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[SOLVED] gebrochen pics {SD 3/games/gebrochen jpgs}
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 		[SOLVED] gebrochen pics {SD 3/games/gebrochen jpgs}
Pieced together "crossword puzzle" from the gebrochen pictures.

So far I have found the following phrases starting from the bottom T

"Thoughts stray and so do you"

"There is a little mystic clock no human eye hath seen that beateth on from morning until [nee]"

You can also get "out today" on the left hand vertical branch and "some/end" on the lower right hand horiztonal branch.

Edit: title clarification -- Rowan
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 1:37 am
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 		According to http://www.wisdomportal.com/Numbers/Notes-MeditationsOn52.html,

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Emily used "mystic" three times in her letters, most notably in a letter to her brother Austin: "the little mystic clock, no human eye hath seen which ticketh on and ticketh on, from morning until e'en." (Letter #60, Oct. 30, 1851)


"Emily", of course, is Emily Dickinson.

That's pretty close to "little mystic clock no human eye hath seen that beateth on from morning until nee". The differences, obviously, are "that beateth on" replaced "which ticketh on and ticketh on", and "e'en" is backwards.

But I'd verify that quote from another source before basing any important decisions on it - the guy who wrote that page seems like a nutjob.

Also, at the top, the two unused fragments can form the words "on" and "task". A bit of a stretch, I know...

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 		Re: [PUZZLE] gebrochen picture {614.zip/gebrochen.jpgs}
And for what it's worth, Gebrochen is German for "broken."

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 		Re: [PUZZLE] gebrochen picture {614.zip/gebrochen.jpgs}
rowan72 wrote:

You can also get "out today" on the left hand vertical branch and "some/end" on the lower right hand horiztonal branch.


Just wondering if that might be "so mend", given the "broken" connection

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 		Re: [PUZZLE] gebrochen picture {614.zip/gebrochen.jpgs}
Cookster wrote:
Just wondering if that might be "so mend", given the "broken" connection


Could very well be - I was doing this at 1 this morning so who knows how clearly I was thinking Very Happy
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 		Maybe instead of focusing on the letters which are used to make phrases, we should focus on those which aren't used and see if they can make something else?

the 'unusued' letters are;

Code:
KSOYADOTTUSETOHSOMEND


Lots of anagram potential there. I'm thinking it might be something that starts 'DO YOU SEE'
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 		Upon further review, many of the areas which have unused letters can be rearranged to spell words.

TODAY is very clear in the upper left,
TUES can be formed with those unused letters and the grouping to the right
DEMONS is fairly obvious in the lower right
HOT in the middle
the rest make up SPOOKS

Maybe it's nothing, but the fact that each section seems to make a word seemed interesting to me.

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GateKeeper wrote:
Maybe instead of focusing on the letters which are used to make phrases, we should focus on those which aren't used and see if they can make something else?


I had considered this idea and played with it a bit; however, I used the "root" (where the unused branches connect to the phrases) as well.

For example, I took "top" that attaches to beateth, "ask" from that, and "no" from seen, as well as "out today".

I took a bit of liberty with the "no" and "out today" to get "none" and "ut today", and I pasted the result together to get "ask-none-to p-ut today", but I could not figure out a way to integrate "yes" from mystic, "hto" from thought and "some end".

Hopefully that makes some sense to whomever is reading this.

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GateKeeper wrote:
Upon further review, many of the areas which have unused letters can be rearranged to spell words.

TODAY is very clear in the upper left,
TUES can be formed with those unused letters and the grouping to the right
DEMONS is fairly obvious in the lower right
HOT in the middle
the rest make up SPOOKS

Maybe it's nothing, but the fact that each section seems to make a word seemed interesting to me.


Or "OUT SPOOKETH DEMONS TODAY"? That would be an anagram that uses everything once.

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hamatoyoshi wrote:
GateKeeper wrote:
Upon further review, many of the areas which have unused letters can be rearranged to spell words.

TODAY is very clear in the upper left,
TUES can be formed with those unused letters and the grouping to the right
DEMONS is fairly obvious in the lower right
HOT in the middle
the rest make up SPOOKS

Maybe it's nothing, but the fact that each section seems to make a word seemed interesting to me.


Or "OUT SPOOKETH DEMONS TODAY"? That would be an anagram that uses everything once.


Spook out the demons today

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 		How about "Today spooks the demons out"? The other guesses were missing the third "s" and this makes some sense as a potential riddle. I've already tried answers like All Saints' Day and Easter, but no luck yet.

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 		To go a completely different direction... The origional images are not 2 color. It's possible that there is some information hidden in the not quite black and not quite white sections. It's also possible that it's just artifacts of the JPEG encoding process, but someone may want to look into it. I made a poor attempt with the fill tool in paint. It got messed up when i saved the image, but there are non-matching pixels in the images...
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 		I wonder if it's 20 seperate words, maybe just the letters that are used in each individual image? I'll play with that for a bit and let you know if it works.

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 		Aren't the .kgb files in this folder opened by Kremlin?
Has anyone tried to open these files?
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