Page 7
From Pablo's ATH 2017
The minesweeper grid on this page solves as:
. | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
. | . | ⚑ | 2 | 2 | . | . | . |
⚑ | 2 | 3 | ⚑ | . | ⚑ | . | . |
. | 2 | . | ⚑ | . | . | 2 | . |
⚑ | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | . | ⚑ | . |
. | . | . | . | . | 2 | . | . |
. | . | . | 2 | ⚑ | 2 | . | . |
. | . | . | . | ⚑ | . | . | . |
Superimposing this grid onto the letters in front of the map on Page 6 puts the mines above the letters "GYAGOPHER" which anagrams to GEOGRAPHY.
[The joint explosion of the mines at Messines in 1917 ranks among the largest non-nuclear explosions of all time. The evening before the attack, General Sir Charles Harington, Chief of Staff of the Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), remarked to the press, "Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography". The solution to this Minesweeper puzzle seems to reference Harington's remark.]