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**Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:43 pm

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Okay... great. Now what? We have the bullseye, the magnet thingy and a bunch of balls. We know it's the title of something.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:35 pm

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realitysyndrome · Boot Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 30 Location: CNY

5 black rings / 4 black tiles / 5 black dots
4 white rings / 3 white tiles / 4 white dots

The rings enclose an blank space,
The tiles are open to the left,
and the dots are filled in.

...and that is about as much as my brain can process... I can't think of anything I know of that would make it a "?title-" for anything...

**Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:44 pm

marthajones · Veteran Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 86 Location: Germany

I find it intriguing that the word title has those two italics in it. That can't be just a result of wanting to make it obscure, can it?

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:35 am

Olorin

Technically "it" was a title of a book itself, right?
http://www.eyeamhere.com/CTS/crackthesafe.asp?title=it
didn't lead anywhere (could be because it's too early...)

Anyways..
I think the right hand side of the image is made of discs rather than spheres (like the pieces used in draughts/checkers or go).
Right now I;'m thinking that the sequence of black and whites might be the important part...

5 B rings + 4 W rings
4 B swuares + 3 W squares
5 B discs + 4 W discs

there's always one more black (thing) than white... natural, since the colors alternate in each image, but it might be important that it's *always* black to be on top.

Talking about numbers, starting with rings, brings to mind

"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,/Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,/One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie./One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,/One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."

but the numbers don't seem to match (heck if we had 3 black rings, 7 white rings, 9 black squares, maybe the connection would be stronger - but we have 25 total things, and there's only 20 tings in LotR) :/

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:42 am

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**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:47 am

revsleestaxx · Decorated Joined: 19 Aug 2008 Posts: 184

could this be a game to announce the new Othello game being released next month

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:50 am

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**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:30 pm

realitysyndrome · Boot Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 30 Location: CNY

Othello is not just a game its also a Shakespeare

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:13 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:19 pm

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realitysyndrome · Boot Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 30 Location: CNY

it's a stretch, a huge one in fact... But if those are othello pieces, rather than say go pieces or dots... and othello is shakespear, which sort of makes sense with the book referances and "title"...

Then, maybe the other two are book referances as well... could it be possible to (if we had 3 book titles or something) get 1 word (or title) out of the whole thing?

like how "it" is a word inside "title" ?

The numbers of colors might have something to do with something like that too... But, now I am just confusing myself.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:32 pm

Bruce

Hopefully nothing important is missing in 21 or 36....

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:46 pm

mycroft7 · Decorated Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 202 Location: England

just had a quick look at this while i was waiting for developments on another thread, and had the following thoughts on yr title...

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:55 pm

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Andy, thank you! It is EXTREMELY relevant, as one of our protagonists is named Dante.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:23 pm

AUZ505

Yes, that idea seems to fit very well.

BTW. The first hit on a google search for "9 circles 9 spheres" is immediately a link to the same reference.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:21 pm

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