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Roxdurag

Maybe I am particualrly obtuse here, but were we not told to answer the most obvious questions first (whatever they are), and to keep things simple? The first thing that pops into my head is what do these books have in common (if anything)... Hamlet has the play within the play, Borges has the infinite number of books using all letters in every possible combination. It also has the red polygon (or was it hexagon??) which is supposed to be the "key " to the Library of Babel, allowing one to "decode" all other books...

Any ideas?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:23 am

sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

I just thought that answering the most obvious question first meant finding the answer to the actual puzzle on the card and using that.

For the five fingers pointing, I would guess this would mean 5 particular cards or puzzles over a few cards to represent each finger. The thing is, there should be something else that gives us an indication of which puzzles each of these fingers are pointing to, rather than just solving a random meta puzzle and thinking 'Oh, this sounds like it goes with this finger'. It's just a matter of finding these pointers (if they are even there that is).

**Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:04 pm

DarkHuman

i just noticed that this is CT's 5th transmission to us. the 4th one gave us what i (still) believe is the 4th finger. Just sayin'.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:10 pm

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Is this something new?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:25 pm

Mima · Decorated Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 260

I think we still have several meta puzzles from the wave 4 cards, which we know were tampered with, and almost certainly by CT. The solutions to these will give us the answers to some of these, and the answers themselves will hopefully fit fairly obviously into one of the fingers.

I do think we were given the feature - arboreal, but four of the unsolved puzzles are:

Risk numbers
Mysterious shapes (maybe related to Risk)
Card 223 Hidden Numbers - the numbers in the background that are proposed to be a Beale cypher
Card 156 Going Dotty - Rubies Diamonds etc

There are several other things that have been talked about that are also contenders to be one of the answers, but the only way that we are actually going to know is to work on them, and get them solved.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:37 am

zaeil · Decorated Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 233 Location: NC, US

Actually, the cipher on 223 has been solved, thanks to this very transmission from CT--

**Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:47 am

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Mima · Decorated Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 260

LOL, its back to the old rules of posting - think, check then re-check, sorry about that and I'll take my trout for 223!

**Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:53 am

DarkHuman

**Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:33 am

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Not that it matters or can be proven at this point, but if it's not in downtown London (or vicinity - as has been speculated endlessly) then I would say by extension it's probably also not in New York City. or New York state, even. As a generalized approximation, it's either in the heart of england, or else it's somewhere remote to everyone.

But I'm crossing over logic and getting into META/SPEC just now.

I suppose what I'm saying is CT would have wanted to hide the cube either somewhere accessible so she could get it easy enough later, or else somewhere very very inaccessible to anyone at all.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:21 am

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hobyrne · Guest

Answer the most obvious question first.

We have lots of questions.

I guess the most obvious question is, which question is the most obvious? Smile

**Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:04 pm

LouMac

Given that we were given a clue of "arboreal", #186 (Between Two Trees) becomes a lot more significant, huh?

Too bad I can't figure it out to save my life.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:01 pm

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To tie together the Borges thoughts and explanations, I've started a [URL=http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges]page on the wiki about Borges and his stories[/URL]. I still have sections and details and stuff to add, but thought it might be useful to some anyway. Even if it just gets people to read some Borges stories Wink

Comments welcomed. Enjoy Smile

**Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:55 pm

ampetrizzo · Boot Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 54

Card #156 "Going Dotty" from what was posted on the wiki has number strings but no dark shape (except what looks like one of the swirly pxc things on the lower left side). Instead, it has the string of gems printed on the backing (topaz, rubies, amethyst, diamond, etc). It's possible that the "Last Mystery" is some sort of puzzle that has to be solved to get at the Cube once its location has been discovered. Maybe Gyvann gave us the answer in #030 End of the Line, or maybe not.

Whoever finds the Cube, let me know one way or the other, okay? Smile

**Posted:** Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:34 pm

xandert_86 · Boot Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Where I Be

If the 'five fingers' are supposed to leave us towards five cards (as unlikely as that seems as we aren't supposed to need cards to find the Cube) than arboreal -> Muscae Volitantes?

**Posted:** Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:38 pm

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Jon 79 · Greenhorn Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 9

**Posted:** Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:23 pm