#puzzlesandriddles

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Questers Academy: The Box of Locks by Sam Hay

A code-cracking adventure where nothing is explained and everything is a clue.

Pre-Reading Thoughts MG mystery + secret academy + ciphers? I was expecting something fast, clever, and maybe just a little chaotic in that “the adults are being suspiciously unhelpful” way.

Post-Reading As I thought... it’s a genuinely fun, fast-paced puzzle-box of a story. The clues are smart without being inaccessible, and the way everything clicks into place at the end is so satisfying. It surprised me by... just how well the structure holds up. This isn’t just a string of riddles—it’s tightly plotted, with everything pulling together in a way that rewards paying attention.

Music Pairing 🎵 Featured Song: “Secret Agent Man” – Johnny Rivers 🎶 Vibe Album: “The Great Unknown” – Jukebox the Ghost 🎧 Artist Recommendation: They Might Be Giants

Vibe Check 🎨 Colour Palette: brass, parchment, midnight blue, puzzle-box gold 🎼 Soundtrack: ticking clocks, whispered theories, the scratch of pencil on paper 🍂 Season: autumn term energy (new school, new secrets) 🌫 Mood: curious, slightly overwhelmed, determined to figure it out anyway 🕯 Scent: old books, museum dust, and something faintly metallic

Tarot Pull 🗡 Page of Swords – curiosity, quick thinking, and asking questions (even when no one is answering them). Very much Tom-and-Leesha energy: observant, sharp, and always one step away from figuring it out.

For Fans Of 📖 The London Eye Mystery 🎬 Murder on the Orient Express (but make it MG and full of ciphers)

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Puzzles and Riddles

Life is a puzzle.It makes us laugh.It also makes us cry. Everyone is here because they have a character to play, and every piece must fit himself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Puzzles and riddles have always entertained us for years. There is always inquisitiveness, an eager to search for the ultimate destination, a thousand ways and means of reaching to the solution and looking at the person who solves the puzzle well before us! Just as we do physical exercise to keep our body fit, the mind puzzles and riddles helps us to keep the mind healthy. They are the means of our mental exercise, to keep us alert, awake and aware of the various combination of the solution, similar to reaching true solutions of our multiple problems in our daily life. They help us to improve our memory, sharpen our brain and reduce the chances of our developing diseases like Alzheimer's disease, dementia etc.

Games like Cross words, math fun questions, jigsaw puzzles, Chess, Sudoku, Rubik’s Cube etc. are our own brain bashers and brain teasers. They makes us challenge to us and teach us lesson of life. They teach us to think before we make a move in life, possible outcomes, keeping a time count, staying flexible etc.

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A Chimera met the Riddler

To ease some loneliness, the feline makes her way to Agata forest. This place always has a soothing effect on her, so maybe it'll help clear out her mind, too.

It's a moonless night with stars shining down through the thick canopy. She makes her way to a favourite boulder to begin playing her bamboo flute. It's a wonder how her stubby paw-fingers can manage this feat, but she manages all the same.

((https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uEf4PGHwG4))

She's quite the strange sight to behold. She appears to be a humanoid feline, with snow-white fur all over her, becoming light-grey on the front of her neck and bottom of her tail. She stands at 6'2" and has a very feminine but muscular build, with silvery arms, face plate and feet. Her body is golden with a red belt around her high waist and above where her tail comes out from. The tail itself is very long and fluffy, undoubtably an aid in balance. In the middle of her face is a blue crystal that glows, much like her sapphire optics. Her body is quite hefty, as she weighs around seven-hundred pounds. All of those metal augmentations add up quickly. Still, her knee-length human-like hair gives her a graceful look, along with her short muzzle.

Partway through the song, she closes her optics to focus upon the music and the sound of the river better. She has no idea at all that someone is nearby because of this meditative state.