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the first door
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DoorJam
Guest

The First Door
Directional Thinking

Please help I've figured out the clues but don't have a breeze what to do with them.

I'm taking left column of letters and translating from D-Q and Q-D left to right and just getting nonsence. Same with right column translating from D-Q and Q-D right to left and nothing.

Obviously completely wrong pls give me a clue to get me back on track. Tnx.

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:29 am

sad_bot
Boot

Joined: 20 Aug 2007
Posts: 65
Location: galaxy 3.5

im still lost...

trying to figure out how to get started!

i tried "IWishToFindYou" but to no avail T-T what do i doooo?

help plz?

ty.

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:36 am

sexyblues13
Kilroy

Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Posts: 1

HELP COUNTDOWN!!!!!

OK I HAVE THE PARTIAL ANSWER FOR COUNTDOWN AND I KNOW WHO ITS FROM BUT IT SAYS IM SO CLOSE BUT I NEED TO LOOK AT THE TITLE TO WHICH IS THE BAND BELOW CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP![/spoiler]

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:55 pm

sad_bot
Boot

Joined: 20 Aug 2007
Posts: 65
Location: galaxy 3.5

Re: HELP COUNTDOWN!!!!!

sexyblues13 wrote:

OK I HAVE THE PARTIAL ANSWER FOR COUNTDOWN AND I KNOW WHO ITS FROM BUT IT SAYS IM SO CLOSE BUT I NEED TO LOOK AT THE TITLE TO WHICH IS THE BAND BELOW CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP![/spoiler]

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all you need to know is the title of "the band below"... what does the image represent? do a search for something band-related (albums, songs, etc) and see which band comes up

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:22 pm

natas
PHP Ninja

Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 3177
Location: Northwest Indiana

Countdown

Just started this puzzle... still playing draculas riddle.... you can help me on that one too if anyone would like lol.... anyway I solved countdown by reading the forums.... I still don't know how it was done.... i am on dot matrix... I can pm you the answer to countdown.... but i don't have any clues as I got it by luck lol

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:23 am

Fatemagician17
Guest

Dominoes

Mentor wrote:

ok i've used the hints for the 'My Broken Dominoes' and i've deduced that the answer might be

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eggs

but it keeps giving me the dead end page, do I have to use a different door name.

plz help

Case sensitive, remember?

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:18 pm

Chromecide
Boot

Joined: 25 Feb 2008
Posts: 69
Location: Australia

Re: Joining of the Senses

FergyK0416 wrote:

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you are joining two senses... if you're looking at something, you've got the visual... so seeing and..?

OMG so slow

slow on finding the Puzzle Trail in the first place...
and now slow on solving the damn things

stuck on The Senses of joining, and even the hint given has me Bang Head

i SO suck at this....

EDIT:
I SUCK LESS...

i got it and now i really AM Bang Head

cause that hint REALLY makes sense...

the only thing i could add is:

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Clap the Rythmn

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 3:32 am

losing_grip_666
Guest

Argh

I've read the two clues for sense of joining but my slow brain still can't figure it out...more help pleeease!

Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:29 am

Jessica
Guest

HELP!
I cant get past the broken dominoes

does anyone know hotr to get past broken dominoes? is it a dead end?

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:00 am

Crucifixation
Veteran

Joined: 01 May 2008
Posts: 95
Location: Asia

Re: HELP!
I cant get past the broken dominoes

Jessica wrote:

does anyone know hotr to get past broken dominoes? is it a dead end?

How do the blind see? Wink

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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:01 am

Jessica-Amy
Kilroy

Joined: 02 Oct 2008
Posts: 1
Location: Australia

Countdown
HELP!!

ok so i know that the

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anagram is countdown

but what does that have to do with a band? i know that

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There is a band called Europe that did a song called The FInal Countdown

but does that have anything to do with it?

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:13 am

kie_yeo
Veteran

Joined: 26 Jan 2006
Posts: 85
Location: Romford, Essex

Yes, you've done the research and found the answer!

