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FINAL UK RESULTS with description and picture

[tigerlilly]

Good luck to the finalists!

[DavyJones]

Who thinks the final 8-digit number is a coordinate (without directionals)?

I have yet to find any posted, or that I found, that led me to Castaway Cay - nor any other place in the Carribean.

I've been to China, India, UK, etc - but no where near Jamaica.

I wonder if all the winners are 'in there' now?

At any rate - if anyone is still working on this - my thoughts were that if this was a final coord - then the solution to each site's puzzle should be the same (even if the method to arrive there is not).

Thus, I'm attaching a zip of all 6 puzzles (lids/sacks and boxes).

[thedruid]

i find the puzzles for .us and .uk far more difficult than those for .at and .ep

i've entered 83608993 for austria, because of the number of lines needed for the "numbers" on the box, then arranged them in ascending order.

Hope that was it. Sad thing is, i did this today morning

anywho

i think for the japanese solution we were kinda right with braille, because japanese braille is different.

so, hope to see you on some forgotten island

TheDruid

[peterpan]

Spanish solution?

[Nusa]

The Japanese box was particularly easy...just count the groups of same-colored dots to come up with the index number to get:
15487362

The Japanese lid was also easy -- add a top and bottom line to each digit and read them off:
38092586

Apply the index to rearrange the numbers and you have:
36508829

The japanese site opened many hours before the others, so this was the only thing we had to work on at first. All the countries used the same number and index method, and everything up to the last puzzles were the same. But the lid and box puzzles were different for most country sites, the numbers were different, and the final answers were different.

[oshag]

Still not happy with the described US solutions...

All of the puzzles so far have had a logical answer. It just seems to arbitrary to remove lines, count lines, count strokes, etc. The other world puzzles had clear numbers that could be deciphered, and I believe that the answer to the US puzzle still has not been posted on this site. Does anyone else feel the same, or am I by myself?

[doodle]

the box answer is correct i don't think anyone has come across the lid answer... why has no one come forward as a winner? I still believe it has something to do with spelling serenity.

[DavyJones]

I would have to say I agree.

Did I see somewhere that only 1 US contestant had been confirmed? Or did I misread someone's post?

[doodle]

Supposedly KooK but I don't know how true that is. If I found the correct answer there is no way I would tell anyone just by chance no one else guessed correctly.

[oshag]

I hadn't heard that anyone was confirmed, nor would anyone be confirmed until after the site had closed (on the 15th?).

I haven't submitted an answer yet. Sure, it is well past the start time yesterday, but unlike previous puzzles, you only get one shot. That also means you can't just guess a bunch of numbers until you get the right coordinates. No coordinates here, just an 8-digit number.

I'm going to give this some more thought before I give up.

[stuck in somewhere]

lid

[doodle]

Well I'm glad there are some smart people like me who don't want to throw in the towel.

[Twoswords]

[doodle]

yes that is the 18 + (age) part of the island =D