Family Ties
The puzzle Family Ties was written for the 2013 MIT Mystery Hunt, but it never made it to the hunt. Here’s your chance to solve a puzzle no one has seen before. I wrote the puzzle jointly with Adam Hesterberg. The puzzle is below:
Mathematics professor S. Lee studies genealogy and is interested in the origins of life.
- Alexei Mikhailovich Ivanov
- Alexei Petrovich Ivanov
- Amminadab
- Anna of Moscow
- Arador
- Arahad II
- Arassuil
- Arathorn I
- Arathorn II
- Aravorn
- Argonui
- Asger Thomsen
- Caecilia Metella Dalmatica
- Egmont
- Eldarion
- Ellesar
- Endeavour
- Faustus Cornelius Sulla
- Henry Frederick
- Hezron
- Isaac
- Ivan the Great
- Ivan the Terrible
- Jacob
- James I and VI
- James V
- Jens Knudsen
- John Francis
- Joseph Patrick
- Joseph Patrick
- Jørgen Jensen
- Judah
- Knud Nielsen
- Margaret Stuart
- Maria Donata
- Mary Stuart
- Matthew Rauch
- Mikhail Ivanovich Ivanov
- Niels Møller
- Ole Pedersen
- Peder Petersen
- Peter Jørgensen
- Petr Alexeyevich Ivanov
- Pharez
- Ram
- Robert Francis
- Rose Elizabeth
- Søren Thomsen
- Thomas Olsen
- Ursula Gertrud
- Vasily I of Moscow
- Vasily II of Moscow
- Vasili III of Russia
- Yuri of Uglich
- Zerah
Confused reader:
So… what’s the question?
15 October 2015, 3:08 amtanyakh:
Confused reader,
As usual with hunts, this is a puzzle. You need to figure out what to do. The answer is a word or a phrase.
15 October 2015, 9:39 am