The Antikythera Tablets

A collection of puzzles based around Greek myths and legends.

Five mechanical puzzle tablets, locked inside their own puzzle box

Discovered off the coast of Antikythera in 1901, The Antikythera mechanism, is an ancient hand-powered computer,
but also retrieved at the same time was a second mysterious box.
The Antikythera Tablets describe how such a mechanism came into being in a time of Myths and Legends.

Now you can own a recreation of the tablets to see if you can fathom the secrets contained within. The box forms an integral part of the puzzle with the first puzzle needing to be solved to even open the box. Inside are five wooden tablets giving story and clues towards the mechanism origins, once solved all the tablets combine to produce a single, definitive answer revealing a hitherto unknown piece of information for a Greek astrologer.

The Puzzles

Inside the box are five separate tablets, Sisyphus, Odysseus, Heracles, Theseus and Perseus; all Greek heroes with well known myths associated with them and the puzzles reflect the challenges faced by those heroes.