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[notgordian]

[White District] Typo[SOLVED]

[friscodude]

Well, number seven seems to be Baskerville font, which originated in the late 1700s.

Number three looks to be Times New Roman, which is from 1931.

For the answer, are we putting in the name of the font, or the chronological order of when the fonts originated?

[WolfHawk]

Well, I may actually get to help on this one - I'm know as "the font person" at work. Of course I'll have to wait until I'm back there tomorrow before I can dig into my font library. However, if my luck continues to hold out as usual someone will solve it overnight

[echidna]

Well, I've not solved it just yet but I've definitely got 4 of them:

[Pied Piper]

 I think I've got the rest

[notgordian]

I attempted "7 2 1 6 3 5 4" (each number typed into the box) assuming Garamond's 1929 would be older since the typeface had a history going back to Roman times and it didn't work.

"7 2 6 1 3 5 4" didn't work either.

I also tried "1 4 5 7 6 3 2" and it didn't work (that was using the origin dates, so Garamond would be 16th century, Cooper Black was produced in 1922, etc.

I'm not sure if the proper way is to write in the names of the fonts in order (doesn't tell Ms. Nettleton which font is which that way) or if we're supposed to go to the 'based on' timeline instead of the 'birth' timeline due to the two 1929's sitting there.

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[NeoManicXZ]

Well, I tried typing in their names using the 7 2 1 6 3 5 4 order, and it didn't work. And I'm not trying something else it's someone else's turn!

[Pied Piper]

Shoot. Sorry guys. I just sent a note to the admins, asking if they could possibly reformat the answer cells on that one so that it would be REALLY obvious what the format of the answers should be.

I really feel like they don't listen to us on some of this stuff...

[notgordian]

That's just our current bone of contention with the PMs of the game--personally, I'd prefer a format where they expect us to be as picky as they please, but a submission attempt tells you which PARTS of the answer were correct / incorrect -- so for Audiophile, we'd know if it's just one answer that's screwing us or all of them.

The PMs probably don't want us solving the problems faster than they can get out content--which is perfectly reasonable, since they probably have a timetable of when stuff should happen. Personally, it's aggravating the living daylights out of me, but hey. It's helped me come up with ways to game the system (keep an easy puzzle on each side unsolved so you can switch back at low cost, for instance--I've been using "Shooting Gallery" for the greens).

Er, to get back on topic here are the permutations tried so far:

-7 2 1 6 3 5 4
-7 2 6 1 3 5 4
-1 4 6 7 6 3 2
-Baskerville, Cooper Lightface, Garamond, Gill Sans, Times New Roman, Optima, Comic Sans (neo, you might want to check my spelling matched what you used--just let me know in IRC if this needs editing)

[Arkaham]

We need to learn to be pacient with these things. Only a couple of days after the puzzle comes up is way too early to be writting to the PM's complaining.

That said, I tried putting them backwards: 4 5 3 1 6 2 7 and 4 5 3 6 1 2 7. Didn't work.

[Trace]

The pms pick and choose what to reply to you about... and if i ask them to repsond even if hte answer is no, they will tell me they goit my message and thats it..

[WolfHawk]

[friscodude]

Try typing in the numbers as words instead of the actual number keys perhaps?

Ex: 4 is four, 7 is seven. I blew my credits already, so I'm out of luck. Seems they fixed the whole thing where you could solve puzzles without having to have any credits.

[taureanfreak]

well, you can always bounce things off of me of you'd like. though i think that the second one is older....
The '&' symbol is an older style than thosed used during the 1900's, but the 'f' isn't like the style used in the 1700's, it's newer. *shrugs* i don't know i'll look though really quickly. I can't do too much or i won't go to sleep again.

[Pied Piper]