The Ancestral Trail - Series Extras - Competitions

Competitions

"The Power of Evil" was a competition running from Issues #1 through #26 where a letter block would appear in each issue. Once re-arranged the phrase would reveal the source of the Evil One's power. The competition prize was a, at the time, top of the line Atari 1040 ST computer. Clues to solve the phrase appeared in Issues #14 and #26.

After every issue had been collected, you would have 26 letter blocks. If you then looked at each issue, you would see that the first word of the story in each issue is depicted in the style of a letter block. The first letters of all 26 issues match the 26 collected letter blocks exactly.

When you take the first letter of the story in each issue, you get the following: DNIMEHTNIYLNOSITAHWTONRAEF. When written backwards, it reveals the source of the Evil One's power: FEAR NOT WHAT IS ONLY IN THE MIND

The Cyber Dimension-era competition was to win a Sega Mega Drive bundled with a copy of the role playing game "Shining Force".

Like in the first series of issues, you had to cut out a letter blocks and re-arrange them into a phrase - a phrase that reveals the fatal flaw in the Cyber Dimension.

The second competition proved to be much harder than the first, you could not just read the first letter of each issue as it made no sense in either direction: EIOAAAEATHMNDFMNSHLLMSTRLL

To solve it, you had to put the following letters into the spaces provided:

AAAA D EE F HH I LLLL MMM NN O R SS TT _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Which translates into: THE MIND OF MAN SHALL MASTER ALL

Obviously, both competitions are closed to new entries...