Article: MERLIN'S MAGIC MINDBENDER; Solve the puzzle and win a wand! Sounds spellbindingly simple. But PAUL DAVIES reckons getting started is the real mystery.(Features)

THE MERLIN MYSTERY by Jonathan Gunson & Marten Coombe (HarperCollins, pounds 12.99)

Twenty years ago the nation was gripped with treasure hunt fever. Obsessive puzzler Kit Williams buried an ornate golden hare in the English countryside, and its whereabouts could only be discerned by solving a puzzle in his book, Masquerade. People came from all over the world to solve the puzzle and dig up National Trust land, and Masquerade went on to sell more than a million copies.

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