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[GMonger]

nothing to add, just want to remind people of this, one of the very few remaining unsolved puzzles

[dishboy]

[LGarrett]

From "A Voice in Ourmy Head" over on the General/Updates board:

[Sin Vraal]

hey

[Sin Vraal]

Hint #2

[Alzheimers]

Don't have much to go on here, but this line might be a clue:
"Wicked and Sinful are one and the same"

As ElGamer pointed out:

[Alzheimers]

Another idea, again using Sin's poem as a hint, is to check which words are "the same" - there are a lot of synonyms in the list. For example, we might be able to match them up as so:

sinful / wicked
unfurl / unfold
bright / lucent
latent / buried
spared / redeem
direct / candid
crypto / veiled
poison / malice
patent / smooth
unwrap / loosen
gaping / tenths
limpid / reveal
cogent / likely
public / useable
caveat / marked
horrid / guilty
malign / unholy
malice / diablo

[Alzheimers]

Just noticed -- a lot of those synonyms are close together. Maybe this is what Sin's first poem was referring to -- a path linked by the synonyms?

I've drawn some links -- certainly by no means a definative guide, but an interesting Concept piece.

[Coopster]

Wow someone else is working on it. Uhhh Well I was thinking that SinV was saying that Wicked and Sinful have some sort of other word attached, or maybe a number, but this one was too big for what we're solving.
OR, maybe he was giving some other clue, He said that we've found the 'hidden' things but they need to be yoinked. If we yoink them off the page, from where they are bound, then maybe rearrange them somehow, We might get the message. However, I'm very busy so... I can't really do much other than quick specs

[konamouse]

Coop, I was thinking along the same idea.
Here are some of my ideas (out loud) that I have no clue how to accomplish:
Go back to Kender's post (the very first one in this thread).
Words have been made from each of the blocks.
Match up the obvious ones and pull them aside.
What is left that doesn't match?

Try folding that damn cube. Maybe the Cube is the key (again, from Kender's post).
What words are matched up from one side of the cube to the other?

/me goes back to her real job

[catherwood]

Re: Hint #2

[Sin Vraal]

Instant Mashed Potatoes - a Thanksgiving Treat

[TJ229ER]

AHH we need to solve this thing.

[catherwood]

i was talking to myself in the chat room...

[20:01] <cather|away> ok, so we need the stuff outside of the inner cross, and with sin_vraal's latest nudge...
[20:01] <cather|away> the 8 around DIABLO are twice, and the 1 diablo is only a quarter, meaning we want 4 of something
[20:02] <cather|away> "Ah, to take the four hidden corners / of ourmy mind ..."
[20:04] <cather|away> long shot notion: all of the hidden words are 6-letters, but not all sets can be rolled up to form a cube
[20:04] <cather|away> maybe only 4 of the words are blocked out in a proper unfolded cube layout?
[20:47] <cather|away> "see four with six as one"...

so i went looking for all of the ways to unfold a cube. However, i found more than 4 words in the grid would fold into a cube.

[Alzheimers]

I interpreted his latest clue to mean that there are four words that, when cut out and fit together would form the same shape as Diablo and the eight words that form the outside cross. Given that each word is 6 letters, there would be (4 words) x (6 letters) = 24 total letters / (6 sides) = 4 letters per side.