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[Tien_Le]

I'm told there are 43 numbers on each side of the moon. What if the groupings are meaningless and the fact that 43 is on each side is the answer?

How that relates to The After Dark Melodies is beyond me, but spec is spec.

[moa-Night]

Did anyone look at tablature as a possibility yet?

[Gupfee]

Number twiddling

[Caterpillar]

"one is a start, right? so many things start and end with one

LOOK closer. its right in front of you, once removed"

Some talk about "ONES"
Is it possible that he means "ones removed"...lol a stab in the dark, I'm befuddled and looking in dark corners everywhere....and of course this gets us no nearer the solution.

~cem

[Caterpillar]

New Clue

[Caterpillar]

I'm thinking that .....

One for down
One for cross

.....actually refers to one four (14). There are 4 instances of 14 in the numbers given. How it all relates, I don't know....just trying to get things rolling because I've done everything I can think of with those numbers.

(...yes, including holding them up to the mirror...lol)

~cem

[Caterpillar]

I guess I was wrong to think it referenced the numbers, more likely the poem references the journal entry attached. My bad...sorry.

~cem

[Guest]

Sorry for the relentless posts...just trying to wrap my brain around this thing (and not having much luck).

The journal entry has a reference to a "librarian", and it's been spec'd that the #'s could refer to the Dewey Decimal System. I found some of the categories the numbers corresponded to....interesting, but the whole thing still seems a bit "large". I'm unsure whether or not we can get any more specific within the DDS numbers...or that we even want to.

Anyway for what it's worth here are the categories the first 3 digits of the numbers refer to:

39135- Costume and Personal Appearance
512019- Alegebra and Number Theory
47287- Classical Latin Etymology & Phonology
452323- Italian Etymology
83214- German Drama
292110- Classical Greek & Roman Religion
36329- Other Social Problems & Services
34325- Military, Tax, Trade, Industrial Law

577- General Nature of Life
2165- Good & Evil
16214- Deduction
211014- Concepts of God
14265- Critical Philosophy
25258- Text of Sermons
3337- Land Economics
183119- Sophistic & Socratic Philosophies
48236- Classical Greek Etymology

There are some categories that tie in with our "theme"...but is it just coincidence? I am stumped.

~cem

[Tien_Le]

my thought is that they just took numbers from the dewey system to create the puzzle itself and that the categories themselves aren't the answer, rather when we figure out the answer by following the instructions, *that* number in the dewey system will be the answer.

[Tien_Le]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/noahboddy/message/837 has this nifty arrangement of numbers:
LEFT
3 9 1 3 5
5 1 2 0 1 9
4 7 2 8 7
4 5 2 3 2 3
8 3 2 1 4
2 9 2 1 1 0
3 6 3 2 9
3 4 3 2 5

RIGHT
5 7 7
2 1 6 5
1 6 2 1 4
2 1 1 0 1 4
1 4 2 6 5
2 5 2 5 8
3 3 3 7
1 8 3 1 1 9
4 8 2 3 6

[drizjr]

possible partial solution

[drizjr]

hey, i typed the above as two columns but it posted them together and the question marks were over the 8's and 9's.
sorry

[frangraves]

I am trying to do these numbers a bit differently. will ya'll let me know if you think this will work? Here is what I started with(i.e. my thinking on it:-)

TO WORK THIS PUZZLE HERE'S MY HINTS:

The first hint was the 1st post (which came before the poem).
It had a small "t" (small b is in reply to our post)
It said to start at one and end at one
It said to look back to yesterday (when we got the moon numbers)

The following caps were there also:
SEE, TRY, WORLD, SLOW DOWN, LOOK, EYES (but not EYES it meant "I's")

It sez he has an email address in the room & a phone.

Journal Heading: It is the first key to understanding (something)

Then we get the poem posted next (about an hr) which is hint # 2 on how to solve this & sez:

When at first you cannot spy
Anything to catch your eye
Take each line and spread apart
Until you find a better start
One for down
One for cross
And one to switch towards the moon
Count the win
Forget the loss
The answers will come to you soon


It tells us to spread the lines apart (spread the numbers apart)
Find a start (maybe the T? - that means alpha)
Then we have: One for down
One for across
One to switch towards the moon (turn around I think is what they are telling us here)

Then we have count the win
And forget the loss
And the answers will come to us.


I then did this:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A B C D E F G H I J
K L M N O P Q R S T
U V W X Y Z


Then I placed the numbers in this grid pattern (ie here is the first number):
(I can't get my thingy to copy & paste right (you can tell I am new at this I will try to type it out - hope they will line up..

3 9 1 3 5
C I A C E
M S K M O
W U W Y


I did this with all the numbers... does this look like it might work with the poem clues?

Or could we be looking for an email or phone number or am I just nuts lol