In The Eureka Key, the first book in The Secrets of the Seven series, Sam, Theo, and Marty must solve puzzles to find a secret hidden by the founders of our country. Are you as good at solving puzzles as they are? If you find the correct answers to the four puzzles below, you will discover a four-digit code. Visit www.sarahlthomson.com and look for this symbol like this: Then use that code to unlock a secret webpage and find a reward!

1. is credited with designing the first official penny in American history. The Continental Congress authorized the design for this coin, the Fugio cent, in— Wait. We’re not going to tell you the date. If you fill in this Magic Square correctly, that date will magically appear in the four squares that run across the top. In a Magic Square, the four numbers in each row, column, and diagonal add up to the same total. Your most important job with this Magic Square is to find to find the number that goes inside the circle. That number is ______.

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2. On the Fugio cent is a picture of a sundial. Maybe Benjamin Franklin chose it because he said this: “Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” Your job is to find the only number in that quote. The number sounds the same as a word that means “victorious.” It is spelled out, and spelled correctly, in the quote, but maybe you need to look backwards in order to move forward. The number is ______.

SarahLThomson.com SecretsOfTheSeven.com 1 3. It’s reported that the words and symbols on one side of the Fugio coin form a rebus. A 3. It’s reported that rebus the words is and a symbols word-­‐and-­‐picture on one side of the puzzle. Fugio coin To form solve a rebus. one, A rebus write is a word-and- down what the pictures represent, then picture puzzle. To solvefollow one, write the down math what symbols the pictures to represent, add to then or follow subtract the math leAers. symbols For to add example, to if we gave you, in pictures, or subtract letters. For example,apple if + we ant gave you, -­‐ in pictures, ape, you apple + ant would - ape, write you would APPLEANT, write APPLEANT, then strike then strike out the APE, which would leave you with out the APE, which wouldPLANT. leave you with PLANT. The solution to the rebus belowThe is soluIon the number to ______. the rebus below is the number ______.

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