![]() She didn’t know where the golden hare was buried but was able to provide him with enough information to make an educated guess. It later emerged that Thomas had a connection with an ex-girlfriend of Williams. Masquerade provided clues to the location of a bejeweled, golden hare that Williams had hidden somewhere in Britain. Two days after the trinket had been dug up and handed over to Thomas, Williams received a letter from two Lancashire teachers, Mike Barker and John Rousseau, who had solved the puzzle exactly as he had intended it to be solved. Masquerade, Source: Kit Williams/Wikimedia Commons. He had correctly pinpointed the hare’s hiding place (by Catherine of Aragon’s cross in Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire) but could not say how he had come to know this. ![]() In February 1982, a man calling himself Ken Thomas claimed the prize. The back of the book, which sold more than a million copies, promised that “the treasure is as likely to be found by a bright child of 10 with an understanding of language, simple mathematics and astronomy as it is to be found by an Oxford Don”. ![]() The only witness was BBC University Challenge presenter Bamber Gascoigne, who shared a publisher with Williams and was thought to be a reliable fellow, but clues to where this treasure might be found were contained within the pages of Masquerade. On the night of August 7, 1979, the artist Kit Williams buried an extraordinary object he had created: a hare made of 18-carat gold and decorated with precious and semi-precious stones. ![]()
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