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[EMAIL #3] St. Helena
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strayern
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 		mr. or mrs. help since you are in st. helena
can you tell me how to get into st. helena. what is the solution/password for st. helena once i get there maybe i can help you out. please.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:48 pm
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e_nygma
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Joined: 17 May 2006
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 		Section I Hints
Here are some successive hints to the various puzzles so far; each hint should be a little more specific than the one previous to it. Far be it from me to tell you how to use these clues, but I would suggest that you ONLY READ WHAT YOU NEED to solve the problem you are facing. It's much more enjoyable than just reading the solution. For those who remember, yes, this is an homage to the InvisiClues of Infocom (I avoided being eaten by a grue ... frobozz).

NOTE: The game is intended for players with the most current versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Macromedia Flash. If you do not have these, the game might not work properly. Also, if you have a pop-up blocker, you might want to disable it as windows will pop up as you are playing.

FIRST CLUE (on the map given out by Volvo):
"Roll the Dice Until They're Twelve"

Hint #1:
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Start rolling by clicking on the dice. A bit frustrating, you say? Watch where the dice fall ... doesn't seem as random as it should be, right?

Hint #2:
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There are only two places on the map that a six will turn up. Find both and your destiny is revealed.


"Our destiny reveals itself"

Hint #1:
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What do the dice reveal?

Hint #2:
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What do the dice bookend?

Hint #3:
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Notice that the word SEA is highlighted by the two dice

Hint #4:
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Grab the red Solution card (right hand of the screen, bottom card) and enter SEA as the solution. A new window will pop-up.



Find Bermuda on the Map
Hint #1
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Well, how good were you at geography in school?

Hint #2
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Search the map for Bermuda, and click on it when you found it.

Hint #3
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Bermuda is two longitude lines west and one latitude line north of the 'F' in "Find."

Hint #4
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No, seriously that's it.

Hint #5
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Why are you reading this hint? Are you cheating by reading the last hint only? For shame!



Sargasso Sea
Hint #1
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Did you listen/read the narrator's poem?

Hint #2
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Click on the bottle to move on.



Bermuda
What do I do here?
Hint #1
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The narrator's poem isn't very helpful, is it? You are stuck on this beach.

Hint #2
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Think like a pirate for a moment. What do pirates do with their treasure?

Hint #3
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They bury it.

Hint #4
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Move your mouse around the beach until your cursor changes to a pointing finger.


Okay ... I'm at the close up, but nothing seems to happen and I can't go back to the beach.
Hint #1
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They get a bit tricksy here.

Hint #2
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The cursor will not change on this screen.

Hint #3
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Have you tried clicking anyway?


I dug a hole, but there's nothing there.
Hint #1
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Click again to return to the beach.


I dug a hole, and found a bottle in a box. Now I can't do anything else! Help!!
Hint #1
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Kind of an odd bottle, isn't it?

Hint #2
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Why is the label missing?

Hint #3
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Is there a hidden message there? If there is, we need something to reveal it with. But what?

Hint #4
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Some messages are hidden with liquids like lemon juice ...

Hint #5
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... or wine.

Hint #6
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There is no hint #6 (YAY! A Monty Python reference! Okay, okay, that's the last one).

Hint #7
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What happens if you click on the liquid in the lower corner of the box?

Hint #8
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Click and drag the liquid onto the label to reveal the message.

Hint #9
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The message tells you the coordinates for the next stop.

Hint #10
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The coordinates you want are 3238N1653W.


Is that all the bottle is for?
Hint #1
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No.

Hint #2
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Oh, come now, you don't think I'll just tell you, do you?

Hint #3
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Sheesh, some people.

Hint #4
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Fine. You might want to write down the wine's year.

Hint #5
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It's the letters at the bottom of the bottle: MDXVIII

Hint #6
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Or 1518.


I have the coordinates. Now what?
Hint #1
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Click on "NEXT DESTINATION" at the top of the window and enter them as ####A####B (where the # sign represents a digit, A represents either N or S, and B represents either E or W).

Hint #2
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If you can't read the bottle because the window is blocking the bottle, you can click "BACK TO BERMUDA" and write the coordinates down (on paper or another text editor).

