1. Escape from the Cursed
Temple
By Annmarie Burke
Fabrizio Valerio Covone
All puzzle solutions will be provided at the en of presentation

2. Chapter 1
In 1942, the illustrious professor Michael Kane travelled to a
remote eastern Asian region to look for a lost city. Few ancient
scripts left hints about it but, since now, nobody managed to
discover it.
During an expedition in a forest the professor and his team got
caught in a storm. Due to the heavy rain the nearby river flooded
and the professor got swept away down the stream.
After few days of wandering in the wilderness the professor
accidentally finds a beaten path leading to the lost city.

3. Chapter 2
Walking on the streets of the city, the professor sees a tall
building in the far distance. “That must be the temple” he
thought. Approaching the entrance he notices that the main
door is inscribed with a strange puzzle.
He tries to move the door in any possible way but the only
chance to open it is by solving the puzzle.

4. Look at this diagram and try to go
over each line once without lifting
your pencil off the page or
crossing a line you have already
drawn over.

5. Chapter 3
Dr. Kane managed to solve the puzzle and with a screeching
noise the door lifted aside. After few steps form the entrance the
professor notices strange hieroglyphs on the wall. They talk
about a great treasure chamber in the temple but the path to
reach it is full of tricks that can be disarmed by solving a set of
puzzles. As he reads this the door starts to close, rendering him
trapped inside the temple. The professor realizes that he has no
choice but to reach the treasure chamber, because ancient
civilizations always built an escape route from there.
The corridor leads to a closed chamber and here are the
hieroglyphs on the walls.

6. Three of the four shapes below can be combined to form a square.
Which one isn’t used?
Feel free to rotate the shapes.
A B
C
D

7. Chapter 4
Behind a statue a small fissure opens up in the wall. The
professor squeezing into it falls on a pile of bones.
Down there is pitch black, so with some bandages and a
thighbone he creates a torch lighted up with his luck lighter.
Looking around in the room he sees another puzzle inscribed on
the wall.

8. Have a look at this wonderful geometrical shape.
How many squares can you see?
Be sure to count overlapping squares separately.

9. Chapter 5
After solving the puzzle, nothing happens. The professor starts to
swear and tap heavily with his foots. Suddenly, a trapdoor opens
and the professor slips quickly into a water conduct.
After a very high fall into a pool, he manages to climb a shore
and he notices that he is in a cave with a door on the other side
of it. On the left side of the door there is another puzzle
inscription.

10. Only one of these pictures can be drawn with one line without lifting
your pen from the paper or retracting any lines.
Which one is it?

11. Chapter 6
With a great relief Michael Kane realizes that he managed to
reach the treasure chamber. Inside it there are priceless artifacts,
jewels and golden statues, but as soon as he goes over he didn’t
find an exit path. Moving some golden bars the discovers an
ancient inscription with a square hole beside.

12. Only 1 of the metal bars is made of gold the other ones are made of
pyrite (a metal similar to gold but slightly heavier and worthless).
Besides the inscription there are 7 identical metal bars and a rusty 2 scale
pans balance.
As soon as he starts to take one of the bars the chamber start to rumble and
crack all over.
Time is running out and if Dr. Kane doesn’t manage to solve it he will die in
the treasure chamber.
Which is the minimum number of weightings to be sure which is the gold
bar?

13. Final Chapter
As soon as he puts the gold bar inside the square hole he hears
an opening padlock sound and a little door starts lifting up.
Light floods into the room. The professor dives out thru the door
just a moment before the treasure chamber collapse.
Few days later, after wandering aimlessly through the forest he
was found by his team. The only proof of his amazing adventure
the golden bar that he managed to save from the Cursed Temple.

14. Puzzle Solution

15. Puzzle Solution
The right answer is A. Below you can see the square as a result of B, C and D
combination.
B C
D

16. Puzzle Solution
The right answer is 22.

17. Puzzle Solution
The right answer is B.

18. Puzzle Solution
The right answer is 2.
During the 1st weighting the explorer will put 3 metal bars on each scale pan.
If the pans are balanced then the gold bar is the one not on the pans.
Otherwise, the explorer will take the lighter 3 bars group and puts one metal
bar on each scale pan.
Following a similar procedure, if the pans are balanced then the gold bar is
the one not on the pans.
Otherwise the lighter one is the golden bar.