Legacy
Masquerade became the forerunner of an entire genre of cryptic puzzles known as armchair treasure hunts. Its success spawned a succession of books and games from other publishers seeking to emulate its success, including The Key To The Kingdom (Pavilion Books), The Piper Of Dreams (Hodder & Stoughton) and The Golden Key (William Maclellan), all of which were published in 1982. Similar hunts have continued to be published in various formats, with several current hunts making use of technologies which were unavailable at the time of Masquerade, such as Menagerie (an homage to Masquerade), which is web-based, and Text4Treasure, which uses SMS messaging. Others, like Army Of Zero, follow Masquerade's use of physical media for the main puzzles, but provide additional clues on-line. − Beware the Sliverman, The Game of Reason, Imagination and Knowledge, released in 2008 begins with players having to find the gameboard from a Masquerade inspired riddle. The gameboard is actually a 12th century circa mosaic that is buried in a UK hill.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)