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Now try putting it in the appropriate place in the address bar

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:03 am

padlohist
Kilroy

Joined: 20 Feb 2009
Posts: 1

Dot Matrix

Pls. guys!
How do you know, that you have to witch-in-german

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hex

the binary number?

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:09 am

teh_lisa
Entrenched

Joined: 27 Nov 2005
Posts: 950
Location: my chair

Wow, I had forgotten I even started this thread Smile

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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:36 pm

DAM
Guest

ENOUGH ALREADY

FOR THOSE LOSING THEIR MINDS:

I have decided to post the URLs and explanations for all the doors.

Getting to the first door

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/TheFirstDoor/IWishToFindHim.htm - THIS is how you get to the first door. I know it's stupid. Something as simple as bad formatting shouldn't keep people from starting the puzzle.

Door 1 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/MyBrokenDominoes/1843.htm - This one is easy. Sure, wikipedia gives 2 years; just try them both. Or use some common sense.

Door 1 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/MyBrokenDominoes/Eggs.htm - It's braille. This one is also a no brainer. I figure most people have seen a braille letter or two. They're easy to recognize.

Door 2 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/TheBandBelow/TheGoldenCompass.htm - google is your friend.

Door 2 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/TheBandBelow/Europe.htm - If you tried "countdown", you already know, that hint makes no sense, and doesn't have any relation to the actual answer. Get lucky, google "countdown song" or something similar. "The band below" is the band that played the song.

Door 3 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/DotMatrix/BridgeOfSighs.htm - again, google is your friend.

Door 3 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/DotMatrix/Plover.htm - OK, this one pissed me off. How are you supposed to know that a 0 goes before each set of binary? There's no indication of it. Anyway, once you realize that's what you need to do, which you probably only did because you read it in a post, convert the binary, then convert that to text. It's a bird.

Door 4 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/StuckInABox/Geese.htm - The doorman codes seem to be pretty simple and clear... for now.

Door 4 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/StuckInABox/LostInTheCenterOfGlasgow.htm - Now THIS is a puzzle that makes sense. A little simple, sure, but it's clear, direct, and has a logical approach and solution to it. It also only has 1 possible solution, so you know you're right. Wish all of them were like this.

Door 5 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/TheModernPiano/Atbash.htm - I just googled "hebrew substitution cypher" and it was the first link.

Door 5 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/TheModernPiano/Palace.htm - They're obviously stars. You probably recognize cassiopeia right away, and maybe you're lucky enough to recognize the other 2. (They're Pegasus and Volans, by the way.) Put them in that order, and count the letters. My only real complaint is the number "26" at the end there. There are only 25 characters. Yeah I get it, the zero and the 26 are there to let you know it's a whole word or something... whatever.

Door 6 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/PhilosophersParadox/RoyalMile.htm - Glasgow is in Scotland. The capitol is Edinburgh. Google edinburgh castle, not much (it's under description). Edinburgh palace, right there.

Door 6 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/PhilosophersParadox/Park.htm - ...What the hell. Yeah, the symbols are wingdings, that's obvious to anybody who uses MS Word. You quickly figure out that they are the letters UQGK. And you may guess that the philosopher's paradox is referring to transmuting lead into gold, although it's never referred to as "the philosopher's paradox"; at least nowhere I've read. Apparently, if you don't know that, you're screwed. But then comes the awesome part... transmuting lead into gold means counting the letters it takes to get from L to G, from E to O, etc. Then apply that to your webdings and get Park (after a couple of tries). How you're supposed to figure that out is beyond me.

Door 7 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/TheSensesOfJoining/Quadraphonic.htm - Search.

Door 7 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/TheSensesOfJoining/TwinkleTwinkleLittleStar.htm - Another winner. I guess the black and white should lead you to believe its a piano. Or, maybe that if you plug "colourful organs", you get... nothing. Try "colourful organ", and... still nothing. "Colour organ"... nothing, BUT, there's a link... did you mean "colour organ"? Hell if I know. Why not. Look at that! a keyboard with lights. What a shot in the dark. (BTW, if you forgot to spell it all Europey, without the extra and unnecessary "o", you'll likely never find it.) Then I guess you're supposed to infer from this that the colors are notes. Which notes? Who knows. Guess the right song and you win. Yay.

