A wealthy family hires an architect to renovate their apartment. The architect decides to build an elaborate scavenger hunt mystery into the apartment, without mentioning it to the client:
One day last fall, more than a year after they moved in, Mr. Klinsky received a letter in the mail containing a poem that began:
We’ve taken liberties with Yeats
to lead you through a tale
that tells of most inspired fates
in hopes to lift the veil.
What followed was an intricate series of puzzles and challenges that sounds so convulted I’m betting the guy’s behind Myst are working on their own adaptation:
… the finale involved, in part, removing decorative door knockers from two hallway panels, which fit together to make a crank, which in turn opened hidden panels in a credenza in the dining room, which displayed multiple keys and keyholes, which, when the correct ones were used, yielded drawers containing acrylic letters and a table-size cloth imprinted with the beginnings of a crossword puzzle, the answers to which led to one of the rectangular panels lining the tiny den, which concealed a chamfered magnetic cube, which could be used to open the 24 remaining panels …
Be sure to check out the slideshow. The sheer detail and beauty of the puzzles is breathtaking.
