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The Pirate Code... the Vibration13 Treasure Hunt!
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vibration13
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Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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 		The Pirate Code... the Vibration13 Treasure Hunt!
Check out this flashy puzzle. Captain Elmo needs your help deciphering his code books after a bout of amnesia.
Shouldn't be too difficult for you guys, but theres some nice details, animation and graphics going on. And there's a few prizes - be the first to solve it!
The Pirate Code
Enjoy!
Toby at Vibration13.com

** unstickied -- jamesi
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:21 am
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darklord
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Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Location: Brandon, FL

 		All I got so far is solving for pie.

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i prefer pi



cant figure out my peg placement but im tired.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:22 am
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jyemuzu
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 		There's a picture of what looks to be the peg placement on page 4, but I'm not quite sure what it means, because there's already letters on the one that pops up that are in different positions than the ones on the picture.

EDIT:

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Also on that page it says "a b clockwise" written lightly. You can see it if you turn the page slightly. Maybe it's a key for the puzzle in the picture...?


Pretty damn spiffy so far. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 1:26 am
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jyemuzu
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 		Solved a little more:

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On the page with the tic tac toe games, the box in the upper right corner reads like this:

(letters I didn't get are marked with an underscore)

_ea_e_ boa_ _

Elmo : O
Tayto : X

Now, the question box asks this:

Who won the best of ten OXO _amfs? (Not sure about that last part)

Enter in Tayto as your answer, and another window named "Triangulate" will pop up, but I have no clue what to do beyond that.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:59 am
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RobMagus
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I think the "_amfs" part you have is supposed to be "games", and you put an f rather than an e.

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Of course! That's the only possible explanation!

PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:31 am
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sixsidedsquare
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Joined: 24 Mar 2005
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 		Yarg!!!
Just to let you know I solved it and mailed him

YoHo YoHo!
Yarrrrr!!

PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:26 am
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darklord
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 		Found the triangulation and the island this morning but i cant figure out the other puzzles...anyone figure out the pegs? I assume its to translate the text but i dunno

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jyemuzu
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RobMagus wrote:
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I think the "_amfs" part you have is supposed to be "games", and you put an f rather than an e.


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I thought that too, but I wasn't sure, because I decoded the whole thing around the Captain's name, and the only way I found that out was because when I entered it, it said "No, Elmo lost. Try again." The key I made up shows that it's an f instead of an e that is used in the puzzle, but it's possible that it could just be a spelling error.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:42 pm
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sixsidedsquare
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Joined: 24 Mar 2005
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 		Now if you really want to see how the cyper thingys go you can follow the following links, but if you do then your just a dirty stinking cheater Razz
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For the peg-type thing
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/SixSidedSquare/ElmoCypherFixed.jpg
Nice touch with two possible letters per symbol


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And for the OXO puzzle
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/SixSidedSquare/Cheater.jpg
An nice old cyper that I remember from my childhood


Only use as a last resort, I mean they're not too hard!

Edit - oops Embarassed the cypher thing was kinda wrong, but thanks to aznxasazn its fixed now. Doesn't change the answer, but this one get's a perdy 'correct code' message.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:52 am
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aznxasazn
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Joined: 07 Nov 2004
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 		Just found this about 2 hours ago as I've been on vacation all the while. It was fairly easy to solve. The most difficult thing was locating the actual island name since I'm not well versed on geography in that part of the world and I only have 1 very old (and not very good) atlas with me right now.

Sixsidedsquare: According to the convention used, your "Elmocypher" is slightly wrong though it doesn't affect the answer. If you do it conventionally correct, you get the message "That's the correct code key!"

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