Hint #3
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Alternatively, you can enter the coordinates in on the URL line. Just make sure the ####A####B is the last entry on the line. Do this at your own peril; I take no responsibility if you cannot type the characters correctly. I know this works for the US site, but I have not verified it for any other country's game site.



Madeira
Uh, what do I do here? It's kind of dark.
Hint #1
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Well, what do you do normally do at a closed door?

Hint #2
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Announce your presence to the household.

Hint #3
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Walk up and knock.

Hint #4
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Click on the door to zoom in. When you zoom in, click on the panel (a bit off-center) to knock.


I'm in an even darker hallway. What now?
Hint #1
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Well, you can't go left, right or backwards.

Hint #2
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Click into the dark part of the hallway to go forward.


This hallway goes on FOREVER! What am I missing?
Hint #1
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You're right. The hallway does go on forever. Well, it loops back on itself, making it seem like its infinite in length.

Hint #2
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Perhaps you should try to investigate the casks on the left side of the screen.


Okay, I give up. What should I be looking for?
Hint #1
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What was the year of the wine that brought you here?

Hint #2
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You know, the bottle on Bermuda?

Hint #3
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Well, you could start all over and pay closer attention ...

Hint #4
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Or scroll up in this message to look at the hint that deals with it ...

Hint #5
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Or you could be a stinker and read this last hint. Click on the cask that reads 1518.


What is that guy babbling about? I now know what? Why did the guy kick me out?
Hint #1
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He's telling you a story, so you should pay attention. It is only polite.

Hint #2
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Actually, he's telling you MORE than just a story.

Hint #3
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Does anything he say jump out at you as significant?

Hint #4
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Could the poem be a riddle, with the answer to where the ships came from as part of the story?

Hint #5
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What if we rewrite it as:
Twenty ship armada
Forty-two days sailing north
Two nights of horrific storms
Eight ships make it to port safely
Forty days the ignorant thought their
Western gold uncaught.

Hint #6
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What if we rewrite it as:
20 ship armada
42 days sailing North
2 nights of horrific storms
8 ships make it to port safely
40 days the ignorant thought their
Western gold uncaught.

Hint #7
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Enter 2042N2840W in "NEXT DESTINATION" window.



Tropic of Cancer
What do I do here?
Hint #1
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Do you remember what the narrator said? Here's a quick recap:
Blue above, blue beneath
Tame the beat thou cease to breathe
Cradle of crabs, craving to grab
The fragile fragments
Piece by piece we tame the seas

Hint #2
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How about we focus a bit?
Blue above, blue beneath
Tame the beat thou cease to breathe
Cradle of crabs, craving to grab
The fragile fragments
Piece by piece we tame the seas

Hint #3
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Wander around the area and collect the blue pottery shards.


How many shards are there?
Hint #1
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There are nine shards.


WHERE ARE THESE BLOODY SHARDS?!
Hint #1
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Calm down.

Hint #2
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Okay, if you explored around, you might realize that there are only a finite number of places you can go.

Hint #3
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You are in a box.

Hint #4
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A 4x3 box. I suggest you start in a corner (you know you are in a corner when you can only move two directions) and move in a serpentine fashion (e.g. right until you cannot go right, down one row, and go back left ... lather, rinse, repeat).

Hint #5
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Still no luck? Okay, picture the box as follows (you start at E):
A B C
D E F
G H I
J K L

B - off center, to the right
C - more or less dead center
D - just below the tip of the rock on the right side
E - slightly off center, to the right (it's on top of a lightly colored rock)
F - slightly off center, to the left
H - near the top left corner
I - tricksy one; place your mouse at the space between "NEXT DESTINATION" and "HINT" and move a third of the way down.
K - slightly off center, to the left
L - slightly off center, above


ARGH! I'm one shard short!
Hint #1
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You probably are missing a certain shard.

Hint #2
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Go to the bottom-right corner of the box, and go up one square.

Hint #3
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Place your mouse at the space between "NEXT DESTINATION" and "HINT" and move a third of the way down.


Wait a minute! I'm on dry land, but the "BACK" button is gone!
Hint #1
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Congratulations, you found all of the shards.


What do I do with the shards?
Hint #1
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Do you like jigsaw puzzles? I like jigsaw puzzles.

Hint #2
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Put the pieces together to form a plate.

Hint #3
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Your next coordinates are around the edge of the plate. Isn't that a nice plate?

