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Rowan's Ireland Postcard Puzzle

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Varin

Here's mine!

I think these are the rune translations - 6:y 12:n 20:u

**Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:01 pm

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RobMagus

I have no digital cam handy, so I will attempt to describe the runes. Here's the runic alphabet I've been using:

http://www.omniglot.com/images/writing/asrunes.gif

I got three:

5: I can't find this symbol, but it looks like a lowercase n: |^ (like that, except the right leg of the upside-down v goes down to the same level as the vertical line. This symbol doesn't look like it's in the usual Futhark runic alphabet.

12: a vertical line. translates to "i" (or ice)

19: like an F, but with the horizontal lines crooked to valley in the middle. translates to "o" (or god)

short version:

5: (unknown) 12: i 19: o

YAY PUZZLES IN THE MAIL.

Get to it, dudes.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:03 pm

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strifeykins · Guest

Got two postcards...the first one with the man exposing himself to cows has

1. d (day)
8. u (aurochs)

the second one with the ruinesque house (effing plant monster) has...

15. e (horse)
22. r (journey/riding)

So apparently I'll be riding a horse on aurochs day...whenever that is

**Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:21 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:47 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:19 pm

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sidtheduck

I got one too!

It looks like mine are:

7. o (god)
14. n (necessity/trouble)
21. e (horse)

So far it looks like to me like:

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air_wick

**Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:36 am

Varin

**Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:54 am

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RungeKutta

Here are my rowanrunes. The first is a bit hard to read because of the post office...

First postcard:

Second postcard:

**Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:43 pm

sidtheduck

So, if celina's #24 "looks like" a p (instead of being the rune for 'p'), the message translates to:

Drink your Guiness, Love Rowan

Thanks Rowan!

**Posted:** Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:55 pm

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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

Whee! Glad you guys had fun with that. Very Happy

**Posted:** Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:15 am

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