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


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Location: Where the cheese is free.

 		I'm posting this as it's obvious the midi editor I used to create the file (Able Editor) isn't as robust as some of the others out there.
The captured notation in the previous post doesn't match the .mid file as it was intended. Odd, unless it's doing the capture through the sound card.
It should be a somewhat simpler representation.

And, I'll post the hint I sent to Hyperborea, earlier:

The cipher gives, the notes did play,
It's secrets drip as from fountains.
By he who lives so far away,
"beyond the Ripaean mountains"

Convert to rows, U.F. Elite
and with these figs, abide no sums.
Use all the toes, on both the feet
and all the pigs, including thumbs.

EDIT: It's been a month and a half with no progress, so I guess another clue is warranted.
Using the numbers Hyperborea generated;
38=0, 53=9
74=0, 89=9
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:39 pm
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grumpyboy
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2 groups of notes, one range from 38-53, the other from 74-89. in each group there are only 10 different values

38, 40, 41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53
and
74, 76, 77, 79, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88, 89

using Rogi lastest hint, substitute with 0-9. for the lower octave, you get (spaces are pauses):

10 35551969823072 1497034814 492 834540188176 23113246 879 1143678796932 47841073 28165777 2013029447429 1517381 27589

for the higher octave:

27610065194 38210 26070077 39126772 879 38210 23631342760 1068 21269 38210 1086854 879 10 35522475096765 27610726334

10 in base-36 is "a", 35551969823072 is "clockwork", etc...

for the lower octave you get: "a clockwork orange do androids dream of electric sheep group portrait with lad"

higher octave: "combine the first names of the authors to get the name of a classical compose"

the 3 authors are:
Anthony Burgess
Philip K Dick
Heinrich Böll

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

almost at the end Very Happy

PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:01 am
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HyperBorea
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grumpyboy wrote:
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for the lower octave you get: "a clockwork orange do androids dream of electric sheep group portrait with lad"

higher octave: "combine the first names of the authors to get the name of a classical compose"

the 3 authors are:
Anthony Burgess
Philip K Dick
Heinrich Böll

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

almost at the end Very Happy


Nice work! How did you catch the
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base-36
connection? Did you just recognize it? Okay, on we go!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:46 am
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grumpyboy
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HyperBorea wrote:

Nice work! How did you catch the base-36 connection? Did you just recognize it? Okay, on we go!

it didn't look like decimal ascii so next thing i tried was base-36. lucky guess i suppose... Wink

PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:35 am
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grumpyboy
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After messing around forever with prime number, Rogi was kind enough to point me in the right direction by telling me that d=divisor and r=remainder. With that extra push, I was finally about to crack this one:

the colors in the wheel are from resistor color codes. so the 1 o'clock position would be d=2, r=1. going all the way around the wheel gives:

r d
---
1 2
2 3
3 5
5 7
7 11
11 13
13 17
17 19
19 23
23 29
31 37

a "correct answer" would be a number that when divided by d will have remainder of r. so for the first rib (at 1 o'clock) the answer would be 3.

The catch is the "correct answer for each rib must also be correct for all previous ribs". So for example, 8 would for rib 3 and the previous rib 2 but does not work for rib 1 so would not be a correct answer. You would have to go all the way up to 23 to have a correct answer for rib 3.

Going 1 rib at a time, all the way to rib 12 gives the following answers:

3
5
23
173
2273
32303
452723
6578843
113275433
3682761353
10152454583
5024164707833

final page: http://www.soogees.com/yellowbrickroad/5024164707833/

The end.


Rogi, thanks for putting this trail. Very challenging and I learned a few things from it Very Happy

PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:50 pm
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Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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

 		Last update on this trail:
Hard as I tried to get grumpyboy to accept the prize for this trail, he was just as obstinate in refusing it (though for the most noble of reasons as is his style).

1) He puzzles just for the sheer enjoyment of it
2) He didn't want me to have to pay the shipping to him
3) There are many who have greater need of a 1gig thumb drive than he

He agreed to name someone deserving of it. He thought of someone whom we both had recent "dealings" with and without whom, a great example of a grassroots ARG would probably not have been able to launch.

varin... It's in the mail and I hope it serves you well. Thanks again for a great game.

I have posted a solutions page for the trail to make a walkthrough easier. It's the version I put together when I created the trail and is a a telling reference for me in designing for cross-browser compatibility and where I was off in my initial assessment of the difficulty levels. You can compare the solutions page picture to the same page on the trail to see the changes I made to help the players out.

Look for more trails in the future as mostly, people say they enjoyed this one and I've learned a few lessons. I'd appreciate any feedback anyone has on it so I can make the next one, better.

You're ALL a great bunch of folks.

And, Thanks, again to Ehsan for letting me take up space on his server.
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