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 carrington rated 4 months ago -
Architectural designer Eric Clough secretly built an incredible scavenger hunt into a US$8.5-million, 4,200-square-foot Park Avenue apartment that included ciphers, riddles, poems and a lot of hidden doors and compartments.
From the New York Times:
"In any case, the finale inv...
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- JoelBittle rated 4 months ago
- This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while
- mskiki rated 4 months ago
- so much more fun than just trying to find your socks! which is pretty much the only scavenger hunt my apartment provides!!!
- carrington rated 4 months ago
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Architectural designer Eric Clough secretly built an incredible scavenger hunt into a US$8.5-million, 4,200-square-foot Park Avenue apartment that included ciphers, riddles, poems and a lot of hidden doors and compartments.
From the New York Times:
"In any case, 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, revealing, in large type, the poem written by Mr. Klinsky."
Incredible! The family didn't discover their home's hidden scavenger hunt for months, and then it took them weeks to solve it.
Check out some of the details:
"Decorative leather molding stamped with letters in a hallway can be popped out and wrapped around a rod removed from the foot of Ms. Sherry and Mr. Klinsky's bed so that the letters on the coiled leather spell out a clue."
"Behind a drawing of a plane that hangs in a hallway is a little niche containing a scale model of the kitchen, a clue that leads to a musical score written for the apartment, which is hidden in a drawer above the stove."
"Door knockers on opposite walls of a hallway initially seemed pointless. They can be removed and joined to create a crank that opens hidden panels in the dining room sideboard."
I ache with jealousy. Imagine stumbling across something like this as a 14 year old. It's the stuff that young (and, let's face it, old) dreams are made of.
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