Lukas Stanley’s online $1000 treasure hunt: Hint video #1
A while back I posted about Lukas Stanley’s online treasure hunt…. for those who need reminding you can, from your armchair or bed or wherever you physically are online, and…
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A while back I posted about Lukas Stanley’s online treasure hunt…. for those who need reminding you can, from your armchair or bed or wherever you physically are online, and…
I came across this “digital treasure hunt” created by Lukas Stanley – apparently the following riddle contains all one needs to discover the (virtual) location of a $1000 prize. Here…
Via Bibliokept: I am sure that a large part of the enduring mystery of the Renaissance masterpieces in the National Gallery was due to the absence of the explanatory matter that…
From the perhaps not entirely expected source of the website of Heiton Buckley builders’ providers, here is a rather humbling test of knowledge of native Irish planets. Below is the…
I am unsure if I am worse at chess or at drawing but I enjoy both. Chess.com is a wonderful resource for online play and also for learning. I am afraid I have been…
Following on from last week: “Captain Molesworth had a bright idea – he would play another round. He did this seventh round in 104 strokes and argued that he had…
A while back I was reading the entertainingly gothic ghost story Ferelith by Lord Kilmarnock, and came across this passage: At last, after four years of waiting, I stumbled on the…
From Andrew Ward’s Golf’s Strangest Rounds: “At 5.20a.m. on a September morning Captain Molesworth set out for a busy day at the Royal North Devon Golf Course. To win his…