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batgirl
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 		I emailed Alice about the link to the book excerpts and pointed out the dedication and I just got this reply

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Hi Daisy,

Thanks for link! Lots of people have been asking after this book recently, so I'm quite pleased to finally see what all the fuss is about. That dedication can't be to me, I have never met Christolina Minaret - it must be another Alice - Alice Klein isn't a particularly rare name. However, this is the second time in a fortnight that such a coincidence has been pointed out to me. Which is a bit strange. It's a pity that so few of the pages are shown, I'd like to read the rest of that chapter about mirrors. I shall have to look into this further.

All the best,

Alice


She's still in denial....

Is there any meaning I'm missing about the suspiciously unusual name Christolina Minaret as well...?

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 		And I'm not getting the buttons to work properly, so not getting very far!

Although it does appear to work in Safaris, just not in Firefox

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batgirl
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chelec wrote:
And I'm not getting the buttons to work properly, so not getting very far!

Although it does appear to work in Safaris, just not in Firefox


I'm in firefox and it's working fine... maybe you need a java upgrade or whatever it is using....?

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Is there any meaning I'm missing about the suspiciously unusual name Christolina Minaret as well...?



Had my doubts about the author name too, see what I came up with at:
http://www.welovepuzzles.com/jforum/posts/list/30/640.page#10571

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 		The only "weird" thing I've discovered so far in the third story is if you choose at on of the stages "Mad Goblin" (or something like that). He then gives a riddle to find his name, which we (the readers) never get the answer to. I'm guessing we have to do something with that name.

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"My first is in sugar and also in sweet,
My second's a legume, tasty to eat,
My third is myself, my fourth's an old chick,
My fifth's in an apple and also a brick,
My sixth just repeats what my fourth said above,
My seventh's a thousand, you will be my love,
My eighth's simply fifty, my ninth is a breeze,
If you follow my meaning you'll find it with ease.
My whole is a strange name, of that there's no doubt,
But though berries may lie, the truth it will out.
You may call me a thing but I swear I'm a man,
Now come and find me. That is, if you can."


So far I'm guessing the following letters:

My first is in sugar and also in sweet = S (because both letters are in sugar and sweet?)
My second's a legume, tasty to eat, = no idea
My third is myself = I
my fourth's an old chick = again no idea
My fifth's in an apple and also a brick = A (both in apple and A brick?)
My sixth just repeats what my fourth said above = whatever 4 is
My seventh's a thousand, you will be my love = M (roman numerals) or K (kilo)
My eighth's simply fifty, = L (roman numerals)
my ninth is a breeze = again no idea (I'm thinking E, something in the back of my head is trying to remind of some obscure fact I should know)

That would be: S.I.A.ML. or S.I.A.KL.

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veebee
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 		Tasty to eat would be P
Old chick would be N

i agree it is a strange riddle, possibly producing an anagram?

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veebee
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 		It's S.P.I.N.A.N.K.L.E isn't it, because he span wool around her ankles so she couldn't get away!
DOH, why didn't I see that sooner
Embarassed

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mseckington wrote:
The only "weird" thing I've discovered so far in the third story is if you choose at on of the stages "Mad Goblin" (or something like that). He then gives a riddle to find his name, which we (the readers) never get the answer to. I'm guessing we have to do something with that name.

Quote:
"My first is in sugar and also in sweet,
My second's a legume, tasty to eat,
My third is myself, my fourth's an old chick,
My fifth's in an apple and also a brick,
My sixth just repeats what my fourth said above,
My seventh's a thousand, you will be my love,
My eighth's simply fifty, my ninth is a breeze,
If you follow my meaning you'll find it with ease.
My whole is a strange name, of that there's no doubt,
But though berries may lie, the truth it will out.
You may call me a thing but I swear I'm a man,
Now come and find me. That is, if you can."


