Can YOU solve the campsite riddle?

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Apparently, the moss thing doesn't actually work too well in the wild. Survival teachers no longer tell people to use that. (But I also checked the trees for moss!)
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I got some of the answers, but not all of them. Definitely wouldn't have known about tree branches being longer on the southward side. (Which would presumably hold true for the northward side in Australia, but I've never noticed that or been told it there either.)

I didn't quite twig the significance of the chicken (though I knew it must mean something), didn't recognise the butterfly net as a butterfly net and wouldn't have known about the ripening of the melon either! :P But definitely a clever and fun puzzle.
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Not a clue. I am rubbish at these kinds of things though I really admire those who can figure them out. I'll just stick to the word association game. :oops:
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I got some of them but a few objects were drawn badly and I couldn't recognize them. And hellooooo, it's April and there are plenty of ripe watermelons here. :roll:
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I think the game was aimed at a British audience... it's a much colder climate here (and used to be even colder on average) and melons obviously don't ripen as fast. :wink:
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I'm surprised they used a melon. Most of us in 2016 didn't recognise what it was straight away...and I'm sure in the 1950's most children wouldn't have even known what a melon was! I never tasted melon until I was about 17 but maybe I was unusual! :-)
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Is a water melon so unusual over there? :shock:
Courtenay wrote:It's a much colder climate here (and used to be even colder on average)
Don't remind me! :cry: :cry: :wink: :wink: It's BLAZING hot down here! :(
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Post by Daisy »

It is quite easy to get melons here now but back when the puzzle was first set they were not well known. Robert is quite right... I had never seen a melon in the 1950s and can't remember now when I first tasted one, but it was much later than that.
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