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[PUZZLE] [Jan 20] Box 3 - Memories fade...
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KSG
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 		I was asked in chat to put the intermediate solve I got for Letters From Home.

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The clue above the entry box means to look at the name of the hotel: datoname hotel = day to name.

So take the day of the month given in the post marks, and then take the country name on the stamps. Sometimes you'll have to figure out the country.

Apply the number to the name like this:
Nov 7 + United States = United States = S

You get "St Paul's Cathedral".

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 		Re: mural
Boazer wrote:
this looks like all the names for the mural correct me if Im wrong but I think we just need the dates they were invented

EW =Eli Whitney cotton gin

HD = Humphrey Davy, an Englishman, demonstrated a powerful electric lamp to the Royal Society in 1806

jw =james watt, improved steam engine 1763

BF = Benjamin franklin, pointed light rod conductor

GLL = George Louis Lesage, used a single wire system to telegraph a message (1774)

LP = Louis pasteur French scientist who discovered the process of sterilizing milk

GS = Glenn T. Seaborg, The nuclear chemist's best-known achievement was the synthesis and isolation of the radioactive element plutonium

GM = Guglielmo Marconi, radio

AGB = Alexander grand bell

CM = Cyrus Hall McCormick,, inventor of the reaper

TM = Thomas edison, Phonograph


Think JW could also be hydraulic ram invented by John Whitehurst (thanks to confusio)

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 		Composers
Composers...

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From Singapore clue for composers is "City of Birth"
Here is the list of cities of birth... still trying to figure out from there:

beethoven - bonn
stause - munich
ravel - ciboure
liszt - Doborján
mozart - salzburg
bach - eisenach
bizet - paris
verdi - le roncole




EDIT - STRAUSS WAS AUSTRIAN - AD

PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:20 am
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 		Laser Partial Solve
Hey,

I've got a partial solve on the 'Laser' puzzle (also includes a white box, with yellow border).

It sort of looks like the laser line spells out the word:
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cop

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 		To me it looks more like
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second

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 		Speakeasy

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If you start bottom right you can spell 'a golf bag a slot machine three wise men steel wheel'

these are nicknames for poker hands - 'steel wheel' is a straight flush, the highest hand.

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 		Yes yes we got that on laser. And that spec. And we've moved on.

Here's strifey's explanation of "second"
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/3990/second3ka.jpg



Please limit your posts to new info! Come to chat and help us get past the intermediate solves!
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 		DISCO INFERNO
neowin reports an intermediate solve (deleting dances): FLIP

Explanation and a jpg over at neowin:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=d8ab57084be20fed435fefef038081a8&showtopic=531483&view=findpost&p=588244495
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 		Re: [PUZZLE] [Jan 20] Box 3 - Memories fade...
puzzle symbols
thebruce wrote:
Also a quick note, the symbols in the top corner of each puzzle this week don't directly indicate which location holds the clue.
(eg the symbols for pirates and calendar are different, but the clues were both at the singapore event)

They do, in a way -- the same way they did for Los Angeles and Phoenix last week. If you look at the picture from Singapore, you will see the Pirate Treasure symbol to the lower left of the star from which the rays emerge, and the Calendar Wheel symbol immediately to the right of the first of the three Mayan symbols. They tell you which clue goes with which puzzle.
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 		Re: [PUZZLE] [Jan 20] Box 3 - Memories fade...
Balance the Books
Sorry for the double post, but [SOLVE] for Balance the Books.

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The colored squares match the colors of Monopoly money. $500-$50-$10-$20-$100=$320. The clue is "INVEST THEN COLLECT," so I played with buying various properties and collecting rent until I found the match. Spend the $320 to buy Connecticut Avenue for $120 and four houses for $50 each. The rent is $450, and "450" is the answer.

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 		Meet The Composers
EDIT ***SOLVED*** by Rieuwa from Neowin!

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Answer: Los Angeles

Birthplace of Dvorak


As of this moment the logic behind the solve is still unclear, so if anyone has a walkthrough please feel free to post it to this thread. I for one would love to see how the actual puzzle works out.


Original Message:

I was going to wait until we had more, but we're not making much progress on Composers. So far we have identified:

ETA - Finally started using http://www.musipedia.org/# (thanks argonaut!)


Song 1: Mozart? (from musipedia)
Song 2: Bach? (from musipedia)
Song 3: Beethoven - Ode to Joy
Song 5: Mozart - Einklein Nacht musik
Song 6: Bach - Minuet in G?
Song 9: Ravel - Bolero
Song 13: Bach - Minuet in G
Song 15: Bizet - Toreador

I'm trying to midi-fy the notes, and will keep updating until either everything is transcribed, or someone solves the puzzle:

http://bsctx.com/song1.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song2.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song4.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song7.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song8.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song9.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song10.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song11.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song12.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song13.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song14.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song16.mp3
http://bsctx.com/song17.wma

Edit: CLUE -- "City of Birth" - with the thought that one of the songs will be from an unlisted composer, and the answer will be the birth city of that composer...

And a photoshopped image of the notation:
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KSG wrote:
I was asked in chat to put the intermediate solve I got for Letters From Home.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The clue above the entry box means to look at the name of the hotel: datoname hotel = day to name.

So take the day of the month given in the post marks, and then take the country name on the stamps. Sometimes you'll have to figure out the country.

Apply the number to the name like this:
Nov 7 + United States = United States = S

You get "St Paul's Cathedral".


Following up on this.. thanks to the "Photographer" clue in the pics from the London event, the solution for Letters from Home is:

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HERBERT MASON (he took a famous photograph of St Paul's)


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 		SF people?
who's going to be there?
Looks like I'll be there. I'm not really playing, but willing to help if needed. Let me know if I need video capabilities. Thanks.

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 		Re: Composers
City of Birth
WookieLNX wrote:
stause - munich

aliendial wrote:
EDIT - STRAUSS WAS AUSTRIAN - AD

Johann Strauss was Austrian, born in Vienna; Richard Strauss was German, born in Munich. Could be either.
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 		Tomb [solve]
I believe the solve goes to redsquareblack in #tomb:


The pictographs are

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yoyo tricks



When the names are properly identified and entered into the blank document on the left and the position of the squares that correspond to the layout of the pyramids at Giza is carefully analyzed


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Nothing happens, because the answer is Greece (where yoyos were invented)

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