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[domroberts]

[Puzzle] #156 - Blue - Going Dotty (Wave 4)

[themandotcom]

It looks to me that if the card was on its side, or upside down the dots would read something. i.e. The left most yellow dot cluster kinda looks like a upside down 'h'

[Soulsproximity1]

Well we could try and translate all the brail and see what we get.

[Agent Lex]

Ha, I was wondering if/when someone would make this. Well, long as it's up and the card's fairly clearly visible...

I don't think it's Braille, though it looks very similar. There are some discrepancies, for example one out-of-line dot in the third row of the red dots, and a few clump-y bits that wouldn't work in Braille. I also can't seem to find anything that's either just top-right dot or that upside-down L shape (found right at the beginning of the red set) in Braille.

[domroberts]

[bertyb]

Might just be several magic eye pictures layered on top of each other.

[crovax1234]

My guess is - stack all the dots one on top of the other, letting the colors blend. The dots will then make a picture.

[Agent Lex]

[Soulsproximity1]

Yea Lex I did that too, I see something starting to form but we just need the part covered by the post it note.

[ne0x]

Do you suppose that it might have to do with the dots that overlap? Or perhaps only those that don't?

I can't wait to get this card and try some things out...

[fitzyfitz]

I got my wave 4 cards this morning, including this one.

Turn the card on its side and reading across the face in UV ink is:

RUBIESDIAMONDSEMERALD
STOPAZAMETHYSTSSAPPHI
RESRUBIESDIAMONDSEMER
ALDSTOPAZAMETHYSTSSAP
PHIRESRUBIESDIAMONDSE
MERALDSTOPAZAMETHYSTS
SAPPHIRESRUBIESDIAMON
DSEMERALDSTOPAZAMETHY
STSSAPPHIRESRUBIESDIA
MONDSEMERALDSTOPAZAME
THYSTSSAPPHIRESRUBIES


Not sure what it means, but seems to relate to text on card 30 (End of the Line) which is a quote from Gyvann and is superfluous to the puzzle on that card:

"Precious are the stones my children, precious that which is dug from the earth. Precious are the rubies, the diamonds, the emeralds and the topaz. I held fast to the amethysts. They mingled them with sapphires, so I threw them both from me. Only one choice remained and from then nothing was right. My children I did not despair, as you must not despair. A quadruped appeared before me, its middle leg held proudly forward. I turned my back to it and strode forward. But after only 20 ammot the light was upon me. Precious, my children, is the light."

[DarkHuman]

i took all 3 pictures, and what was visibal with the other 2 colors on the card's side, and tried to put them together, but with no advail, i didn't have the programe you do agent lex. mind giving that a go. i tried to stick all 5 pics together, as a .gif, and again no luck. >>ran them as a string together, and i see "people" or "perplex" then again, i didn't have the bigger picture, just the small firebox one.

[thereverendeg]

Hmmmm

[fitzyfitz]

Everything except EMERALDS and AMETHYSTS is definitely in a bolder font...curiously Gyvann's quote separates sapphires and amethysts from the other gems.

Oh, and in the top-right corner of the card reading upwards are the numbers:

2-111221111112-4 reading upwards
2-2232-4 reading downwards

I haven't had time to study them in detail but I've found these types of numbers appear on 13 wave 4 cards so far - definitely seems to be another meta-puzzle.

[KingOfWrong]