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http://www.theseventhsons.com/literal.html -- SOLVED

Idran discovered that if you break the entire message up in to 3x3 squares, and read them in a spiraling order, similar to the top and bottom of the picture, you get a message. He found all of the text, and I added coherent punctuation.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:46 pm

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TJ229ER

Wow that's gonna be a toughy.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:51 pm

ElGameR

**Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:03 pm

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Idran1701 · Veteran Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 73

Varin: Yeah, that's how I got it. I didn't include the "the's" mainly because I didn't think to count them at the time. :D

**Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:16 pm

dishboy

**Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:43 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:48 pm

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ElGameR

But, we still have no idea where this page leads to... sph that is...

I'll look into the Xs, I hadn't noticed there was one in each line...

**Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:48 pm

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dishboy

Another insight about the spiraling puzzle:

Looking at the rightpath.html file, the only thing that sticks out at me is that the words are arranged on the page such that they sorta look like a large R. Maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see, but clearly the words are placed in their configuration for a reason because they are explicitly positioned on the page...

**Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:48 pm

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Kender

Updated path. I've included the 7th sons logo background colors and the order we got them in when the entrypage was rotating colors.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:47 am

grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

for leftpath.html

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:36 am

Kender

I'm working on the theory that the words in the rightpath describe hieroglyphs, and that the letters these glyphs represent will form a word, or when combined describe some person.

Unfortunatly the toucan is a bird from central america, not very likely the egyptians had a glyph for them. On the other hand, maybe the mayans, aztecs or olmecs did?

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:10 am

Nik_Doof

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:30 am

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dishboy

On rightpath.html, ElGameR noticed that pairs of words share common fragments that appear at either the beginning or end of each word:

home + omen
toucan + candle
suicide + idea
many + anywhere
doctor + tornado

ome can ide any tor

My guess is that the words should be lined up vertically based on this hint (similar to leftpath.html), or the common (or non-common) letters should be combined somehow...

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:52 am

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Kender

Note how all these fragments are Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) or Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV).

Then look at things like http://www.highspeedplus.com/~edonon/Egyptian.htm
and http://www.highspeedplus.com/~edonon/saharan.htm

I'm not awake enough yet to do any actual solving Coffee

and I might be on the wrong trail again Screwy

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:24 am

konamouse

---homen
-toucandle
suicidea
---manywhere
-doctornado

Like this?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:41 am

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