Author
Message
rose
...and then Magic happens
Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117
Gee I don't know but it seems that we have at least three puzzles that we don't know why the answers worked.
Athena
Greece
Triton
At least one more that we are back engineering...
So what the heck? I have to say, this is a new one on me. I've never seen this before -which makes me think that maybe it means something
_________________I love this site for being free, in every sense of the word~Spacebass
Mankind was my business, the common good was my business.~ Dickens
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:17 am
irulats
Kilroy
Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 2
CONTEST Could CONTEST be referring to the OLYMPIC GAMES hence ATHENA (Greek for Athens)?
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:49 am
prosaxplayer
Greenhorn
Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 8
Athena and Poseidon (god of the seas in greek mythology had a contest). Poseidon's picture is in the San Fransisco projection.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Answer: ATHENA
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:52 am
.
Guest
rose wrote:
Gee I don't know but it seems that we have at least three puzzles that we don't know why the answers worked.
Athena
Greece
Triton
I'd have to say we don't have a good explanation for Los Angeles either.
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:42 am
aliendial
Unfictologist
Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
But surely no greek gods were born in LA so we don't have to worry about that. I assume the answer will be some LA_born composer our musicians just hadn't gotten to yet. Because that was a HARD puzzle.
Peavey if you are right then there were NO clues for Number Grid in any of the projection events. Can't be. AND...reviewing the projection, peavey is clearly wrong. Mural has no icon. Number Grid does, and it's the icon under POSEIDON on the projection.
BUt - Triton for Mural? How odd.
_________________aliendial
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:21 am
enaxor
I Have No Life
Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395
aliendial wrote:
Peavey if you are right then there were NO clues for Number Grid in any of the projection events. Can't be. AND...reviewing the projection, peavey is clearly wrong. Mural has no icon. Number Grid does, and it's the icon under POSEIDON on the projection.
The symbol under Poseidon has both the Mural "placeholder" and the "index symbol" for the Number Grid, which leads me to think it was a hint to use it on both puzzles.
aliendial wrote:
BUt - Triton for Mural? How odd
I agree.
_________________10/05/2007, 04/23/2009, 07/02/2015
The world is a much dimmer place.
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:21 pm
aliendial
Unfictologist
Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
I missed that enaxor - quite right. I just treated it as background design. And I really love what they've done with their pillars.
No explanation this morning from the solver at neowin. I wonder if he just started trying gods. The problem I have with this overlap is that we were supposed to get two different gods from different mythologies from the same image? And if we got the second one we didn't need anything from the Mural puzzle? Also, while we can't see them, were the icons under the inventions also the Number Grid icon? That would have been even more confusing, as it would have implied all of them applied to both. Or perhaps they meant "the clues to the last two puzzles are all in this one pile of images; you figure out which is which". Just to give us a challenge.
_________________aliendial
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:20 pm
EarlyWyrm
Veteran
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 144 Location: Houston
aliendial wrote:
I assume the answer will be some LA_born composer our musicians just hadn't gotten to yet.
I'm almost positive the guys are correct with "Cage" - all that's left is to identify the remaining tunes, so no real mystery left, just a bit of musical work.
Triton, on the other hand - heh, good luck with that
_________________Blind Mice Sit On Us
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:23 pm
aliendial
Unfictologist
Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
The only connection to Cage is Los Angeles. The rest is pure speculation and IMHO a real stretch. While I suppose it is not important now to figure out for sure who it was, I think we still mark this with question mark.
_________________aliendial
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:28 am
doublecross
Unfettered
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 588 Location: London, UK
I quite like the theory that removing the tunes of the eight composers will leave four notes behind, namely C, A, G and E.
_________________xx
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:43 am
aliendial
Unfictologist
Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
That is speculation. Nobody has done it.
_________________aliendial
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:44 am
.
Guest
aliendial wrote:
The problem I have with this overlap is that we were supposed to get two different gods from different mythologies from the same image?
That image only needed to lead us to Poseidon. Triton (his son) is also part of Greek mythology, so no confusion there. I suspect that if we knew how to find it, the Mural puzzle would ask us something about "what's his son?" or something like that, which would lead to Triton. Number Grid + Contest + Poseidon sensibly leads to Athena, so I'm happy with that one.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:07 pm
aliendial
Unfictologist
Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
Yes, I agree that's likely the way it was supposed to work. Hmm. Were we supposed to get rays of the sun (son) from that image? But again that would leave nothing to be used from the Mural puzzle. Gah. I'll stop now..
_________________aliendial
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:52 pm
Wynn
Decorated
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 154 Location: Seattle, WA
Tomb [Full Solve] Finally, I got it the way I think it was intended to be solved.
The squares in Tomb are the positions of the pyramids. You'll also notice a black dot in the top-left of the paper, which corresponds to the "vanishing point". Here's a good illustration that was posted in links earlier:
http://goodfelloweb.com/giza/fig3.html
I have attached an overlay of the diagram onto the Tomb puzzle, with the words filled in. After scaling the diagram up 5%, it fits perfectly onto the puzzle.
Description
Tomb - Vanishing Point overlay
Filesize
83.11KB
Viewed
254 Time(s)
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:26 pm
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Wow that's amazing sleuthing Wynn!
Props to whoever made this puzzle too...
we're definitely seeing a lot of misdirection in the harder puzzles =)
_________________
@4DFiction /@Wikibruce /Contact
ARGFest 2013 - Seattle! ARGFest.com
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:39 pm
Display posts from previous: All Posts 1 Day 1 Week 2 Weeks 1 Month 3 Months 6 Months 1 Year Sort by: Post Time Post Subject Author Ascending Descending