Magical Scroll Case
After some relaxing, the Seekers of Knowledge received a gift from an anonymous person. The gift was a magical scroll case that had 12 gemstones on it. The Seekers were a bit shocked at the elegance of the scroll case as they knew it was very expensive.
There was a catch with it. They had no idea how to open it. As they looked over the scroll case with amazement, suddenly a magic mouth appeared before them and said, "The code to open this scroll case is hidden within the stones; you must press each stone in the proper order to open it." The magic faded out.
The stones are in this order on the scroll case: Turquoise, Diamond, Opal, Aquamarine, Topaz, Emerald, Moonstone, Garnet, Sapphire, Amethyst, Ruby, Peridot.
Answer
After some thought, they knew how to open the scroll case.
They pressed the stones in this order: Garnet, Amethyst, Aquamarine, Diamond, Emerald, Moonstone, Ruby, Peridot, Sapphire, Opal, Topaz, Turquoise.
They are all birthstones, and in the order of the months: January, February, March and so on.
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doghouse270  
Mar 26, 2006
| this was cool. i thought you had to do them alphabetically but i guess not.  good teaser anyway  |
vlerma  
Mar 26, 2006
| Great, Sunrose. This was hard, but very enjoyable. I got lazy and looked at the hint and should have realized they were birthstones as I have tried to give each of 19 grandkids something with their birthstone in it. Excellent job.  |
sgtammo
Mar 29, 2006
| Good one Sunrose! You stumped me on a couple of the stones...  |
Lui312
Apr 03, 2006
| So my birth stone is Garnet??Great info! into my favorites |
calmsavior
Apr 12, 2006
| i knew u had to in birthstone month order...is that good enough? |
sourdough
Jul 09, 2008
| Too simple for words! Great fun! Kudos! $ourDough sez 2 thumbs up! 
$D  |
scallio
Jul 09, 2008
| With a June birthday, I had always believed my birthstone was Alexandrite or Pearl.
What the heck is moonstone?
You stumped me with this one. Fun teaser!
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Dudet772
Jul 09, 2008
| Sorry, but this was REALLY easy. |
shawneeo
Jul 09, 2008
| Well, apparently it wasn't so easy for everybody! Just because a teaser seems very easy to you, doesn't mean it's the same for most or everybody else! I liked this one, and... I GOT IT! Yayyyyyy!!!
Thanks, sunrose!!!
iP |
flutflutflyer 
Jul 09, 2008
| This was really fun!!! A little bit easy, but SUPER FUN. |
auntiesis
Jul 09, 2008
| The minute I saw that there were 12 gems I figured the months were represented. Since there was no stone beginning with a J it stood to reason that they must be the birthstones. Since I didn't know them in order I couldn't come up with the correct answer, but I was too lazy to look them up,so I guess I failed. But that was a great quiz. |
avonma
Jul 09, 2008
| I also knew they were birthstones, but I wasn't sure where a couple of them should be listed. |
Sunrose
Jul 09, 2008
| Thanks everyone! I realize that it may not be that hard, but I am happy that there are people who are still enjoying it.
Thanks so much you all! /hugs to all |
warriorsrule95
Jul 09, 2008
| hmm, I knew they were birthstones, bit I had no idea what the order was, so in a way I got it and in a way I failed |
FatHead
Jul 09, 2008
| I thought to myself, why 12? And the answer came easy.
Good one! |
zaya
Jul 09, 2008
| lame, I know nothing about birthstones but knew it was the answer since its the only logical association one could make for 12 random gemstones.  |
braingle100
Jul 09, 2008
| I got HOW to do it, but I was to lazy to look up the anwsers.
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here2
Jul 09, 2008
| not hard, but very nice. |
Kayla_Darkheart
Jul 09, 2008
| REALLY EASY! But, really fun!
I'm a Diamond Aries! |
_fire_fly
Jul 09, 2008
| I didn't know all of the months, but I knew right away that you had to put them in order of which birthstone came in which month. I really liked this teaser |
bradon182001
Jul 09, 2008
| Well, I didn't get it. I was trying to spell out something using the first letter of each stone, forwards, backwards every way I could think of, Good teaser. Thanks for posting. |
suganue
Jul 10, 2008
| Easy and fun. I liked it. I figured it had to be birthstones and when I counted 12 I was certain. Cool teaser. i'm opal..october |
xdbtcp
Dec 29, 2009
| So.....what was in the box? A scroll I guess. What was on the scroll? I guess I'll never know.  |
beyonce123
Jun 28, 2010
| Like many others I knew what to do but not how to do it. |
lukasiwicz
Jul 09, 2011
| Not so easy, when one is aware that there are at least 4 listings of monthly gemstones, the Traditional, the Modern, and the Mystical, and the Ayurvedic. Traditionally, the gemstone for March is either Bloodstone or Jasper, and the gemstone for July is Turquoise or Onyx. This is one of those puzzles for which, the more you know, the harder the puzzle is going to be. |
doehead
Jul 09, 2011
| I knew it was the 12 birthstones, but I didn't know their order.Each one is considered to be a rock just like my brain.
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Snowstar
Jul 09, 2011
| I woyldve gotten it, except for the fact that June is the PEARL... |
thebrain789
Jul 09, 2011
| Yeah, I knew some of them were birthstones. I know what my birthstone is (it's a garnet) so I knew which stone to press first. |
NettieLou
Jul 09, 2011
| I thought this would be tricky ... but I got it! Kinda easy .. |
westbrook1
Jul 09, 2011
| It looked hard and random at first, but i figured it out in a few seconds (literally!)It was a great one though! |
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