Yes, two posts in one day, because I am stubborn, and the fact that I could not make hide nor hair of the solution to the ten of diamonds with the puzzle at the end under the King of Diamonds was bothering me. A lot.
So, back to square one of Maze of Games, the "Pathways of Your Mine", where a second re-reading has the heroine very specifically saying that she's not going to the north and the 10 of Diamonds first. Presumably that's something from the (broken) dial puzzle - le sigh. Going the other way leads to the 3 of Diamonds first, rather than the 10, and the narrative goes accordingly. Our dashing duo stumble across a glutton, who sentences them to death by beheading. Not a very nice glutton. I'm imagining 1980s version Baron Harkkonen at this point, but I digress. In order to escape beheading and/or deliver themselves onward to the headsman, the duo has another puzzle to solve.
This time, it's a different style of crossword, one that lacks any black blocks or blanks, sometimes called a barred crossword or a continuity crossword. The puzzle has a theme, and, as befits what should be the first puzzle in the maze, it has a lot of guidance, and tells you the number of words in the theme, and which of those words is your actual clue.
Without spoiling the fun of the puzzle itself, the word in question, once you solve it is ROUND. This, then, makes a whole lot more sense when you plug it into the cryptic crossword style clue: Add T to (the keyword) to gain a kindred meaning. Adding a T to ROUND gives ROTUND. Which actually makes sense! Hurray! Then, that gets plugged into the overall solution for the Three of Diamonds. One of the letters of ROTUND is circled, so presumably that will be part of the instructions on how to enter the second level of the maze, once we get there.
Having (happily) sorted that out, and solved the true first room of the maze, it's off to sleep, hopefully not to dream of House Harkkonen.
I hope you enjoy, and check out Maze of Games on Puzzazz or Lone Shark Games
So, back to square one of Maze of Games, the "Pathways of Your Mine", where a second re-reading has the heroine very specifically saying that she's not going to the north and the 10 of Diamonds first. Presumably that's something from the (broken) dial puzzle - le sigh. Going the other way leads to the 3 of Diamonds first, rather than the 10, and the narrative goes accordingly. Our dashing duo stumble across a glutton, who sentences them to death by beheading. Not a very nice glutton. I'm imagining 1980s version Baron Harkkonen at this point, but I digress. In order to escape beheading and/or deliver themselves onward to the headsman, the duo has another puzzle to solve.
This time, it's a different style of crossword, one that lacks any black blocks or blanks, sometimes called a barred crossword or a continuity crossword. The puzzle has a theme, and, as befits what should be the first puzzle in the maze, it has a lot of guidance, and tells you the number of words in the theme, and which of those words is your actual clue.
Without spoiling the fun of the puzzle itself, the word in question, once you solve it is ROUND. This, then, makes a whole lot more sense when you plug it into the cryptic crossword style clue: Add T to (the keyword) to gain a kindred meaning. Adding a T to ROUND gives ROTUND. Which actually makes sense! Hurray! Then, that gets plugged into the overall solution for the Three of Diamonds. One of the letters of ROTUND is circled, so presumably that will be part of the instructions on how to enter the second level of the maze, once we get there.
Having (happily) sorted that out, and solved the true first room of the maze, it's off to sleep, hopefully not to dream of House Harkkonen.
I hope you enjoy, and check out Maze of Games on Puzzazz or Lone Shark Games
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