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[PUZZLE] [SOLVED] [Jan 13] Box 2 - Magic Happens
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SuperRob
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 		Re: [PUZZLE] [Jan 13] Box 2 - Magic Happens
Cup and Balls
The answer to Tale of Two Brothers is
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AMAZE
, though I have no idea how they got to that with only four cards at the end.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:47 pm
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rose
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 		Anyone think that the cards linking to the puzzle are meaningful in any way?

They are:

Ace of hearts
Two of clubs
Three of clubs
Four of diamonds
Five of clubs
Six of diamonds
Seven of hearts
Eight of clubs
Nine of diamonds
Ten of spades
Jack of hearts
Queen of Diamonds

Solves so far:

Rabbit Trail (not explained though)
Posters
Mind Reader
X-ray Cards
Tale of Two Brothers (explained below by Shad0)
Gravity Lock
Domino

PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:49 pm
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Shad0
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 		Re: [PUZZLE] [Jan 13] Box 2 - Magic Happens
Cup and Balls
SuperRob wrote:
though I have no idea how they got to that with only four cards at the end.

There were five cards. As a result of steps 8-11, there was a single face-up card in the face-down pile. Deuce placed it in position #4 in step 16, before his brother turned over the other four cards.

(I was about to ask if you knew what the "correct order" for the deck was... and then I noticed that the puzzle appears to have been edited. It originally said that Deuce put the deck in the correct order -- whatever that was -- at the top of the second left-hand page, but now it's gone. Hmmph.)
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rose
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 		Magic Lessons
From Emon brought us this in chat from the neowin forums (sorry I dont have the link)

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Sewanee
<Emon> The discarded cards in order are 37383, the zip code of Sewanee, Tennessee



ooops added spoiler

This makes the list of solved puzzles now:
Rabbit Trail (not explained though)
Posters
Mind Reader
X-ray Cards
Tale of Two Brothers
Gravity Lock
Domino
Magic Lessons

Don't know if this was posted before, if not sorry. to the pictures from the live events

link here

and that page seems to update as they are posted
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Shad0
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 		Re: [PUZZLE] [Jan 13] Box 2 - Magic Happens
Headliner
Shad0 wrote:
Edit: Might as well post another intermediate step:

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The semaphore from Headliner spells OPPOSITE

And as soon as the clue from Sydney went up, the solve:

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Skywriting says DARK, so answer is LIGHT

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These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.

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SuperRob
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 		Clue for Headliner was DARK.

Opposite of Dark is
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LIGHT
. That's the answer.

Heh, beat me by a minute.

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konamouse
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 		Clue for Postcards
There are 5 posters. Each represents something that was made to vanish by a magician.

The clue in the sky:

Code:
-----XXXXXXXXXXX
----XXXXX
-XXXXXXX
----XXXXX
-XXXXXXXX


Lining up names so far
Code:
     COPPERFIELD
    KOLTA
 HOUDINI
    XXXXX
 THURSTON


[edit - corrected the title of the puzzle, added 5th magician from info in chat - kona]
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Shad0
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 		Re: Clue for Headliner
Coins?
konamouse wrote:
Lining up names so far
Code:
     COPPERFIELD
    KOLTA
 HOUDINI
    XXXXX
XXXXXXXX

Fellow named Howard Thurston used to make a horse disappear. That would give us COI_S for that first complete row reading down. Can anyone think of a magician who is particularly well known for making coins disappear?
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These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.

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SuperRob
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 		Current train of thought at Neowin is that Jim Steinmeyer is a common link between many of the illusions. Also, someone claims to have solved it but can't remember what he put in that did it.

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colin
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SuperRob wrote:
Also, someone claims to have solved it but can't remember what he put in that did it.
rofl laughing Jetpack

also the puzzle is postacards, not headliner as in kona's and shad0's posts (just so no one is confused)


edit - no, that was chad0's better-looking brother Shad0. - aliendial Very Happy
you must have edited the same time as me, cause I just fixed that :s -colin
it was funnier before! AD Smile

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Shad0
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 		Re: [PUZZLE] [Jan 13] Box 2 - Magic Happens
[SOLVED] Seven Card Monte
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You can flip each card by clicking on one of its pips. Now, imagine each card as a 3x3 grid, numbered 1 through 9. The active pips will be 877-4786. [I did not figure this part out, but regretfully I didn't catch the name of whoever did.] The skywriting clue ("263-") goes between, giving us a number to call: 1-877-263-4786.

Loki has a message there, asking us what disappeared on Halloween, 1926, at 1:26 p.m.., in Room 401, Detroit. That is when and where Harry Houdini died, so the answer is HOUDINI.


Edit: Credit for the first part of the solve to kaz in IRC.

Further edit 'cos I don't know the difference between 3x3 and 9x9
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These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.

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 		Calling cards
I put my explanation up: http://code1123.blogspot.com/

~kaz

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Shad0
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 		Re: Clue for Postcards
Coins!
Shad0 wrote:
konamouse wrote:
Lining up names so far
Code:
    COPPERFIELD
   KOLTA
HOUDINI
    XXXXX
THURSTON

Fellow named Howard Thurston used to make a horse disappear. That would give us COI_S for that first complete row reading down. Can anyone think of a magician who is particularly well known for making coins disappear?

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Yup. T. Nelson Downs. Credit to optech in IRC.

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These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.

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 		Re: Posters
doublecross wrote:
What I have so far

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Taking the number of appearing things as the number and using that to index into what is missing spells SMOKE COMIC:

1 3 Roses
2 1 Moon
3 3 Shoes
4 5 Clocks
5 2 Bells
6 5 Handcuffs
7 1 Owl
8 4 Trumpets
9 2 Birds
10 1 Card

I don't think the number is a phone number - I tried it and 'this subscriber is not accepting calls' was the message.


Bugles, not trumpets. 3 doves, not 1 bird. That should give you the answer within 3 guesses.

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rose
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 		Here is the final answer but no idea how it was solved:

Cups and Balls

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STAGE


If you have them all answered you get a video like before which takes us to:

http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/collectionplate/

which in turn seems to be a record of the number of white boxes you have clicked in.

edit to just add a note instead of a brand new post - 18 white boxes between box 1 and box 2. -- aliendial
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