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Masquerade is a picture book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams and published in August 1979, that sparked a treasure hunt by including concealed clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare that had been created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams.
The puzzle itself was designed by Paul Hoffman under the pseudonym "Dr. Crypton". The first person to solve the puzzle and dig up the horse before the May 26, 1989 deadline would keep the horse and an additional US$500,000 locked in a safe deposit box to be opened by a key hidden within the statuette. [2]
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The Fool's Errand is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson.It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles, and a cryptic treasure map.It is the tale of a wandering Fool who seeks his fortune in the Land of Tarot and braves the enchantments of the High Priestess.
The hunt is accompanied by his new book, There’s Treasure Inside, a 243-page guide filled with origin stories of the treasures, maps, and puzzles designed to lead curious hunters to the loot.
On The Trail Of The Golden Owl was Max Valentin's first treasure hunt. He came up with the idea for the puzzle in the late 1970s, and spent 450 hours designing eleven textual riddles, which together hold the clues to a final location and a cache, hidden somewhere in France.
Treasure Quest is a puzzle game released by Sirius Entertainment on April 10, 1996. In the CD-ROM scavenger hunt game Treasure Quest , the player moves from room to room in the mansion of Professor Jonathon William Faulkner, who has bequeathed 1 million dollars to any student who can solve the puzzles he has laid out.
A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow.