More than 45 feet tall, the clock features a duck that lays a never-ending stream of golden eggs and includes a family of mice that are continually trying to evade a snake sitting on top of the clock. In 1985 Kit Williams designed the Wishing Fish Clock, a centrepiece of the Regent Arcade shopping centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. This competition ran for just a year and a day, and the winner was revealed on the live BBC TV chatshow Wogan.
The book was initially published without a visible title, and readers were challenged to work out the title from clues inside the book and send in their answer without using the written word. On reaching the Sun, Jack finds that he has lost the treasure, and the reader is challenged to discover its location.As well as his best-known book, Masquerade, Williams wrote The Bee on the Comb, a puzzle book with a bee theme. Masquerade contains fifteen detailed paintings that illustrate the story of a hare named Jack Hare, who seeks to carry a treasure from the Moon (depicted as a woman) to the Sun (depicted as a man). The book's theme, a hunt for a valuable treasure, became his means to this end. Williams set out to create a book that readers would study carefully rather than flip through and then discard. "In the 1970s, Williams was challenged by Tom Maschler, of the British publishing firm Jonathan Cape, to do "something no one has ever done before" with a picture book.
Two British physics teachers were later acknowledged to be the first to have correctly solved the puzzle." It was later found that Thomson had not solved the puzzle and had guessed the hare's location using insider knowledge obtained from a former acquaintance of Williams. "In March 1982 Williams received a letter and sketch from a man called Dugald Thomson, which he acknowledged as the first correct solution to the puzzle, meaning that Thomson had won the contest. The book became the inspiration for a genre of books known today as armchair treasure hunts." "Masquerade is a picture book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams and published in August 1979, that sparked a treasure hunt by including concealed clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare that had been created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams. One of the most famous Armchair Treasure Hunt books, from author and Illustrator Kit Williams.
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