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[S2] [Cards Set] #194 Artifact
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PuzzledPineapple
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 		[S2] [Cards Set] #194 Artifact
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a recent archaeological dig in the tangential desert uncovered this strange, decorated cube

it is believed to bear an inscription implied by a series of letter ladders runnig along its faces

it appears to be an early form of the Puzzle Cube, now an established genre of Perplex City entertainment, dating from the Rainer Period, but the dig team's decipherment adjunct were unable to decode the inscription.

What is the message on the cube?


There's no way I can transcribe what's on the cube, feel free to ask any particular questions.

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Greycastle Hospital

Patient 0059823: Daniel Saunion
Case Report by Dr. T. Kennard

Daniel Saunion is 32 year old male. Tests conducted before his injury indicate that he was highly intelligent and creative, although this was tempered by a reckless nature; this may go some way to ecplaining his exit from the Perplex City Academy and his actions afterwards.

The nature and details of Saunion's injury are not known exactly. He was brought into Greycastle Hospital from Catbite Gorge five months ago, following a rock fall in that area. Saunion was unconscious from an apparent blow to the head, but had not other serious injuries. A preliminary MRI scan revealed unusual neural activity, with blood flow patterns not representative of normal coma patients. EEG scans were inconclusive, and invasive surgery was ruled out as an option by his father.

It was agreed that further testing was required, using functional terahertz nanoscale imaging. This advanced scan merely deepened our conclusion; Saunion exhibited unusually controlled bursts and spikes of neural activity. Analysis showed that his neural activity was analogous to that which causes the characteristic beta and theta rhythms seen in REM sleep.

It seems that Daniel Saunion has been dreaming continuously for the last five months.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:38 pm
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LastResort
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 		I've found words that fit into the boxes. They are:
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Top square: Wean
Center square: Dour
Left square: Nine
Right square: Rave
2nd from bottom square: Bony
Bottom square: King

wean
wear
sear
soar
sour

rave
rove
roue
rout
pout
pour
dour

dour
doer
does
dons
done
none
nine

nine
wine
wing
king

nine
bine
bone
bony

king
kind
bind
bond

rave
pave
pane
pone
pony

wean
ween
teen
tees
ties
tins
kins
king

wean
weal
well
wall
wale
wave
rave


I don't know what to do from here. It might be to do with the placement of black lines between the words. Sometimes they are there, sometimes the boxes touch each other.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:40 pm
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Curlytek
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 		Did you try actually forming the cube, or looking at the letter strings around the faces of the cube? Or perhaps looking at the colour related letters (eg. all the letters in a dark green box).

PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:09 pm
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ArcySparky
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 		I've looked at the letters in the different coloured boxes and from what I can see:

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Red: A, D
Blue: N, U
Yellow: L
Orange: G, N, S, T, Y
Green: O
Lime: E
White: K, P, W
Beige: B, R, S, T
Brown: E, R
Pink: A, I



Nothing I can really see to do with them, except anagramming.

So far I can't see any differences between:

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the words next to each other and the words seperated by black lines


~Arcadmireshislittlecardboardcube...

PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:37 pm
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DJGeki
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 		ArcySparky: Check your list of letters per color once more. I don't see anything in Green at all on the card. Am I nuts?

PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:09 pm
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It seems you can put the words together to spell a message.. I haven't been able to quite get it yet.. For example: WEAN DOUR RAVE NINE BONY KING can be We And Our Raven In Ebony King. But that makes no sense... I can't find an order yet that works.


PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:07 am
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 		is this closer?
This one isn't the solve, but it seems a bit closer:
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WEAN DOUR NINE BONY KING RAVE = We and our nine bony kin grave


PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:19 am
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rlp6028
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 		Ok, yall have officially confused me...

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Where did you get those letters from? On my card, the only 2 vowels listed are 2 e's. There is not an "a", "i" "o" or "u" at all, so from what basis were the words above made?

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:08 pm
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LastResort
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 		On the cube, their are a series of word ladders, i.e. a line of words that go from one word to another, by changing one letter at a time, so that each step has a word on its own.
e.g.
heat
head
held
hold
cold

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In each word ladder, the colours represent the same letter being used (although the same colour used in different ladders on the cube does not necessarily represent the same letter). By filling in the letters we know, and then working out with a little help from a dictionary and the first website that comes up when we google 'crossword solver' i.e. http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/crossword.html no matter how inefficient it is to use, we can fill in the letters we don't know. This is what I did above, and came up with the main six words wean, dour, king, bony, rave and nine.
Hope that answers your question.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:23 pm
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ArcySparky
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 		Nods those are the words I came up with also...

Though I still haven't worked out what to do with them.

I've been staring at the little cube I made for hours now. Nothing has come to me.

Bedtime methinks.

~Archopestheanswerswillcometohiminhisleep...

*EDIT*

BRAINWAVE!

Solved it! W00t!

You are so close yochanan1!!!

PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:24 pm
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DJGeki
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 		And now that I see how the card works, I feel like an idiot. Now to solve the word shuffle :p...

EDIT: and Arcy was right...you were extremely close yochanan1.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:30 am
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LastResort
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 		I still haven't managed to get this right. Was yochanan1's first guess or second guess closer? And have we got the general idea of what to do with the words right, i.e.
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Putting them in a string to create new words, like signmaker puzzles? (http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles/puzzle.php?puzzle_id=puzzle150)


PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:42 am
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Sophiecat
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LastResort wrote:
I still haven't managed to get this right. Was yochanan1's first guess or second guess closer? And have we got the general idea of what to do with the words right, i.e.
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Putting them in a string to create new words, like signmaker puzzles? (http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles/puzzle.php?puzzle_id=puzzle150)


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:46 pm
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 		so far i have
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WE AN DO URN IN EBONY KIN GRAVE but obviously the first bit is giving me trouble


PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:37 am
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Sophiecat
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pheebs wrote:
so far i have
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WE AN DO URN IN EBONY KIN GRAVE but obviously the first bit is giving me trouble


So close!

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WE AND OUR


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KIN GRAVE


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N IN EBONY



Are all correct, now make into a logical phrase!!
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