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danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

Thanks! Seriously, that puzzle was about to drive me bonkers.

Now, there's still ClockDial....

**Posted:** Thu May 07, 2009 10:48 pm

sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Haha, the last one too?

The one is question is this one: link
Notice the fact that it uses non-straight lines? I seem to remember someone mentioning those recently.. Wink

I believe this post on the EI forums has some very interesting points: link
What they did was take the spiral as a bit of string with marks on it and wind it around the points listed in the list of numbers (4:8:3:9:10: etc.). The particular point of interest:

**Posted:** Fri May 08, 2009 2:46 am

Rogi Ocnorb

EI2 Face/Orbits Puzzle

**Posted:** Sat May 09, 2009 6:34 am

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sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Last night my friends, while I lay in my bed,
the craziest of dreams took place in my head.
And though crazy I really can't help but feel,
there was some sort of meaning amongst the surreal.

---

It stared with me programming in some archaic code,
very plain and simple, till the stack overflowed.

It flowed out of the screen and onto where I sat,
but I then was distracted by a bear with green tie and hat.

As the bear wandered past, holding a beer from a keg,
I felt quite a breeze blow right past my leg.

I turned around to behold, towering above,
the mountain of the gods, with me in awe of.

I mistakenly stumbled backwards, knocking over my tea,
so reached over to the computer to hit control zee.

This was all the weirdness I could take, but then the animal from before,
brought me a nice and warm bath, and I didn't care anymore.

I sat in the water trying to inference some sense,
but I reasoned a dream would only fit this pretense.

The last thing I remember, keeping with the absurd,
I leapt out from my bath, shouting a word.

---

From the start to the end (there must be significance in them)
that's all I can remember from that bizarre R. E. M.
The question I now put forward to this whole team,
is how do I find meaning in amongst this dream?

**Posted:** Sat May 16, 2009 9:03 am

catherwood

Is there a typo on the first line of the riddle? I'm looking for a single word out of each stanza, but there might be multiples in there...

**Posted:** Sat May 16, 2009 11:51 am

cjr22 · Boot Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 58

I would guess that this bit

**Posted:** Tue May 19, 2009 5:12 am

drizjr · Unfictologist Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 1700

Adding to the work of catherwood and crj22

**Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 11:21 am

sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Yup, that's as far as it goes, well done at finishing it off drizjr. I'm pretty rusty with my word puzzles, so it's not as elegant as some of the amazing ones people make. I saw the double acrostic thing in a book about the puzzles of Lewis Carroll and decided I had to give it a shot.

**Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 6:30 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

BUMP!

Just because I was kinda missing this thread.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:17 am

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pancito

Ummm Looks like a wooden coaster. Therefore Ohio. Very Happy

Missouri is to Japan as PA is to... I'm done.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:48 am

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cjr22 · Boot Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 58

Is that final picture computer generated? Tin Eye didn't recognise it. I had a quick look on Wikipedia to see if there were obvious records held by coasters in those places, but I couldn't see anything.

Sorry, can't help any further.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:45 am

catherwood

here's the one Ohio coaster I knew about, i'm not sure it's a match
http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/park/rides/coasters/mean_streak/index.cfm

(later) oh, i think i found it
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM1ZVK_Son_of_Beast__Kings_Island_OH

King's Island, not Cedar Point

http://www.visitkingsisland.com/attractions/detail.cfm?ai_id=156

I lived in Cleveland for a year, and I don't remember hearing about this one -- ah, here's why: it opened in April 2000, and I haven't been back there since the 1980s.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:43 am

Rogi Ocnorb

The one you're looking for is not in Ohio.
Identifying the others would be he best bet in finding the last one.

They do have an order:

**Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:31 pm

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Molnar · Boot Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 60 Location: CA

1. Mamba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamba_%28roller_coaster%29
Worlds of Fun (Kansas City, MO, USA)

2. Highway Coaster (formerly Eagle Coaster) http://rcdb.com/1283.htm?p=15089
Japan Monkey Park, (Inuyama, Aichi, Japan)

3. ?

4 .

**Posted:** Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:51 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Darn! I was worried that it'd be too easy to find without going through the steps.

For number 1... Right park, wrong coaster.
You got number 2. (Go with the name that best matches the picture)

If you get any three on this puzzle, The first Google hit will tell you the fourth.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:35 am

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