Hidden Rifles of the P.O.W. Scouts
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Section titled “Translated text”We are P.O.W. scouts. The location of our arms cache is changed after every exercise for security reasons. Therefore, before a new exercise, each unit member receives preliminary information about the cache’s location. Caution dictates that the search be conducted by individual scouts.
In this case, members of the P.O.W. received the following message from their commander: a) Go to the intersection of the roads leading from A to B and from C to D, and look for a letter there. b) Letter number 1 contains the message: “Head northwest to the edge of the small forest, to a heavily overgrown pine with twisted branches. Look for a letter.” c) Letter number 2 reads: “Follow the edge of the small forest southwest. Beyond the wooden bridge by the third black alder, search for a letter.”
Along the way, there may be another type of bridge, such as a concrete one, or a different species of alder, such as a white alder. These facts will then pose a challenge, as the youth—even those familiar with tree species—will search literally for the “third” alder, will see a bridge in general without distinguishing its construction, and will not immediately notice the adjectives “wooden” or “black.” Through such “traps,” we compel the youth to pay sharper attention while reading and to draw conclusions.
d) Letter number 3: Climb the alder, stand on the first branch, determine the north direction, and you will see two elevations. Go to the second one in order. In the pile of stones, the final message.
e) Letter number 4: Head southwest. A thicket of blackthorn bushes. You will receive a rifle.
At the final point, one of the game participants may be stationed, directing arrivals to a nearby assembly point, set apart from the march route.
Letters should be placed so that they are partially visible but at the same time difficult to notice, for example: under bark, in a crevice, in the ground near a tree, on a branch mimicking a leaf, under a stone, written on a stone, etc. They may be written in Morse code or encrypted (in this case, they should be written in cipher).
Source scan: Polona / National Library, marked “Public Domain.” View scan — image 169.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Jan Jasiński, Gry i ćwiczenia terenowe (Harce terenowe) (1938)
- Printed pages: 161–162
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 161
- Read the source text: gct-092