Thursday, October 28, 2010

029 - The Devices of Serendipity

Although there are, to date, 53 known Devices, only five are on display in the Serendipity Museum of Local History.

They are stored in a line of five display cases in a high security area of the museum, numbered 1 to 5 from left to right. Each of the five, as is the case with all known Devices, is marked with one of the runic characters of the local ancient language, and each possesses a single unique unexplained property.

1) There are two cases between a Device that emits random ultrasonic noises when exposed to sunlight, and the Device induced by Agnes Tutwillow on its right.

2) The Device that determines the number of iron molecules within 3.8 metres is in the case directly to the left of the Device induced by Yolanda Harkness.

3) There is one case between the Device that anaesthetises its holder, and the Device induced by Jonathan Horacek on its left.

4) The device induced by Brierly Smith is next to The Wheel.

5) The hole punch is not in the fifth case.

6) The Device that makes documents unintelligible is directly to the right of the protractor.

7) The Crossroads is not in the first case.

8) There are two cases between the audio cassette and the protractor.

9) The Crossroads is next to the hole punch.

10) The Knot is next to the pocket calculator.

11) There are two cases between the Device induced by Emilio Argento and The Bear.

12) There is one case between the device induced by Agnes Tutwillow and The Bear on the left.

13) The Wheel is not in the first case.

14) Although one of the Devices boils any liquid it is immersed in, it is not the flashlight.

15) The Thorn is not the pocket calculator.

What does The Knot look like, what does it do, which case is it in, and who induced it?