Solving Sherlock Holmes: Puzzle Your Way Through the Cases (Volume 2) (Puzzlecraft, 2)

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From the Publisher Do not read this book. Play it! Instead of reading each chapter chronologically, page after page—like a traditional book—and solving each puzzle as you go, skip around, instead, and have more fun following Holmes’s trail using the clues, events, and puzzles hidden in the following pages, like our famous detective would do when solving a case! There are three intertwined challenges awaiting you. Challenge 1: Every chapter contains twenty-three puzzles that Holmes and Watson must solve. They react to famous characters, surroundings, and unusual events that were inspired by six classic Sherlock Holmes stories. For extra enjoyment, the plots have been slightly reimagined to add further mystery and purposely create more hurdles than Holmes and Watson had to overcome in the original stories. Challenge 2: Each chapter contains a map. Tear it out and keep it next to you as you work through the puzzles. After you solve a puzzle, part of the answer, or sometimes a hint, is enclosed within a box at the bottom of the page. The answer will lead you to the next puzzle that you must solve. You will move around the map, like through a maze, and skip around the puzzles. Challenge 3: Hidden in each chapter is one intentional letter mistake to keep you on your toes. At first glance it may appear to be typo, or perhaps a misspelling, but it is not! Each letter (a total of six) will spell out a final word when all the puzzles have been completed. Best of luck! Shelf Logic “I’m sorry, Watson, but I’m wondering what you’ll think of me today. From a logical point of view, my bookshelves are untidy, or didn’t you notice the problem?” Go on and locate more logic on the map involving a staircase. A Study In Red This adventure opposes Holmes’s logic to the extreme, and one wonders why the great detective was called in at all! There is no crime, except for a patent discrepancy in the well-ordered Victorian world. Mr. Jabez Wilson, the client, is a well-travelled red-headed chap who has explored as far as China and likes to show it off by flaunting his jewels and tattoos. He is now a shopkeeper in London and is deeply disturbed by the obvious lack of logic in his current situation. He was offered a job, and was well paid for it by an organization that suddenly disappeared. Instead of accepting his good fortunes, particularly as the organization left no debt, the red-headed client seeks out Detective Holmes, who is immediately fascinated by the case. He agrees with his client that such an absurd situation cannot be allowed to remain unexplained. As explained in the introduction, tear out the map attached to this chapter and keep it with you as a travel guide. It will be essential for steering you through the strange places and events within this chapter. Start with the first puzzle on the next page, solve it, and then follow the boxed hint to find the next puzzle number on the map. With the puzzle’s number above the title, go to the corresponding puzzle in the chapter. Repeat this sequence with each puzzle, going back and forth from the puzzles to the map and back again, until you reach the last case. A Cut Rug “I see a section of a beautiful antique Persian rug in the window, Watson, but at such a low price the shopkeeper must not know its true value. Let’s get it and see how far we can impose our own logic.” “We are interested in this inexpensive piece of rug, Mr. Wilson. I wonder if you would be willing to sell it to John Watson and me, in such a way that we would both get exactly half of the area? We’d insist that it be cut in one straight line, of course, so the overall pattern is altered as little as possible.” “I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to do exactly that, Mr. Holmes, although I’ll do my best to oblige.” “You are mistaken, Sir. The cutting we require can be done easily enough.” After you determine where to divide the rug into two, count the number of uncut squares in each piece and head there on the map. Review: Right On Target - I bought this as a birthday gift for my sister-in-law who has actually taken a course in murder mysteries at Oxford University. Since she really enjoys puzzles, I anticipate that she will love this book. Review: Fun! - Gave to my boyfriend as a gift and he enjoys it alot. Some are hard and some are easy it's a great mix and keeps you busy