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Mini-puzzle series (sort of) by me
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Justin_Case
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Double d'oh!

Should have though of this earlier...

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take the text given by the page that had о and ч and you get:

i want to know

Justin "ching" Case

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 12:48 pm

Justin_Case
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I'm on a roll

Next one:

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one of the frames in the animated gif shows the following in red:
where she is

Another

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break the binary into buches of 8, convert to decimal, then map to letter (a=1 z=26)
Yields: what she is

Justin "joying this" Case

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:10 pm

Justin_Case
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Again....

Hit a wall once more, i won't post the last solution just yet...
Looking forward to see if people will find a simple method for that one, i did it the "hard way"...

Justin "time" Case

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:44 pm

Caterpillar
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Re: I'm on a roll

Justin_Case wrote:

Another

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break the binary into buches of 8, convert to decimal, then map to letter (a=1 z=26)
Yields: what she is

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The actual page though is titled THAT_she_IS

I don't have a clue here, and I've gotten mixed up so many times already and had to go back and watch again, only to get lost again.....I'm getting dizzy.

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:26 am

yanka
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Re: I'm on a roll

Caterpillar wrote:

Justin_Case wrote:

Another

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break the binary into buches of 8, convert to decimal, then map to letter (a=1 z=26)
Yields: what she is

Caterpillar wrote:

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The actual page though is titled THAT_she_IS

In my own defense - 00010100 = t. It was too late to change the autocorrect, though.

Caterpillar wrote:

I don't have a clue here, and I've gotten mixed up so many times already and had to go back and watch again, only to get lost again.....I'm getting dizzy.

I thought Justin already solved it? If he doesn't post hints tomorrow, I will Smile

Oh, also: "Город стреляетв ночь". It's supposed to be "Город стреляет в ночь" - 1090 is combined with 32 (standing).

Justin - if I'm understanding your "wall" correctly - the next one is up. Sorry, guys - I got kind of inspired by this mayday thing. Rolling Eyes

It should be fun, though Very Happy

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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 4:39 am

Justin_Case
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Shame...

Seems i can't type straight...

As for the next one...

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Again, i'm not sure if there is an easier way of solving it, but i took all the different times down like so:
1 2 3.5 4 5 5.5 4 3 3 6 7 8 3 9.5 4 10 6.5 11 2 3 12 5 6.5

From there, substitute for letters, using the .5 as spaces. You have to use the .5's hour, so it gives:

abc dee dccfghci djf kbclef...
The rest is simple subst

Seperated in case you want to solve it... if not:

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But all attempts are futile

Now come and join me with the next one!

Justin "time" Case

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 9:13 am

Justin_Case
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Start

Ok, i think i've got most of it identified, but i still have no idea what to do with all of it yet...

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Starting top left
1-Cross? that's Dali's Christ Crucified 2 with a what seems to be either a cross or a flattened cube.

2-T: G= 8pi * T is Einstein's Field Equation

3-Bittersweet Rain is a book by Sandra Brown, it start in a doctor's office, in Winstonvillw, Mississippi

4-Excerpt from Roadside Picnic, a russian story by the Strugackie brothers; Valentine says it to Noonan

5-Blurred text= Caucasus Mountains, latin: "All roads lead to": Rome

6-Planck: It gives the value for the Planck Mass, Planck distance and Plank time

7-What: From The Universe In A Nutshell by Stephen Hawking; The quote is missing a word: What (one cannot determine what is real)

8-??: Pictures are Peter the Great, the text says something about the shores of St-??? being full of something, i think, someone should come back with a translation later today...)

Justin "the dark" Case

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:01 pm

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Been away since yesterday and am just now getting a look, thanks for the help Justin on the last one (clock)....my eyes were going buggy.

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The bottom right is actually a pic of Alexander Pushkin who wrote the poem "The Bronze Horseman" (which is the other pic). The statue is a monument to Peter the Great and located in St. Petersburg.

I'm sure I have some letters wrong, but thus far have gotten:

On coast deserted Eopn StoEl it of thoughts Eelikih poln

As a text translation.

Maybe it has something to do with the poem........it's pretty long so I'll just give a LINK.

This part:

There, by the billows desolate,
He stood, with mighty thoughts elate

Sort of matches up with the partial translation.

Actually:

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Looking at a Russian Text Version of the poem, the first two lines match up with the text on the puzzle page. So the English translation is above, and I assume we are either looking for Pushkin, Peter the Great or The Bronze Horseman.

And for:

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God doe2 not play d1ce

Einstein was very unhappy about this apparent randomness in nature. His views were summed up in his famous phrase, 'God does not play dice'. He seemed to have felt that the uncertainty was only provisional: but that there was an underlying reality, in which particles would have well defined positions and speeds, and would evolve according to deterministic laws, in the spirit of Laplace. This reality might be known to God, but the quantum nature of light would prevent us seeing it, except through a glass darkly.

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:09 pm
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Justin_Case
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Peter...

A few thoughts:

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The bronze Horseman in the poem IS Peter the Great. The statue we see in the pic is called "The Bronze Horseman". It stands in...
St-Petersburg!

So i guess Peter is what we are looking for...

Justin "vader" Case

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:38 pm

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Isn't that what I said?....lol..... Very Happy

I'm thinking along the lines of:

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it_morph...

But that's more like trying to fit the answer to the puzzle....lol....not to mention all the letters don't match

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:44 pm

Justin_Case
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Yeah, but you still seemed to hesitate between...

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Pushkin, Peter and the Bronze horseman... but obviously you got it right...

Another thing:

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the pic of the black sea was taken from a pic detailing Jason's voyage...
http://www.crystalinks.com/greekmythology.html

Justin "probable" Case

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:51 pm

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BTW.....great job on the others. I couldn't find the Roadside Picnic quote nor the setting for Bittersweet Rain.

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Maybe number one is "ACROSS" or "A CROSS" (as in 11D(own)/Crossword)

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:55 pm

Justin_Case
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Thanks

Thanks... for roadside, i googled:
"conquered the planet and opened a window"
gave a single hit...
as for Bittersweet Rain, i had to read the first chapter available online to get it's locale.

Found something else:

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for 11D, i found a link between it and Christ:
http://www.mnemosyne.org/mia/iconclass/11D/
Seems odd, but the system has been in use for quite some time to classify art see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconclass for more info.

So maybe Christ is the answer?

Hmmm Across, it had crossed my mind (pun intended) seems likely too...

Justin "Nomine" Case

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:03 pm

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So conceivably it could start with "AT", which flows okay with "But_all_attempts_are_futile".

Could end with "UP" (Universe/Peter).

But what are the "for i only" linkies?

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:12 pm

Caterpillar
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By the way, that iconclass link makes a lot of sense. I don't think the number/letter combo would be random now that I see that.

Maybe:

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It starts with "IT"
I for iconclass and T for.....well ....T

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:14 pm

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