The Treasure Trails
Spring P uzzle
Hush, can you hear it?
The rustling in the grass,
Bringing you the w elcome new s
W inter’s day is past.
Soft, can you feel it?
The w arm caressing breeze,
Telling you the sticky buds
Are bursting on the trees.
L ook, can you see them?
The primrose in the lane,
Now you must believe it Spring is here again.
Spring is our favourite season at Treasure
Trails. There’s nothing better than turning off
the television, getting outdoors into the fresh
air and exploring on a Trail.
So to celebrate spring we have created a fun
quick puzzle for you to solve. Some of the
mental skills needed to solve this puzzle are
very similar to the ones needed to solve some
of the more devious clues on our Trails!
Carefully read the poem “It Must Be Spring”
written by May Fenn, then solve the clues all
linked to the poem. The answer to each clue is
a single letter. You can solve the clues in any
order and once you have solved them all the
6 letters can then be rearranged into a word
that is linked to ‘spring’.
Clues
1. What letter comes next in this sequence? H, T, B, W, S, T, T, ?
2. What letter comes next in this sequence? T, S, S, T, T, ?
3. If 6,4,5 equals Z; what does 11,4,6 equal?
4. Other than S, O and E, what is the only other letter to be doubled in
the poem (i.e. the letter appears twice in a row – as in ‘tt’ in
‘letter’!).
5. What is the 109th letter in the poem?
6. Rearrange the letters of this phrase – OAT SHOPPER - to reveal a
punctuation symbol. What is the only letter to appear before this
symbol in the poem?
Answ ers
1
2
3
Rearrange the letters to make a
word associated with spring
4
5
6
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