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[RedHatty]

[Lovek]

[Lucy]

Re: Redhatty's work.

The idea seems sound, but I think the bottom right letter is a J rather than an I.

[stilettoblade]

that's where i was going too. i'm sure there's something obvious we're missing, and we'll all feel dumb when we figure it out, but i dunno right now what i'm missing.

[RedHatty]

[Lovek]

[Russell]

Ok coming at it from a fresh look, I take the "creased" clue to maybe suggest that the letters are creased in the sense of mixed up i.e an anagram as there isnt a word with ***MVJ but there is the word MOJAVE. However this solution for the first word would give thousands of possibilities so I think we are looking for something else but throwing the idea in anyway

Although saying that it could be "Mojave County"

[demallien]

The first letter

[demallien]

Still the First Letter

[stilettoblade]

demallien, we solved the first puzzle. i suspect the symbols may come into play in a later meta-puzzle, but theres nothing really to suggest that right now. the current challenge is the cutout letters a couple pages ago, and their respective solution to mail to the committee.

[Lovek]

Well, here are all eight inner envelopes lined up and in one image (a big image at that):

[RedHatty]

Okay - after reading this entire thread for the zillionth time & being bugger senseless by the "creased elements" comment, I am leaning strongly to the idea that "creased" in this instance is referring to "wounded" as in (context here) the mis-spelled words.

there are still 7 open blanks & so far I have manages to extract 6 letters that can be drawn from the misspellings. Need to go back and re-check yet again.

the circles above the dash pics have an empty & a shaded circle - so my mind starts thinking - letters missing & extra letters

*don't ask how that thought came - I thinks very strangely*

So manor - manner - missing ne - extra o
witch - which - missing h - extra t
thee - extra e

So possible letters for the 2 words we are trying to form (arrangement is of no meaning they tell us, so I think it doesn't even matter which set of blanks/dashes they would go to)

N E O H T E

*of course, I could be very wrong too*

[edit] found the 7th letter - inn - in - extra n

N E O H T E N

[stilettoblade]

RedHatty, if you're going all the way back to the intro letter for "mistakes" (ie manor/manner) then you pobly need to include populous, used instead of populace. so add to your list an extra o, u and s, and a missing a, c and e.

props to the PMs for expanding their vocabulary, but I suspect that encoding the solution in letter variation of mis-used words is a little too linguistically subtle for the circumstances. I think "creased elements" merely means "folded things" and indicates that we need to look closer at the cutouts - I believe it may have been indirectly referencing my post that the cutouts were a red herring and should be ignored.

i'm working on the idea that where the 2 sentences break gives us our letters- the first letter of each cutout gives TAIRRSCU and the first letters of the ink sentence on each envelope are TFWAFTDC

I suspect that those either anagram or ROT to the solution words, and the "hangman" puzzles are clues as to how to decode them.

(okay, i dunno how 2, 8 letter anagrams fit into 2, 6 letter puzzles, but hey, it's a shot.

[RedHatty]

maybe it is the cut out letters. But as far as populous is concerned, there is nothing grammatically incorrect in it's use nor is there an error in spelling, nor improper homonym.

Time to go through the pages again

[stilettoblade]