The Alice in Wonderland Puzzle

Part A

This puzzle and its solution may seem a little hard to follow printed here, but it was one of the more engrossing puzzles, as participants were guided by our acting troupe, The Hunt Players, as they worked their way through the story. Hunters may have seemed a little confused by their surroundings at the time, but the situation is not unlike that of Alice in her adventures. Everything eventually fit together and made sense.

Whew! There sure was a lot of stuff in this one! How do you follow this story? This is a strikingly similar question to one that Alice asks of the White Rabbit, who responds, "wherever your mind will lead you."

But where does Alice's mind lead her? We know that she has knack for spelling with too many P's and that her own choice for a math problem would be 23, regardless of what her teacher assures her is reality. On the map, P23 is the grid location for Harvey suites, which also happens to appear on the T-shirts you were wearing. Go to Harvey Suites.

Part B

At Harvey Suites, there was a large sign directing you to a particular room; on going to that room, you, as Alice, are confronted by Tweedle Dee who shows you to a box. In that box are various toys, including a BINGO card filled with strange symbols and a paper doll of George Rupp (sorry George…) On seeing the doll, Alice says "your head is in the clouds, and though you claim your feet are on the ground, where, oh, where is your heart?" In each corner of the BINGO card was one of the four elements' placing George on the BINGO card so that his head lay on the picture of a cloud and his feet were on the symbol for earth, one found that his heart rested on the letter B in BINGO.

Part C

On asking the characters in the room who Tweedle Dum's best friend was, you are led to ask Cheshire Cat; or rather, his smile, on a mirror, If you line up the smile in the mirror with the cat on page 24, the letter B falls on the Mad Hatter's name, which is unreversed in the mirror. The Mad hatter is Tweedle Dum's best friend.

Part D

After finding the name of the friend Alice confronts him at the Tea party, where he says he is looking straight at it, implying that his seat faces the puzzle. However, when Alice asked the question, none of the currently unused dishes were dirty. Since then, on your arrival, there are 2 more dirty dishes that tea-partiers. "Rotating backward: two seats, you find the Hatter facing the Chess Board.

Part E

The chess game on the wall is nearing its completion; black has a fairly good positional advantage over white. However, white has mate in one by moving the queen diagonally to black's rank. In the chess board in your book, The Queen of Hearts tells Alice to be white, and to be careful, because the queen is good. The one position to which white can move to mate black on the board corresponds to the square in the book containing the word "at."

Part F

"At?!?" What kind of clue is "at?" When Alice tells Humpty Dumpty that she is confused by the answer she gets, he tells her to "begin at the beginning or end at the end." Indeed, the ending, as it is told, is not a happy one. So start at the beginning. "Spell it out, Alice." Try it. A-T. The answer to this puzzle is 80.