What about Armchair Treasure Hunt Book?
Have you ever heard about it?
There’s reading for pleasure – but there’s also reading for treasure. What about a bit of both?
Well, it’s about to try to got a prize in cash or token in confy of your home. So you can’t play a pirate or Indiana Jones and go around risking your life. Though some huntings lead to thinking geocatching but without the need to leave the house (until it’s time to retrieve the treasure). And it’s almost improbable to someone to get a real pirate map showing where it’s buried in the ground or Hidden elsewhere.
The phrase “Armchair Treasure Hunts” is actually a bit of misnomer. The hunts may start in an armchair but hunters soon venture out into real world with spades and metal detectors, often digging up yards and trespassing and causing all kinds of mischief.
Mine is thoroughly thought to be played indoor – mainly in security of your house.
But you got enough curiosity and adventure spirit to go in search of an aim through out of an unknown trip?
For this purpose, all you have to get is to be patient, use reason and…think out of the box.
Sure, do you have an armchair? Or something so confy as it? Even a bed is worthing – but be aware of not going asleep without before to battle for searching!
Cradle of this new litterary genre
The original Armchair Treasure Hunt was birthed by a 1979 British picture book called Masquerade by an artist named Kit Williams. It’s prize was an 18-carat golden rabbit buried somewhere in England, insured for £ 100,000.
Well, it drove the world insane – or at least a certain portion of the world!
The clues to it’s location could be solved within the books text and images, and since its release, others titles by various authors have been added for budding armchair treasure hunters to have a go at solving.
But not only books – a whole spectrum of mixed media, from scrolls, tapes, CDs, and the web, are the consequence of broadening of this relatively new genre concept.
Whole communities have popped up around the world to spring discussion about this relatively new litterary genre past and presente – the biggest part of which are online.
Mental health and others benefits
Given that, there are many benefits to having a go at armchair treasure hunting in all ages, mainly in retirement. Puzzle, riddle and problem solving are great ways to keep the mind sharp and healthy, and the mixture of armchair treasure hunts available that can be solved is already over one hundred and fifty titles.
There are many misteries still unsolved, and new hunts being released regurlarly for armchair treasure hunters to have a go at. Do a search on the wed about Armchair Treasure Hunt to find out more about it as well as about the titles, online foruns, and communitiesd already in progress sometime.
Pleasure and treasure
Many of the armchair treasure hunts books hold clues to real treasure – gems, jewels, and cash. Most of the real armchair treasure hunts have been found already, but the books are still endless fun to explore and find. So I hope be mine!
Puzzles, riddles, encrypted messages and others things
URAIMSIA is going to have 33 or more puzzles, riddles and encrypted messages. And the prize to whom to get to solve them all will be $ 30,000 USD. But if someone gets to decrypt the encrypted messages in the wordsearches will receive one third of the prize. Another prize is to discover the hidden utterances in the two or three new coming soon wordsearches
Drawings, illustration, images, and texts will be added late after URAIMSIA wakes up interess of people and press. Clues and tips will be given but without mention directly the puzzle, riddle, or encrypted message so that the armchair treasure hunters will have to find out the conection between them. The treasure hunters will have to read them all, and do searches for them all, and think about them all to find out the correct links between drawings, illustrations, images, and texts and the puzzles, riddles, or encrypted messages.
Each challenging (puzzles, riddles, or encrypted messages) got at least two solutions. One of the solutions is obvious because is linked to the running way of thinking. But the other (or others) is (are) misteries to be solved thinking out of the box.
Alert: to win the prize you have to solve at least one of the thinking out of the box solutions of each puzzle, riddle or encrypted message. Forget the obvious solutions, they have any worth here because this is a book of misteries and you have to think out of the box.
Solve the riddles, unravel the puzzles, bring to light the encrypted messages, and see if you can figure out how to escape. But escape from where? For that, you have to find out the meaning of the word ‘URAIMSIA’.
Tempted?
Challenge to another new light
I challenge you! Test your wits against mine. I guarantee that URAIMSIA will challenge you to think in ways you’re never thought before. But beware! One wrong thought and you may never escape!
After you read and play this book you’ll start to see the world in another new light.
When it comes to puzzles, riddles, and encrypted messages, URAIMSIA is one of the best!
God is in charge. No one is above Him. Everything belongs to Him!