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Post by Todd on Nov 28, 2018 7:37:01 GMT -5
Did everyone with the puzzles subscribe, or did any of you who are solvung just order the three set? So far, the subscriber-only wheel has only had limited usefulness. A code is revealed, the video gives a clue to the key, the wheel is used, and then someone runs out to the revealed dead drop to get a journal, which the Slack community works together to solve. Unless something bigger comes later in the adventure, I don't see a reason to get more than the 3-pack.
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Post by distantsmoke on Nov 28, 2018 14:10:10 GMT -5
Mine arrived last night. I have yet to get into it, but it does sound fun.
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Post by distantsmoke on Nov 28, 2018 14:10:52 GMT -5
Did everyone with the puzzles subscribe, or did any of you who are solvung just order the three set? I haven't subscribed. I wasn't sure what exactly that would get me.
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Post by Todd on Nov 28, 2018 14:17:03 GMT -5
Did everyone with the puzzles subscribe, or did any of you who are solvung just order the three set? I haven't subscribed. I wasn't sure what exactly that would get me. The Li'l Orphan Annie decoder ring, (actually just a Field Notes decoder wheel), and three more quarterly editions of Field Notes notebooks that are not puzzle related.
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Post by wortelboer on Nov 28, 2018 16:00:42 GMT -5
Did everyone with the puzzles subscribe, or did any of you who are solvung just order the three set? I haven't subscribed. I wasn't sure what exactly that would get me. The reason I decided to go with the subscription is this: Your first shipment will also include two of our Original Kraft 3-Packs (no substitutions) and more. You’ll frequently receive subscriber-exclusive items and other goodies with your shipments and occasionally, you might also receive an extra shipment or some other sub-only surprise
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Post by kite on Nov 28, 2018 19:03:04 GMT -5
Did everyone with the puzzles subscribe, or did any of you who are solvung just order the three set? I just ordered the set of three books last week out of curiosity. I considered subscribing, but it turns out that the special cipher wheel subscribers get isn't even necessary -- it's only needed for the first clue for the daily online puzzle each day. As long as someone in the group Slack has a cipher wheel, that's enough. It just tells you where (in the real world) the puzzle book of the day is located; someone goes and gets it, and then it contains a puzzle that everyone works on solving. That puzzle is totally freestanding -- you don't even need the books. The first puzzle was solved in like five minutes, but the second took a full 24 hours. Don't know how the difficulty will be going forward.
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Post by wortelboer on Nov 29, 2018 15:21:22 GMT -5
For those wondering what you get if you subscribe. Below is a link that shows the contents of the first subscription box and its contents.
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Post by kite on Nov 29, 2018 15:56:48 GMT -5
I was disappointed that the cost savings of a subscription is based on getting two copies of each quarterly release. I like some/many of their themes, but don't need a bunch of duplicate notebooks. On the other hand, I feel super guilty that I'm getting all this fun for $12, so I want to throw more money at them.
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Post by distantsmoke on Nov 29, 2018 17:01:13 GMT -5
For those wondering what you get if you subscribe. Below is a link that shows the contents of the first subscription box and its contents. Thanks for the pictures. That actually looks kinda cool.
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Post by Todd on Nov 30, 2018 7:19:33 GMT -5
The second puzzle contained in the books remains unsolved. All of the UV print would almost certainly be part of the puzzle. The UV poem speaks of "eleven foursomes", Any good ideas? Or even not-so-good ones?
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Post by kite on Nov 30, 2018 18:34:00 GMT -5
I'm not really biting at any of the ideas I've seen put forth so far on the Slack, but I don't have any better ones yet. The idea of somehow using the full list of possible supervisors that we've compiled by pooling everyone's results from the ID puzzle is tempting, but I think it violates the stipulation that everything necessary for solving the puzzles is contained in a 3-pack. The puzzle should, I think, be solvable in isolation.
The obvious go-to is the Practical Enumerations, but nothing's really popping out there. Few of them contain only four items; you could make a list of eleven that are four words long, but only by fudging a little. Nothing's snapping into place with the "aha!" that it ought to. I've read the History of Cryptography essays over and over, and some things feel a little odd about the writing, but it could just be part of their tone, and in any case I'm not seeing "foursomes." But there's not much more material to work with in a set of blank notebooks!
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Post by wortelboer on Dec 1, 2018 7:03:57 GMT -5
I'm working on the attempting to decipher the UV message and the cover. I have a working theory but it is not quite working. It feels right, but maybe the hive mind here can help. So I woke up a midnight last night feeling I had figured it out...tried to convince myself to wait until morning to try it...gave up at 1:00 and went back to my desk. At 2:30 I finally went back to bed defeated but tossed and turned thinking about it and was up at 6:00 to try again.
Here's my thought and I think I may be on the right track. 11 foursomes far afield. When we found the website...we changed the i and o's of "field notes" to 0 and 1s. So if we go back to the specifications list and transform the first 4 i and os to 1 and 0s. we get 4 numbers of a binary. Then since we "need last one" then add a 1 to end of each. Doing it this way I do get a bunch of letters. I was hoping for an 8 letter keyword to use to decipher the covers. It did not work.
I tried just taking the 4 numbers (which would total 44 numbers) and then adding a 1 to the end. Divide the string into 5 sets of numbers and I was hoping for a 5 letter word. That didn't work either as one of the set of five numbers is not binary code.
With the letters I found I tried applying the + and - numbers to get different letters. That didn't work either. I tried just using the + and - letters which are gobbedygook as the keyword and that didn't work either. But we are supposed to get clarity (deciphered words) out of the gobbedygook. I feel I may be on the right track but am missing something.
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Post by wortelboer on Dec 3, 2018 12:30:28 GMT -5
Unfortunately with a job and other obligations I do not have time to participate in the daily puzzle hunt...which is disappointing. ARGs puzzles that need to be completed within 24 hours are just not possible for me. *sigh*
However, I do like the puzzles inside the 3-page...even though I'm stuck on the UV light puzzle. It is seriously driving me nuts and I'm losing sleep over trying to figure it out. Anyone else working on it or is everyone else off on the daily puzzles?
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Post by neutronstar on Dec 3, 2018 15:15:43 GMT -5
Unfortunately with a job and other obligations I do not have time to participate in the daily puzzle hunt...which is disappointing. ARGs puzzles that need to be completed within 24 hours are just not possible for me. *sigh* However, I do like the puzzles inside the 3-page...even though I'm stuck on the UV light puzzle. It is seriously driving me nuts and I'm losing sleep over trying to figure it out. Anyone else working on it or is everyone else off on the daily puzzles? Same. I try to log in and see what's happening with the daily puzzles, but work doesn't allow me to focus on it. But the books are great and just keeping an eye on the daily puzzles is fun.
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Post by kite on Dec 3, 2018 19:12:58 GMT -5
The UV puzzle has been solved by the Slack group, and let's just say that the solution caused me pain. I have no idea how anyone thought to try it. I did think that many of the attempts before that were getting overly complex, but it turned out it had to be approached another way entirely.
I'm mostly enjoying the daily puzzles. My husband and I have decided that since we're rarely fast enough to participate in the group solve, which sometimes flies by faster than you can read it, we're going to avoid reading their solutions until we've solved the puzzles on our own for entertainment. Sure, a puzzle that took them 11 minutes yesterday took us over an hour, but it was fun.
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