Door 8 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/PurelyTheoretical/1.100.htm - The irrational number "e" minus the golden ratio. Not too bad, I guess.

Door 8 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/PurelyTheoretical/Infinity.htm - "...You can see forever." If you type that in, the game laughs at you, but kind of tells you you're on the right track. I guess since gamma is sometimes a math symbol, you're supposed to guess that the word you're looking for is "infinity". Even though gamma and infinity are completely unrelated. Oh, and it's not "YouCanSeeInfinity", which would make perfect sense; if you put that in, you dont get so much as a nod. Mind reading would sure come in handy here. If you don't have that, just keep taking shots in the dark until something sticks. How rewarding.

Door 9 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/WelcomeToTheSixth/Windgassen.htm - Search again.

Door 9 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/WelcomeToTheSixth/NearKelvingrove.htm - WOW. I don't even know where to begin. Apparently this puzzle was designed solely for expert bell ringers, and to those 8 people I say, you will die a virgin. Anyway, if you look at the rows of letters, you may, somehow, realize that there's one row in each group that has the same letters. If you anagram these letters, exhaust yourself at the dead end of "tandems", and eventually stumble upon "stedman", google "stedman bell", stumble upon "stedman triples", and find a chart, look at that, it looks similar. Follow the start of the sixth bell, and you get your URL. Seriously, there are actually people who do this? Id rather jump off the bell tower.

Door 10 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/DirectionalThinking/WestminsterQuarters.htm - Took a little more googling than the others, but findable.

Door 10 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/DirectionalThinking/FindMeByTheRiver.htm - Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. I have no idea how the hell you're supposed to realize any of this, but it has something to do with a QWERTY keyboard. "Crossing the road" and "not from the new world" apparently refer to looking right first, then left. Whatever. Put it all together, use your telepathy, and you may come up with writing down the letters that appear to the left and right of each letter in the picture on your keyboard, and then going down in a zig-zag pattern (right to left, of course) and spelling out the message. Sure, you may come up with it, but probably not before that room full of chimps finishes typing up all of Shakespeare's stuff. Speaking of Shakespeare...

Door 11 Enter

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/ShallICompareThee/EnPassant.htm - You either know it or you don't, I guess. Or you can probably google it. I knew it.

Door 11 Solution

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/ShallICompareThee/Winter.htm - What a waste this one was. The puzzle was actually looking promising. If you do the research, you find out that the missing symbol is Water, and boy, is it rough. And the title is the first line from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, and finishes with "to a summer's day." So, you have summer, water, a leaf... spend a couple days trying to piece that all together, get frustrated, and find out the answer was actually "winter", which is completely unrelated to anything else you've found. This one actually had potential. Why he chose to close it with "winter" I'll never know.

Final Door

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http://www.thefirstdoor.co.uk/TheFirstDoor/TheFinalHurdle/PeoplesPalaceAndWinterGardens.htm - Finally, another good one. Requires intuitiveness, rational thinking, logic. Put together all your other answers, weed out the ones that make no sense or are unrelated, and you have Glasgow, palace, park, near Kelvingrove, by the river, and winter. Ah, so that's why they forced winter in there. Hop on Google Maps and search for Kelvingrove, and start looking. Search for nearby parks and palaces, and there's Glasgow Green, home of the People's Palace and Winter Garden. Note that the instructions for this one said to exclude punctuation and spaces, which gives you a good heads up that you're on the right track. Congratulations! You've just wasted a good amount of your life that you can never get back.

To those wondering why I did this: Most of the people who stumbled upon this travesty didn't know what they were getting into. They had no idea the amount of time they'd waste trying to guess what this guy was thinking and typing it exactly right. If you're mad about it, tough. Don't look at it.

Sincerely,

Me

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:13 pm

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