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[Sasuntsi Davit]

[SOLVED] #215 - Black - [Maze Set] - Harmony

[appleTRON]

Oh please please please get this one scanned!

It sounds as if, even though there is no time base to figure out the frequencies, you could do it relatively. By going on the assumption that one of those notes is A440 (the A above middle C), you could determine the relative pitches around that assumption. Even if the note you picked as A was in fact a C#, you still have a transposed version of the song in a new key which should be recognizable.

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae165.cfm is a site that should help in determining relative pitches.

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-centsratio.htm is a site that helps to convert frequencies to cents and intervals.

At first glance, it looks like a major third and a perfect fifth for the intervals ... (maybe) meaning the notes would translate to:

a a c# a c# e e c# a e c# a a c# e c# e e c# a a a c#

... though it's nothing I recognize at the moment.

I'm guessing this is Caine's card.

[Sasuntsi Davit]

[appleTRON]

Awesome! Thanks for the scan! This could be my favorite card ever.

I definitely agree with myself on this one. This one should be able to be solved through relative intervals. These are not actual pitches. They are also hand drawn so they're not even perfect sine waves or perfect tones. Unless someone disagrees strongly with me on this one, I say go with the notes I transcribed and happy key-plunking. My brain hurts too much to recognize the tune -- which does appear to be quite simple.

[JamesDart]

taps maybe?

EDIT - yeah i'm pretty sure its taps. There are however a few deviations, but that may just be a translation error. As you said, the wavelengths are handwritten and hard to transcribe.

[JamesDart]

Ok, i'm starting to reconsider my last answer. Taps seems close, and it also seems to fit almost exactly if you read it a different way - bottom to top, and left to right. However, if you read it the way it shows, zig-zaging up and down, then it doesn't really work. Still, it seems to follow a 3 note pattern similar to taps. Help please!

EDIT - Yeah if you disregard the arrows and read it bottom to top left to right, its taps exactly. No question about it. Not sure what this means though.

[oliverkeers13]

It means that it's BAKCWARD TAPS!!! YAY!!!

[appleTRON]

Backwards Taps, eh? Spat?

I thought of Taps last nite. Though the pitches are out of order, it does sound like it. However, I think the intervals in Taps are a perfect 4th and minor 6th. And the card doesn't exactly say what octave to play the notes at. What gets me is that there's only 3 notes. Like Taps. It's just too simple for it to be anything else. Unless it's some pub drinking song. I think we're missing something, though. It doesn't feel solved.

It's also early here and this may make little sense.

[JamesDart]

The background looks like something that came out of a seismograph. This may just be backing up the sound thing, or it may mean something else. Its probably nothing but i'm just trying to look for any other clues.

[appleTRON]

[Curlytek]

Hi all. A bit new to this, as I only heard about Perplex City a few days ago but it seems a nice combo of media formats.

A three note tune seems very simplistic for a high level puzzle. Would a single wave string make any more sense, where the waves were joined together in the order specified?

[appleTRON]

[cassandra]

I can verify (from a reliable source) that the song is, indeed, Taps, and that the arrows are printed incorrectly.

[appleTRON]

Yes!!!!!

We rule! Nothing can stop the UnForum crew ...

... except that damned Elucidate card.

(Thanks for the verify, Cassandra -- what's the deal, you sleeping with Adrian Hon?)

[oliverkeers13]

However, this does raise the question, if they made a mistake on this card, and didn't realise, is it possible that they did it on others, if so, could there be unsolvable puzzles?