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[Mr.Beyond]

[Seraphic Adonis]

I think Seeking Truth had Zeke going over them for research, but not so in-depth as Perennial seems to be going.

And what is this I do not even. New puzzle, three days timer and this time, we get no hints.

Anyone got any ideas? There's no letters, no words, nothing.

[MetalGearSamus]

[Seraphic Adonis]

I used to have a blog on Blogspot; I believe that the last part of the URL is the original filename. So the filename would be "DancingMen" or some such.

Or they've changed the system and it's a coincidence. A pretty good one, though.

[grieck]

A Dancing Men cipher? Substitution cipher type.

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/substitution.php

Use Image: Dancing Men

[MetalGearSamus]

Well, well, well. A most interesting cypher: http://www.cs.trincoll.edu/~crypto/historical/holmes/dancingmen.html

^It's originally from that Sherlock Holmes story, and a damn good one at that. However, the "font" is different from the original, so I still haven't figured it out yet...but here's a decoder for the normal font: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/substitution.php it's under "mode of encoding"

I'll work on it later if I can...

EDIT: DAMN! Ninja'd

[Seraphic Adonis]

A cursory look between the two doesn't seem to reveal many similarities, as far as the actual figures go. Maybe it's a red herring?

And I believe it's from The Adventure of the Dancing Men, as a quick look at my short story collection reveals.

[grieck]

There are some similarities, it's actually rather frustrating trying to match them up. As it is, there are apparently several variations. So this is simply harder than it looks.

[grieck]

[Seraphic Adonis]

I wish you luck on working it out, grieck.

And a Twitter update;

[Mattwan]

I tried to brute force it by replacing the images with alphabetic characters and then running that through a cryptogram solver. (Is that considered cheating? It felt kind of like cheating.)

I'm only about 80% confident that my encoding of the images into letters is accurate, and I could only get the first 1000 results. Only one of them jumped out at me as being interesting:

[Mattwan]

[MetalGearSamus]

Hmm...maybe we should try to decode it by using the same method Holmes did? As in, the most common symbol is "E" etc.? Because this cipher, while it resembles Holmes' original, may be completely different as far as which symbols = what letter; adding to this is the fact that some of the symbols have almost no resemblance to (or two have resemblance to the same) the originals.

Just a thought.

[Seraphic Adonis]

Comparing the direct link above with the blog post, they look a bit different; take a look at the last Man on the third line. It's a slightly different pose, pointing in the opposite direction.

Puppet master shenanigans, or...?

[grieck]

Nothing's different when I look.

Damn this is a pain in the ass. I think the first letter is M, second is either I A or O (looks like O).

But i think Samus is right. (so the second line first letter is A I or O) This isn't a cipher puzzle, but a word one.