Puzzle hints & answers
Find clues and answers on this page for the puzzles hidden inside the print and ebook Quicksmiths books.
Details for Myriad Mysteries will be coming soon.
The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith UK edition – Get the Picture
Figure out the ten-word mystery sentence, with the ten illustrations as your guide.
In the book are ten illustrations. Can you see what they all have in common?
Every single picture has one of these things.
That’s right – they all have picture frames! Now, what do the picture frames have in common?
Did you notice that all the picture frames have notches on the sides?
The notches are different in every illustration. There are notches on the left side and the right side of each frame. What might those numbers relate to? Remember we’re going to figure out a ten-word sentence.
Opposite each illustration is page of writing. What if the numbers of notches related to words on those pages?
The first word of the answer is ‘Strange’.
The number of notches on the left of each frame relates to the line on the page opposite. So if there are three notches, that means the word can be found on the third line of the page. The notches on the right of each frame relates to the word on that line. If there are eight notches, that means the eighth word. That’s how each frame gives you one word!
Strange to glimpse the mowl gently grabbing a sand bubble
The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith US edition – Get the Picture
Figure out the ten-word mystery sentence, with the ten illustrations as your guide.
In the book are ten illustrations. Can you see what they all have in common?
Every single picture has one of these things.
That’s right – they all have picture frames! Now, what do the picture frames have in common?
Did you notice that all the picture frames have notches on the sides?
The notches are different in every illustration. There are notches on the left side and the right side of each frame. What might those numbers relate to? Remember we’re going to figure out a ten-word sentence.
Opposite each illustration is page of writing. What if the numbers of notches related to words on those pages?
The first word of the answer is ‘Kip’.
The number of notches on the left of each frame relates to the line on the page opposite. So if there are three notches, that means the word can be found on the third line of the page. The notches on the right of each frame relates to the word on that line. If there are eight notches, that means the eighth word. That’s how each frame gives you one word!
Kip slowly opened the secret door and stared in wonder.
The quickets could be hiding on any page of the book.
Some of the quickets look different from the others.
Have you checked the page numbers?
Have you checked the illustrations?
Have you checked the chapter headings?
What about the book cover?
Have you checked the text?
There are 21 quickets in total.
They can be found on these pages:
inside cover page (gold quicket)
title page (inside Firefly logo)
publication page
page 20 (in the word questions)
page 27 (in the chapter heading)
page 43 (between paragraphs)
page 74 (at the bottom of the page)
page 106 (in Eartha’s signature)
page 116 (in the word Quickets)
page 128 (in the frame of the egg flower)
page 153 (at the bottom of the page)
page 161 (in the black parrot)
page 183 (in the Thoughtwaves symbol)
page 211 (in the chapter heading)
page 241 (in line 4)
page 294 (in the base of the globe)
page 312 (in the tooth of the skull)
page 317 (in the frame of the pirate ship)
page 329 (in the Timeyarn symbol)
page 352 (between paragraphs)
back cover (gold quicket)
The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith UK edition – Find the Quickets
Can you spot all the sneaky quickets hiding in the book?
The quickets could be hiding on any page of the book.
Some of the quickets look different from the others.
Have you checked the page numbers?
Have you checked the illustrations?
Have you checked the chapter headings?
What about the book cover?
Have you checked the text?
There are 23 quickets in total.
They can be found on these pages:
– On the back outside cover hidden in the Skycrackle Tower
– There are two in the scroll on the first page – the example quicket and a sketch hidden inside the scroll
– Copyright page
– pg 20 (at the start of the line beginning “Questions poured from his head…”)
– pg 26 (heading)
– pg 32 (in the page number)
– pg 37 (The Q in the sentence “It was a square paperweight with a Q-shaped twist of glitter inside.”)
– pg 42 (in between paragraphs at the end of Chapter 2)
– pg 74 (in the page number)
– pg 122 (Timeyarn symbol)
– pg 153 (in the page number)
-pg 184 (Thoughtwaves symbol)
– pg 192 (The Q of question in this line from Albert: “How about this? Question, GENI: Can you solve this riddle?
– pg 212 (Slipstream symbol)
– pg 215 (hidden in the Clock Tower image)
– pg 243 (In this sentence “They both pulled back sharply as a crack began to spread noiselessly from the tail of the Q.”
– pg 260 (there are two hidden in the map image)
– pg 293 (there is one on the coin in the mowl image)
– pg 300 (there is one hidden in the constellation in the globe image)
– pg 327 (there is one hidden in the music box image)
– pg 353 (in between paragraphs at the end of Chapter 14)
The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith US edition – Find the Quickets
Can you spot all the sneaky quickets hiding in the book?
The Myriad Mysteries of Eartha Quicksmith UK edition – Odd One Out
Can you work out which of the images in the chapter headings is the odd one out?
In the book are twenty-two chapters and at the start of each chapter is an image. They seem to be random … but are they?
How many unique images are there?
There are eleven images in total – each image is repeated once.
The images are: cactus, shark fin, anchor, acorn, heart, diamond, arrow, hummingbird, starfish, pineapple, guitar.
Perhaps the images relate to something in the book.
Kip notices something about the Crazy Paving when it is activated.
The shapes of the Crazy Paving are different each time Kip and Timmi step on it.
The odd one out is the guitar. All the other images are shapes that Kip and Timmi see in the Crazy Paving. (You can find them mentioned on pages 108, 134-135, 161, 182, 184, and 206.)
