He claims to be the Duke of Puzzles. However, he is an incompetent puzzle-maker: each of his puzzles consist of the bare minimum of elements – a box and a button – and he makes no attempt to obfuscate the solution in any way. He uses Early Modern English speech patterns, presumably to appear educated, but this amounts to little more than replacing all instances of "you" with "thou," randomly adding "-est" and "-eth" suffixes, and haphazard capitalization of phrases for emphasis.