Hints

Intro Page

  • What do you notice on the page that looks like water? Water reflects, could this as well?

  • Try holding the page up to something reflective. What do you see?

  • If you hold the page up to a mirror you should be able to see text in the water. It reads “seek letters”.
    This is a general hint for the rest of the puzzle book.

the path stones

  • There are animal carvings here, and a bunch of symbols, some below the animal heads. Can we match letters to the symbols somehow?

  • The fox gives us the symbols for F-O-X and the hare gives us the symbols for H-A-R-E.
    Can we figure out what the rest of the symbols mean through logic?
    (The longest word is related to letters directly.)

  • With some logical deduction, we get “LAST OF THE ALPHABET” from the stones.
    The last letter of the english alphabet is your answer.

the bird bath

  • The outer ring of the bird bath consists of sets of numerals like I,II.

    Then the center section of the bath looks a bit like a grid, with the axes labelled with the same numerals.

    Can we use the two together somehow?

  • The numerals around the outer ring can be used as coordinates to locate letters on the grid.

    What do they spell?

    (Make sure you follow the arrow on the outer ring, and are orienting yourself accordingly when reading the numerals. The first numeral in the coordinate set is always read on the X-Axis.)

  • There are 19 coordinate sets of numerals.

    Locating letters on the grid, you will get the words “THIRD LETTER IN BRANCH”.

    The third letter in the word branch is your answer.

the statues

  • Is there anything special about the bases of these statues? Can we connect those markings to the subject of each statue somehow?

  • The markings on the bases look a bit like blanks to fill in. If we fill in the blanks with what that statues subjects are, does anything stand out?

    Make sure to keep the plaque in mind: “that which we all share.”

  • Each statue has markings on the bases that match the number of letters in the word that each of the statues represents (owl, squirrel, trowel, lighthouse).

    The plaque points to the only letter that each of those words share. That letter is your answer.

the rain chains

  • What is the plaque at the top trying to tell us?

    Are there repeats on the page?

  • There are a few sets of the same icons on the chains.

    But what could that line in between the SAME, SAME be trying to guide us to do?

  • The line between SAME and SAME is directing you to connect the repeated icons together with a drawn line.

    There should be four lines, none of which overlap, and they should form the shape of a letter. That letter is your answer.

the gazebo

  • What do you notice on the page that looks like water? Water reflects, could this as well?

  • Try holding the page up to something reflective. What do you see?

  • If you hold the page up to a mirror you should be able to see text in the water. It reads “seek letters”.
    This is a general hint for the rest of the puzzle book.