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[Trail] [Complete] Yellow Brick Road
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Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 01 Sep 2005
Posts: 4266
Location: Where the cheese is free.

[Trail] [Complete] Yellow Brick Road

While waiting for some games to launch, I thought I'd provide a short diversion for those who need to have their puzzle fix satiated.
So I created a mini trail of ten puzzles of increasing difficulty.
It's mostly arts and sciences related.
There is a prize at the end for the first one to solve all ten levels.
It's my first attempt at this kind of thing, so expect a few twists.
Also a couple of the puzzles' clues are a little more obvious if you're using IE than if you're using Firefox. (Just differences in how the browsers display the content, but fully solvable with either).
Thanks to Soogees for hosting the trail.
The trail starts at:
http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/index.htm
Have fun!

EDIT:
Current Reported Status: 100% solved.
Total time: 4 months, 10 days.
Congratulations, grumpyboy.

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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:17 pm
Last edited by Rogi Ocnorb on Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:44 pm; edited 6 times in total

Ehsan
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Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

For those looking for a break from all the pokering!

Discussions in #soogees, as usual Wink

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:21 pm

u05mpb
Veteran

Joined: 08 Apr 2005
Posts: 81

Agh I'm stuck on level two... I'm so pants at these things!

Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:43 pm

sequoya
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 548
Location: Land of haggis, kilts, neds and Irn-Bru

Here's where we currently are in chat:

Level One:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Ctrl+A and follow the instructions:
http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/black

Level Two:

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The only 8-letter word that ends in mt is undreamt:
http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/undrea/

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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:37 pm

Tarq
Boot

Joined: 12 Sep 2005
Posts: 23
Location: Australia

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

If you add the number to the letter (like, if it said A:25 you would go A=1+25=26=Z), you get: LMOTH CJWXM QGBBA PXRZ | DEVWV SZNLM KTCDE EVQG. Then, if you flip it around so that A=Z, B=Y, etc., you get ONLGS XQDCN JTYYZ KCIA | WVOTH CJWXM QGBBA PXRZ, which seems useless, until you notice that the first line of the first lot is identical to the second line of the second lot, except for the first two letters. I tried redoing them to see if I made a mistake, couldn't get it to fit. Hoping that is a mistake by a certain PM. I'm thinking that, from here, I find a pattern in the numbers or something to find out what the next step is...

~~I've attached~~ (EDIT3: unattached) the cypher I made so you can decode it yourselves if you want, see if I made a mistake. The easiest way is to type in an empty field =[letter]1+[number] then match it up to a letter up the top.

BTW, I added the spaces in the LMOTH CJWXM etc. myself, after every five letters just to make it easier on the eyes. I put the | in to distinguish between the two tables.

EDIT: I see where I made the mistake! I was decoding the wrong thing... Bang Head

Feel free to hit me...

EDIT2: Now it says:
LMOTH CJWXM QGBBA PXRZ
DEVWV SZNLM KTCDE EVQG

ONLGS XQDCN JTYYZ KCIA
WVEDE HAMON PGXWV VEIT which makes an awful lot less sense, which makes an awful lot more sense...

EDIT3: So now it's occurred to me that I've spent all that time working on it when that probably isn't how to solve it. Time I should've spent outside, playing games with my friends... but then I remembered, hey, I don't have any friends! And that hasn't gotten to me one step closer to realising what I have to do next, except now I know that ^^ THAT ^^ isn't. Process of elimination.

Level 3:

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The chart is a list of all the US' dead presidents.
http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/deadpresidents/

^^ mostly done by delusional696 ^^

Level 4:

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Tricky unless you view it the right way - trying putting it into WordPad and playing with margins. It is undeniably a genius.
http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/alberteinstein

^^ help from Xander (not a member here) ^^

Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:51 pm

grumpyboy
Unfettered

Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Posts: 660

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

zoom in on the image and you see some dots on the pyramid. It's Murray code and it translates to:

i am the son of ramesses , i am the father of ramesses ,

Seti I is the son of Ramesses I and the father of Ramesses II.

Next page: http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/seti/

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:34 pm

grumpyboy
Unfettered

Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Posts: 660

easy one...

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look up the elements on the periodic table:

B Ir Th P La Ce
O F
P Er S O N
W Ho
W As
W At S O N
In
O V Er
Te N
Fe At U Re
Mo V I Es

The actor is Nigel Bruce. Birthplace: Ensenada

next page: http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/ensenada/

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:37 pm

grumpyboy
Unfettered

Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Posts: 660

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looks like a script or dialogue with only the first letter of each word show.

don't know why, but I figured that the "I s I d g a d!" near the end is "I said I don't give a damn!" then recogonized that the page is "Who's On First?" by Abbott and Costello

next page: http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/whosonfirst/

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:41 pm
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grumpyboy
Unfettered

Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Posts: 660

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

from this site: http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar/

find the distances of all the planets from the Earth at 2000-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. adding all the distances together gives 100.464 AU

with 1 AU = 92,955,807 miles, you get 9338712194 miles

next page: http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/9338712194/

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:43 pm

Obes
Unfettered

Joined: 16 May 2005
Posts: 329
Location: England

I'm betting the answer is..

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the midi file played backwards. NOT.. The Entertainer as I thought it was

Obes.

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:50 pm

Obes
Unfettered

Joined: 16 May 2005
Posts: 329
Location: England

I'm betting the answer is..

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

the midi file played backwards. NOT.. The Entertainer as I thought it was

Obes.

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:51 pm

Russell
Unfictologist

Joined: 11 Feb 2005
Posts: 1571
Location: London

For the record, this is it backwards...

score.wav
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Downloaded	178 Time(s)

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:30 pm

Tarq
Boot

Joined: 12 Sep 2005
Posts: 23
Location: Australia

Woah... I spend three days away from the computer and...
Geez, better go find another trail now, huh... Confused

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:12 am

Ehsan
Entrenched

Joined: 09 May 2003
Posts: 992

Tarq wrote:

Woah... I spend three days away from the computer and...

Yeah we get that a lot around here! At least you didn't come back to find the whole thing solved. Wink

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:29 am

Obes
Unfettered

Joined: 16 May 2005
Posts: 329
Location: England

Woo go double post!

I have no answer as to why that happened..

Obes.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:28 am

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