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krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
A wee puzzle trail I thought I'd celebrate going to ARGfest this year, by creating a small puzzle trail. There are prizes for the first six official solvers, and you can find the first clue here:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=176417#176417
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Stories and dreams, crossing my palm like silver.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:05 am
rose
...and then Magic happens
puzzle trail Thanks Krystyn! This looks great, if only I could understand the first clue.
_________________I love this site for being free, in every sense of the word~Spacebass
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:56 am
THX8612
Unfettered
Re: puzzle trail
rose wrote:
Thanks Krystyn! This looks great, if only I could understand the first clue.
_________________THX8612
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:02 am
oliverkeers13
Entrenched
Word of advise, though, posting a link to a forum that is already discussing it may put some people off. Looks good though.
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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:48 am
ThaJinx
Unfettered
oliverkeers13 wrote:
Word of advise, though, posting a link to a forum that is already discussing it may put some people off. Looks good though.
To be fair, Krystyn's the last person you need to be giving advise to. As it was, that thread is very old, and the post she made there was the opening hint, which she made...probably...two minutes before this one?
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:02 pm
krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
oliverkeers13, the context of the link to the other forum will assist with the first clue.
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Alternate Currency
Stories and dreams, crossing my palm like silver.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:03 pm
Wishi-san
Unfettered
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://www.glitterbook.com/walls/
_________________Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted tea cake?
x Wishi-san x Wishi-san
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:26 pm
Giskard
Sassypants
Clicking the trailhead image, we arrive at
http://www.glitterbook.com/walls/begin.html
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The tortoise.gif is actually an animated GIF, although you have to be patient to see it giving away its secrets... it has 8 frames containing numbers, which gives the sequence 30-150-252-11-304-279-176-118. If you remove all punctuation and spaces, and include the hidden text, then count the letters, you get p-o-r-t-r-a-i-t, giving
http://www.glitterbook.com/walls/portrait.html
_________________"They never tell you truth is subjective, they only tell you not to lie." -- Gary Jules
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:51 pm
vector
Unfettered
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
In the Portrait pic can be found the line
_________________The bookworm is just the larval form of the barfly
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:00 pm
Giskard
Sassypants
Ok, that had us stumped for a bit...
_________________"They never tell you truth is subjective, they only tell you not to lie." -- Gary Jules
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:50 pm
yanka
Fickle
If this is crypto, then here's the transcription:
Code:
abc
_________________Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:23 pm
Last edited by yanka on Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:48 pm; edited 2 times in total
Giskard
Sassypants
yanka wrote:
Code:
abc
_________________"They never tell you truth is subjective, they only tell you not to lie." -- Gary Jules
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:26 pm
Last edited by
Giskard on Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:26 pm; edited 1 time in total
Cortana
Decorated
yanka wrote:
If this is crypto, then here's the transcription:
Code:
abc
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:26 pm
ParityBit
Decorated
yanka wrote:
Code:
abc
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:45 pm
yanka
Fickle
Ehsan figured out that this whole thing might be something like this . If we treat the font as numbers 1-10 (though I'm not sure that I'm assigning the right digits to symbols), then it might look like this:
_________________Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:22 pm
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