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[faeryqueen21]

There's also a puzzle on the blog from October 30th. I have no idea how to solve that one either.

[eegleburger]

[faeryqueen21]

[thebruce]

still here
I think they're losing people because of the puzzle, and not a lot of furthering of the story... at least, not in a timely manner... we don't seem to know a purpose for the puzzles either. they just kind of appeared. granted, they seem to be appearing in the desert with alvy and jedd somewhere, but their reasoning is vague, so I think not a lot of people feel overly compelled to strive to slve the puzzles, given their difficulty. *shrug*

[phonon81]

I agree. I've seen people solve some incredibly hard puzzles in ARGs back in my lurker days . I don't think these are necessarily harder (although they are certainly harder than average, which can be a good thing i think), there just aren't enough motivated people working on them.

[Rekidk]

I'm still here too--I just had a week-long hiatus becase school was eating my brain.

That said, I'm not really a puzzle person. Never been good at it. Uh... Sorry. And I don't really have any new ideas for the new puzzles (I've looked at them).

[The Mirror]

puzzles

[phonon81]

Why don't we just brainstorm about the puzzles a little. Perhaps someone has an idea that another one of us can take a little farther towards a solution?

So here's a little summary and a few ideas to get us started...

[phonon81]

Lockstone

[thebruce]

well rethinking the square0 puzzle, we have 9 numbers (of the magic square), so possibly we reorder the letters from the boxes in the number order... in which case, we have

(#, possible letters, possible contents)

[thebruce]

revisiting the lockstone, based on the comments by jedd

here's my text representation:


and some guesses at the images

[ALISDAIRPARK]

<delurk> (sorry if this is troutable)

1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, 47, 76, 123, 199, 322 is a version of fibonacci

Not sure that this helps, other than it means we can predict the series indefinately.

[thebruce]

for reference, here are the links to the three (still unsolved) puzzles:

http://www.exilearchive.com/square0.png
http://www.exilearchive.com/whispers_0.php
http://www.exilearchive.com/lockstone.png
http://www.exilearchive.com/query.php (to submit answers?)



Alvyurin's blog: http://www.exilearchive.com/blog.php?b=1
Jedditor's blog: http://www.exilearchive.com/blog.php?b=2
Vademar's blog: http://www.exilearchive.com/blog.php?b=3

[Rogi Ocnorb]

For "Whispers"...

Below are the results of applying Mod-8 to Fib sequences beginning with 1-7, respectively.

They stop at the point where their periodicity kicks in (They start repeating, indefinitely).

[thebruce]