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- From: jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein)
- Subject: Re: Kit Williams' old new book
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145106.15841@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:51:06 GMT
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- strgh@csv.warwick.ac.uk (J E H Shaw) writes:
- >DKSmith@msor.exeter.ac.uk (David Smith) writes:
- >...
- >>
- >>The book was called "The Bee on the Comb"
- >>but it never got as much publicity as the
- >>book "Masquerade" ... after all, the media
- >>were more interested in the valuable prize
- >>in Masquerade.
- >>
- >...
- >As I remember, the book was called `Bees Only Sting'.
-
- Nope- you fell pray to the same red herring that my friends and I did.
- If you take a look at the front cover of the book, you'll notice that
- you can see the edge of the piece of honeycomb pattern that covers the
- title. From this, you can figure out how many characters are in
- the title, and "Bees Only Sting" doesn't fit.
-
- I know this, by the way, because Kit Williams himself told me at a book signing
- shortly after the book was released. So it comes from a pretty
- unimpeachable source.
-
- Still, the question remains: What were some of the clues? And what was
- the winning entry like? With hindsight, I now realize that one of the
- seasons had a comb stuck in her hair, with an image of a bee on it.
-
- I also know that the solution involved Morse code, and finding the
- location of the hidden animal in each picture. Again, this comes from
- Kit Williams. Given this, and the answer, can anybody work backwards and
- figure the thing out?
-
-