Play our third and final £50,000 Royal Treasure Hunt!

The final week of our Royal Treasure Hunt is here – and this time there’s a chance to win not just one, but two spectacular prizes. All you have to do is solve a series of clues, the answers to which are linked to Britain’s magnificent royal heritage. 

For as well as this week’s hunt, which you can start playing with the clue and picture overleaf, all entries that answer all three weeks of the treasure hunt’s unscrambled anagrams correctly will be automatically entered into a final prize draw.

That means one lucky reader will win a treasure trove worth £10,000 – to be taken either as a cheque or as £10,000 worth of credit to spend at royal jewellers Asprey – by answering the riddle in today’s magazine and the further five teasers we will print in the Daily Mail from Monday to Friday next week. 

Plus, each correct solution to all three of the hunts will be entered into the prize draw to find our overall Royal Treasure Hunt winner.

The overall winner will be invited to spend a VIP weekend for two in London, including travel, a stay in a five-star hotel, dinner at the Tower of London and a tour of the Jewel House. 

There they will choose their jewellery prize from our Royal Treasure Chest, or a cash alternative of £20,000. That’s a total of £50,000 we’ll have given in Treasure Hunt prizes.

As with the last two weeks, today the Royal Treasure Hunt begins with an artwork in Weekend magazine, accompanied by your first clue. 

Today’s is over the page, depicting a re-enactment of an English Civil War battle, together with your first teaser to solve.

The hunt will then take you around the country from the comfort of your armchair, through a series of clues printed each Monday to Friday in the Daily Mail. 

The answers might be famous places, battle sites, landmarks, historic attractions, towns or cities associated with the Cavaliers and Roundheads. 

Crack the clue in today’s magazine and write it in the box provided over the page. Then solve the riddle each day during the week and write it in the box in that day’s paper. 

Keep your answers, and then write all six in the grid in next Friday’s paper. It’s not essential, but you may want to keep today’s picture to help you.

After you’ve solved the final clue on Friday, the letters highlighted in the grid will form an anagram – solve it and you’ll have the answer. If you think you’ve worked out the solution on Friday, call the hotline, text or email and leave your answer and personal details. 

The winner will be drawn at random, and if it’s you, we’ll call you between 9am and 11am on Saturday 31 August. 

And don’t forget, this week there’s one treasure trove worth £10,000 and another worth £20,000, plus a VIP weekend in London for two. Happy hunting!

Solve the riddle and you could win £10,000 

The third week of the Royal Treasure Hunt begins with this artwork, which is accompanied by your first clue of the week 

Galloping horses thunder across the battlefield, their riders’ swords glinting in the sunshine. The air is thick with the smoke from muskets and cannon fire.

The Cavaliers and Roundheads are going at it hell for leather with the aid of cannons, swords, pikes and the odd thrown punch. There will be a few grazes and bruises at the end of today’s fighting, but nobody will meet a bloody end because this is not for real. It’s a re-enactment of an English Civil War battle on a muddy field somewhere in the Midlands.

A crowd has gathered to watch the spectacle and to experience the thrilling sound of the thundering hooves, the crack of gunfire and the booming drums. They cheer on friends involved in the skirmishes, while on the sidelines children act out their own mini-battles.

In the distance, modern life continues as normal. The soothing sound of church bells can be heard over the spitting gunfire.

But one fighter has stopped in amazement – as he plants his pike on the ground it hits a piece of metal. There were always rumours that a 17th-century treasure chest was hidden nearby by somebody trying to keep his fortune safe from the war as it raged across the country.

But when he digs with his knife he finds only a tiny metal casket. There’s no treasure inside, although it is filled with clues.

Answer these clues to help find the treasure. Start by cracking today’s clue in the scroll above, and further clues will be published, one each day, from Monday to Friday in the Daily Mail. By Friday you’ll be able to solve the mystery and win the prize.