If you have found your way here, it is likely you have seen this line of cipher on a scrap of parchment.
We know that this was written by William Moray and given to an intermediary who then found Rupert Grandison the elder. However, the intermediary discovered six other lines of a similar cipher which were forwarded to the elder, which Mr Grandison, my employer, inherited.
Now. I have scanned these lines and hidden them online. Here's how you can find them:
I pose six puzzles in the following posts - solving each of them leads you to a line.
Enter the ANSWER as follows into
www.snipurl.com/ANSWER (ignoring any spaces)
For example, suppose the question is 'what is my name?'
If you enter the answer at the end of www.snipurl.com/
you'll find makemode where I've been working recently (thanks for the tip on this, Gav.)
Send me whatever you can by midnight on 14 October to here
(goldbugpuzzleanswers splat googlemail dot com).
Scoring
One point for each piece you send me.
Another point for each piece you decipher.
Those with the most points by the end of this week will have the chance of entrance to the Masque of the Red Death a fortnight hence, the week beginning 22 October 2007.
And the first few to get maximum points will attain the rank of Hunter (see here to see what this means).
Good luck and get cracking.
Sunday, 30 September 2007
Towards the sixth line
A wise man walks from Lhasa into China: to Kunming then to Guangzhou and Fuzhou before reaching Shanghai then Nanjing and Xi'an before returning to Lhasa.. but no time to rest before travelling into India: to Varanasi, Indore and Ahmedabad, crossing into Pakistan to Karachi, heading north towards Kabul but instead veering toward Peshawar and Islamabad before returning once more to Lhasa. When he returns to cheering crowds, he is asked what his journey might symbolise to the people.. his answer?
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