CiSRA Puzzle Competition 2009 - Solutions This is the archive of
the 2009 Puzzle Competition. Please visit the current
competition site for information about the latest Puzzle
Competition. Each of the stylised pictures represents the title
of a novel or story collection. After identifying a few, you can
notice that every book title has a number in it. There is also a
red element in each picture, indicating a particular item. You
need to identify the item marked in red, and put its name in the
boxes on the right. From top to bottom, the pictures are:
Placing the answers in the grid reveals a message written in the
bolded boxes: The message says: A SEVEN IS WRONG ISBN ISBN is a
common abbreviation for International Standard Book Number. This
indicates this is a book we are searching for. Reading the
numbers downwards out of the titles of the identified book names
gives 1562542731 - ten digits, exactly what is required for an
ISBN! But if you search for this ISBN, you find it doesn't
exist. The secret message in