Trinity Invisiclues
Sample Question
Table of Contents
- The Kensington Gardens
- Beyond the White Door
- The Toadstools
- The Mercury Door
- The Pluto Door
- The Neptune Door
- The Libra Door
- The Mars Door
- The Alpha Door
- Epilogue
- The Quotations
- How Points Are Scored
- For Your Amusement
- Indicia
The Kensington Gardens
What's a "p"?
Should I feed the pigeons?
How do I get the bubble-making equipment from the boy?
How do I stop the boy from leaving?
Who is the woman with the umbrella?
How do I stop the perambulator from sliding out from under me?
What is a "Wabe"?
Beyond the White Door
Where am I?
How can I get the bubble-blowing equipment from the boy?
Who is "Wabewalker"?
An iron door is blocking the tunnel! How do I get out of the barrow?
How do I survive the explosion?
Why are the shades crossing the river?
The oarsman won't take my 20 p. Where can I find a silver coin like the shades have?
The Toadstools
The Mercury Door
The Pluto Door
The Neptune Door
The Libra Door
The Mars Door
The Alpha Door
I don't have time to do everything before the bomb explodes!
Who are "Able," "Baker" and "Pittsburg"?
How can I search the Assembly Room wihout getting bitten by the snake?
How do I prevent the roadrunner from eating all my crumbs? I need to drop the bag of crumbs so it doesn't get ruined by water.
How do I get into the shelter or blockhouse?
Can I do anything with what's inside the box without getting caught?
How do I get rid of the searchlight?
Epilogue
What's going on?
The Quotations
1. LOOK AT THE SUNDIAL in the Wabe. The quotation is from Lewis Carroll's
_Through the Looking-Glass_.
2. LOOK AT THE SYMBOLS on either sundial. The quotation is from "The
Gospel of St. Matthew" in The New Testament.
3. Watch a bubble pop at Inverness Terrace or the Promontory. The quote is
from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man."
4. Wait for the air raid sirens in the Kensington Gardens. The quote is
from Henry David Thoreau's article "A Natural History of
Massachusetts."
5. LOOK AT THE SUNDIAL on the Vertex. The line from Arthur Rimbaud's poem
"Enfance" means "There is a clock that makes no sound."
6. LOOK AT THE SCULPTURE in the Arboretum. Clarke's quotation is from his
book _Profiles of the Future_. Dave Lebling's version appears in the
_InvisiClues_ hint booklet for _Spellbreaker_.
7. LOOK AT THE CHILDREN in Nagasaki. The quotation is from Hawthorne's
_American Notebooks_.
8. LOOK AT THE SPHERE in the Shack. The quotation is from "The Tail"
chapter of Herman Melville's _Moby Dick_.
9. READ THE POEM on the bookmark. The anonymous ditty is noted in several
books about the history of the Trinity Test and Los Alamos.
10. ENTER THE DOOR in the shack. The quotation is from David Byrne's song
"Once in a Lifetime," from Talking Heads' album _Remain in Light_.
11. EXAMINE THE THIN MAN. The lines appear in "Song of Myself," from Walt
Whitman's _Leaves of Grass_.
12. The epilogue quote is from an untitled Emily Dickinson poem (number 376
in Johnson's _Complete Poems_).
13. The quote on the bottom of the sundial in the package is from another
untitled Emily Dickinson poem (Johnson 1478).
14. The phrase "All prams lead to the Kensington Gardens" is from J. M.
Barrie's _The Little White Bird_.
