You've waited patiently all winter long. You've played the POINTS-O-MATIC CLICK-O-TRON and TREASURE QUEST to tide you over. Now, the plants are budding, the weather is nicer, and you feel it coming: Summer Game 2012!

But what will Summer Game 2012 be this year? Could there be codes hidden in the catalog and around the library? Could there still be badges to earn by hunting deep in the library website? Points for reading, listening, or watching media? Or for going to events, tagging and reviewing items in the catalog, or even just for checking out library items?

YOU BETTER BELIEVE THERE WILL BE!

This year's Summer Game will have all the great things about last year's game, with a healthy dose of new stuff thrown in: all new codes, all new badges, all new items in the Summer Game Shop, all new ways to earn points! AND this year there will be some new features, too: Teams! Tokens! What can those be?

You'll find out soon: Summer Game 2012 starts June 15! Be sure to get on the website the first day to start earning points, make your way to the top of the leaderboard, and try to stay king of the mountain until the game ends August 31! Earning enough points will get you ready to make purchases from the Summer Game Shop when it opens on July 2 (and for everybody who played last year, you still have all of your leftover points to spend, too). And if you missed last year's game, don't worry: you can still earn some of last year's badges and get some of last year's points when Summer Game 2012 starts.

Summer Game 2012! It's a whole new ball game! PLAY!

Here's where it all comes together, and just in time for THE FINAL KEY is upon us! The start of Summer Game 2012 is just a few short weeks away, so time for ONE LAST BRAINTEASER to hold you over until the Summer Game's TRIUMPHANT RETURN! And this time, with email TREASURES still awaiting, Questers who complete the challenges of TREASURE QUEST including the FINAL KEY will get something truly SECRET AND VALUABLE, giving a clue as to something BIG coming in the SUMMER GAME! So, HAPPY QUESTING!

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~~~~~     THE FINAL KEY APPEARS!     ~~~~~~
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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the FINAL KEY appears before your eyes, you hear Wil Wheaton say:

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The end is nigh! The FINAL KEY is all you have to claim;
A clue is at the end of the beginning of this game.
The Keys, the Gates, the codes, the points; they all come from a book;
If you're averse to spoilers then perhaps you shouldn't look.

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Note: in the thread below, Questers are sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

The BELGIAN KEY just might be the WEIRDEST ONE YET! With only one key still to come, and Summer Game 2012 just over the horizon, KEEP QUESTING!

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~~~~~     THE BELGIAN KEY APPEARS!     ~~~~~~
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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the BELGIAN KEY appears before your eyes, you hear a Russian Children's Book Author say:

Once upon a time there was a boy without a stitch;
depending on the legend, he was poor, or he was rich.
The legends say the boy endeared himself to a whole nation,
by simply saying what he thought of war, through micturation.

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Note: in the thread below, Questers are sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

With the release of the TWO-DIMENSIONAL KEY, there are now only TWO Treasure Quest Keys remaining! Summer is almost here, KEEP QUESTING!

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~~~~~     THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL KEY APPEARS!     ~~~~~~
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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the TWO-DIMENSIONAL KEY appears before your eyes, you hear an English Headmaster's voice say:

To make its nature clearer to you, you who live in space:
if there were one dimension less, it'd be a different place.
It's by another A2, one of Queen Victoria's reign,
Find this book, but handle gently... lest you break your brain.

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Note: in the thread below, Questers are sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

Despite the local absence of winter, Treasure Quest keeps on moving through the seasons with this month's Key Drop: THE IRON KEY!

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~~~~~     THE IRON KEY APPEARS!     ~~~~~~
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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the IRON KEY appears before your eyes, you hear a Japanese boy's voice say:

For one young boy in Mabase, another made-up place,
Love, she rides a Vespa and a Rickenbacker bass.
Chase the Mighty Pirate King, who knows where he might be;
Listen to The Pillows' sounds and seek the Iron Key!

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Note: in the thread below, Questers are sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

Happy New Year! Hope you've got the day off, because you'll need it to discover the secrets of the EXECUTIVE WASHROOM KEY!

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~~~~~     THE EXECUTIVE WASHROOM KEY APPEARS!     ~~~~~~
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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the EXECUTIVE WASHROOM appears before your eyes, you hear a hard-boiled newspaperman's voice say:

It's 1958. A Muncie boy, fresh-faced and bright,
walks right into the mailroom, under Waring's final flight.
The board thinks he's a patsy, and they plot their tiny bids,
But he's got something up his sleeve. His pitch: you know, for kids!

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Note: in the thread below, Questers are sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

We've gone from Summer to Winter, and Treasure Quest just KEEPS ON MAKING IT HAPPEN! Here's the December Key Drop: The GSV KEY!

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~~~~~     THE GSV KEY APPEARS!     ~~~~~~
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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the GSV KEY appears before your eyes, you hear a smooth and caring, yet artificial voice say:

There's a fiction author who writes Scifi with an M.
In his books, there's nothing scarce, yet each is quite the gem.
Twice he took a title from TS's Poetry;
Look within the Waste Land and you'll find what holds this key.

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Note: in the thread below, Questers are sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

We're already one third of the way through TREASURE QUEST, and with each key more challenging and more valuable than the last, it's still EVERYBODY'S QUEST! Remember, if you've got questions, or you're stuck, talk to the other Questers here in this thread or ask a question, you never know what might help!

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~~~~~     THE MINIMOOG KEY APPEARS!     ~~~~~~
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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the MINIMOOG KEY appears before your eyes, you hear a Cantata and these words:

Before Walter was Wendy, Rachel helped to make a disc,
with tech not so well-tempered, every take was quite a risk.
They took the work of JSB and Robert's Keys and Tools;
then switched it on, and laid it down. The output simply RULES.

Note: in the thread below, Questers and sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

It's TEEN READ WEEK! You know what that means... time to LOOK AT SOME PICTURES! We've got a brand-new POINTS-O-MATIC mode for you today, and some other surprises coming as the week goes on! But first, check out the brand-new PHOTOMIC DESCRIBORATOR mode, where you can help AADL describe thousands of old pictures from the soon-to-launch Ann Arbor News Archive! Just load up a picture, and enter a single word that describes it, or something in it. Like Sheep. Or School. Or Sunshine. Or Girl. Or Anything! You'll get 2 points per picture, and you'll be adding permanent value to these great old photos! (In fact, players who have cleared the BOOLEAN KEY may already have worked with some of these images!)

But that's not it for TEEN READ WEEK (which clearly is not just for Teens). We'll have some NEW BADGES and other stuff coming later in the week, so stay tuned to play.aadl.org as always to know the latest!

THANKS FOR PLAYING!

Treasure Quest is rolling, with 17 players who successfully completed the challenges of the Chrono Key! But it's not too late; these codes won't expire anytime soon. Keep searching, and see if you're up to this next key! Remember, if you've got questions, or you're stuck, talk to the other Questers here in this thread or ask a question, you never know what might help!

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~~~~~     THE BOOLEAN KEY APPEARS!     ~~~~~~
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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the BOOLEAN KEY appears before your eyes, you hear an Earl say:

Athenians in modern Greece have something for your shelf;
It's half about a brilliant man, and half about itself.
Comics help you find the way, but only when misspelled
Rustle up this complex set of theories built and felled.

Note: in the thread below, Questers and sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!