title Riddlequest at Sutton Hoo, Woodbridge, Suffolk - 23rd February 2024 intro For a half-term activity, Isobel's booked us into Riddlequest - a sort-of escape room based at Tranmer House and the Great Hall at Sutton Hoo. It's quite entertaining and is based around several genuine Saxon riddles, and part of the fun is in actually trying to read the clues. Whilst they're not actually in Saxon, it's tricky enough to read sometimes, and one of the puzzles even uses the archaic Saxon/English þ and ð letters. It's also quite cool being at Sutton Hoo - in the house and exhibition - at night with no-one apart from the other team and the organisers about. Before the escape, we head into Woodbridge for pizza, after a tip-off from one of the National Trust ticket scanners. Before even that, we're in Diss and decide to get bacon or sausage sandwiches from Morrison's café for some reason. imgp0726 The boys get some sort of snack in Morrisons café imgp0727 Harry hides from the camera imgp0729 Harry does more hiding in Morrisons imgp0732 Fred looks at the flooded Mere in Diss imgp0735 We have a look in the cactus shop in marketplace imgp0736 It's blowing a bit of a gale on Mere Street imgp0737 Harry's caught in the act outside the Co-op in Eye imgp0738 We're at Tranmer House in Sutton Hoo imgp0739 Harry rummages around in a finds tray imgp0742 Isobel looks in a nice wooden cabinet imgp0745 There's a cool Lego version of the Sutton Hoo mask imgp0747 Harry hangs around near some Lego imgp0750 Fred makes an origami parrot imgp0751 There's a nice reading room, which was once a chapel imgp0752 Harry by the Lego table imgp0754 Fred's still doing origami imgp0756 Harry stands on a cool carved tree trunk imgp0758 A representation of the Saxon ship at Sutton Hoo imgp0760 The tide is out on the Deben at Woodbridge imgp0761 Harry peers into the mud imgp0762 A Saxon-style boat down by the Woodbridge Tide Mill imgp0764 On the River Deben at Woodbridge imgp0766 Fred scopes out the menu in Woodyard Pizza imgp0769 Isobel carries around some pizza leftovers imgp0770 Harry looks surprised in a D&D shop next door imgp0771 Harry buys some more Pokémon stuff in Woodbridge imgp0772 There's a train on the platform at Woodbridge imgp0774 We're back at Sutton Hoo in the dusk imgp0776 Harry grins in the boat skeleton imgp0779 We read a clue as part of the "escape room" imgp0781 More Puzzlequest solving goes on imgp0783 The "heorta" is returned to its casket imgp0787 Isobel and Fred imgp0790 A family group photo imgp0791 The lad from the other team waves a dagger around