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Ifurita
Boot
Black summaries for slow starters Black basics for the newly baffled. Expanding on the Silvers concept started by Random. Also contains spoilers contributed by Random.
Answer clarification - a hint that narrows down the field in terms of what kind of answer is required.
Process help. For cards where the directions are clear. A hint that might help you change the way you approach solving the problem.
Directional Assistance. For cards where you might not even know where to start, this may get you going in the right direction.
Research help. A resource (web site, application) that might be useful for working out potential solves.
#193 Three Thousand Words
#194 Confounding Cube
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Really the card should be asking "who is it?", not "what". Build the cube-maze to find a phrase with both real-world and in-game echoes. Each piece you build should have faces of a single color.
#195 Road Trip
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One particular state offers you a place to begin work, as it must be either first or last - if you can connect it to Tennessee it's first, if you can link it to Arkansas it's last.
#196 RGB
#197 Linguini Junction
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Try working backwards from the end
#198 Headrush
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Von's SMS hint "the eyes have it", A variation on a Masquerade technique will leave the answer staring you in the face.
#199 Three
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A heavily disguised example of a popular type of puzzle. The card title is more important than usual.
#200 A Dream of Babel
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Find the sources of the references and decide whether they are fact or fiction
#201 Smoke and Mirrors
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Identify the source of the scrambled text, then work out why it's not as familiar as the rest of the source.
#202 Mother Tongue
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The final wave three card to be solved. Anagramming gives a phrase you can research to get the solve. Try not to over-complicate it like we did!
#206 Mexid Massege
#208 Freak Word
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www.oneacross.com
#209 Little Pigley Farm
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Check the clarifications on the solve page and use a lot of algebra... general consensus is that 15 and 16 across offer the best starting points.
#210 New Notation
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Use the example of The Entertainer to understand the notation, then play the second tune to identify it.
#211 Molecular
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http://worldofmolecules.com
#212 Whipsmart Birthday
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Birthday Paradox
#213 We be Rational Pirates! Arrr!
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Start with the allocation if there were only 2 pirates. Given that, how would the third pirate propose to divide the gold? Rinse and repeat.
#214 Traces
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Install Google Earth, look up nearby cities in Map Quest
#215 Harmony
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Use the ratio of frequencies. Check solve page as early printings of the card have a major error regarding the sequence of notes. A simple but evocative tune can be found by working out the relationships of each waveform to the others. http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/play_a_piano.html <--- java keyboard
#216 Formal Logic
#217 Tower of Cubes
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Tower of Hanoi
#219 The Master of Secrets
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Harder than many silvers (in my view), this is not a simple substitution - it's a riddle translated into perfect ancient Egyptian. Either translate it back into English (guides to the language exist online) or attack it laterally by thinking about who or what would an Egyptologist describe using the card title. The hieroglyphics translate to a puzzle. Solve the puzzle.
http://hieroglyphs.net/
http://www.jimloy.com/hiero/e-dict.htm
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:33 am
Last edited by Ifurita on Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:26 am; edited 1 time in total
Cinana
Boot
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:05 am
Ifurita
Boot
PM me if the spoilers are too much help or if you have a better spoiler.
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:10 am
Rand0m
Decorated
Nice work
_________________
How the Cube was found - my Season One endgame microsite.
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:56 pm
_izzy_
Veteran
thank,
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:28 pm
dommccas
Greenhorn
Great idea.
edited because of stupidity
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:38 am
Agent Lex
Entrenched
For wave 4 blacks that I've gotten so far (may be a bit soon, but bleh)...
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The entire film does not take place in University, and it's not an American Pie-style "college film". It's a well-known enough film that you've probably heard of it, if not seen it.
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Work out what the numbers mean. The shapes, background and name of the card are all clues to this vital piece of information.
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Find the missing words, then find the connections between them. The background could be seen as a nudge in the right direction.
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The numbers are obviously more important than the rest of the text. Von's hint, "the dark side of fairy tales," should get you to their meanings. And I saved you 50p!
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:16 pm
crovax1234
Boot
223 - Secret Location
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Bit of a straightforward card - be careful on one of the books, which has multiple names, only one of which is accepted.
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:55 pm
Rand0m
Decorated
Thanks guys - it's great this is being updated (says the player with nine blacks he hasn't yet tried to solve in front of him).
_________________
How the Cube was found - my Season One endgame microsite.
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:20 pm
Agent Lex
Entrenched
207: Huey Teocalli
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Try taking the card outside (outside!?) to see some hidden stuff. Also, you should only enter each sun room once.
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Best hint I can give without it being a giveaway is that this is a literature reference, and nothing to do with space.
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:09 pm
fretty
Decorated
Whipsmart Hot Fudge
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Draw a nice diagram of the situation from above and from the side. Use lots and lots of basic trigonometry to get the answer. Make no assumptions about disected angles.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:05 am
Rand0m
Decorated
Brilliant stuff, thanks guys - just two more to go now.
#203 Ecliptic
#222 Instigator
_________________
How the Cube was found - my Season One endgame microsite.
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:14 am
Last edited by Rand0m on Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:52 am; edited 2 times in total
fretty
Decorated
Instigator
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Draw circles that intercept to inform of Events About Troubled History. Someone is responsible, who?
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:33 am
UKver2.0
Decorated
Hahaha, I came to this thread to get a starting point for #203 and it's the only one that hasn't been done. Maybe if I actually looked at the card I'd see that it was so easy there doesn't need to be one.
_________________Naomi: We did joke that we’d end up have to go round to your houses with shovels, drive you to the location and tell you to dig.
Andrea: Paint a little X on the ground with spray paint..
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:07 am
fretty
Decorated
No, it's just hard to write a clue for, the puzzle is just factual so you just have to find the website. If you want the answer or an answer range, PM me.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:38 am
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