The answer to the riddle, the two winners and my new cryptic riddle weekly series!
Well friends after over 300 entries, hundreds of correct answers and quite a few wrong ones we have our winners! I posted the riddle to my public Facebook page yesterday and within minutes the emails started rolling in. I said the first TWO people that solved it will go live with me at my live web event on Sunday, October 14th. I do have one mention I need to make, Sara Shin correctly answered the riddle first however she is unable to attend the web event so the winners are actually the second and third people to solve it, well done Sara!
As you know every word of the riddle was an anagram so first you had to decipher the riddle before you could solve it. Here is the solution:
The riddle looked like this:
“I veha a knaemicn I natw oyu ot esgsu.
I divel ni eht eplaics esuoh frebeo ts’i sesrtdis.
Ti saw libut sutj rof em edu ot ym plciaes dtniionoc.
Eht fkepeiegasn fo hcwhi sah moceeb tiueq eth sisinom.
Eht ria ni rrusey saw disa ot eb ehialng,
nad rfo inen nogl reyas I yatsed nedur hatt gecniil.
Ryap letl, tahw saw I lacdel?”
The solution to the anagram riddle is this:
“I have a nickname I want you to guess.
I lived in the special house before it’s distress.
It was built just for me due to my special condition.
The safekeeping of which has become quite the mission.
The air in Surrey was said to be healing,
and for 9 long years I stayed under that ceiling.
Pray tell, what was I called?.”
The answer I was looking for is the nickname of Arthur Conan Doyle’s first wife Louise, nicknamed “Touie.“
The winners are Sophia Kea and… ready for this? Maria Fleischhack of the Baker Street Babes!
That’s right one of the Baker Street Babes themselves kicked a** and will be going live with me Sunday. This is going to be a fun event my friends. Sophia Kea is also a wonderful Sherlockian and I look forward to her presence as well! See you guys at the event. One more thing before you go…
I’ve received DROVES of emails from people that love the riddles I’ve done so far and want more, so, I’ve developed an idea for a weekly series! From now on I will be posting a cryptic riddle every Sunday right here on my blog. I will of course share the links on my Twitter and Facebook as well. Each and every riddle will have something to do with Sherlock Holmes, Undershaw or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I look forward to writing them and hope you guys continue to have so much fun solving them. Thanks again for all your ongoing support and i’ll see you guys at the event Sunday!
Joe’s book (raising funds for Save Undershaw) ‘The Real Sherlock Holmes‘ is available all good bookstores including Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and in all formats including Amazon Kindle and now on the iPad too. Fans outside the US and UK can get free delivery from Book Depository.
