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Cherry

There's also a new post up on Carina's blog.

A couple of things I pulled out of that post...

**Posted:** Tue Apr 12, 2016 11:37 pm

amandel

Re 8972665.jpg: Zero luck here as a cipher tho Magister finally confirmed on twitter that the jpeg represents the 15 boxes (letters) needed for the book title.

Am thinking Carina's Team will be heading North towards the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff where Pluto ("Planet X") was discovered. ETA: Nice catch, Cherry, on the Solomon's Wisdom reffy. Also: Winter tweeted about her new story, an interesting interview mentioning that Melody's body was found "Near the airport".

EDIT: Tweeted my choice for the 2nd book:"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. It was adapted into the movie "Apocalypse Now". The Congo river journey is a significant theme in the book and Conrad was, himself, a merchant marine.**A truly dark book & crossing fingers**

**Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:07 am

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Russell

Good guess Amandel although the the movie title clue was -co-. I would presume if it was apocalypse now it would be -c-o-

Amandel / Cherry have you emailed Carina with your thoughts yet? If not perhaps comment directly on the blog so we can see any further conversations with her

Edit** congrats Amandel. The magister has confirmed you were correct!

**Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:50 am

Cherry

Holy crap! Good job, Amandel! I couldn't make sense of the clues at all.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:52 pm

amandel

My idea is so NOT a better fit than yours, Cherry. In fact, am thinking they're sympatico: first , they'd go to the Astronomy building to look for a clue heading them towards Lowell Observatory. And your emoticons make me smile. THX Cool

Yaha, 2 down and just 10 to go. For me, playing quasi-charades for book titles is a lot like bobbing for apples: it's exhilarating yet it feels like there's something tasty always a bite-too-far away. Laughing

ETA: Tried to submit on Carina's blog tho maybe it didn't take.**lazy IPad shrug**

**Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:06 pm

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taransfurball · Boot Joined: 14 Jun 2014 Posts: 15

There are two books. I smell a pattern brewing in the pot. How does this intersect or feed an estate sale, M. Carina, an art professor that for now I will dub "Flagg" for proving that he is good for the deeds of old, or ruling out, and a heavy dose of Stoicism considering I think we have visited with a Sophia not long ago.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:31 pm

Russell

New post from carina with a cipher image:

**Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 3:57 am

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Hi people! Some good sleuthing going on here! I'm not able to really keep up, bur still check in when I can.

Some loose speculation on 8972665

As a phone pad cipher the last four numbers convert readily to BOOK, not so much with the first three. Sad

Can anyone come up with an author whose initials can be derived from some combination of these letters?

8= TUV
9= WXYZ
7= PQRS

**Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 6:12 am

taransfurball · Boot Joined: 14 Jun 2014 Posts: 15

Let's go for title same theory. Good idea on phone. Three words fifteen letters maybe.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 2:36 pm

Cherry

Since they are in proper order I don't think there's a number cipher here. I do find it interesting we are using the old 9 planet system since there are currently only 8 recognized planets.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:21 pm

Russell

Well a little google search and I discovered that this is the actual gateposts at the observatory. Laughing

**Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:23 pm

Cherry

I'm not sure that this is even a puzzle for us to solve since she says in the post,

**Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 5:25 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

**Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2016 6:11 pm

Russell

New post from winter with the death tarot card:

**Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:13 pm

amandel

Hi All. Noticed on Russell's beaut find that the "squaring the circle" glyph isn't on the original tarot card. So, it then leads to...

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