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[chocomancer]

Little Charlie Welles in the Big Mansion
A puzzle for children and adults, courtesy of the Cake Club

Comments

[girlsandgadgets]

Well, this looks like fun.

My guess is shelf 114.

- E. Figaro

[block handwriting, not disguised]

[quarter_english]

I am assuming that "the nearest chair" means the shortest accessible distance, not a direct line; that the shelves do not face both sides of a given aisle, and that "at least four" means "the fifth shelf or further from the center aisle." Also, I am assuming that the "center aisle" is the one with apparent north-south orientation, not the one with east-west orientation, and that Charlie is not color-blind

Still unsigned but undisguised

[chocomancer]

Don't tell me you've never seen this shelving arrangement before.

[block handwriting, not disguised]

[quarter_english]

The numbering system is a common one when convenient storage is a necessity.

[Also unsigned, but disguised]

[perfectrecord]

An impressive analysis of this riddle. However, you overlooked one important factor: the amount of detail that the boy was able to see through the window. Could he really see "rain falling on the lawn" from the western half of that aisle? If the library were located on the second or third story, he would most likely need to be much closer to the window to view through it at an angle that would display the ground level.

[doneinthree]

Shelf 120.

- JTK

[feartehreaper]

Why doesn't he just look it up in the catalog?

[liveforthispart]

[marks from holding the pen in the same spot for a while]

80?

- Tatsumi