CITY OF LONDON ADVENTURE
Are you ready to taste the adventure and see what you'd have to do to get The Key to the City?
Here are some examples of tasks to be solved while walking City's streets and discovering secrets hidden behind symbols, statues and buildings.
Do you like solving riddles, rebuses, unscrambling letters and decoding messages? Here you are. Enjoy.
PS. If you send me a message with all the answers, I'll send you a key back. (Use the Contact form.)
TASK 1.
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Unscramble the letters to reveal the name of the statue on top of the Port of London Authority building from 1922 by Edwin Cooper.
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T H E A M E F E T H A R E S
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What's your answer? Is it a name of a Roman god of the sea and freshwater? Or is it the one of London's river?
TASK 2.
Solve the riddle.
Across the bustling street,
a creature of myth.
Its wings are silver,
its tail is long,
guarding the City,
high and low.
What is this beast,
so fierce and grand,
that watches over
this urban land?
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​What's your answer? Is it the one of 13 creatures standing on the thoroughfares of the City?
TASK 3.
Decode a hidden message.
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Use this code key to help you.
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​What's your answer? What should you be looking for?
TASK 4.
Solve the riddle.
From quiet garden go,
across the street,
On rooftops and lamp posts
find fish,
Follow them to a bridge
known worldwide,
Across the Thames it stands
with pride.
The nursery rhyme tells
its name.
Can you guess this place
of fame?
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​What's your answer?
TASK 5.
Solve the rebus.
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​What's your answer? Is it the head of London? Or is it the one of the City?
TASK 6.
Solve the riddle.
In London's heart, a yard of fame,
Where Whittington's tale, a legend became.
In the Guildhall's grand embrace,
A humble boy found fortune's grace.
Bells rang out, calling his name,
Guiding him back on his fateful day.
What is this place where dreams came true
And a poor lad's journey is known to you?
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​What's your answer?
TASK 7.
Decode the message. It's hidden under every other letter.
G F U I I N L D D L H O A V L E L L Y A A N R E D
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​What's your answer? Is it a name of garden? Or a name of a street? What can you find there? What can't you find there anymore?
TASK 8.
Find 7 words connected with the building you can see standing on the site from the previous task.
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​What's your answer? What is this building? What used to be there until 2020? What used to be on the same site 2000 years ago?
TASK 9.
Solve the riddle.
An ancient oasis stands,
Surrounded by towers
and modern arts.
Go to the heart of this
concrete maze
To find the quest’s final place.
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​What's your answer? Is it a place where you can hear music? Or a place where you can hear people pray? Or both?
