---
title: "KRAKIT"
id: 13063
type: "product"
slug: "krakit"
url: "http://localhost/product/krakit/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/product/krakit.md"
published_at: "2019-11-30T01:18:02+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-22T13:39:37+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Krakit-IPS.jpg"
excerpt: "Adventure game and treasure hunt. Be the first to crack the puzzle and the $20,000 prize which actually exists will be yours. Only one prize will be awarded. You have 12 clues. The answer to each is the name of a country, a city or town, and a number. According to Bill Ferrebee, Gladstone ended…"
category:
  - name: "Games"
    slug: "games"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/software/games/"
post_tag:
  - name: "Artic Computing"
    slug: "artic-computing"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/artic-computing/"
  - name: "Gladstone Electronics"
    slug: "gladstone-electronics"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/gladstone-electronics/"
  - name: "International Publishing & Software Inc"
    slug: "international-publishing-software-inc"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/international-publishing-software-inc/"
  - name: "Softsync"
    slug: "softsync"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/softsync/"
  - name: "TS 1000"
    slug: "ts1000"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts1000/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000"
    slug: "ts-1000"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-1000/"
genre:
  - name: "Game"
    slug: "game"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/game/"
  - name: "Software"
    slug: "software"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/software/"
company:
  id: 10657
  title: "Artic Computing"
  type: "company"
  url: "http://localhost/company/artic-computing/"
price: 19.95
date: 1982
rarity: "Uncommon"
producturl: "http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/tape/Krakit"
articles:
  - article:
      id: 24412
      title: "Enjoying Your Computer: Games"
      type: "article"
      url: "http://localhost/article/enjoying-your-computer-games/"
adverts:
  - publication:
      - id: 26645
        title: "SYNC v2 n5"
        type: "issue"
        url: "http://localhost/issue/sync-v2-n5/"
    advert_page: "32"
companies_products:
  - id: 10657
    title: "Artic Computing"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/artic-computing/"
  - id: 10902
    title: "Gladstone Electronics"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/gladstone-electronics/"
  - id: 10960
    title: "International Publishing & Software Inc"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/international-publishing-software-inc/"
  - id: 11319
    title: "Softsync, Inc."
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/softsync/"
---

Adventure game and treasure hunt. Be the first to crack the puzzle and the $20,000 prize which actually exists will be yours. Only one prize will be awarded. You have 12 clues. The answer to each is the name of a country, a city or town, and a number.

According to Bill Ferrebee, [Gladstone ended the KRAKIT contest in 1984](http://localhost/article/bits-and-bytes-3/). No one solved the 12 clues but Gary Gogel obtained a 14 page solution document from [International Publishing and Software](http://localhost/company/international-publishing-software-inc/) that listed the correct answers.

The answers were:

| COUNTRY | CITY | NUMBER |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1. Scotland | Edinburgh | 7464 |
| 2. U.S.A. | New York City | 207 |
| 3. U.S.A. | Chicago | 1882 |
| 4. Switzerland | Zurich | 11 |
| 5. Canada | Ottowa | 282 |
| 6. India | Delhi | 7 |
| 7. England | Salisbury | 1538 |
| 8. Mexico | Chihuahua | 10652 |
| 9. Italy | Verona | 413637 |
| 10. Russia | Moscow | 1812 |
| 11. Ireland | Ballaghadereen | 1916 |
| 12. England | Cambridge | 811000 |