Upon getting to the next destination, the teams found a box for a 60-piece jigsaw puzzle. Drawn on the back of some of the puzzle pieces were geometric figures:
Solution
The first part of this challenge was finding a flat surface and putting the puzzle together.
The second part of this challenge was flipping the puzzle over. Due to loose puzzle pieces, this took more than a little skill; the puzzle frequently fell into many pieces during flipping. Once the puzzle was fully assembled in reverse, on the back of the puzzle was the following (with the exact figures varied by team):
The third part of the challenge was recognizing the figures as semaphore flags and translating them, using the key found in the Gentleman’s Guide. The puzzle above, translated, reads:
[numbers]
6 2 5 5
7 0 2 2
Recognizing the result as four distinct pairs of numbers and looking up the pages in Walden showed circled words or phrases on each page. Putting them together in order (for this puzzle) yielded: "beginning of", "mountain", "road", "north" (thus sending this team to the north road entering the mountain).
Clues for some other teams read:
- "swing" "into" "water" "hole" (a pond for swimming that had a rope swing)
- "top of" "steps on" "walk to" "view" (the top of a long staircase leading to a tower)
- "lake" "proper" "relief" "toilet" (one of two outhouses by a nearby lake)
- "lake" "heat" "food" "chimney" (inside the chimney of a barbecue grill at the lake)
Continue on to Challenge #4: The Poker Lock, or see the results of this challenge.