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Keldrena · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 4

I got a letter!

**Posted:** Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:05 pm

Lovek · Unfettered Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 434

Re: I got a letter!

**Posted:** Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:52 pm

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Keldrena · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 4

Sorry about that. Embarassed

**Posted:** Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:51 pm

Lovek · Unfettered Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 434

**Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:23 pm

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Lovek · Unfettered Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 434

Got a letter today.

Back of Envelope

Drawing (ignore the black line along the bottom... it's from my scanner)

**Posted:** Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:31 pm

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JohnnyCon7

It seems too easy but the picture might mean. . .

**Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:35 am

GregT · Boot Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 23

Please trout me if I've missed this suggestion in the thread, but I don't think I've seen it in my couple of days of lurking this eccentric postal ARG.

As far as the little drawings go, I'm not sure what you're supposed to derive from them exactly, but the mathematical operands suggest to me that they're to read in the normal operand processing order - multiply, divide, add, subtract.

Also my reading of the last picture posted would be that the leftmost item in the second drawing is a cookie, not a sponge. Not sure where that gets you, though.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:50 am

GregT · Boot Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 23

BZZT. Disregard last post, I'm obviously not on the same wavelength as the Committee.

Solve for the message in those two drawings is GOLD CITY.

Grapes
Oregon
Lemon
Die

Cookie
Icicle
Triangle
Yak

(So the order to read these things is X + / - , for some reason.)

Now, the next question is what to do with that.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:59 am

GregT · Boot Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 23

Sorry to spam. For what it's worth, my reading on the others is:

#1

Bottle
Octopus
Spoon
Hand / Palm
(BOSH?) (BOSP?)

#2
Leaf
Apple
Spectacles/ Sunglasses / Glasses
Snake / Serpent / Eel / Worm
(LASS?) (LASE?)

#3
Turtle
Owl
Lemon
Domino
(TOLD)

Thanks to the clearer art in the more recent pictures it's a bit easier to tell what they're supposed to be. Possibly they all string together to form an ongoing sentence - Something Something TOLD GOLD CITY.

Good luck.

**Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:06 am

requin_devrais · Kilroy Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

[puzzle] sans instructions

**Posted:** Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:05 pm

JohnnyCon7

I got a package from tCotSA today, and I am completely lost.

Package Front
Package Back

When I opened it there was a shingle inside marked with dot impression poked into it.

Shingle Front
Shingle Back

And, writing on the inside of the cloth.

Cloth interior

I've been trying braille, but to no avail. Wink

Any ideas?

Lovek · Unfettered Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 434

After staring for a few minutes, I've go nothing.

I'm starting to think we may fail the Sedulous Amalgamation after all.

They send out some tough puzzles!

**Posted:** Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:24 am

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JohnnyCon7

Well I couldn't sleep so I made some edits on the shingle images to make it easier to see the holes.

tCotSA Shingle Front Edit
tCotSA Shingle Back Edit

And, I scanned the hangman that was on the back of the envelope

Hangman

Ya Lovek their puzzles are tough indeed, but we've also been hampered by the fact that we always seem to be missing one packet that gives us the last vital clue. I'm really enjoying this game, its awesome coming home from work and being greeted by a new tCotSA package! It's like Christmas!

**Posted:** Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:02 am

GregT · Boot Joined: 16 May 2006 Posts: 23

Right way up?

**Posted:** Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:23 am

StainlessRat · Kilroy Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 2

Got a letter (11x8.5 in.) from tCotSA a few days ago, sorry I just got to it, but life is busy. In any case the link to view and download it is http://filer.case.edu/pjb23/tCotSA%20Jan%2020.jpg. Nothing particularly remarkable about the envelope, the sending PO was Royal Oak MI 480, and the stamp was of a Gee's Bend quilt.

Edited because I'm an idiot.