LOCKED DOOR – GALLERY OF MODERN ART (Pages 54–55)

Can you work out the 4-digit code and unlock the door?

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It’s all a matter of perspective. This work of modern art is known as “anamorphic writing”, writing that can only be read by looking at it from a certain angle. Hold the book up to your eye, keeping it parallel to the floor and look along the length of the page and you should start to see words coming into view. Turn the book and look at the same artwork from a different angle to reveal another word. When viewed from the correct angles this artwork reveals these 4 words:

EIGHT THREE ZERO SEVEN

The arrows on the brass plaque show you which angles to look at the anamorphic writing from and in which order to give the sequence of the 4-digit code.