Puzzle #05 ✦✦ Intermediate

Gargoyle Gardens

A master landscape architect strolls confidently into your chambers and provides an overly lavish, flourishing bow. How wonderful, another palace garden proposal from another pompous showman. It's only then that you notice the small boy shuffling after, hidden behind the opulent robes, eyes glued to the ground. The master extolls his virtues, talents and awards, while the boy stays perfectly quiet. The designs are handed over, and the pair exit. At the door, however, the boy gives a surprisingly steely and intentional gaze to the plans that were just submitted. You ponder… is something going on here? Or is this simply the all too common obnoxious master and overly quiet apprentice? You decide to take a look.

Garden Design 1
Garden Design 2
Garden Design 3
Garden Design 4

The "Gargoyle Gaze Garden" proposal drawings

Think you have the answer?

Need a Hint?

Take a look at the title of the garden proposals. This provides a hint for what to pay attention to in each of the four drawings. Can you think of a way this might result in letters?

The title of the proposal is "Gargoyle Gaze Garden". If you draw lines following the gaze of each gargoyle to the next closest gargoyle, do you notice anything?

Each of the four garden drawings encodes a single letter. Following the gazes of the gargoyles in the first drawing yields an "H". Can you discover the other three letters?

The other four drawings yield the letters "E" "L" and "P". The garden proposal contains a cry for "HELP". Enter this solution to discover the conclusion to the puzzle, as well as some info about the puzzle mechanic.