That was a thoroughly entertaining presentation. Love a bit of Ashens.

Could listen to Athens all day. Absolute legend youtuber

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6:16 I also thought it could have been him.

this was the shortest 36 minutes of my life

Anyone know if Ernest Cline based Ready Player one contest and clues on this? Striking similarities with the font too. I know he publicly stated he was inspired by Willy Wonka’s contest.

Hareraiser is probably the worst game and this story is quite interesting but one thing i would like to talk about is how unfunny the host is. He attempted so many jokes, none of them any good. I was cringing the whole frickin video.

I want Wes Anderson to direct a movie based on this so bad

I had the impression the book was released in 1979, but whatever the specifics, it's an intriguing story. I was reminded of it while watching a recent Midsomer Murders episode that takes its inspiration from Masquerade.

Just heard about this game,then decided to watch something about it ,tgen the first video is from Norwich where i live , didn't expect that😮

Superb. What a dirty scam from some narcissistic, greedy scumbags. That sums up the 80s

I was 6 at the time and it really caught my imagination as a dream. I remebered it for many years but I did not heared back from it. Till now. Perfect!

The OG Pokemon GO

This video inspired me to use the story of the book's treasure hunt for one of my college presentations a few years ago Got a 100/100 Bless up to ashens

At this point this video is like a comfort watch for me, I end up thinking about this whole Masquerade Hareraiser situation a lot

I seem to recall someone claimed they had found a solution to Hareraiser, which was that the forest is a symbolic map of Harrods, and that the hare was in a safe deposit box there. This would make a lot of sense, as they couldn't just leave it lying around unburied, and would also mean that the Anneka Rice clue was just the fact she was there. But there's no way to check.

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I had this book as a little kid in the 70/80s and I was so obsessed with solving the puzzle! The illustrations were so incredibly beautiful that the whole book was just magic to me. How sad that Kit was conned like this. 😢

Atari ran a similar competition to this, but the difference was that the games weren't as expensive, came with a bunch of comic books and essentially were far more sensible to decipher. Funnily enough, Action 52 also ran a competition, whoever reached a certain level of the game Ooze on the cartridge would win a large sum of money. Problem was, the game crashed a few levels in.

Bizarrer still is how I got here. -Jonathan Blow's amazing labour-of-love Puzzle game 'The Witness' that he grafted 7 years on was clearly inspired by concepts such as how the Masquerade puzzle was solved, as inside the game you unlock... -a similar kind of conference talk (the iconic 'Secret of Psalm 46') which talks of Easter Eggs in all of human creation, of which in the end, Brian Moriarty mentions of the man on the hill at Ampthill...which is where I live. That's how I learned about Masquerade.

The reason the physics teachers missed the box was because Kit Williams' calculations were slightly off(he admitted as much later). He didn't realize this at the time because he and Bamber Gascoigne buried the casket at night.

10:00 thats exactly how they used cryptic messages in Elizabethan times, check out Alexander Waugh good stuff

If it makes anyone feel better, the guy behind this ridiculous con eventually ended up totally broke + living in a one room place in Ipswich. It was a disgusting almost condemned building, and he ended up in hospital for a long time (involving reconstructive surgery) after he got absolutely battered because he thought it was OK to steal milk from peoples doorsteps. Ain’t karma a bitch ?...

I've seen this vid in full like 20 times it never gets old

That was the best lecture ever!

"Cunk on Earth" references this game, and I only got the joke because of this video.

This scam really can't be called a game, can it?

Kit Williams can do art and watch TV at the same time lol

I want that Radiant Silvergun T-Shirt. Love the game, and would love the T-Shirt as well.

I come back to these every now and then just because they're so fun.

Someone start a discord

woof, tough crowd! i liked your jokes and quips, if anything

this game should have been a furry nonsensical hellraiser spoof..

19:49 At least we got a pretty banger poem out of this

25:51 dang, it's like EA built their entire modern mantra around this guy.

Legit thought I was hearing that guy's name wrong this whole time, but nope... It actually is "Bamber Gascoigne". He died earlier this year :( RIP

Poor Kit...Didn't know which way to look!

If Jimmy Saville wasn't trusted and/or intelligent, the British have a lot of explaining to do regarding why he was given the keys to the bedroom of, and allowed to sleep next door to, virtually every handicapped child in the country..

RIP Bamber Gascoigne 1935-2022.

so true and sad !

Great talk, thanks for uploading. Interestingly, at 9:18 he explains the words 'frog' and 'stone' didn't mean anything, but there is a picture in the book (#3) showing the hare sitting on a flat rock with frog’s eyes. In Ampthill Park, near St. Catherine's cross, there is a stone nicknamed the 'frogstone' for its rounded, lumpy shape (although apparently Kit Williams was unaware of this rock).

HareSoft was better before they merged with Enix. Now all they make is spin offs and remakes.

I wonder if Kit Williams moonlighted as the Riddler in his spare time with how complex the puzzle is.

Took me 2 hours to find this video. Rabbit…. something with a rabbit and a prize if you find it…. HARE raiser!!

I wouldn't call it the worst game ever because it was more intriguing than most games coming out now, but on a surface level, yeah it's shite. (insert beauchamps urinal here)

Not-so-fun fact: quest for the golden hare is so rare to find, it goes for over 100$. Shame as id like to read it

RIP Bamber

Those teachers should have taken archaeology 101 - always sift your dirt.

Rest in Peace Bamber Gascoigne 1935-2022 💎📺📚

I thought I'd missed something when he said "stone" and I'd thought "tones". ;) -The first corect answer was mostly by chance? Ouch! XD- Here we go! First mention of the UI and I'm already horrified. ;) "You can't tell because of a complete lack of feedback." That's not the only 8-bit game that needs to be muted. XD The poem on the first screen destroys its own rhythm in its 6th line. I feel a headache coming on already. It's... I grew up in the 80s. I was encouraged to enjoy poetry. I haven't quite recovered, yet. And now we know why Mister Carpetstache thought he'd have £30,000 to give away. *sigh* All that scorn for Haresoft and I'm still sad the hare got auctioned off by liquidators. Funny thing, that. ... But I still want to quip that the real answer to the puzzle was wait for this nonsense to go bankrupt and attend the auction! XD ... I wrote that before watching the end, and now I think I was actually right. Definitely the worst puzzle ever.