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[Puzzle] #156 - Blue - Going Dotty (Wave 4)
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aliendial
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Still need a scan here...

(just remember This forum's limit: 300x450 pixels.
MindCandy has changed their scanning guidelines: http://www.mindcandydesign.com/clients/index.html No high-resolution scanning will be allowed AT ALL - no enlargements, no blow-ups of smaller areas, nada.)
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:48 am
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Charin
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Some hints on this one...No solves below, but strong shoves in the right direction.

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1. Rotation is key.


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2. It's easier to align when you look at the negative than the positive.


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3. When you've got the right side lined up, zoom way out and see what you see. The answer will amaze you.


PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:03 pm
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fruppet
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Charin wrote:
Some hints on this one...No solves below, but strong shoves in the right direction.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

1. Rotation is key.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

2. It's easier to align when you look at the negative than the positive.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

3. When you've got the right side lined up, zoom way out and see what you see. The answer will amaze you.


Any further hints? This is driving me up the wall, i have looked at it from every angle and still cant see anything Sad
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:53 pm
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Charin
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Sure....I don't want to hoard the solve, but neither do I want to spoil for those working on it. Hints still this time, and if there's further confusion we'll see about spoiling. (Or PM me if you really want one early, I guess.)

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You're going to need photoshop or GIMP2 or similar here to align the dots properly. GIMP2 is free... 50% transparency on the layers helps.


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Once you've got them all overlayed, you'll note that the dots don't follow a regluar grid, but there's some spacing to the white space between the groups of dots.


Big hints here...you were warned.
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Brown start out aligned properly. The remainder do not. The hidden UV letters are a meta puzzle, unrelated (as far as I can tell) to the solution.


PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:33 pm
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Charin
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Ok, I've gotten quite a few PM's on this one asking about the PSD that I used. You can find it at:

http://www.aubereanjourney.com/156.psd (Danger! 22 MB file ahead!)

(Spoiler warning)
The layers are separated and oriented, so this is very close to a solution.

If you're just looking to see the answer, try:

http://www.aubereanjourney.com/156.jpg

Zoom out on it and you should be amazed. Wink

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:12 am
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threadingham
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But what does it mean

Confused
Spent the day at work with my coloured ohp pens and ohp transparencies transposing the sequences. Ended up with the same result as Charin but still none the wiser. Entered what I saw on PXC but incorrect. This is really annoying me and I am sick of dots

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:52 pm
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threadingham
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I've done it!!!!

Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
Found that if I went cross eyed I could see the answer clearer. Really loving the Wave 4 so far

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:58 pm
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aliendial
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Amazingly, I can't get the first several letters from your jpg. And I'm not so sure about the last one either. Not an english word?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:59 pm
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threadingham
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RE: Not an English word

Word makes no sense at all until you Google it and it all becomes clear.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:30 pm
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Charin
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The first several letters didn't become clear to me until we shrunk the view down to 10-25% or so, then it suddenly made sense. Another help might actually be to drop the blue and purple layers in photoshop. They complete the lines, but becasue of either the scale of the card or my scanner, they're not exactly the same dimensions, it seems.

Definitely not an English word. Wink


Final answer for those who just want the solve points:
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Mimasan


PostPosted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:46 pm
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rainbowtrout
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Grrrrr... this was staring me in the face for a while

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before i figured out what the letters were. As for the origin of the word. Mimasan Maze is in Perplex City


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aliendial
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Now what about the hidden letters in the background of this card? Anyone working on that?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:06 pm
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vicki
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scanned Very Happy can't see the background writing on this though
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:26 pm
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kayakbabe
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I'm glad there are people smarter than I am doing solves. I never would have figured this one out on my own.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:25 pm
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J Jay
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going dotty
turn the card so its nearly flat

if you tilt the card away from you, you can start too see the makins of some words? i cant make out anything because i aint got my glasses but mabey someone else can

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