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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.
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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this was cool. i thought you had to do them alphabetically but i guess not. good teaser anyway
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.
Good one Sunrose! You stumped me on a couple of the stones...
So my birth stone is Garnet??Great info! into my favorites
i knew u had to in birthstone month order...is that good enough?
Too simple for words! Great fun! Kudos! $ourDough sez 2 thumbs up!
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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!
What the heck is moonstone?
You stumped me with this one. Fun teaser!
Sorry, but this was REALLY easy.
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!!!
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Thanks, sunrose!!!
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This was really fun!!! A little bit easy, but SUPER FUN.
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.
I also knew they were birthstones, but I wasn't sure where a couple of them should be listed.
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
Thanks so much you all! /hugs to all
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
I thought to myself, why 12? And the answer came easy.
Good one!
Good one!
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.
I got HOW to do it, but I was to lazy to look up the anwsers.
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not hard, but very nice.
REALLY EASY! But, really fun!
I'm a Diamond Aries!
I'm a Diamond Aries!
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
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.
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
So.....what was in the box? A scroll I guess. What was on the scroll? I guess I'll never know.
Like many others I knew what to do but not how to do it.
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.
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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I woyldve gotten it, except for the fact that June is the PEARL...
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.
I thought this would be tricky ... but I got it! Kinda easy ..
It looked hard and random at first, but i figured it out in a few seconds (literally!)It was a great one though!
That was an easy one to figure out. However not everyone knows what order they are in and would have to look it all up if the wanted to actually put them in order. Just knowing the answer was enough for me. Cute, but long story yet fun teaser.
I too knew they were birthstones and although I have my late grandmother's family ring, we have purchased my mother both a family ring and a "Grandmoter's necklace, sadly I don't know the stones for any month other than March (my own birth month).
Knew they were birth stones. Don't know the order and really don't care.
Moonstone-March? July-Onyx? My birthday is in July and I have always known it to be a Ruby.
11/12 I knew they had to be birth stones.
11/12 I knew they had to be birth stones.
Really cute teaser, I liked it a lot. I knew the answer right away and most of the stones in order, due to a large family of assorted birth months. A good family teaser.
Enjoyed the teaser; unfortunately it was tough for me as I have never been able to associate the birthstones which each of their specific months. I knew they were birthstones but that was about it.
I have only been on the site for 2 months ago and wonder why so many of the Daily Teasers and Quizzes seem to be 10 years old or better?
This teaser was GAF and I give it a rating of 5+ on the BARNUM scale.
This teaser was GAF and I give it a rating of 5+ on the BARNUM scale.
This puzzle is complicated by the fact that what birthstone goes with which month depends on the historical age (pre-20th century birthstone assignments differ in some respects from post-20th century birthstone assignments), and also on the cultural community involved (British birthstone assignments differ somewhat from American birthstone assignments).
I knew they were birthstones and that was more than enough for me.
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