Though the finding of the hare mirrored the grimness of real life, the book remains a lovely fairytale. I’d love to know how the pair of physics teachers who worked it out managed to do so! Here is my solution to the puzzle. It is highly cryptic, involving several leaps of logic. It makes for a sad end to the story of the lost hare.Īs for the puzzle itself, I’m not surprised I never solved it myself. An opportunist who had learned the rough location of the treasure after questioning Kit Williams’ former girlfriend found it in a pile of earth they left behind. Feverish treasure hunters had gone digging up half the UK during the early 1980s, while the pair who solved it in early 1982 somehow overlooked the box they successfully dug up. The solution was easy to find and I was amazed to learn the history behind the book. It wasn’t until 2005 that I thought to look up the solution on the Internet. I used the final words of the book as my email footer all through the late 1990s: “The best of men is only a man at best, and a hare, as everyone knows, is only a hare.”īut I never managed to solve the puzzle and never had the faintest idea where the golden hare might have been buried. I was maybe 10 years old when I stumbled across my grandfather’s copy and it stuck with me for years afterwards.
The unique (at the time) selling point was that the book contained clues to a golden hare that had been buried somewhere in England. Published in 1979, it is a glorious work of art filled with visual and textual puzzles and a sweet fairytale story of unrequited love.
“Armchair Treasure Hunts” first came to my attention through the amazing book Masquerade by Kit Williams
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