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[LGFL] Anyone still playing?

**Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:07 pm

lelepooh1 · Veteran Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 71

Yes, I'm trying to work on the OK corral gun puzzel but the whole thing doesn't make sense. It says to rotate in certain directions but that really doesn't make a difference in how the peices fit. I've got a few pieces but nothing that makes sense yet.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:13 pm

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I sent in "C.S. Fly's Photographic Studio" as a guess, based purely on the historical account, but can't really see any of that text in the pistols. There are just too many jpeg compression artifacts in most of the images (At least for my limited graphics skills) to reliably pull anything out of them.

Still playing... I dunno. Is there a reasonable chance we could achieve success?

**Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:47 pm

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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

I updated the guide finally (twas feeling a little bit ill the past few days). I'll try to work on the gun puzzle at home since I dont have Photoshop here.

I have no idea on how to do the two legend trails though. I dont even know where to begin.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:50 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:29 pm

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For the twins' pages, Penelope's seems to have a ton of fragmented sentences. I've tried lots of things but am getting nowhere.
I tried all the single-word sentences, then double word, etc., but don't know where that might stop and am not getting any anagrams, etc. that work.

For Doris' page, The artist could be either Bob Dylan or Prince, based on the songs, but the Katrina reference seems to push it toward Prince.

Then again, I could be way off on all of this. There's just SOOOO much ambiguous flavor text.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:43 pm

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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

Well, now that I've been home for a while, I've been playing with the Lore 8 trial. And I'm still stuck.

I have been trying to rotate the guns based upon their direction from true north (0 degrees). So, if a gun was rotated east, I would rotate the entire gun 90 degrees clockwise. South would be a 180 degree rotation (and not a flip). West would be a 270 degree clockwise rotation.

If I did that, the gun barrels would be pointed in the following directions:

Wyatt, Morgan: Up
Virgil, Doc: Left

Billy: Down
Wes: Up

Frank, Tom, Billy, Ike: Down

I then took all the rotated guns and put them in Photoshop to see if I could line up the writing. I tried grouping the guns together based upon their grouping on the page. I tried mixing them up into different groups. I thought maybe I could make crosses with the guns, but only two barrels were aligned left-right. I even erased the extra bits from the guns, leaving just the writing section to see if that matched up easier. Nada.

Of course, I'm not even sure if my rotation scheme is correct. There is what looks to be one recognizible letter (a B on Ike's gun), but after my rotation, it was upside-down, so either its not a B or I goofed up somewhere. I thought that it wouldn't matter how I rotated them as long as I was consistant, the pieces should still line up somehow even if I have to rotate everything at the end, but I've spent over an hour rearranging gun pieces and I can't get anything that looks like letters.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:15 am

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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

Well, it appears I was over thinking it. According to the last hint by Aunt Anna, some of the guns are already pointing in the correct direction. What she doesn't bother to say is that 5 of them (that's half!) are pointing in the correct direction. Seriously, how were we supposed to know that we have to do anything with half of the guns.

She also gives us a numbered picture, presumably to line the guns up on. Of course, I don't have a clue what part of the gun to line up on the number. Luckily, it appears that Aunt Anna put the guns together and then broke them apart on her new images, because you can see parts of one gun on another.

Putting them together, I now see that the word kinda weaves around the guns, which is another reason why it seemed so impossible when I was doing it the first time. That and I see no rhyme and reason to the positioning of the guns. 3 rows? Can you see three rows?!?

The last problem becomes, what exactly does the scrawling letters say. Even put together in what I think is the correct order, I still can't tell what all the letters are. I have maybe 'Olwer House Biskey AZ' but nothing comes up on Google so I'm not gonna even attempt to submit it.

I'll see if I can come up with a cleaner picture once I'm at home with Photoshop, but I'm really not promising anything.

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I thinks it's

**Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:20 pm

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lelepooh1 · Veteran Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 71

Way to go Rowan! I had a few together but was gettinh thrown off because she said there were 3 rows so I thought it had to line up with 3 rows of words. No wonder I was so confused,

**Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:49 pm

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EDIT: Removed the link to the images Rowan had previously worked on. Good work, BTW, Rowan!

On the Dylan(Zimmerman) puzzle, does anyone have any idea what we're supposed to reply with? The text on the page does seem to push us towards the Freewheelin' album, but I'm really not a Dylan fan and don't know which songs are represented by the 13 clues. I know... How can anyone not just LOVE Bob Dylan? Weird, but the annoying voice always was more of a turn-off for me than the lyrics were enlightening, so I was never a fan.

EDIT: So I see that the list is specific to one song:

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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

**Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:14 pm

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We have a new hint on the Penelope puzzle, telling us (I think) that we're dealing with Morse code. Looking at the page, The only relevant hints I can pull out of the text are "pressed" "Samuel" "dashed" and, possibly, the "free-but-still-tethered-and-restricted nature" comment. How could we have missed all those! Even knowing it's Morse, I'm still kinda stuck on what to do with that. I sent a bunch of gibberish that was my best guess at how to decode the sentence fragments, but again, there are a ton of variables.

Then, there's the new Legend puzzle for Daniel Ravelo. The text is super short and basically tells you what to do. "The tombstone's text is a Playfair cipher and the key is Daniel's name".

Seems we have trouble finding the sweet spot.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:58 pm

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without a clear understanding of when the pauses would occur, it is almost impossible to decode the morse pattern.

I am thinking that "Long Legs, Short Stature" is a hint that long are L's & shorts are S's, but there is no way to tell what consititutes a pause

Never mind, I finally got it - sentence length is the key

**Posted:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:41 pm

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FYI. I sent an email to Oliver House about the name of the room.
No reply, yet.

**Posted:** Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:07 am

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