The Blue Ribbon Mystery — Large-Print Mystery Puzzle Book (Print-at-Home PDF)

August, 1957. The night before the Millbrook County Fair hands out its silver cup for the best pie, the cup disappears from the judging tent, along with fifty dollars in prize money. The town blames the sore loser and the carnival stranger. Retired teacher Dot Pruitt thinks they are wrong. With twelve-year-old Tommy Vance and his bicycle, she follows a trail of red clay, a pencil line in a watchman's log, and a brand-new ten-dollar bill.

Read a short chapter, then solve the puzzles that go with it. Each word search hides a clue of its own.

WHAT YOU GET

One PDF, 110 pages, made for US Letter paper (8.5 x 11 in), ready to print at home:

• 25 short chapters of a gentle, old-fashioned mystery
• 25 word searches, each with a hidden clue
• 13 word scrambles with bonus words
• 12 secret messages (cryptograms) to decode, with hints
• 6 big mazes, each a scene from the story
• A guessing page before the ending
• Every answer at the back
• Page 2 is a one-page "How to print this book"

LARGE PRINT, TRULY

Story text is 20-point type; puzzle letters are bold 22 to 24 point. Big pages, wide margins, plenty of room for a pencil.

CHECKED TWICE

Every puzzle was solved a second time by a separate program before release, so each word appears exactly once, each scramble has one answer, and each code decodes with the hints given.

THE MATH

56 story-linked puzzles for $4.99 is about 9 cents a puzzle, next to about 3 cents a grid for a plain word-search pack, plus a 25-chapter mystery you cannot print for free anywhere.

KEEP IT TIDY

Print it once and slip the pages into a 3-ring binder or a report cover, so the book sits on the kitchen table like a book, not 110 loose sheets.

This is a digital download. No book will be mailed. The file arrives the moment payment goes through.

PRINT TIPS

Print single-sided at 100% / "Actual size" (or "Fit to page" if your printer trims the edge). Black ink only. Plain copy paper works; 24 lb paper and a binder make a keeper. Print as many copies as you like for your own household; please don't share the file.

ABOUT THE MAKER

Made by hand on graph paper by a small studio, then drawn in code and checked twice. Oak Lane Puzzle Press is an Isaac Oppenheimer Studio imprint.

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