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[JohnnyCon7]

[PUZZLE]Wood and Cloth

[skywing]

DCDD

[negativeview]

I'm fairly certain that "a duice" is really "advice."

[JohnnyCon7]

I also tried heating and wetting the cloth since I've posted, but I got nothing. I think we can pretty much rule out anything being hidden on the cloth.

I'll try braille some more, but it quickly seems to turn into jibberish for me.

EDIT: I'm completely musically illiterate, so I don't even know if it's a dumb suggestion, but could it be some type of sheet musics? like drum notes?
This site came up on my DCDD google search
http://www.dcdd.org/
Any musicians wanna check this angle, I've been messing around with online drum games but I don't know what I'm doing.

And, good call on "a duice" being "advice" negativeview, thats right on.

[skywing]

not music

[TylerK]

If you rotate the front side of the wood 180 degrees from the way it's shown in the photo, you can get the word "the" in braille without too much imagination, but from there it's pretty hard to figure out how things would line up.

[TylerK]

Out of curiosity, do the holes on the wood go all the way through, or are there different sets of holes on the front and the back?

[JohnnyCon7]

No, the holes don't go all the way through, they are different sets on each side. I tried reading the braille by turning the board as you suggested, and I've also try using the dots as the bumps, and then as depressions; I havent been able to make sense with any of it though.

[RedHatty]

JohnnyCon,

Just an idea - can you do say, a rubbing, of a side & then turn the wood over & re-rub with the other set of holes (play with it a bit as it may require different ends up) and see if maybe that develops into readable braille?

[TylerK]

I'm probably stretching a bit, but this is what I came up with braille-wise. I do find the inclusion of some english words or parts of words interesting at least. The fact that it's possible to come up with valid braille chars using all the dots is either important or coincidental, I guess.

[JohnnyCon7]

You seem to be getting further than me TylerK, since I was coming up with a lot of invalid characters. And, I'm not exactly sure what you want me to do RedHatty, if you just want to see an overlay of both sides I can try to do that in photoshop when I get home.

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[skywing]

They don't line up

[soleta]

I just had my girlfriend look at the shingle. She's a music major, and she says that it's extremely unlikely that it's a song of some sort; you would need pitch notations, which aren't provided. She also says that she doesn't read drum notation, so that's a possibility, but again, it's unlikely.

I'll be emailing skywing about the .psd file, though. you never know.

[skywing]

[JohnnyCon7]

Thanks skywing I did forget the cloth pic. I've edited the post.
I also scanned the wood so I could better overlay it; I've added those scans to the first post too. The overlay still doesn't line up very good, but heres the image anyway.
Shingle Overlay