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[LatentMoths]

[MageSteff]

[MageSteff]

Just an FYI since I saw the group mentioned over at SC.

LIFTPORT is a real company involved in developing a Space Elevator. They were nice enough to allow us to point people there way when Orbital Colony decided to use that method of technology as part of the background.

[Silverkun]

As much as I'm for the idea of coordination and not duplicating our efforts, I have to admit feeling a bit goofy trying to brute-force an answer out of this very first puzzle.

It would seem as though what we're lacking here is a source of context for the words "poison" and "parasites". It would also seem that (at least for right now) there is only one number per field (digits in that number don't seem to matter).

I'm going to try something totally off the wall this afternoon, after I get some more input from the various forums. I'm going to try to add a few bits of punctuation in my guesses (i.e, seperating multiple guesses with a semicolon or commas or something). I may try commas in the first field and periods in the next.

Any suggestions?

-R

edited for silly, silly spelling errors. Stoopid 'l' key...

[ALISDAIRPARK]

Okies to avoid any needless debate we'll go with your idea ilikepucks I've edited the list on the last page so everyone will be clear on their given response, and I'll post it over on SC too.

[LatentMoths]

[ALISDAIRPARK]

[Silverkun]

[LatentMoths]

My point is simply that we should figure out a way where we are all submitting different answers...however that needs to be done. I don't want and am not ignoring all of these good ideas that are being thrown out there. If you have a logical reason why you think the answer should be 8 & 50 (just a random example...don't get excited ) then I think you should go for it, but it would be pointless for three other people to try it as well. So, if we can try and communicate our "guesses" each day so that we are not duplicating and wasting time that would be to our advantage.

[ALISDAIRPARK]

I would still say this is the most logical way to get to an answer, especially with the one guess a day limit. If you want to try another way, or indeed anyone else, then go for it, no one is forcing anyone to do anything here, so if my phrasing implied that then apologies.

With nearly no data to go on, it's hard to come up with anything other than guesses, all this proposed method is likely to give us is some more info to work out the methodology. I would be surprised if we get a solve just from this (and I'd be quite disappointed too).

I'm afraid I'm not persuaded that trying to find the answer with what we have so far will work, but you could be considerably cleverer than me.

[ladyindigo]

You know, we already have data. Even if we did hit on the answer the first time out by going through that chain of numbers, all it'd do is give us more data. They seem to think that we can work out how to solve the puzzle easily enough with just the information we've been given. I'm at a loss for what to do myself, but there's got to be people here who are more experienced with this than I am and can at least suggest something in the right direction. We're not even looking at how the 1 this time or the other number last time might have related to the passage. Or at least we're not doing so out loud.

[ALISDAIRPARK]

[Sgresso]

I tried the #'s as 3 and 8


3 is the number of Semi colons
8 is the number of Comma's

it seems that the first passage had 1 comma and kevins guesses were
6 and 1

my guess is was 3 semi's as poison and 8 parasites as comma's

in the first one kevin's guess of 1 parasites would be right

[MageSteff]

[LatentMoths]

Good idea Sgresso. Now hopefully no one else will try 3 for poison or 8 for parasites in today's submission so that we can optimize our data. Keep coming with those ideas Sgresso.