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Post by jtobcat on Aug 5, 2017 18:28:07 GMT -5
Oh very good - of course I mega cheated by taking just Quay and reasoning as above, but ... what next? so as for next steps: (iv) Pretty straight forward, follow the instructions for the key and apply it to (v) (v) Cut the pieces out (I photocopied and then cut to not destroy the original). You should end up with two banners in opposite corners that contain an hourglass and poke ball symbol. They will both have arrows pointing to/from the letters X and V, which are in reality not actually letters. These are two sequences, figuring out what the hourglass and poke ball represent will help you solve (vi). (hint, think simple mathematical operations) (vi) Once you have figured out what the hourglass and poke ball are telling you to do, apply it to the left column of numbers to get a new number in the right column (vii) Numbering the columns and rows 1-4 starting from the bottom left corner will help with this one
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Post by craigrj on Aug 6, 2017 2:45:19 GMT -5
Nice thanks, I was using the cut and stick job as a window....
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Post by distantsmoke on Dec 14, 2017 11:58:45 GMT -5
Question on .3 May 2017 Puzzle V is turned into a window with two banners? One banner has: X>pokeball>V And the other has V>hourglass>X But I'm not seeing how that helps with puzzle VI and tips or nudges appreciated. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by craigrj on Dec 14, 2017 12:40:10 GMT -5
Caesar asks: What operation takes you from X to V? Similarly, what operation takes you from V to X?
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Post by distantsmoke on Dec 14, 2017 13:31:49 GMT -5
Caesar asks: What operation takes you from X to V? Similarly, what operation takes you from V to X? Ooooohhh. Thanks! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by neutronstar on Jan 9, 2018 22:44:32 GMT -5
Okay, finally able to spend some time with envelope 1. I see that (i) is a substitution cipher, but I can't seem to find anything that matches all the odd characters. for (iii) I have moth mole ? frog owl bat roc
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Post by Yasoda Dei Conti on Jan 10, 2018 2:00:29 GMT -5
Okay, finally able to spend some time with envelope 1. I see that (i) is a substitution cipher, but I can't seem to find anything that matches all the odd characters. for (iii) I have moth mole ? frog owl bat roc PM sent. 2) close! 3) Have you watched Harry Potter recently?
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Post by neutronstar on Jan 11, 2018 9:50:50 GMT -5
I'm stuck on April (iii) should I cut and paste, or fold? I don't want to ruin the page
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Post by squirrel on Jan 11, 2018 11:26:15 GMT -5
I'm stuck on April (iii) should I cut and paste, or fold? I don't want to ruin the page What message did you get from April ii? - it should tell you how to proceed
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Post by craigrj on Jan 11, 2018 11:30:25 GMT -5
I'm stuck on April (iii) should I cut and paste, or fold? I don't want to ruin the page I almost hate to say it that cutting and folding and wrecking will recur later on - oh you can copy the pages or draw various symbols out to recreate, but there's just something about CPP that encouraged me to treat it as Librarian's Almanacq and just get handy with the snippers
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Post by neutronstar on Jan 11, 2018 11:31:45 GMT -5
message from (ii) a stranger is close by; stand still and move the earth to come together inclined to fold, but, as usual, I am lacking confidence in that decision
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Post by squirrel on Jan 11, 2018 11:48:31 GMT -5
message from (ii) a stranger is close by; stand still and move the earth to come together inclined to fold, but, as usual, I am lacking confidence in that decision try not to press down on the fold? That's what I did and you can barely tell I tried folding it
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Post by lee82 on Jan 27, 2018 16:32:02 GMT -5
Just emailed off my answer to 0.1.
Not too tricky, I checked a couple of things on google once I’d finished to fill in a couple of clues that I didn’t manage to link e.g. tear drinker. What’s the view generally on looking up such things on google?
Also I wasn’t sure if the final answer was actually another step beyond that presented by vii or if there were any other hidden clues or messages within the pages.
Looking forward to doing the next one now, do they get a lot harder??
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Post by lee82 on Jan 27, 2018 16:45:14 GMT -5
Wow, quite disappointingly I have the final answer to 0.2 literally within 2 minutes of opening the envelope and flicking through to see what was in it!
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Post by dmikester on Jan 27, 2018 19:13:22 GMT -5
Wow, quite disappointingly I have the final answer to 0.2 literally within 2 minutes of opening the envelope and flicking through to see what was in it! That shouldn't be possible, and in fact, Jack often lays traps on every page so that someone randomly following a path or making a random choice would almost certainly be wrong. It's worth it to go through each page in order. Jack is very open to feedback, so let him know about your experience. I remember only one of them (I think it was 0.5 or 0.6) that I was able to solve very quickly; for some reason I was just in the zone with that one, but for all the other ones, slow and steady won the race for sure.
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