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Post by ed on Jan 21, 2017 12:16:26 GMT
can anyone here recall solving the puzzle from the FF bookmark competition back in 1986 ? were the winners ever announced ?
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Post by Paul on Apr 10, 2017 13:38:05 GMT
I don't remember solving the puzzle, but I do remember getting the bookmark. I think it was in Masks of Mayhem....
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Post by Paul on Apr 10, 2017 13:40:23 GMT
I also remember trying to program my ZX Spectrum to play Rings of Kether. It ran out of memory before I was even a quarter of the way through!
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Post by a moderator on Apr 10, 2017 18:16:58 GMT
I don't remember solving the puzzle, but I do remember getting the bookmark. I think it was in Masks of Mayhem.... P There were five bookmarks - at least in theory. The first was indeed issued along with Masks, the second with Titan, the third with The Riddling Reaver, the fourth was supposed to accompany Creature of Havoc, and the fifth came out with Helmquest, a non-FF Fantasy Questbook. Mind you, where I lived, bookmark 5 also came with Creature, and bookmark 4 was never to be seen. If distribution was equally poor elsewhere, there couldn't have been a winner, because nobody would have been able to send in the corners from all 5 bookmarks, let alone solve every puzzle and thus have a shot at answering the final question.
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Post by ed on Apr 13, 2017 18:21:52 GMT
My sentiments exactly but if somebody DID solve the puzzle ,they must be out there somewhere. I asked Ian Livingstone for details but even he couldn't remember a thing about it !
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Post by ed on May 10, 2017 18:21:57 GMT
someone on the FF twitter page just admitted he had FOUR of the bookmarks but lost them in a fire.
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Post by ed on May 10, 2017 18:25:27 GMT
I meant to say he lost them in a house move.
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Post by a moderator on May 10, 2017 18:48:58 GMT
I have four of them. It's just that elusive bookmark 4 that I've never even seen, let alone owned.
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Post by ed on May 11, 2017 10:00:54 GMT
So near and yet so far. It would just be nice to know if anyone solved the puzzle and what the answer was.
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Post by ed on May 15, 2017 11:19:15 GMT
did you solve the puzzles on the bookmarks that you do have ?
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Post by a moderator on May 15, 2017 18:32:45 GMT
I'm certain that I got puzzles 2 and 5 right, pretty confident about my answer to puzzle 1, and not at all clear about puzzle 3.
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Post by ed on May 16, 2017 11:40:57 GMT
The answer to no 2 is ' toe ' and the answer to no 5 is ' gold ' , are those correct ? No 3 is much harder to figure out.
apparently you had to jumble all of the answers together in order to find the location of the treasure.
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Post by a moderator on May 16, 2017 16:34:40 GMT
Those are the answers I got for 2 and 5.
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Post by ed on Jul 8, 2017 11:44:49 GMT
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Post by ed on Jul 8, 2017 13:42:02 GMT
just for the record , the images on the bookmarks are as follows :
1 Tiger from masks of mayhem
2 Shaman from masks of mayhem
3 Orc from warlock of firetop mountain
4 Robot form rebel planet
5 Dwarf and orc from citadel of chaos
The faces from the cut off triangle are from rebel planet.
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Post by ed on Jul 10, 2017 17:33:16 GMT
greenspine, maybe you can solve the puzzle from bookmark 1, now up on that twitter page.
Have you any idea who wrote up the text on the bookmarks and organised the competition ?
they would be the best person to ask about any winners / awarding of prizes etc.
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