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[SOLVED] Countdown Dot Puzzle
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:01 pm
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Beezlbub
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well maybe the spider is the enemy of the icefly, and we are suppose to save the iceflys right?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:01 pm
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ADarkly
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Blergh... all these pairs and no apparent reason for them to exist. I lost my minor eureka moment thanks to a PS flakeout, may have been nothing anyway. I THINK that if you rotated and overlaid two of the colors (with lines between number pairs), that they matched up. But I can't duplicate my findings.

The problem is definitely how to connect the dots...

Everyone having fun with their connect the dots? Wink

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I keep wondering why the '5' is off-center. It's obviously not just a marker... Maybe it's trying to orient us.

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DarthWill
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That is the pic I was referring too, The one from the video. I hope it helps. A lot of post going down. lol.

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firiun
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It appears that, at least for the a1's, that there are only two of each colour. Though you have to look very closely at the shade! Gonna try with others.

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firiun wrote:
It appears that, at least for the a1's, that there are only two of each colour. Though you have to look very closely at the shade! Gonna try with others.
you are correct
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:07 pm
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ADarkly
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Unless I missed one, here are ALL the A5 pairs for each color connected.

What this means... I do not know.
jpgA5pairs.jpg
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jpgA5pairs.jpg


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ADarkly wrote:
Unless I missed one, here are ALL the A5 pairs for each color connected.

What this means... I do not know.


it almost looks like its tunnelish and it starts out big and ends small at the 5 (gets smaller because of perception)

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lol I just noticed they called it jpg.jpg

They are making sure we don't look at the wrong thing here at the code of the site. That's good. =)

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Just a thought, but could we try finding the maximum exponent for each color (for example: pale green's highest exponent is 10)? So far I've gotten the following:

[Pale green]
*A10
[Red]
*A4
[Purple]
*A7
[Light Blue]
*A9
[Light Purple]
*A9
[Creme]
*A8
[Brown]
*A4

Double checking and assistance would be nice to have.

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Beezlbub
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Reedite wrote:
Just a thought, but could we try finding the maximum exponent for each color (for example: pale green's highest exponent is 10)? So far I've gotten the following:

[Pale green]
*A10
[Red]
*A4
[Purple]
*A7
[Light Blue]
*A9
[Light Purple]
*A9
[Creme]
*A8
[Brown]
*A4

Double checking and assistance would be nice to have.


grayish one top left goes to 12

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Not sure if this matters but I found it interesting. Going inwards towards the center of the lines of A#, if you perform an easy math property (like adding subtracting etc.) to the numbers together most of the time it equals the next number ahead of it. I think that maybe the 4 and 3 number seq. are a 'decoy' and there might be a 5 seq. that might mean something (havent finished adding yet.) Here's an example.
trial002ex.jpg
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trial002ex.jpg


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gdesignr
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ADarkly wrote:
Unless I missed one, here are ALL the A5 pairs for each color connected.

What this means... I do not know.


Counting your lines, I take it there are 10 colors?

There are 10 Constellation keys. I don't have all 10 - do the colors match up?

Also I find it odd that the font size is different in different spots.

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ADarkly
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Have to switch off drawing lines for now, but before I go back to work... random thoughts. may be worth wondering what we're trying to decode in terms of how to analyze what we have. Personally I'm leaning towards an image, rather than anything being spelled out, since I don't know how they'd encode words.

It also seems reasonable to wonder if some - or most - of these dots are decoys that obscure what we're looking for...

Thing about any of this is, what are we intended to do with it? I did see a Javascript link in the source code, since I'd wondered if we needed to enter something...

gdesignr The Constellation keys are just logos for the gum, so they have multiple colors in them. So I don't think there's a correlation, but fair question.

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