CASE №01
A royal ball is underway. The palace is filled with 45,000 guests. Then the Queen’s beloved jester vanishes.
Somewhere inside the crowd, one kidnapper is hiding.
The Game
At the Queen’s annual ball, the palace is filled with music, masks, and glittering gowns. 45,000 guests have entered the royal halls. But before the celebration ends, the Queen’s beloved jester is kidnapped.
His bells fall silent.
His laughter is gone.
And somewhere among the crowd, the kidnapper is hiding.
Inside this book are 45,000 possible suspects.
Only one of them took the jester. The rest are innocent. You have a set of clues, your own logic, and one mission: find the kidnapper before they escape with him. Read the clues. Search the suspects. Eliminate the innocent. Trust the patterns.
The jester is waiting to be rescued.
Can you uncover who took him before they get away?
The Clues
Tap each clue to expand. Take notes, cross-reference, and deduce.
The kidnapper is not a man.
The kidnapper’s name does not end with an “A”.
The kidnapper’s name does not contain x, y, z.
The kidnapper’s name is longer than three letters.
The kidnapper’s name does not contain a consecutive repeated letter (e.g. Emma or Robbie).
There is an ancient Queen within three pages of the kidnapper.*
Nefertiti, Cleopatra, Zenobia or Sheba
The kidnapper’s name is longer than seven letters.
The kidnapper appears on a page with a repeated name.
The kidnapper’s page is between Danyelle’s page and Bebe’s page.
The kidnapper’s name contains at least three different vowels.
The kidnapper’s name appears in the chapter with the most popular Queen’s names.*
Elizabeth, Victoria, Mary, Margrethe, and Catherine
The first name on the kidnapper’s page shares at least two letters with the kidnapper.
The page facing opposite to the kidnapper’s page contains the first name of a member of the band Queen.*
Freddie, Brian, Roger or John
The kidnapper is on a page with an odd number of names.
The kidnapper’s page is no more than one page away from a Madonna.
The kidnapper’s name does not begin with an “R”.
A name with three letters can be found no more than ten names away from the killer.
