Well holy crap. Clearly you put a lot of work into this, so good on you. I think I'll wait until I have a few hours of free time to set aside before diving into this xD

And of course, thanks for the giveaway!

I don't get it, how do u play this game ???

"Tell me if you...have difficulties perform an action."

I think that would be everyone.

i will never get this -.- but thanks anyway

Never been good at these :/

Thx but no thx. I'm no puzzle person.

yeah i suck at puzzles. bad luck to all :P

i could barely play Abscondita Sapientia (online puzzle game, using tools like google and html code), so i'll pass on this one :), good luck to whoever wins it! and THANK YOU for actually spending 50Eu for an unknown person =)

Ok , i think i will try it.. i am dying to play skyrim.. :(
FOR THE SAKE OF SKYRIM!! i have class tests, but i will take a chance and take time to solve it. :)

I think I've got the key...now to make an errand.

Well for sure i have found out how to solve this but obviously i cannot because can't find http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpRvosgz-eoQqm9cHCeLmOAJjR1vhJybLYecTTckUrJ_SXTxlhVw on the internet. Only thing i can find is "AMAZON.COM BUY THIS THING" damn it :/

Since i am not american, am i allowed to give people a good hint? :)

I won't even try, but I wanted to say thanks for the giveaway.

Well anyways. Since i am not going to buy the book and google books are missing the following pages i am going to try to hint you.

1) The person in the picture is Ulysses Simpson Grant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant) though not sure what J.V means lol

2) So as it said - J.V Ulysses Simpson Grant 1867 + google books (told you - google books do not let me to watch the following pages :/)

3) And the rest is easy. p78 means page 78, r1 means row 1, w7 means word 7 etc.

4) 1867 is volume 17 or volume 18 (volume January 1-September 30, 1867 and volume 18 October 1, 1867-June 30, 1868)

5) Here you can find the books http://library.msstate.edu/usgrant/the_papers.asp (though it does not open for me. Maybe America's libraries are blocking some EU countries? Lol. I just can't open the book :/)

Good luck to whoever wins this one. Was easy to find out :)

EDIT: Oh and thanks for the giveaway :P

I believe I just solved this portion of the puzzle. It was quite a lot of fun. Thanks for the puzzle and giveaway!

I give up, this puzzle is way too complex for my simple brain. Good luck to all and many thanks for this giveaway edse!

The answer is... 42

Interesting. But for me being so busy, I cannot do this. Thanks for this puzzle.

I would but i cant get skyrim on my pc.

I can't even figure out what book I'm supposed to look at...

Welp, I have a partially clear weekend, so I'll put some time into this. Never done something like this before, so who knows if I'm good at it or not. Probably not.

The first link is broken. Kinda puts me at a halt before I can even start =/

I've checked out the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, but the ones from 1867 aren't on google books as others mentioned. I found "The Quest for Ulysses" by J.V. Luce, but it has too few pages and no connection to 1867. There was a scholar named John Heyl Vincent who was writing in 1867 and wrote a lot about Ulysses S. Grant, but the only thing he wrote in 1867 was too short, unrelated, and isn't available on google books.

I'm not sure if I'm trying way too hard or not nearly hard enough.

really nice puzzle (treasure hunt) ;p

I think I have found the correct book for the key, but I don't know if I am reading the correct edition. I am trying the page/row/word suggestion of bambolis, but with the source text I am using, some pages don't have enough rows, or rows don't have enough words.

This looks impossible :/