Masquerade
by Kit Williams · first published 1979
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On his way to deliver a splendid necklace to the Sun from the Moon, Jack Hare is diverted by a series of odd characters and when he finally reaches his destination he realizes that the necklace is missing. The reader is invited to answer several riddles and solve the mystery from clues given in the text.
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Not a big maze fan (sorry) but reading the comments and following some of the links, I cannot help but give a shout out to the incredible "Maze" by Christopher Manson. Reminded me of the classic "Masquerade" by Kit Williams. (I hope everyone is familiar with both books.) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99048.Maze
on “Maze Design (2005)” ↗I design treasure hunts and then hide them in books. Well, I've just started to. Was obsessed by the book Masquerade, by Kit Williams as a kid. Finally decided that I could probably do that as well. So have started. Very much enjoying it.
on “Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies?” ↗I assume most people who have heard about Forest Fenn and his treasure know about Kit Williams and his "Masquerade" from the 1970's — an illustrated story book containing a puzzle that would lead to a treasure buried somewhere in England. If not, Bamber Gascoigne's "Quest for the Golden Hare" (1983) is a fascinating…
on “$1M treasure in Rocky Mountains has been found, says Forrest Fenn” ↗Masquerade, by Kit Williams. He hid a treasure in the UK and wrote a book with clues on how to find it. Such a wonderful thing to discover as a child.
on “Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?” ↗That's right. Masquerade by Kit Williams [1] was a phenomena in 1979 - a book of weird illustrations that somehow contained a puzzle as to where a golden hare was buried. Even a fifteen year-old living in Kansas at the time…
on “France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved” ↗Masquerade, by Kit Williams. He hid a rabbit made of gold and jewels somewhere in the UK and then wrote a book filled with clues and pictures on how to find it.
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗…two or more well-known cipher types, but if they were somewhat complex ciphers, the chance of solution would be rather remote. Hence I always thought a "good" end to the puzzle would be like the book "Masquerade" by Kit Williams where the only guy in cahoots with the creator (Bamber Gascoigne) thought the initial puzzle was an unrealistic challenge, but Williams released clues which enabled two schoolteachers…
on “The secret code behind the CIA's Kryptos puzzle is up for sale” ↗…different chapters; the storybook can be paged through and read as continuous prose on screen. Starting to sound familiar? No doubt, as both it and Myst lift a lot of their inspiration wholesale from Masquerade by Kit Williams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fool%27s_Errand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_(book) Jumping back to the soft-core philosophical gum-chewing, we can see the same themes…
on “The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst” ↗…projects. He also worked as an advisor ("this is cringe, dad") and gave me his Gen-Z perspective. You could call my game an "interactive book with choices and a metapuzzle", similar to Kit Williams' "Masquerade" Puzzle Hunt classic, but with an optional puzzle. The game's story revolves around an extraterrestrial who reaches out to a tech worker through an online chat. There's a lot of hacker culture throughout…
on “Show HN: I left my FAANG job at 50 to build a sci-fi game” ↗