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[EndOfFemme]

Package number 3!

I got a very nice picture of a wooden hammer.


A much larger version is here. I think that I see a word written on the head of the hammer (bottom-left edge along the curve), but it may be detail in the drawing. I can scan the drawing if it's needed.

I also received the letter with dots and the offset writing hidden in the picture frame.




The dots decode to this (with my own thoughts on phrase breaks):

[mapmaker]

Just a note on your package - "hasten" in the dot message is probably "has ten".

What do we have so far from these dots?

[RedHatty]

[SPEC]

The plume has eight? Must be a clue as to the letters

and someone is getting a sketch of a beetle.... [/SPEC]

[mapmaker]

[Lovek]

[Lucy]

I don't quite get your rationale, but I would suggest that the answer must include the names of three people.

[EndOfFemme]

I'm not sure if it changes anything, but this looks like it's the source of the drawing.

[thebruce]

wow lots of puzzles coming through tcotsa.

Has anyone figured out the sliced letters yet? Anagrams? Substitution? It doesn't look like there are spaces, and I doubt they're all 2 words...

[negativeview]

I am leaning toward something more complex than substitution, and I do not believe that it is going to be (easily) solvable until we get more (as substitution may be thanks to frequency analysis, et al). We seem to get more during every round and this is supposed to last 13 rounds. Just because of how multi-layered and hidden the puzzles have been so far, I'm assuming that we won't be able to make heads or tails of the letters until we have the complete set.

That being said, feel free to prove me wrong, as all of the unsolved puzzles are driving me batty.

[Inju]

Boo, see what happens when I get distracted and forgetful. (*Is the most easily distracted person in the wor--ooh, icecream--*)

No package for me, but I did get a 'letter' this morning. Grabbed it as I was running out the door, so I can't scan it, but the paper itself does not seem to have anything on it.

Enclosed are two smaller strips folded in half. One is very narrow and has "six seven" in red on one side, and "our" on the other.

The other has the words "while three not un fide" on the bottom of one side, spaced at about an inch apart from each other, the other side is blank.

Sorry, haven't got much else to contribute--haven't had a chance to review the previous posts very thoroughly yet. :T

[EndOfFemme]

I got a letter today, as well.

It seems to be answers to the questions I asked in my submission, though I haven't had time to look it over or scan it.

[RedHatty]

woo hoo - I got a letter today.

2 strips of plain white paper, no numbers, nothing on the backs.

Scan below

1st strip

Top row: the may appear bona

Bottom row: diagrams lineage are momentous

2nd strip

Top row: of they indeed architects

Bottom row: of culture

[RedHatty]

trying to put together the words (this may be very wrong) I come up with

[Reishka]

If RedHatty's correct in putting together the words... could it have anything to do with what the pictures symbolize?

Plume: For writing the declaration / old documents
Hammer: Could it be a gavel? Justice?
Boot: Maybe it being a cowboy boot has some sort of significance.

I don't know where the beetle (in the dot-text) ties into all this, but maybe 'the most riveting person' is someone who had something to do with all three of these?

If only that offset text made more sense. I still can't make heads or tails of it.

[Lovek]