Hint #4
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When the plate is properly put back together, the coordinates read 1555S0542W. Enter them as the "NEXT DESTINATION."


If you got here, then you made it to the first checkpoint! Well done!

PostPosted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:53 am
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kev57_atk
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Joined: 18 Jun 2006
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 		Has anyone got past Saint Helena yet? The ladder you have to climb with all those numbers is driving me mad. I used to be a navigator so cannot understand how I am supposed to count all the numbers to come up with a destination. Help!

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sunset90210
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Joined: 16 Jun 2006
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 		start at bottom of ladder on first rung with writing on it says >35 count the rungs to number 35 the first number on the rung write down the second is the next rung to go too.. again starting at the bottom... by doin this with each rung, you will get the next co-ordinates... hope this helps...

PostPosted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:11 pm
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chr100
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Joined: 17 Jun 2006
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 		What are the coordinates for St. Helena? I figured out how to go up the ladder but am unsure which coordinates to use out of the numbers on the rungs?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:42 pm
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anon?
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 		Hi
I know I must be stupid.... but, I still dont know what these steps mean with the numbers, I have all sorts of combos in my head and written down but I cant seem to see any sort of order, and yes I know there are 100 steps but any other help would be Greatly appriciated, thanks in advance

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RelaximusPrime
Boot


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 		Re: Hi
anon? wrote:
I know I must be stupid.... but, I still dont know what these steps mean with the numbers, I have all sorts of combos in my head and written down but I cant seem to see any sort of order, and yes I know there are 100 steps but any other help would be Greatly appriciated, thanks in advance


Like others before, you overthink the clue
It's stuck in yer gob, like a bit of glue
Go back to begining, not the end
On first step's a clue, follow its wend

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kidxriot
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 		WHY can't I get up the ladder? Everytime I click it it takes me back to the screen I start out in. How do I get up the ladder and use the other numbers? All I see is the ->35

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lightwave
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Quote:
WHY can't I get up the ladder? Everytime I click it it takes me back to the screen I start out in. How do I get up the ladder and use the other numbers? All I see is the ->35


Newb alert! Wink

I've been fighting my way through the 'challenges' since the beginning and came across this website when I was a bit stuck on the laughing man in the wine barrel room. The answer really was in the clue.

Anyway, I've read all the posts on all the pages and I thought I could help and contribute a bit...

If you're using IE, you can probably scroll your mouse wheel to move up/down the ladder. If not, be careful with your click and drag, as I was having the same problem in Firefox trying to drag and ending up back a screen. Don't hold the click too long before you drag. See if that helps.[/i]

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travisk
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 		and be prepared to count the rungs to the # you need...

PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:03 am
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Jaxter342
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 		Thanks man I couldn't get off that Saint helena I tried doing the counting the steps like 40 time and kept getting it wrong.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:01 pm
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StJude
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 		[QUESTION] Dotted line on map changes? Not.
Have searched, please move if incorrect thread.

Map accessed from first e-mail has white dotted line and circles at many features, e.g witches' circle, manmade hole.

Post 6/16 by Golli on the 38 page thread says the dotted line moves if you are up to date and have the correct solution to the puzzles. Nothing has ever changed for me on the Hunt map.

Thought that I had messed up, so I registered with a new codefromanew volvo map at a different e-mail address, and proceeded carefully through Bermuda to Diomede, answering all puzzle cards, and entering coordinates, and the white dotted line never changes.

Does the line change?

Addenda:

I have observed that the game works differently for different players -- I found the china piece in Bermuda at once, then clicked all over the beach for hours,and nothing else happened.

Tried to solve the puzzle verbally -- hound island, Devil's island, the Tempest, Prospero, ad nauseum. Found this site, went back to Bermuda, and eventuallythe wine turned up - but no other "holes"

On the new registration, the pottery spot did not EVER have a hand courser, but I was able to dig in nine other holes (empty) before I found the wine.

Thank you for tolerating us, refugees from PTOC obsession, ignorant of ARG, and dumb as posts.


[EDIT Tagged topic --Gisk]
EDIT: Merged with St. Helena thread. --Phaedra

PostPosted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:18 pm
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 		Related posts have been split from original long topic and given their own thread to hopefully make it easier for those still doing the puzzle trail to find the answers without starting new topics.
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