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E: 23/12 Win £1000 Cash & a Rare £1 SEAHORSE Stamp
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Endgame - Win £1000 Cash & a Rare £1 SEAHORSE Stamp
We are pleased to finally launch ‘Endgame’, our long-awaited competition. Created by Arthur Brown, Endgame is fiendishly difficult and addictive. The winner will receive a £1 seahorse stamp (as shown), as well as £1000 in cash. If the winner is overseas, then the cash will be paid in the currency of their choice at current exchange rates.
How do you win? Read the story and look at the picture-clues. The solution lies within. When you have found the solution, you must send it to us using the form below along with a brief description of how you reached it. The solution is very short, but we will require the winner to submit a full written solution. The reason that we are asking for this explanation is that many competitions of this ilk have finished unsatisfactorily. That is to say that the solution has been found more by luck than acute thinking and research.
We will not answer any questions about Endgame. Everything you need to know is on this page. We have no idea how long it will take somebody to solve it. It could be days, months or even years.
The £1 Seahorse was a gift we very kindly received from a collector, who had heard we were planning this competition. As you can see it is in used condition. Those of you who have no knowledge of stamps might be surprised to learn that it is worth in excess of £200. Single stamps regularly change hands on eBay for over £5000. The rarest items have sold over £1million in the better philatelic auctions – that is £1million for just one rare stamp. Suddenly stamp collecting is more exciting than you first thought…or at least marginally so!
We hope this competition may encourage young people to take an interest in philately (stamp collecting). Some knowledge of stamps is required to reach the solution, but not an excessive amount. If the winner of this competition is under 30 years of age, we will also throw in a brand new Nintendo Wii.
Time to get to work then! As we said before, all solutions must be fully explained and no questions will be answered. We do not welcome telephone calls about Endgame, either. We are a small company and all our staff are very busy. We can assure you that all solutions will be quickly and properly appraised. The competition will be won, fair and square.
Have Fun:D
Endgame - Win £1000 Cash & a Rare £1 SEAHORSE Stamp
We are pleased to finally launch ‘Endgame’, our long-awaited competition. Created by Arthur Brown, Endgame is fiendishly difficult and addictive. The winner will receive a £1 seahorse stamp (as shown), as well as £1000 in cash. If the winner is overseas, then the cash will be paid in the currency of their choice at current exchange rates.
How do you win? Read the story and look at the picture-clues. The solution lies within. When you have found the solution, you must send it to us using the form below along with a brief description of how you reached it. The solution is very short, but we will require the winner to submit a full written solution. The reason that we are asking for this explanation is that many competitions of this ilk have finished unsatisfactorily. That is to say that the solution has been found more by luck than acute thinking and research.
We will not answer any questions about Endgame. Everything you need to know is on this page. We have no idea how long it will take somebody to solve it. It could be days, months or even years.
The £1 Seahorse was a gift we very kindly received from a collector, who had heard we were planning this competition. As you can see it is in used condition. Those of you who have no knowledge of stamps might be surprised to learn that it is worth in excess of £200. Single stamps regularly change hands on eBay for over £5000. The rarest items have sold over £1million in the better philatelic auctions – that is £1million for just one rare stamp. Suddenly stamp collecting is more exciting than you first thought…or at least marginally so!
We hope this competition may encourage young people to take an interest in philately (stamp collecting). Some knowledge of stamps is required to reach the solution, but not an excessive amount. If the winner of this competition is under 30 years of age, we will also throw in a brand new Nintendo Wii.
Time to get to work then! As we said before, all solutions must be fully explained and no questions will be answered. We do not welcome telephone calls about Endgame, either. We are a small company and all our staff are very busy. We can assure you that all solutions will be quickly and properly appraised. The competition will be won, fair and square.
Have Fun:D
Thanks to all comp posters:A
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This has been posted here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=374133&highlight=endgame but it's in game over.
This is hard i gave up last time 0 -
Blah! :S
Not the foggiest!!0 -
Has anyone sent merge request
What we see depends mainly on what we look for
"This will be mine in 2009" member 500 -
hmmmmmmmmmmmm decisions decisions..... Do I enter myself and not win a Wii or do I enter 19 year old DD who is likely to want the cash. No contest really. She can enter herself :rotfl:2008 won £5119.04 :j
2009 won so far £0:rotfl:
All together now..........
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Hmm, i'm 29 now, But will be 30 before the closing date. So does it still count????:think:0
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This is obviously a very difficult puzzle. On image 1, there is a phrase 'Twisted are the heads of all creators. We have another first".
That sounds like some sort of cryptic crossword type clue. Twisted can mean jumbled up as in an anagram.
how far have people got with this? any clues to share? how did you find it?0 -
...remember masquerade by kit williams? it was a book nearly 30 years ago, where they buried a golden rabbit in the ground. everyone was digging up england looking for it.0
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I have masquerade Never understood that either!
Isabella Molly born 14th January 2009New challenge for 2011 - saving up vouchers to pay for Chistmas!Amazon £48.61 Luncheon Vouchers £240 -
From wiki:
The solution to the Masquerade puzzle is both elaborate and elegant: in each painting, lines should be drawn from each animal's eyes through their longest digits to a letter in the border. The resulting letters form individual words, revealed either by anagramming or by applying the order hinted at by the Sir Isaac Newton painting, in which all of the creatures of the book are represented as puppets hanging in a line from left to right.
Decoding and following this method reveals the nineteen-word message:CATHERINE’S LONG FINGER OVER SHADOWS EARTH BURIED YELLOW AMULET MIDDAY POINTS THE HOUR IN LIGHT OF EQUINOX LOOK YOUTaking the first letter indicated by each painting, the acrostic “CLOSE BY AMPTHILL” is revealed. Properly interpreted, the message told to dig near the cross-shaped monument to Catherine of Aragon in Ampthill Park, at the precise spot touched by the tip of the monument’s shadow at the stroke of noon on the date of either the vernal or autumnal equinox.
Many additional hints and "confirmers" are scattered throughout the book. For example, in the painting depicting the Sun and the Moon dancing around the Earth, the hands of the two figures are clasped together, pointing at the date of the spring equinox.0
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