For this month’s mystery, take a look at the image below and tell us, if you will, what this glyph is and what it’s doing on our collection?
Leave your guesses in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the answer—and more!… Continue Reading
Posts Categorized: Crocodile-mystery
This month’s crocodile mystery asked what’s going on with the odd-looking painting technique in an original work of art, shown in a detail. Here’s a view of the whole thing:… Continue Reading
The April crocodile mystery involves an original work of art, shown here in a detail. What’s going on with the odd-looking painting technique? … Continue Reading
This month’s Crocodile mystery is about an engraving. What do you think are the wavy lines on this print?… Continue Reading
This month’s crocodile mystery is an example of one of our favorite things: Shakespeare portraits!
What kind of item is this portrait of Shakespeare from, and what is significant about the item?… Continue Reading
Happy Boxing Day! We’ve brought you another crocodile mystery to open with your holiday goodies. This month’s mystery comes in two forms and appears in two places. Tell us, if you would, what these mysterious numbers suggest to you?
As usual, leave your thoughts and guesses in the comments below and we’ll be back in the new year with an answer.… Continue Reading
For December’s Crocodile Mystery, tell us, if you will, what’s happening in the images below. Leave your guess in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the answer!
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Chronograms—literally, “time writing”—are dates embedded within text. As such, they are a form of hidden writing called steganography: the encoded characters maintain their own value, but are hidden within a larger text. Easily calculable to those who know what they’re looking for, they still excite the thrill of uncovering secret meaning.
That thrill was experienced by this cataloger when, for the first time ever, she came across a chronogram that had been previously unremarked.… Continue Reading
For November’s Crocodile Mystery, tell us, if you will, what’s going on in the image below.
Leave your guess in the comments and we’ll be back next week with the answer!… Continue Reading
First, a confession: this month’s Crocodile Mystery was originally going to pose a question along the lines of “What’s weird about this image?” or “What makes this picture especially interesting?” but I gave up. I couldn’t figure out how to phrase it in a way that wouldn’t, in fact, be saying “Try to guess what crucial piece of information is being deliberately witheld!”
The longer I looked at the image, the stranger it appeared, so I figured asking for captions would make an interesting Crocodile Mystery, and you came through!… Continue Reading
