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[johnahue42]

drizjr -- huh? Does what help? The above post? That was already found -- the missing person in that article was an IG character and the quotes above the article are unknown as to what they mean.

What do you mean by "If someone with better skills could cut and paste the numbers inthat pattern, that would be great! " ?

[drizjr]

oh, ok. So the whole slide thing was solved then? If so, disregard my above post. It was to be my lame attempt in paint shop to show the position of the colored blocks after 21 moves.

[tulipgirl]

Earlier, on one of the boards, someone kindly put the numbers in an excel spreadsheet - I looked back, but can't find the post, and I'm not sure about the order of the two grids.

Anyway, I moved the squares in the excel doc to match the solved puzzle. Dunno if it will help anyone - I tried changing the hex to binary and then to text. Nothing so far - maybe someone else will have better luck.

[drizjr]

I hope this works.
I'm sorry that this is such a mess. I'm just learning how to do this.

[Pauloulou]

Okay, I might be totally barking up the wrong tree, but I've been up for hours trying to figure this, so give me a break Here's what I did: I put each horizontal lines of letters/numbers and decoded it in Hex. This came out all mumble jumble, so I did the next step (or so we think) and translated it into binary. I then did some 'addition magic' and basically counted up all the ones. The sums seemed to get progressivly higher as the lines went on (I think it was something like Line 1 was 52, Line 2 was 56, 61, 65. I didn't write them down, but that's the kind of progression) Without thinking much about it, I took that single number and decoded it in Hex (why...I dunno!) and every single one of the numbers gave me a single letter. The first five lines (hopefully I didn't miss count all those 1s) was

[new]

Are there really NO dutch people around here? None at all?
Poison translated into Dutch is gif. So maybe there is a gif file hidden in there somewhere???

[LadyLovelylocks]

[new]

[LadyLovelylocks]

[aliendial]

And where is Giskard when we need him? He must be on vacation. This is PRECISELY why we have him around. To translate all those Dutch clues we get. Hee.

(and Ladylovelocks - I wouldn't put it past a devious swedish puzzler to try the same thing, but expect us to figure out poison=gift->but no tea for you -> gif, or something equally horrid. At least this provides an exact word!)

[Ursos]

[cnote1500]

Assuming, and I may be wrong here, that each number only changes to one other number, perhaps the "addiditive magic" is that we need to add each number to the one it changes to.

How we do that, I have no idea, since last i figured, you cant add A to 1...

Just a thought

[Pauloulou]

[tulipgirl]

Yes, it changes - but each block only switches between two numbers. They just do it randomly. One of each set is bold, and one is not. So, there could be one message, or two, or something else. Gah!

[johnny5]