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[Daedalus-XIII]

After a lot of reading, as a noob to ARGs here my first theory.

For the beginning, though not completed i think we'll get some hints on face2, how the numbers for face 4 can be extracted from this face. But the following spontaneously came to my mind:

3-digit number on face 4: On this face there are only 3 groups without a 999 in it: 9, 2 and 1

4-digit number: the score at the bottom has G-a-g-A (in musical terms, hope i got the capitals right), which maybe can be transformed to a 4-digit code.

5- and 6-digit number: not quite sure about that, maybe some mathematical thing, we lack a hint, for i also think, the division in groups has some intent. Maybe someone can follow up with a theory. As face 2 has 6 indented lines, maybe one digit-hint is explained there, but we only know for sure, when that face is solved.

[Olorin]

hmmm...
just a thought, but it seems no-one asked on this thread, so:

I wish I could help more on this one, but coming from a background that uses Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Si as the name of the notes (rather than A-G) I have a bit of a trouble.

Anyway,
if you look at the notes on that board, and put them in the order given by the digits (1 through 12), do you, by chance, match any well known music score?

Anyone?
F.O.R.

[Beukema]

Arnold Schoenberg was a german composer who helped develop a style of dodecaphonic (twelve-tone) composition in the early 20th century. It was all about arranging the twelve tones of an octave into some order, and then using that string (called a "tone row") compositionally in different ways: reverse, inverse, playing reverse against the regular row.

I may be a simple man with simple tastes, but I think it's no secret why mathematicians tend to like Schoenbarg more than "music lovers" do.

Anyway, I wonder if this is supposed to be a tone row. Do a search for "tone row" and Schoenberg, and maybe we'll find something.

[Daffy889]

[Olorin]

[Addy]

Clarification

[Centipede]

Based on the clue someone else got (Keep Yourself Alive) and the image I attached from face 3. I think we need to somehow use the keys to 'play' a section of the song. I know nothing about music so there's a very good chance I'm wrong, but my guess is that we need a section of the song that starts the way it's shown under the keys.

[Daedalus-XIII]

*just adding a random thought* While we are directed to queen and this sequence spells GAGA, where's the "Radio" coming in then (and does it even refer to this song )

[Centipede]

What Radio thing?

[Daedalus-XIII]

Was a really random thought, but the hint regarding "Queen" and the Sequence GAGA made me think of "Radio Gaga" , though I'm not sure how this would tie in better than "Keep yourself alive". Just came to my mind

Note: The Face 2 Puzzle also seemed to use intertwined side-references, if I got that right and it didn't give a straight hint to the solution, that's why I came up with that.

[Howdareyou]

I've just jumped in on this so forgive me if you've already discussed this (I couldn't find anything that said you had).

None of the numbers in the grid (apart from the 999s) start with a digit higher than 2. I tried looking for a pattern in the positioning of the first digit, but I couldn't see anything that jumped out at me.

So then I went for the positions based on the first two digits by putting coloured marks over the numbers (you think I have anything better to do with my time?)... I can't see anything in that, either -- but I did notice that every single interval from 00 to 26 is there, even if only once. I'll attach it as a .psd file so that people can screw around with the layers (which I've labeled with the number they relate to) if they want.

If I notice anything else I will say something.

[Leo]

It's interesting that the first two digits of each three digit code only go up to number 26. Often when you have numbers in a puzzle up to 26, they need to be converted into letters of the alphabet. Of course, the 00's and 99's could be some sort of seperators, but after having converted the numbers to letters, they don't seem to mean anything. And what of the third digit in the codes?

I've tried concentrating on the numbers that relate to letters 'G' and 'A' (i.e. those begining with 01 and 07) but there is no obvious pattern or calculation to be done.

[Howdareyou]

I think I read somewhere about someone trying to ROT-n the letter that corresponded to the first two digits by the last digit (i.e. if 015 meant 'A' then 'a', ROT-5), but I don't think anything came of it.

If there is a cipher in the numbers, do you think that lowers the chances of those numbers being the solve for face 4?

[Tank8131]

I don't think this would help...but the eighth notes at the bottom after aligning to keys together have an interval of 9 on the first to and an interval of 7 on the last...

[Tank8131]