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[DrNewcenstein]

All in all it's just a....

[GreenWindmill]

Ok, finally caught up on this - sped through some puzzles and been banging my head on my desk for days at others but now I'm seeing these damn blocks in my sleep.

I'm not too hot on complicated ciphers (these tend to have been the head banging puzzles) so I probably won't have much of value to add but that's not going to stop me wasting everyone's time with rambling posts.

I can see a strong argument for the use of either a

[StarkRavingMad]

[DrNewcenstein]

Or to the TV, which does have an input box.

[tripitaka]

[tripitaka]

[corgipower]

the clown page also has a submit answer box.

as is stated, dead ends are undetectable. to not put a submit answer box on a dead end would make it detectable.

however, i think that the path that led to the blocks has been the most logical of paths, and therefore the blocks are what we need to attack.

i also have absolutely no ideas at the moment as to how to decipher them.

[DrNewcenstein]

Clown page? What wrong answer at what puzzle leads to that one?

While I agree the Blocks seems to be the logical path, logic also dictates that the best way to torment someone with this puzzle is to lay out a "logical path" that leads to a dead end, and make the "illogical path" the right one.

That said, I've been separating letters according to orientation and putting the results through Playfair, Caesarian Shift, and Vigenere ciphers.

Once in a while I hit a stray word or two ("Love", and a couple others - I'm at work right now goofing off and all that stuff is on my PC at home) but the ending triple-double is throwing me off. Maybe it's not one word with 3 doubles at the end, but rather two words, possibly even one mispelled on purpose?

I've also been adding the letters that are turned to the right to the list of letters that are rightside-up, and the same Ciphers produce random words and "almost" words (jumbled, one excess letter in the middle, etc).

I've nearly got the "which way is up" letters sussed - the X is wider at the bottom than the top, so that's easy to spot. All that remains is the H, I, and O, which do not appear to have any easily-recognizable traits such as thicker tips on the bottom like the X, or thinner sides for the O (even if it did, you're still stuck guessing which way is up).

One more argument in favor of Gas Mask Guy instead of Block Girl - there's no music on the "rosary" page. Silent Night, anyone?

[SuperSlug]

[DrNewcenstein]

Ooooohhhh the clown is e-ville!

The Morse Code changes!

I think the whole message changes from day to day!

[DrNewcenstein]

Question:

[DrNewcenstein]

Ok, Clown boy doesn't change at 6:00. Bummer.

The message he speaks is:
"Hello. You don't know me. I want to play a game.
There are ways to win this hidden all around you.
Watch your step.
Hurry. You have until 6 on the clock.
Let the game begin."

I waited until the clock read 06:00:00 and nothing happened. I Submitted an answer, which was wrong, then came back and nothing was different.

Also, that's not Morse under the clock, it's a font called Capsule-3. The letters spell UMEK.


Some interesting stats about Clown Face:
The first letter section has 100 letters, 10 of which are orange.
The first number section has 50 numbers, 5 of which are orange.
The second letter section has 250 letters, 25 of which are orange.
The second number section has 100 numbers, but only 9 are orange.

It may be a dead end, but maybe not?

[SuperSlug]

[DrNewcenstein]

Yeah, seems so. Then again, maybe these dead ends can lend some sort of insight into the Blocks? It's not unreasonable to assume that GG used this same encoding elsewhere, since there were a few Vigeneres and Caesars.

While the dead ends are supposed to unsolvable, and some are solvable up to a point, I do get the feeling that something in the trail behind us holds the clue to the Blocks.

I went back through the "path" up to the blocks and there are only 2 Hebrew graphics before you get to the Blocks (I thought there were 3 before, but I was mistooken).

[DrNewcenstein]