Olde King Works

[samantha73]

Happy Holidays! 

Here is a fully armchair puzzle with a cash prize of $200.   There is no cost to participate.  You win by being the first to submit the correct answer to me.  The puzzle has more than one part; when you have solved it completely, you will find an object of love.  No guessing, and I will not reply to incorrect answers.  Good luck, and here's the link:


Ye Olde King Works

[tahoeeyes]

Dec 18, 2023 12:49:09 GMT -5 samantha73 said:

Happy Holidays! 

Here is a fully armchair puzzle with a cash prize of $200.   There is no cost to participate.  You win by being the first to submit the correct answer to me.  The puzzle has more than one part; when you have solved it completely, you will find an object of love.  No guessing, and I will not reply to incorrect answers.  Good luck, and here's the link:


Ye Olde King Works

Awesome!

[armchairinquisitor]

Last thing I needed was something to distract me from the Franklin Key! Thank you though seriously, just in time for the holidays!

[cachemeifyoucan]

Can anyone give some helpful advice on page 3? Pertaining to the bar chart? Has anyone gotten anywhere with it?

[cachemeifyoucan]

Ok I’ll try again! Samantha, can you give a hint on the bar chart page?

[samantha73]

Here is an overall hint. There are three parts to the puzzle, although it looks like four; two are actually one part. There is a common theme to all three parts.

[samantha73]

A peacock, a dove, and an owl go into a bar. Each bird orders an apple cider.

Bartender says, sorry ladies, only got enough for one drink. Who's it gonna be?

[cachemeifyoucan]

Is anyone else working on this??

[samantha73]

This puzzle was just solved! Details to come!

[samantha73]

Congratulations to the Z Team for being first to submit the correct answer to this armchair puzzle.  The answer was the Tree that owns itself in Athens, Georgia.  The method was finding the three words ORDERING, WORDS and CHARMINGLY and using the What 3 Words app to find the specific location.

There were three parts to the puzzle.  The first part was the first two pages of the puzzle.  The first page is a book cipher, but what's the source?  to find the source, you need to solve the poem riddles on the second page.  The first stanza takes you to the Prometheus sculpture in Rockefeller Plaza and his hand points to the word "Mighty."  the second stanza is silly... the word is "and" (DNA backwards), and the final stanza is a play on words which solve is "despair."  googling "mighty and despair" will take you to the Shelly poem Ozymandias, and that's the book cipher source for the first word ORDERING.

The second part of the puzzle was the trickiest.  The bar graph is song lyrics with full redaction.  But what song? The clues are in the freestyle poem at the bottom and the song is "All My Love" by Led Zeppelin.  The poem references Ariadne but I always thought he had her confused with Arachne when he wrote the song but oh well.  There's very little on the creation of this song on the internet, although I learned that it's about Robert Plant's young son who died while he was on tour.  Anyway, knowing the song, you find the word located at the X (which the word is "word" LOL) and pluralize it for your second word WORDS.

The last part was a bit easier.  The theme was the Judgment of Paris, and again it's a book cipher with the source being Leda and the Swan by Yeats.  Another one of my favorite poems.  Using the book cipher, the final word is CHARMINGLY.

This was probably one of my favorite puzzles to write!  Great job to the Z Team!

Samantha

[GeneticBlend]

Way to go Z Team! I see you woke up from a long winter's nap....just in time for the Masquerade Tribute.

Thanks for the hunt Samantha! Looking forward to more of your upcoming puzzles in the Tribute.

[happyhunting]

Someone is going to have to explain to me how you get to a song with the lyric “Arianne” with clues leading to Arachne that you thought was mistaken for Ariande.

Very confused

[shanezor12]

Seems like there's a generally accepted interpretation of that song that it is referencing Ariadne (French is spelt Arianne), who had the idea to give Theseus the red ball of yarn in Greek mythology.

[samantha73]

The song says "proud Ariande" but she wasn't prideful...she was trusting and helped Theseus. Yeah she had the thread but I thought maybe Page meant Arachne because she was very prideful and actually wove a tapestry, which the song is about weaving a cloth.

[samantha73]

Plant not Page