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grumpyboy
Unfettered
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660
[SOLVED] "ADream"-> video @ DH.com (Sept 21) New puzzle: www.dreadhouse.com
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the answer to the riddle is "a dream". Leads to here: http://www.dreadhouse.com/adream.html
Looks like there are faint impressions from something that was written on the previous piece of paper of the notepad
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:39 pm
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 8010 Location: My own alternate reality
From an email from Ron; looks like he and JC are meeting up in Nevada -
SPEC: they meet, like eachother, fall in love.
Heather sighs.
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:09 am
JustLurking
Guest
odd letter breaks Alright....not sure how much to spoiler, so I'll do it all in 2 groups.
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The one thing that really jumped out at me is the really odd letter breaks within words, such as because (3rd line, 4th word) being more of "be ca use"
As a result, I....
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decided to count up the letter within each letter grouping. I came up with the following:
113231111422312143213131223222322311141121321213324
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:15 am
herichon
Boot
Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 55 Location: portland
At the risk of stating the obvious - spacing is unusual.
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I k eep ha vin g b a d drea ms ab out
d ar k tunn els an d dee p pit s.
It mi ght be be ca use of wh ere
I a m head e d to m eet ou r new
mut ual fr iend.
Broken by size of letter group:
1 1 3 2 3 1 1 1 1 4 2 2 3
1 2 1 4 3 2 1 3 1 3 1
2 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 2 3
1 1 1 4 1 1 2 1 3 2 1 3
3 3 2 4
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:15 am
dmax
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 1387 Location: Location: Location!
Ignoring word breaks, it would be 25515442554457275555754
btw, i can't get into chat. true for everyone?
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:18 am
JustLurking
Guest
dmax wrote:
Ignoring word breaks, it would be 25515442554457275555754
btw, i can't get into chat. true for everyone?
Come join us in chat, dmax....we've got a few people there.
By the way, I've got a different count on that. By using your system, I get 2532154425544572755145754 (notice things like the space between n and g in having)
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:36 am
Dead-Eyes
Boot
Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 33
Maybe trout, or my bad eyes, but you can see a faint impression like you would on normal notebook paper of things written on before pages. Or maybe there is a layer underneath that I'm seeing. Anyway, I have no idea how to approach that, but maybe it would lead somewhere. Although now that I've typed it, seems more like a far stretch...
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:08 am
Pixiestix
Resident Angry Midget
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 2465 Location: Tomorrow's Talk Studios
Dead-Eyes wrote:
Maybe trout, or my bad eyes, but you can see a faint impression like you would on normal notebook paper of things written on before pages. Or maybe there is a layer underneath that I'm seeing. Anyway, I have no idea how to approach that, but maybe it would lead somewhere. Although now that I've typed it, seems more like a far stretch...
a little of both? i mean, yeah, it has been mentioned, but in this case, it doesn't seem so bad to mention it again. a bunch of us tried messing with the pic in PSP and PS and got nowhere. we were thinking it's not relevant, if anything, a red herring....
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:40 am
ShortCutMan
Greenhorn
Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 8
I was checking out the faint impressions, and they're not deep enough to possibly get anything from them.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:54 pm
Emericana
Boot
Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 66
Damn my messed up computer, I'm missing a great game!
Well, I don't know if this will help, but here's a list of the letters based on the breaks:
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i k g b a d d k d p s i a m e d m r
ha ms ab ar an it mi be be ca of wh to ou fr
eep vin out dee pit ght use ere eet new mut ual
elsd reat unnh eadi end
I wish I could help...
EDIT: that last line looks mighty anagrammable...
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:42 pm
Last edited by Emericana on Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:06 pm; edited 1 time in total
Dare
Boot
Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 18
By letter groups, counting the word breaks, the counts can be broken into groups of 5:
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1 1 3 2 3
1 1 1 1 4
2 2 3 1 2
1 4 3 2 1
3 1 3 1 2
2 3 2 2 2
3 2 2 3 1
1 1 4 1 1
2 1 3 2 1
3 3 3 2 4
Not that the lowest number is 1, the highest is 4. Anyone familiar with a cipher that looks similar to this?
And to make matters more complicated, if you ignore the word breaks, the counts can also be broken down into groups of 5:
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2 5 3 2 1
5 4 4 2 5
5 4 4 5 7
2 7 5 5 1
4 5 7 5 4
With this grouping, the numbers range from 1 to 7. My gut feeling tells me this isn't the way to go. Of course, my guts could be wrong, if so, I'll be looking into a gut transplant.
I only make a note of the groups of 5 thing because it's been an ongoing theme with a couple of the UH puzzles.
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:18 pm
JustLurking
Guest
adream.html has changed
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Looks like it was a puzzle. Jaimie was kind enough to give me my ASCII art. Well, not art, but it's like a previous puzzle, where you had to move the image to see the text beneath.
Link to the important image....
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:29 pm
ElGameR
Decorated
Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 167 Location: 45° 36' N 122° 36' W
From the new image:
When you read each collum, from top to bottom, you get:
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Nominally
innovative
heuristic
investigators
learn
incredibly
strange
things
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:06 pm
grumpyboy
Unfettered
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660
seems to point towards a Nihilist substitution or transposition...
(btw, on dream.html, to "drag" the note out of the way to show glimmer.jpg below, you have to click left of the margin, but above the first/second blue line)
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:10 pm
ElGameR
Decorated
Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 167 Location: 45° 36' N 122° 36' W
Heh, I noticed that, but didnt know it was a real word
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:14 pm
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