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degravedi
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: New Orleans
[PUZZLE] #11 Singapore Opens May 13, 22.00 Local Time Destination:
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http://thehunt.volvocars.net/us/114N10352E
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:54 am
Sassy
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Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 510
Mahjong? Dominoes? What is our next game... Looks like we get to play some kind of dominoes with numbers written on them for the next game.....!
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:23 am
degravedi
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: New Orleans
Re: Mahjong? Dominoes? What is our next game...
Sassy wrote:
Looks like we get to play some kind of dominoes with numbers written on them for the next game.....!
Yeah that's what it looked like to me too! I like the real game-game ones. This looks like it should be fun ^^
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:31 am
RedHatty
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Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1428 Location: x¡Jyœ–‹˜VJvk
This Chart may come in handy
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 12:10 pm
Nusa
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Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 56
http://www.worldtimezone.com/time/wtzresult.php?CiID=17912
Singapore is UTC+8 time zone, no half-hour offsets this time. They don't follow daylight savings, so adjust by an hour if you do.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:22 pm
vballwarrior
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it looks more like mahjong to me, not dominoes.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:52 pm
Cmdr Bond
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Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 52
nah - it'll be dominoes, the pictures show each tile having 2 numbers.
Thanks for the chart.
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In dominoes you have to match numbers, with doubles going sideways. Will we have to match the language as well as the number?
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:49 pm
Max2000
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Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 10
Trees? This one may be like the tree puzzle from last year's hunt. You had to match symbols to get numbers.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:34 pm
synergy
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Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 14
Volvo sure has alot of resources invested in sailing.
Check out these links:
http://www.youthworlds2007.org/
http://www.volvooceanrace.org/
Cleaned up image of huts with lights:
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:14 pm
Cpt. Jenny Kidd
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Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 91 Location: New Mexico
dominos maj jong ready they look like maj jong dominos to me... Thanks red hat for the list of numerals verrry nice .... purrs .....back to two eyes as my patch is now removed.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:34 pm
Sabator
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Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 159 Location: Florida
Singapore Game Game Board This is what the board looks like without the screen in front of it.
I noticed that there are eight white squares but I don't know if that actually means anything though.
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:06 pm
Sassy
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Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 510
PIECE OF CAKE! This one ought to be solved quickly.... It's dominoes.....I'd bet my hat on it.
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We will receive several more wooden pieces, each with numbers at either end. You must match one number to another...see the two Chinese 2s? You set one end to the other so that they touch. It will follow the trail around and fit together with the pieces already in place. The highlighted white squares will be your coordinates. You must then translate them. Get it?
Time will tell if I am right!!
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:44 pm
Cpt. Jenny Kidd
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Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 91 Location: New Mexico
Sassy girl I thinks you have the plan...
Now here is a nice set of numbers to use for translation... http://www.prometheusdigital.com/Numerals.jpg
I finally get to be here at the start of a puzzle ... yipee!
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:16 am
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Cmdr Bond
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Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 52
Sassy, that is exactly how I figured it.
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I still think we MAY have to match language end to end with numbers as well mind.
In the mean-time. Any speculation on where our next destination will be?
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I am fairly confident in predicting that the answer to this puzzle will be along the line x*xx' N/S (so close to the equator, its a tough one to call) xxx*xx' E.
We are currently in Singapore, and stop 13 is somewhere South of Java (Java lying around abouts 7*30'-8*00' S, 156*30'-156*50' E)
so while our next stop may be North or South, I am very confident it will lay between Singapore and Java. If we had any idea where they may have traversed in the movie to go between these 2 places, it may give us an extra clue.
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:32 am
gridwerk
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Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 11
Mahjong Heres a little guess on the next puzzle:
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I think that at least one of the combinations of numbers may be 3601. I recognized one of the characters on the majhong tablet (the one that looks like a 6 on the right) when I folded the map along the moon phases lines. This may or may not be important but it occurs nowhere else naturally on the map yet there it is on the tile. Fold quarter-moon to quarter-moon and youll see the squiggly writing makes a very distinct 3601.
Or maybe not, but I hope that helps.
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Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 11:45 am
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