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Christmas
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I made a guess for the book: O Alquimista (English title: The Alchemist) - it has 13 sections, is translated from Portuguese, and is a story about a boy going to Egypt who has recurring dreams about finding treasure. I feel like it fits but you never know!

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taransfurball
Boot

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I don't think it coincidence that the magister's books logic for nine leads to Trivium, Quadrivium theology and philosophy and those are his nine books. All of those throws me into a possibility of a book called De Republica or as the English would put it, The Republic.

In Carina's first spark meeting there was a Trivium. Now I am dead curious as to where we are going big picture. Had a couple of more nutty thoughts that I will reserve for later.

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Cherry
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The response from Winter regarding my symbol submission was unhelpful in pointing me anywhere.

Quote:
Very interesting; I've not seen that before. What does it represent?


I sent Awen


PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:06 pm
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Christmas
Boot

Joined: 07 Dec 2015
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The Magister added more clues:

Quote:
13...
in translation

theme:
(3 letters)

1. Native to Africa [hint--it's an animal] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2. Temptation _ _ _ _ _
3. Again _ _ _ _ _ _


Just spitballing:
Rhinoceros? Wildebeest?
Maybe a synonym for the other words like fancy, decoy, snare or repeat, afresh, encore? Perhaps 3 letters mean we just take the first letter of each part of the theme - R/W ? ?

Any ideas?

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taransfurball
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Waiting for the Magister to get back to me. Otherwise, got a sneaky idea or two as to what maelstrom I am about to enter.

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Cherry
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Christmas wrote:
The Magister added more clues:

Quote:
13...
in translation

theme:
(3 letters)

1. Native to Africa [hint--it's an animal] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
2. Temptation _ _ _ _ _
3. Again _ _ _ _ _ _


Just spitballing:
Rhinoceros? Wildebeest?
Maybe a synonym for the other words like fancy, decoy, snare or repeat, afresh, encore? Perhaps 3 letters mean we just take the first letter of each part of the theme - R/W ? ?

Any ideas?


I had all this typed out - you were quicker.

The only thing I had that you didn't say was Chimpanzee for the animal.

ETA - You might eb right about the first letter thing. I'm not wholly sure it isn't just this One Note program being odd but it looks like the first dash in each answer is bold. Can anyone copy the text to their own program that keeps the text coding intact confirm?



ETAx2 - There's a new blog post on Carinas Musings. Kind of sad really.

OOOOOH I think you're totally right!!

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
1. Wildebeest
2. Allure
3.Repeat
Equals WAR!

I've sent a message to the Magister asking if I was in the right battlefield and I'm gonna make a guess that the title is War and Peace


Y'all are getting the full view of my mind working.

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It's going to be THE ART OF WAR!

It was not originally written in English and it is divided into 13 chapters!

I tried this as a url - no joy.


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amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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Morning All. Cherry!! Am so certain you've got it I already **happy danced** all over your PProject tweet. Reckon Carina would agree b/c...

In her latest blog entry she says her mom read "...about war" saying: "From the perspective of literature, murder looks like art ." (my boldings)
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Christmas
Boot

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Yay Cherry! Great job!

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Cherry
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Quote:
@CherryWanders YES. The book has been added to the library. You will hear from me again shortly.


HUZZAH!

Christmas wrote:
Yay Cherry! Great job!


Thanks and you too. It was your post about using the first letters that put me on the right path.

ETA - Also, I've noticed a trend with updates. They almost always happen around 10am and 10pm eastern time.

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ElectricHippo
Boot


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Carina's blog
Ian and the three of wands

Wonderful work in The Library, everyone!

I'm just getting back into the mix here so I thought I'd send Carina an email to formally help her resolve Ian's post-it note puzzle:



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Hi Carina,

I've just read your newest blog entry and had an idea on how to solve the puzzle Ian presented to you on that yellow post-it note.

Here is my solution:

#1 1-9-18 = AIR
#2 23-1-20-5-18 = WATER
#3 5-1-18-20-8 = EARTH

And, here is why:

The number codes Ian wrote down corresponds to a simple letter to number cipher, where 1=A, 2=B and so on. Therefore, for example, 1-9-18 is decoded as A-I-R.

Furthermore, in tarot each card has a corresponding number:

The #1 represents The Fool. The Fool's element just happens to be air.

The #2 represents The High Priestess. Her element is water.

If we are to follow this pattern... #3 is The Empress, and her element is earth. ...



I see elsewhere in this thread where Amandel discussed the possibility of Ian's puzzle corresponding to the list of names that was mailed out to several of us. I think that's a brilliant theory!

A small, but somewhat related, note regarding Winter's new Roadmap page... The compass graphic has 4 number codes on it:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
North side=Earth, South=Fire, East=Air, West=Water


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ElectricHippo
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Did anyone take a look at the string of letters written across the bottom of The List of 5 names mailed out to various card keepers?


(xlhwtcvofpzd)

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amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


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1) Nice catch, ElectricHippo, on the Roadmap's substitution cipher, 2) Hope you get an interesting, Ian-filled reply from Carina and 3) the letter string is a keyed Caesar (shift 5 and keyword "key") that decrypts to "the spark club".

It's super that you're also interested in The List and am very keen to read anything you suss-out. Even something tiny such as Melody Reed's surviving brother's name being Randolph alluding to a familial tie to M.'s Sen. Randolph Reed might be significant. Thanks and Cyas...
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Russell
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New book puzzle from the Magister with the tweet:

Quote:
This book will emerge slowly, the way a work of literature emerges from the mind of its author.

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taransfurball
Boot

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Fourteen concentric square and a cipher jpg title. What surprise lay next?

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Christmas
Boot

Joined: 07 Dec 2015
Posts: 50

Clues have been added to the catalog:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
15 letters
3 words
book = movie

Clue:
Co-
Co-
-co-

​Clue:
water was important to the author and the main character


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