COUNTDOWN Puzzles: TEN (Davesscrabblegrams.com) ENDED

[Jenny]

10 days to the Launch of the 2022 Masquerade Tribute! This year there are six different hunts with six different treasures valuing near $2000 to claim!


Only $19.79 to register and be ready for the adventures of ALL SIX OF THE TREASURE HUNTS – and be automatically entered into the Bonus Treasure Cache drawing.

Are you registered yet? We’ll be Counting down with contests, prizes, and games!

TEN: The first three registered participants to send in the correct answer to the following contest wins a prize! (Please submit answers to [e-mail] with subject heading TRIBUTE CONTEST)

HINT: This contest is connected with the 2022 Masquerade Tribute treasure hunt contributor, David Cohen, and the first contest of the Tribute. Click for more info on David, creator of the website, davesscrabblegrams.com.

[Jenny]

We have Six Correct Submissions! Congrats to the winners............. however, because it was such a great little puzzle, if anyone would like to continue and send in a submission, a drawing will be held on 3/18 from all correct submissions sent forward - for another prize.

[Jenny]

CONGRATS to Mofinn - who has won the drawing for the last prize in this scrabblegrams contest....



This was a great contest! David Cohen, one of the contributors for the 2022 Masquerade Tribute, created the website davesscrabblegrams.com. It was on this site the answer was found to the contest.


First, the hidden riddle:

To get ready for our Masquerade sequel competition and win a mysterious prize, please answer the following question: where was the original golden rabbit treasure hidden?

Once on site, search the scrabblegrams by their titles. Then search line/word in that scrabblegram to take the word to give the Riddle.

Here are the clues to identify each word - (note: The Scrabble Letter ordered the phrase)

To: A Quiet, Conscious, Empty Mind (aka "A Quiet Mind") (2,5)
get: Michael Jordan (3,2)
ready: Rubik's Cube (5,1)
for : Sherlock Holmes (5,4)
our: Jane Goodall (4,2)
Masquerade: Halloween (1,3)
sequel: Star Wars (7,5)
competition: Jeopardy! (1,3)
and: The Planets (9,1)
win: Squid Game (4,1)
a: Out Into Mid-Air (1,1)
mysterious: Charlotte's Web (2,1)
prize: Albert Einstein (3,3)
please: Do What You Love (1,1)
answer: Jeopardy! (3,3)
the: Four Seasons (1,7)
following: Van Gogh (2,3)
question: Hamlet's Soliloquy (aka "To Be or Not to Be") (2,2)
where: Playing Cards (1,3)
was: The Beatles (1,2)
the: Groundhog Day (4,4)
original: Thriller (1,4)
golden: Willy Wonka (1,5)
rabbit: Zeno's Paradox (4,4)
treasure: Different Maps (6,2)
hidden: Michaelangelo (4,4)



Answer to the Riddle was AMPTHILL (or of that nature) - it was where there treasure of the 1979 Masquerade treasure hunt was found.