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Puzzle ID: #36417
Submitted By: grilledcheese Corrected By: mengting2013
Submitted By: grilledcheese Corrected By: mengting2013
Mystery
Mystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.Mystery
Shaley was devastated. Last night her father died and left her $100,000. Her father left a note to where the money was, but she couldn't understand what it meant. She immediately called Detective Bowen.
When Detective Bowen arrived, he took the note from Shaley. It said:
Take 21 tissues off the desk.
You will see 14 pictures on the 4th floor.
Go 5 steps to your left.
Proceed down 18 stairs.
Take 20 paces towards the study.
You will see 8 stone eagles, 5 of which are flightless.
Tell them each 13 stories of 1 pirate.
After that, spin around 19 times.
Walk 20 steps outside to the 5th tree you see.
There will be 18 branches by the 2nd water fountain.
Finally, you should see 5 girls and 4 boys.
"I don't understand what he wrote in his letter, Detective", Shaley said, "it doesn't make any sense!"
"Don't worry", said Detective Bowen, "I know exactly where your money is."
How does Detective Bowen know where the money is?
When Detective Bowen arrived, he took the note from Shaley. It said:
Take 21 tissues off the desk.
You will see 14 pictures on the 4th floor.
Go 5 steps to your left.
Proceed down 18 stairs.
Take 20 paces towards the study.
You will see 8 stone eagles, 5 of which are flightless.
Tell them each 13 stories of 1 pirate.
After that, spin around 19 times.
Walk 20 steps outside to the 5th tree you see.
There will be 18 branches by the 2nd water fountain.
Finally, you should see 5 girls and 4 boys.
"I don't understand what he wrote in his letter, Detective", Shaley said, "it doesn't make any sense!"
"Don't worry", said Detective Bowen, "I know exactly where your money is."
How does Detective Bowen know where the money is?
Hint
Forget the text, the numbers are important.Answer
In the note, the numbers represent letters of the alphabet. For example, 1=A. So the numbers in the note read, "Under the master bed".Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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very nice teaser my answer was totally off the actual answer. good job
very nice, i actually got that right because i was hoping someone would use the alphabet to stand for numbers
HI cammy!!!! I love this teaser it is so cool!!!!! it is so brilliant!
loved it!
I was all confused and just looked at the answer never would think that would be in mystery! more like cryptography except easier
I had to look at the hint to get it
That was confusing!
You had me confused with that one. I had a fun time with it!!
i loved it! great job!!!
...OH. Clever, but not exactly fit for a nerfhead like me!
really hard, but fun
coolio! i love these kinds of teasers! they're so fun!
lol i didn't even try to solve it but it's funny. I would be sooooo mad because I'd never figure that out
cool...
Shouldn't he have just left all his money in the bank?
haha.. very nice...I surely LOVED it!!! it's SOOO cool!!!
I kept ignoring everything but the movement instructions, and winded up 18 steps outside looking up at a tree. Buried treasure!?
Not even close.
Not even close.
had 2 take d hint b4 i cud hav figured it out! But once d hint was given, it was smooth sailing from there!
Good one Cam
I have to say number/letters where the first thing that sprung to mind! I was surprised as ususally I get stumped! clever clever! Cant believe I actually got it! what the!?
haha that was cool!!!
I thought it was going to be that you had to take the letter from the sentence that was that number, so in the first one it wouldbe the 21st letter etc...
cool! this is a new type of decodation! (is decodation even a word?)
I just have a hard time with these math ones. I will try harder next time.
Nice and fun. Great teaser!!!!
Im pathetic!i want to be a detective but i couldnt fiqure even this out!!!
it was a little hard
you are so good at this!
guessed it right away, although it took some time to go through the letters one by one
Very, very clever indeed!
i was onto somthing there about the numbers and letters but its to clever for me a doughball thats me lol!!!!!!!!
very hard. i didn't get it and wasn't even on the right track!
COOOOL
Her father must have been insane!! (:
clever!! I liked that one!
ez ezz ezz eezz eez eez ez zzee
i only got it right because i was hoping someone would use that code! (A=1 B=2, etc.) I was so excited when i got through "under" that i missed some letters and ended up with "UNDER TE MATTRSS"
Nice teaser once again grilledcheeese,
nice teaser grilledcheese!
im so stupid I didnt realize the number thing and I usually do!!! Thats what I get for being n at 100 PM
nice, but to make it harder, have the 'riddle' seem more like an actual treasur hunt. otherwise it'd be easy to tell that the numbers were the main thing, end esp. 1-26, a-z.
SourDough gives this one "3 thumbs up" for originality and for stumping ol' $D
Very good mystery!, yes indeed!
$D
Very good mystery!, yes indeed!
$D
i could just kick myself...
Hahaha
Just as I tought, It was the answer.
Just as I tought, It was the answer.
Got it with the hint
The hint wasn't of much use to me cuz i immediately realized the text was useless. But I couln't figure out what exactly the numbers meant! Nice one!
I thought the numbers are the code to his locker.Very good teaser.
Got it without the hint, but I was too lazy to calculate the letters.
I found it pretty easy because there was no way to accurately analyze the directions, but there were lots and lots of numbers waiting to be decoded...
I couldn't figure it out...very good one! I found it funny that it sounds like she is "devastated" because she can't figure out where the $100,000 is.
i feel like this teaser should be in cryptography. but it was insanelly fun!!!
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