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chimera245
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 		The problem with Risk
I have been working on the Risk problem too (lots of ranting on #perplexorum), and while I am still staying with it, the one problem I have is how little use getting a Risk country would be.

For a start, most of the areas are HUGE.

Taking Europe as a start:

Great Britain, Iceland, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Southern Europe Ukraine and Western Europe.

Barring Iceland (which would be a bizarre exception), all the others are not really a great deal of a help, and could surely have been clued in a much less obscure but equally convoluted way.

All the other areas are similarly non specific.

I was thinking more on the lines that either the sequence of moves, the reverse engineered starting position, or the final position would somehow Spell or draw something for us.

Hell, my retro Risk set uses coloured blocks of wood for armies and you could use those to make a Piet style abstract art picture if you wanted.

*grumbles about this puzzle taking his sleep now that there is not too much work going on*.

Still I've got remote access tested and working at home so I should be able to attend all of the chat tomorrow morning. Maybe our meta mind can work it out . . .

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 		Re: The problem with Risk
chimera245 wrote:
I have been working on the Risk problem too (lots of ranting on #perplexorum), and while I am still staying with it, the one problem I have is how little use getting a Risk country would be.

For a start, most of the areas are HUGE.
Remember, though, that the people making the puzzle know the answer, so they know if it's useful or not.

They may have choosen the puzzle based on the answer, not the answer based on the puzzle.

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drinkmonsters
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 		five fingers point:
half the world
realm
region
feature
last mystery

why can't this piece of the puzzle be the realm aspect of 5 fingers point?

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Datango
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drinkmonsters wrote:
five fingers point:
half the world
realm
region
feature
last mystery

why can't this piece of the puzzle be the realm aspect of 5 fingers point?


I must have missed something.

Where did this info come from?

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M. Johansson
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Datango wrote:
drinkmonsters wrote:
five fingers point:
half the world
realm
region
feature
last mystery

why can't this piece of the puzzle be the realm aspect of 5 fingers point?


I must have missed something.

Where did this info come from?


That text is the solved Secret Location card.

edit: And btw, I agree that it makes sense that the RISK puzzle would be on of the five fingers.
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Datango
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M. Johansson wrote:
Datango wrote:
drinkmonsters wrote:
five fingers point:
half the world
realm
region
feature
last mystery

why can't this piece of the puzzle be the realm aspect of 5 fingers point?


I must have missed something.

Where did this info come from?


That text is the solved Secret Location card.


Ah - thanks - I haven't got that.

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M. Johansson
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 		Re: The problem with Risk
chimera245 wrote:
I have been working on the Risk problem too (lots of ranting on #perplexorum), and while I am still staying with it, the one problem I have is how little use getting a Risk country would be.

For a start, most of the areas are HUGE.

Taking Europe as a start:

Great Britain, Iceland, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Southern Europe Ukraine and Western Europe.

Barring Iceland (which would be a bizarre exception), all the others are not really a great deal of a help, and could surely have been clued in a much less obscure but equally convoluted way.


Hmm, I don't know, knowing (and not just guessing) what country or area the cube is in, would be very helpful information in deciphering the other meta-puzzles. If/when the solution to the RISK puzzle is attained, I think it's very possible that the shapes hidden in the cards can be put together into a region of the that area.
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 		Spec
Just putting the specs together, and adding a little of my own.

I agree ultimately that the number strings are related to the "five strings" clue. We already have an answer to 'feature' (ans. arboreal), and I read a post somewhere that we have an answer to 'half the world' (ans. North Hemisphere) by using the waking page on LOB.

Major spec:
1) Using the 'number strings' and 'risk', we might be able to get to a country, and be able to answer 'realm'. (dont ask me how we will get to it using RISK. i mean seriously, if i knew, I would post an answer already instead of spec-ing).

2) As M.Johansson pointed out (thanks!), the cut-out shapes from the different cards might be able to form an overall shape, which can form a STATE (if 'realm' was US), or a COUNTY / PROVINCE / what-ever-it-is-called (if 'realm' was UK, or some other country). This will be the answer to 'region.' I'm guessing why people still aren't able to find an exact match to the shapes put together is because we're supposed to use the shapes to come up with something smaller than a country (i.e. state, province, county, etc...)

3) Which now leaves 'last mystery' -- which will ultimately give us the final clue to where exactly the cube is buried.


P.S. Of course, before getting to 'last mystery', we will have to get the 'arboreal' areas in that 'region' we found.).

P.P.S. I think once the 'number strings' are solved, using the shapes will become solveable within a few days. After which, 'arboreal' will follow with in hours... and then its a race to the cube!

(I'm trying to get everyone excited by the prospect of solving the 'number strings'... we are close to getting the cube! i can feel it.)

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M. Johansson
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 		Re: Spec
Unless Last Mystery refers to the Thirteenth Labour. Razz

edit: Which would make a lot of sense, since it is the last of the Labours, and can be called a mystery of sorts.
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drinkmonsters
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 		just throwing spec out there...

I know we were supposed to solve shuffled a while ago, since it came out with wave 1... but its been fairly impossible. Its heavily coded, and I could see how this one might go by without ever being solved.

Do you guys think that maybe we could use the numberstrings or some sort of ordering pattern to figure out the order of the cards in shuffled? this could possibly lead us to the "last mystery" clue eh?

just feeding the spec monster.
if you don't need it, let it be.

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wonkothesane
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 		...
im not so sure that shuffled can be solved that easily - after all its worth more points than the riemann hypothesis.

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 		There's one aspect of the story I haven't seen anyone comment on yet. CT expects someone to shout "Thief!" any time, and when he gives his name to the receptionist, thinks "certainly now I will be discovered". He has hidden the cube under his coat, so he has no obvious reason to expect that

unless

a) CT thinks someone saw him take the cube (whether or not someone did is another matter)
b) CT was a known thief before stealing the cube.

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 		hobyrne
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CT expects someone to shout "Thief!" any time, and when he gives his name to the receptionist, thinks "certainly now I will be discovered".


Maybe (s)he mistakenly believes everyone on Earth knows about Perplex City and the cube, and knows who (s)he is. Strangely this suggests that some people on earth may have stumbled upon the cube but do not know its relevance or value.

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Purdy
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 		I think s/he expects people on Earth to recognise the cube, that is why they hide the cube in their coat and why they are expecting someone to know that it is a stolen object hence the thief allegations.

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mbhulo
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 		Actually
I think it's guilt. They know they've done something wrong and now expect to be caught.

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