How Points Are Scored
Action Points
GET THE BALL 1
GET THE GNOMON 5
BUY A BAG OF CRUMBS 1
GET THE UMBRELLA 5
GET THE PAPER BIRD 3
Kensington Gardens Total 15
GET THE SPLINTER 1
GET THE AXE 1
SCREW THE GNOMON INTO THE HOLE 5
GET THE GARLIC 1
GET THE CAGE 1
GET THE SPADE 1
GIVE THE UMBRELLA AND PAPER TO THE GIRL 3
PUT THE LEMMING IN THE CAGE 1
PUSH THE TREE NORTH 3
GET THE COCONUT 3
GET THE SKELETON KEY 1
GET THE LANTERN 1
GET THE SKINK 3
GET THE WALKIE-TALKIE 1
TURN THE KEY IN THE HOLE 1
GET THE ICICLE 1
PUT THE ICICLE ON THE LUMP OF METAL 3
GET THE LUMP OF METAL 1
KILL THE SKINK 3
REACH INTO THE HIVE 3
BREAK THE COCONUT WITH THE AXE 1
POUR THE MILK INTO THE CAULDRON 1
PUT THE DEAD SKINK INTO THE CALDRON [sic] 1
PUT GARLIC IN CAULDRON 1
PUT MY HAND IN THE CAULDRON (honey on hand) 1
GET THE EMERALD 1
MOVE THE LID WITH THE SPADE 3
GET THE BURIAL SHROUD 1
GET THE SILVER COIN 1
PUT THE EMERALD IN THE GREEN BOOT 1
Wabe Total 50
GET THE CARDBOARD SLIP 1
LOOK AT THE DIAGRAM 3
GET THE RUBY 1
PUT THE RUBY IN THE RED BOOT 1
LOOK AT THE OVERSIZED DIAL 3
TURN WALKIE-TALKIE TO ?? 3
GET THE STEAK KNIFE 1
OPEN THE CLOSET DOOR (snake eats lemming) 3
GET THE SCREWDRIVER 1
GET THE BINOCULARS 1
LOOK IN THE SHELTER THROUGH THE BINOCULARS 3
BIRD, GET THE KEY 3
GET THE KEY 1
OPEN THE BOX WITH KEY 1
CLOSE THE BREAKER 1
OPEN THE ENCLOSURE WITH THE SCREWDRIVER 3
CUT THE ?? WIRE WITH THE STEAK KNIFE 5
Trinity Site Total 35
GRAND TOTAL 100
For Your Amusement
(after you've finished the story)
Things You Can Ask the Bird Woman About
TRINITY or PLUTONIUM
ROADRUNNER (before and after you see it)
WATCH
RUBY (before and after you see it)
LONDON
SOCCER BALL
ROUND POND
LONG WATER
STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA
BAG OF CRUMBS
GNOMON
PIGEONS
CHANGE
CREDIT CARD
PERAMBULATOR
BOY
GRASS
PAPER BIRD
PIECE OF RICE PAPER
UMBRELLA
ALBERT MEMORIAL
HERSELF
WABEWALKER
Have You Tried…
to stand in the perambulator?
to give the credit card or small coin to the oarsman or the bird woman?
to hit the small boy or the giant boy?
to put things in the Klein bottle, then going to the top of the pergola?
to read the book in the cottage several times?
to look inside the hole in the tunnel wall?
to eat the skink?
to pet the roadrunner?
to ask the roadrunner to look under the brown paper?
to look at the boy in the photo in the wallet in the jeep?
to sit on the missile at Long Water?
to eat a toadstool?
to unscrew the underground bomb?
to refer to:
The river as Styx?
The fin as Jaws?
The dolphin as Flipper?
The rodents as lemmings before you recognize the species?
The Japanese city as Nagasaki (or Hiroshima) while falling?
The oarsman as Charon?
The thin man as Oppenheimer?
to die by:
Kissing the wight?
Jumping in the chasm with an open umbrella or inside a bubble?
Chopping at a bomb with the axe?
Jumping off the cliff with the lemmings?
Going to the Russian buildings in the tundra?
Reaching into the beehive a third time?
Indicia
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Typed in from the original hintbook by Peter Doherty.]
[Thanks to Jay Goemmer and Dave Robeson for filling in the missing answers to "How do I get a rodent?" on page 19 and to "How can I see the wires in the access panel? It's dark in there." and "Which is the correct wire?" on page 27.