So far I'm guessing the following letters:

My first is in sugar and also in sweet = S (because both letters are in sugar and sweet?)
My second's a legume, tasty to eat, = no idea
My third is myself = I
my fourth's an old chick = again no idea
My fifth's in an apple and also a brick = A (both in apple and A brick?)
My sixth just repeats what my fourth said above = whatever 4 is
My seventh's a thousand, you will be my love = M (roman numerals) or K (kilo)
My eighth's simply fifty, = L (roman numerals)
my ninth is a breeze = again no idea (I'm thinking E, something in the back of my head is trying to remind of some obscure fact I should know)

That would be: S.I.A.ML. or S.I.A.KL.


I had also just found this. I think that the 2nd letter is P, a legume is a vegetable.

EDIT: posted too late, that had already been found.

It could be Spinankle - as in Spin Ankle because he wrapped the wool around her ankles....?

EDIT: And veebee beat me to Spinankle as well lol The reason for the riddle is that is the 'win a library' question for this story btw

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 		I can't see the ARG element to this either. Anyone thinking this one might be an April Fool? Rolling Eyes

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batgirl
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veebee wrote:
I can't see the ARG element to this either. Anyone thinking this one might be an April Fool? Rolling Eyes


Then they would be the fools as it wasn't before midday... The goblin calls the girl Alice in the story, to which the girl protests her name isn't Alice, so there may be more to it than first appears...

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 		I just looked at the e-mail i was sent to say Fairy Tales is up, and it says we are supposed to be able to share the story. How?

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Hello from We Tell Stories!

Welcome to Week 3 of We Tell Stories and thank you for sticking with
us and contributing to Slice with your blog comments, twitters and
attention. This week's story is something completely different - a
fairytale that you can personalize and share.

---

FAIRYTALE by Kevin Brooks

'Once upon a time...'

...there was a fairy tale, a story of peasants, kings, drunken knaves,
wise old poets and, er, worms. But if you go down to the woods today
you can customize and share your very own fairy tale with bestselling
storyteller Kevin Brooks guiding you along a dark path. Choose the
names of the characters, choose their adversaries, shape their
adventure and then share the customized story. This fairytale is
specially for *you*.


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abulafia
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 		Spinankle
Further interest. The taste of Lie berry thing.
There is more to this...
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/spinankle

I've e-mailed Alice

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 		Spinankle
The Hermit
A little digging around the card references makes it fairly clear that...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Spinankle is a reference to The Hermit, Tarot's 9th major arcana.

He is always pictured with a staff and lantern, has a heavy focus on silence and introspection, and is, of course, a card.

The Hermit's purpouse is often described as looking for an honest man.

So, if The Hermit is one card, what are the other two, and why?

_________________
One swallow does not a summer make. Similarly one brief moment of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. -- Aristotle

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mseckington
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 		Me only now realizes what Lie berry thing is Very Happy

We've got a couple of other possibilities:

A. One combination of answers leads to a different ending with more clues. There are though:
4x4x5x4x4 = 1280 possible combinations of answers, so then there's got to be a way to figure out which answers are correct.

B. We have to find two "special names" for the girl and the evil king.
I've tried using Alice as the girl's name, but I think the only thing that's different is what she replies to the Goblin when he calls her Alice (something like: "hey howda ya knew my name?")

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batgirl
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veebee wrote:
I just looked at the e-mail i was sent to say Fairy Tales is up, and it says we are supposed to be able to share the story. How?


When you have finished your story, you can send it to up to 3 email addresses so that's how you can share it.


mseckington wrote:
A. One combination of answers leads to a different ending with more clues. There are though:
4x4x5x4x4 = 1280 possible combinations of answers, so then there's got to be a way to figure out which answers are correct.


I had thought about that myself, and I guess we have a week for a lot of us to try out various combinations if we organise ourselves....?

mseckington wrote:
B. We have to find two "special names" for the girl and the evil king.
I've tried using Alice as the girl's name, but I think the only thing that's different is what she replies to the Goblin when he calls her Alice (something like: "hey howda ya knew my name?")


It struck me that although we've had the mad hatter and the march hare already, there are a lot of characters we haven't had yet like the doormouse, the queen, the caterpillar (which I think must be the right answer for that option surely) or the cheshire cat yet, but I can't see the King being any of those. What was the King called in Alice in Wonderland, does anyone know??

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