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[BigNorse]

Dammit Gary, stop posting so fast, I don't get time to look clever.

OK I think we need to think of this as a maze of some sort (since we're in a research institute, chasing a mouse!) We have to make the right "turns" somehow, and we need to "count the distance" we've come at the end. This reminds me of the riddles where you have to figure out who lives next to each other in a village, and you're given a number of facts. Unfortunately I was never very good at those...

Anyway, these caught my eye:

crumb5: Four times "this way" / then one \ then two /

aaaand then some other stuff that Gary also just wrote. GARY, STOP BEING SMART!

Oh, re the "nine days": On the 8th Spoke news page under september (it's gone now), we were wished a "happy Navratri". Navratri (Hindu festival) means NINE NIGHTS. There's also a Jamaican funeral/wake tradition called Nine-Nights.

[garymaher]

[BigNorse]

The turns in crumb5 are: Right, right, right, right, left, right, right, right. But from where? The center of the "maze"?

[Special_K_26]

[BigNorse]

crumb10: One thing stands between the mouse and the stars, so does that mean one down from the top of the maze? Or is this "thing" the number we're supposed to figure out? Maybe it's a series of numbers, one for each breadcrumb...

We're one x (the number) from the top. One x (N) from 6 (the Prisoner). One x (N) from Naegele's rule (which we need to figure out). Two x (N) from Tisha HaThingy (nine).

So if we're looking for a single number, I'd say SEVEN (one up from six, two down from nine). But that doesn't fit with being one from the three-ply chord and maybe not Naegele's rule either, so I think there's a number from each crumb.

No. 12 is one from "counting the dough". Dough = breadcrumbs? So one from the total number of crumbs, meaning 11 or 13. Damn this is complicated.

[Special_K_26]

Maybe we're supposed to use the equation for Naegele's rule...

[BigNorse]

Hey, what if the / and \ mean either adding or subtracting, not turns?

/ / / / \ / /

crumb6: 6 + 1 = 7
crumb7: Naegele's rule + 1 = ?
crumb8: 9 + 2 = 11
crumb9: 3 + 1 = 4
crumb10: stars - 1 = ?
crumb11: ?
crumb12: 12 (crumbs) + 1 = 13

I feel like I'm THIS close to something, but I have to go to bed...the birds are already singing outside. Crap.

[diggingforanswers]

"if i could get just one thing out of the way, i'd be able to count the dough"

I keep thinking that the number referenced is either 13(baker's dozen) or maybe 12.

[MadAriad]

Ok I just checked in and you guys are awesome! I'm looking at the numbers and don't see anything standing out yet but I'll keep trying.

[JasperAlabama]

[diggingforanswers]

"i could touch the stars, but one thing stands in my way"

Could be 13 for the 13 stripes adjacent to the stars on the American flag.

[MadAriad]

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[Riddle!]

HI everybody, I´m back today..trying to catch up... seems there´s still a lot of work to do.
I can´t nail it down, but some I have a couple of thoughts that may help you take a new point of view.
It appears to me as if we´re back with the phone pad numbers, becasue of the first crumble it says I can scream...so I think of something that can make sounds also the further hints of say goodbye, tell lies, bring joy... to me a cell phone, also we can count, bacause if we "cut off a pinky" we´re left with the nine numbers.

so "only one thing lies between me & the main in the village with the weather balloon" you said it was reference to a 6, so it can only be number 4

" live next door to naegele's rule " to me this hints to the rule of calculating due date we have to add 9 months and 7 days, so it would be an 8


About crumble 5 I believe that hints we need to find just 8 numbers, like in a safebox combination we turn clockwise a number, then another, etc then counterclockwise..etc
I am clueless were we are supposed to start counting and measuring, but I´ll post my draft thoughts so may be it is a new angle of approach

[anne_wintermute]

I think the / and \ could mean whether we need the number before or after the one in each riddle. Also maybe the clue about the stars refers to the European Union flag instead of the American one... after all the European Union is a union of 27 member states... I keep finding 27s everywhere lol.