What happened to the jewel after the book was solved? Who owns it today?
After winning, Ken Thomas stored the jewel in a bank vault. He had agreed to loan it to a museum for public exhibition, but changed his mind at the last minute. Paul Harkin knows more: “In 1985, a computer game/puzzle named Hareraiser was released in 2 parts by a company called Haresoft. Part one was called ‘Prelude’ and part two ‘Finale.’ The prize was the Golden Hare. It was released across several formats of home computer in the UK; I’m not sure about other countries worldwide. I remember seeing ‘Prelude’ on sale at the time but I never bought a copy. If you really want to, you can download the program and a ZX Spectrum emulator to see what it looks like. There is a small snippet of info from a computer magazine of the time at Your Spectrum.” [Note to American visitors: the ZX Spectrum was sold in the U.S. as the Timex Sinclair 2068.] I’ve found the original box art from the Sinclair version, which should look familiar enough–come to think of it, even if I didn’t know that it was “
