E: 29/08 Win £250 with Cash Hunt - HELP NEEDED

I've been thinking more about this, but still got nowhere, but thought that I would air my thoughts, so that it might make someone else think of something. Firstly, since they have used Google Street View a few times, I had a mooch around the area on Google Street view, hoping that perhaps there might be a law court or something (The truth?). That got me nowhere, so then I thought that since they use anagrams quite a lot, we might be looking for a two (or more?) word anagram of "Fish Scale Pattern", the second word of the anagram being the nine letter word that is at the start of the answer. Once again though, I have got nowhere with finding a suitable anagram.

Well I think I have something on that last bit. - BTW, thanks for all the help, I don't think I would have made it this far.

Did Henry go starving while clearing bent grass?
Buy hall and you'll see above cellar your task.

Match she without T find where hat home did make,
Crustacean will show you the one with no steak.

Now where he joined Phil you remember your youth,
The pattern from inmates will lead to the truth.

Word two you must find then flog the wrong way,
Go homeward with hope and that's all for today.


And rather than change the text colour, why not use [ spoiler ] & [ /spoiler ] tags instead. If people are using custom style sheets, the white text may not always be invisible until highlighted, but spoilers always are.

Thanks for that, I didn't know about spoiler tags, I knew white wasn't ideal

It's a shame your golf club name doesn't fit in. I wonder if you're right about homeward, but I don't think we'll know for sure where we're going until the word two line is solved. I remembered there was a previous clue which used the phrase on 'with hope' and it turned out it was just a filler, when I thought I would be trying to add something to hope to get a place name or surname. (eta - it was in March). It makes me think the whole last line might mainly be a filler to end the rhyme, particularly as golf club fits into the solution.

I haven't given up but I'm going a bit doolally and I feel like I've tried everything.

If 'leads to the truth' is just a filler then I think word two is either be scale/s, gaol/jail, prison or invalids (from the full name of the prison).

I've looked for placenames or streets called scale/s and found nowhere near a golf course.

If 'lead to the truth' is part of the clue, then I wonder if word two might refer to a word in a poem or book, which has been done before in their clues. I haven't found any poems on fish scales or Woking prison though!

I did find that Charles Joseph Kickham wrote a book called Sally Cavanagh in Woking prison but I got nothing with either Cavanagh or the second word of the book, Purcell. I also don't think the book fits into 'lead to the truth'.

I also found that the female inmates of Woking Prison did the mosaic floor in the crypt of St Paul's where several famous people are buried, but I couldn't see anything obvious that relates to the clue.

I've googled lots of combinations of fishscales or woking + truth (and synonyms) and got nothing

Marg2k8 wrote: »

Thanks for posting. I for one am not a very techie person, so the reason that I would not use spoilers is because I don't understand them. LOL. Perhaps others might be like me.

Thats all right, i was only trying to help. For those using the font colour option from the toolbar may not realise the forum code, but for those who type [ color=white ] & [ /color ] chamging to [ spoiler ] is minor.

For those who are unsure, if you type [ s p o i l e r ] and [ / s p o i l e r ] (minus the spaces) around the text you want to hide you get

now back to the drawing board with this puzzle.

Going back to the fish scales

The museum building succeeded in being educational from the onset. Female inmates of Woking Gaol laid the fish scale pattern marble floor (visitors to the Museum will notice that sme worked more diligently than others!) and F. W. Moody designed the murals in the north and south exterior walls as educational pieces. The murals on the south wall depict agricultural scenes whilst those on the north depict art and industry. The murals, following the style of those in the main quadrangle at the South Kensington site, were created with the assistance of female students of the South Kensington Museum Mosaic Class.

I've highlighted a few words there, going back to homward leading North, then maybe there is something in those muriels.