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Post by amanda on Mar 13, 2019 21:50:38 GMT -5
I have had a look at the family tree and come to a conclusion on the question marks, but that gives an answer that matches the number of question marks, but this cannot be the final answer can it? If you are checking against the thing I think you are, there are two or three discrepancies. This was one.
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Post by iorlas on Mar 14, 2019 0:48:57 GMT -5
I have had a look at the family tree and come to a conclusion on the question marks, but that gives an answer that matches the number of question marks, but this cannot be the final answer can it? How did you come to your answer? Hint that will not spoil everything just give a starting point find out what the top name is famous for and work with that. Total spoiler on what I did the ages of all the persons will give sums that should be equal. That gives the missing name Abraham at the age of 175. 175=AGE, but we are looking for a four letter answer so something still wrong. I guess the answer is "ages", or "age" if it should not be a four letter answer.
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Post by iorlas on Mar 14, 2019 5:34:41 GMT -5
I have had a look at the family tree and come to a conclusion on the question marks, but that gives an answer that matches the number of question marks, but this cannot be the final answer can it? If you are checking against the thing I think you are, there are two or three discrepancies. This was one. Have you gotten those discrepancies confirmed? There was one that I though was an error, but now I think that I just hadn't solved the whole puzzle.
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Post by marwolaeth on Mar 14, 2019 15:22:17 GMT -5
How did you come to your answer? Hint that will not spoil everything just give a starting point find out what the top name is famous for and work with that. Total spoiler on what I did the ages of all the persons will give sums that should be equal. That gives the missing name Abraham at the age of 175. 175=AGE, but we are looking for a four letter answer so something still wrong. I guess the answer is "ages", or "age" if it should not be a four letter answer. why would we be looking for a four letter answer?
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Post by iorlas on Mar 14, 2019 15:49:37 GMT -5
Hint that will not spoil everything just give a starting point find out what the top name is famous for and work with that. Total spoiler on what I did the ages of all the persons will give sums that should be equal. That gives the missing name Abraham at the age of 175. 175=AGE, but we are looking for a four letter answer so something still wrong. I guess the answer is "ages", or "age" if it should not be a four letter answer. why would we be looking for a four letter answer? Because: There is an additional clue for each puzzle which tells the length of the answer. and if you really want to know: Look at the cartoon hands drawn in the diary.
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Post by marwolaeth on Mar 14, 2019 16:21:46 GMT -5
why would we be looking for a four letter answer? Because: There is an additional clue for each puzzle which tells the length of the answer. and if you really want to know: Look at the cartoon hands drawn in the diary. this is not true though. I tested this against answers I knew I solved and indeed some of them match, but some of them dont. And the answers are correct, even if they dont match. I think we need to do something else with the hands. For example; the one with the enveloppe is clearly a three letter word, not one as the hands suggest.
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Post by amanda on Mar 14, 2019 22:51:40 GMT -5
Because: There is an additional clue for each puzzle which tells the length of the answer. and if you really want to know: Look at the cartoon hands drawn in the diary. this is not true though. I tested this against answers I knew I solved and indeed some of them match, but some of them dont. And the answers are correct, even if they dont match. I think we need to do something else with the hands. For example; the one with the enveloppe is clearly a three letter word, not one as the hands suggest. It's actually true for most of them. There are only 3-4 where it isn't true. You could make a case for the envelope that the stuff below the axe singles out one of the letters I haven't tried working out the meta with the answer list yet, though, so it's not yet clear to me if the outliers are meaningful or a mistake.
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Post by iorlas on Mar 15, 2019 1:14:16 GMT -5
this is not true though. I tested this against answers I knew I solved and indeed some of them match, but some of them dont. And the answers are correct, even if they dont match. I think we need to do something else with the hands. For example; the one with the enveloppe is clearly a three letter word, not one as the hands suggest. It's actually true for most of them. There are only 3-4 where it isn't true. You could make a case for the envelope that the stuff below the axe singles out one of the letters I haven't tried working out the meta with the answer list yet, though, so it's not yet clear to me if the outliers are meaningful or a mistake. I am with Amanda on this one. I think this should be interpreted as: Axe the word AXE. And the pillars point out how to perform cuts.
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Post by marwolaeth on Mar 16, 2019 6:12:17 GMT -5
It's actually true for most of them. There are only 3-4 where it isn't true. You could make a case for the envelope that the stuff below the axe singles out one of the letters I haven't tried working out the meta with the answer list yet, though, so it's not yet clear to me if the outliers are meaningful or a mistake. I am with Amanda on this one. I think this should be interpreted as: Axe the word AXE. And the pillars point out how to perform cuts. I dont think The things under the word axe have anything to do with it. Someone in my group pointed something else out though, what if its not the number of letters the word has, but the specific letter (as in position) we need to take to make a bigger word with all the answers? Because also I am fairly certain about the answer with the family tree one, and its not that few letters. But taking the letter in that place would make sense.
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Post by amanda on Mar 16, 2019 19:06:52 GMT -5
There are definitely answers that don't fit the length idea, and the family tree definitely is one of them. But if you hit those late (as I did, with the exception of the envelope, which had a potential alternative) you end up with a different frame of reference to work from than if you hit them early. Because it is true for most of the answers. I've been noting the discrepancies and keeping an open mind about both the numbers and some of the answers.
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