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[Bendover]

First off, Take a deep breath, It is a game. The reason an out and out answer isn't posted is that some people like to solve it on their own and a spoilered answer is too tempting for them. If you look through the thread calmly and with your mind open, it will be obvious what the answer is. There have been so many clues given and the answer location has been pointed out in the thread, so you can find it, Please try. For all the others that think it is life or death, here is a spoilered answer

[doublecross]

cecilbdemented, I hope you are going demented because you don't have the card and want the answer confirmed. It would be a pity if you thought that card-solving should be a clinical exercise of buying the cards, looking up the answers on these boards, and typing them in. If you have the card and can't be bothered to think about it, or don't have it and want a simple yes or no, then PM somebody for the answer.

[cecilbdemented]

No, I will help you.

[adesignforlife]

Like so many others, can't believe how obvious this is with hindsight. Thanks for all the pointers, guys.

[unrealt87]

Just in case the hints aren't too obvious...

[ginfeatures]

Meaning in the Flags?

[beanienutter]

how long is answer?

[TheDarkMoomin]

I have one 'logical' route from puzzle to answer - its how my thinking got me to it.

Basically, I looked up a few systems, and got frustrated with the fact that no system accounted for all flags, but some flags were in several systems withdifferent translations.

Although not all silvers are clean puzzles, there are generally pretty elegant, at least once you know the answer and can look back at how easy it could have been if only you had thought about it differently.

Basically, I never liked the idea that we had to find meaningd for all the flags from a variety of systems, and then some how 'figure out' which systems to use for the ones that appear in more than one. It just wasn't clean enough. I felt if that was the task each flag would be in onlt one system, or there would be a system that accounted fro all flags. That certainly didn't seem to be forth coming.

Anyhow, my first answer was:

[volvox]

Results of my attempt

[AndyAndyO]

According to Rand0m in his post-cube-finding-ramblings......

"By design, the Broadside flag signals can only be solved with information not available via Google."

It's nice to know Google doesn't know all the answers, but actually Broadside was solvable by inspired guesswork (I should know!!!) - and, judging by the number of people who have since solved it, the actual solve must be far too obscure and clever for us - funny how these mysterious silvers are far too complex for mere mortals to solve, even with the aid of mankinds most popular search tool!

Let's hope Mind Candy reveal the actual solution details... watch this space!

[aliendial]

Or..maybe we get lucky and google has caught up with these flags? Except not, since nobody has really been able to put it all together yet. *pout*

[volvox]

I convinced we have to recreate

[AndyAndyO]

Re: Results of my attempt

[volvox]

Re: Results of my attempt

[AndyAndyO]

Broadside explanation now posted over at Perplexorum