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[angadeon]

[Scribe]

Oh, one small thing. If you compare the line of dots to the map, it kind of looks like they might refer to the big road to the right of Key Square, aka "The Shift". I've a feeling this backs up the ROT-style "shift each letter X places", but instinct is a funny beast...

[DarkHuman]

yeah, i see 4 dots, so i did it all in dot 4. got (grouping the #'s by 3's)
333, 121, 231, 100, 212, 332, 122, 231, 302, 210, 111, 022, 021, 120

but your dot3 would be totaly diffrent....but i see 4 dots too.
love how the first group came out 333.

[AtionSong]

EM + rot-4 = IQ

[angadeon]

Ok, here's the line I'm trying to think down...

#5. Letters: A swift and simple kick in the arse to solving the first joker, #223 - Secret Location. In the card we have five books with secret location, and in the meta-puzzle we are told we will need to answer five aspects of the cubes secret location.

#6. Ticks: Coordinate system that seems to give a specific order to the 42 Strings. #253 - Sightseeing, 3D coordinate system that gives a starting point for the 42 Strings.

#7. Pathways: Demonstrates usage of 42 Strings to obtain street names and one letter from each. #250 - Manoeuvres, Demonstrates chess moves for which we are to find names and take one letter from each for the answer.

#8. Flying: Step 1, Several "dials" of letters spinning, specific combinations spell out words. Step 2, Letters in triplets spin down the screen. Step 3, Single "dial" spins to reveal words.

Perhaps a relationship to #058 - Breaking and Entering, spin 3 dials of 5 digits each, one at a time, until the right one is found.
With that in mind, card #058 is one of those with risk men/dice, which, if you look at it, demonstrates 3 sequential battles of 5 dice each. Coincidence?

[rose]

Does the Percent symbol remind anyone of the number pairs? where the O's represent the number strings? I mean why were the numbers paired to begin with - was that just random and then they were reordered properly?

Why do pairs though?

I don't have any good ideas. I thought the percent symbol was a division symbol ... maybe it means a dividing line?

Anyway: i don't see it spelling OD (although maybe DO?) it looks like the line move is telling us something else not making a letter. That the order of the symbols and the way they move matters.

Also, I don't see MOD at all.

[gulrad]

Basic Stuff

[chimera245]

[Noizzzey]

Just to keep you guys thinking, what if the 4 dots stood for 4 letters, and MOD isn't MOD at all... but MOOL. Which means main or root in Sikh..
Main key/ root key.... anyone...?

Or i believe in Belgium is a city called MOOL, maybe its burried there?...

[rose]

back to basics (again)

[jonc]

[rose]

Could the mod be as simple as putting the letters back in the original sequence from the cards? And then maybe that is the cryptext?

I don't understand how the funnel would work with these letters but it could be a good idea.

Dunno, like I said - what is the simplest, most obvious message from this update?

If it is MOD - which seems the best first guess - I didn't know until late last night that a percent sign stands for MOD - then we need to look at how the letters are manipulated in the flash?

[Si]

The only thing that came to me when I saw this using the MOD and the ME highlighted in the text, and the key symbol, I was thinking of something along the lines of :

The KEY is MODEM or MODE M ? MODEM is the KEY ??

This is probably not very useful but does this mean anything to anyone?

[toongoon]

I'v been following (at a great distance) as you astute puzzle scouts part the fog but I wanted to add a random thought in case it helped ... Hopefully it won't hinder at least...

With all the clocks and this in this recent update the idea of clockwise rotation seems clear...

But how to use it?

Do the original number strings allow themselves to fit the map as well as they did to acquire the current number string if after each set of four number strings you rotate the starting points?

as an example (i forget the actual starting points) the first set is derived from:

12
43

Using the next four strings you rotate to:

41
32

and so on for each set of four. It seesm unlikely that it coudl fit nearly so well but who knows.

Does this spark up any other thoughts for anyone?

I'm at work and cannot even test it so forgive the open ended suggestion without more evidence...

[maevey]

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before, but when I was reading toongoon's last post I remembered that when I was learning about mod in maths we used a kind of clock diagram. I couldn't find my textbook but a quick google search threw up the following:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ModularArithmetic.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Congruence.html

Not sure if that means anything more to anyone else but I'm away not to play with the letter string and mod12/mod24/mod60...