What is the answer to the riddle, stated exactly as indicated by the clues in the book?
Answer all three questions in the order given. Mail your entry, plus 504 processing fee (cash, check, or money order) to: MAZE, P.O. Box 542, Lowell, IN 46399. Enter as often as you wish but each entry must be mailed in a separate envelope and must be accompanied by the 50 processing fee.
Entries for each phase of the contest will be reviewed by VENTURA ASSOCIATES, INC., an independent judging organization whose decisions shall be final on all matters relating to the contest. The initial contest ending date is September 1, 1986.
If no completely correct solution has been received by September 1, 1986, a clue(s) will be made available and the contest will be extended for six months to March 1, 1987. Only entries received between September 2, 1986 and March 1, 1987 will be reviewed for the correct answers.
If no completely correct solution has been received by March 1, 1987, a second additional clue(s) will be made available and the contest will extend for a final six months to September 1, 1987. Only entries received between March 2, 1987 and September 1, 1987 will be reviewed for the correct answers. If no totally correct entry is received, the prize will be awarded to the entrant(s) who submit the most nearly correct answers based on the following point system: Question 1.-16 points, Question 2.-25 points, Question 3.-50 points, Total- 91 points.
If more than one winning entry is received, prize money will be divided equally among all winners. Winner will be notified by mail and may be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility and release and winner's name and likeness may be used for publicity purposes without additional compensation. Prize is non-transferable and no substitutions will be allowed. Taxes are the responsibility of the winner. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply and all entries become the property of Holt, Rinehart, and Winston and will not be returned. Contest void where prohibited.
FOR A COPY OF THE ANSWERS OR ADDITIONAL CLUES IF NO CORRECT ANSWER HAS YET BEEN RECEIVED, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope and 254 for handling to MAZE Solution/Clues, P.O. Box 607, Lowell, IN 46399, any time during the contest, but no later than November 1, 1987. Requests sent to this P.O. Box will be fulfilled at the end of each of the contest cycles.
For the name of the contest winner, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: MAZE Winner, P.O. Box 741, Lowell, IN 46399 no later than November 1, 1987.
Employees (and their families) of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, its affiliates and advertising agency, VENTURA ASSOCIATES, INC., and the author, are not eligible to participate.
Transcriber's note: by 1987, a number of people managed to partially solve the maze by finding the sixteen-step path, and split the prize money jointly between them.
To this date, no one has ever solved this maze in its entirety and answered all three questions.
There is no more prize money available should someone manage it, but many people continue to enter the maze and contend with its mysteries.
