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Post by karrathan on May 30, 2017 11:58:54 GMT -5
My sister got me a Mysterious Package Company experience for my birthday. I love puzzles and am generally pretty good at them, but I am so so so confused. My sister said that I would receive three packages and would use the clues from them to solve some mystery. On the website it talks about a first mailing, a letter of some sort, called "the pledge." I never recieved anything like this. I emailed the company trying to figure out if I missed something and they wrote back an equally confusing email with a link to this forum. She was making it sound like maybe my three packages have nothing to do with each other or that at least the third isn't related to the first two. She says I have 3.3, 3.4 and 4.1? Each one is a newspaper and a bunch of little objects. I wonder if my sister accidentally got something different than she intended? I just need a tiny bit of direction, please.
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Post by wortelboer on May 30, 2017 12:10:15 GMT -5
My sister got me a Mysterious Package Company experience for my birthday. I love puzzles and am generally pretty good at them, but I am so so so confused. My sister said that I would receive three packages and would use the clues from them to solve some mystery. On the website it talks about a first mailing, a letter of some sort, called "the pledge." I never recieved anything like this. I emailed the company trying to figure out if I missed something and they wrote back an equally confusing email with a link to this forum. She was making it sound like maybe my three packages have nothing to do with each other or that at least the third isn't related to the first two. She says I have 3.3, 3.4 and 4.1? Each one is a newspaper and a bunch of little objects. I wonder if my sister accidentally got something different than she intended? I just need a tiny bit of direction, please. OK. Sounds like you did not get an "Experience" but a gift subscription to "Curios and Conundrums". Curios and Conundrum was issued with Volume I and had 5 newspaper issues. Volume II had 4 newspaper issues and Volume III had 4 issues. It sounds like you have the last two issues from Volume III and the first issue of what some of us call Volume 4. That would be 3.3, 3.4 and 4.1. Did they come in a big flat envelope...one of them looking like chains, another like goat fur and then a book? Please confirm so we can help you further.
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Post by karrathan on May 30, 2017 12:20:08 GMT -5
Yes, the first two are large envelopes with a straight jacket and animal hair. The third is a cardstock box that looks like a book. So are 3.3 and 3.4 related? Do I need 3.1 and 3.2 to be able to do them? Is there still some kind of mystery to solve?
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Post by wortelboer on May 30, 2017 12:42:07 GMT -5
In order to solve all the puzzles within Volume III, you would need issues 1 & 2; however, there is a lot you can solve without them...you just would not be able to open all the Vault locks (access to the Vault is on the MPC website). Take heart..there are many people who choose not to seek out and find the answers to all the puzzles and Vault locks. As you dive deeper into the puzzles, you will find messages...they are part of an ongoing behind the scenes story...and what the Vault clues do is give you access to more of that story.
The answers to the puzzles are sometime not obvious. For instance, in a Word Search, after you have found all the answers to the list, you would need to either look at the uncircled letters to find see if it says something...or look at letters that are circled more than once. If it is as a few letters, odds are that what you have is an anagram that needs to be solved before you finally end up with a vault word...or a phrase with instructions on what to do next. Volume III was a challenge where puzzles sometimes had 3 different layers to them. That is why you were pointed to this forum. I you go to Volume III, Chapter 3, you will find helpful hints and guidance to solving the puzzles in that issue.
Also, 4.1 is the start of a new Volume, so far no second or third layer puzzles have been uncovered and the puzzles are pretty straight forward.
Feel free to ask questions, there are always people here willing to help.
I hope I'm not confusing you further...and maybe someone else can phrase this more clearly for you...I hope this helps.
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Post by karrathan on May 30, 2017 12:59:41 GMT -5
It helps just knowing that it isn't an "experience." Still not sure where to start, but I wasn't going to get anywhere treating it like something it isn't. I'll have a look at one of them with fresh eyes tonight. Thank you!
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Post by wortelboer on May 30, 2017 13:04:28 GMT -5
It helps just knowing that it isn't an "experience." Still not sure where to start, but I wasn't going to get anywhere treating it like something it isn't. I'll have a look at one of them with fresh eyes tonight. Thank you! My suggestion is that you start with 4.1. It is the easiest of the 3 to start with and is fresh in everyone's mind if you need help and guidance. You can always go back and work on the Volume III puzzles later. 4.1 would be a good introduction to the types of surface puzzles that you will see.
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