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metrocake
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Some of the letter/number combos appear to be pairs. Here's how it's looking to me:

Green pairs:
x -- d (background green)
z -- e (background green)

Red pairs:
s -- 4 (background red)
u -- 5 (background red)
m -- 6 (background red)

Green mouseover backgrounds -- no pairs:
f, 0, 3

Red mouseover backgrounds -- no pairs:
b,1,2,c

I'd thought that perhaps the letter m corresponded to the number 6 in the 36121636 combo, but that's not really getting me anywhere...

Confused

PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:16 pm
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Giskard
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Some more observations: in terms of square-numbers (the source code helps with this), squares 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 14, 19, 24, 26, 29, 34 light up.

Red are 3, 4, 7, 19, 24, 26, 34. This does not seem to be a logical sequence.

However, the GREEN squares are 1, 6, 9, 14, 29, which are all spaced 5 squares apart... except for the fact that we miss 19 and 24, which are red...
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Nightmare Tony
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This page gives a background whihc may or may not be a clue of pairs in red with the green being numbers interspered. When you click on tghe letters and digitis, another one or the same one ma7y flash red or green. Blow is a table of them both. Since the word PAIRS is in red, that might be worth the look at...

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Green results
go to gives
x d
f (same f)
0 (same 0)
3 (same 3)
z e

Red results
b (same b)
1 (same 1)
s 4
u 5
2 (same 2)
m 6
c (same c)

Which in red gives the pairs of bb11s4u522m6cc
At this point...help!


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 6:32 pm
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Shelina wrote:
metrocake wrote:
The language up at the top in red is Portugese -- Babelfish translation is "...and thus it eats."


It really doesnt matter now but... you should know Babelfish is the worst translator I've ever used!!

Translation for the portugese sentence is: "And this is how it begins" Smile


Perhaps a little more dramatic: ". . . and so it begins"

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Wishi-san
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Anonymous wrote:
Perhaps a little more dramatic: ". . . and so it begins"


And a little more epic: "... thus it begins"
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:04 pm
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Giskard
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I've tried to make it a little more visual:



Blue = a square that triggers another square.

There's one combination of row/column that does not have a blue square, 2nd row/4th column, i.e. the letter N, or square 10.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:09 pm
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Giskard
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Hmmm.... which can be explained by the fact that if you add in all the other squares that trigger themselves, you exactly have two triggering squares on every row and every column...


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:16 pm
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Caterpillar
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metrocake wrote:
Red pairs:
s -- 4 (background red)
u -- 5 (background red)
m -- 6 (background red)


Interesting........S.U.M.

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LazarusLong wrote:
Clicking in the appropriate spot takes you to:

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http://www.argn.com/unclesteve.html


mmmm - pie!


Where's the appropriate spot?.....lol

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If x turns on d, and z turns on e, and f turns green on its own, maybe f's pair is the b.

Seeing as how the next letter in this sequence: X > Z > ? is B
And the next letter in this one: D > E > ? is F.

x -- d
z -- e
b -- f (?)

Just a thought?
No idea where to go from here, except that we've got
B C D E F 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
as light ups.

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Can someone tell me why it adds a # at the end of html when you click on the light ups? If you right click it says "Open"........so is it a new page? Does it mean we'll have to plug a sequence and the page will advance automatically (as opposed to manually typing it in the addy bar)?

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Nightmare Tony
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That # is more of an html thing working on the same page. If you have a page that lets you scroll down to other chapters on the same opage, it would have that #. From the looks of it, its merely flipping pagesets to show the color combinations we need. I would not consider it a clue, more of how he is making the puzzle work, a basic mechanic. even I am ignoring it Smile
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Lysithea
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The raadsel 8 page has been updated with a clue.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
letters are red, numbers are green
the twelve that change colors look like sixteen

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Shad0
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SPEC

Lysithea wrote:
The raadsel 8 page has been updated with a clue.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
letters are red, numbers are green
the twelve that change colors look like sixteen


Rampant speculation:

36121636 -- 36 is the number of squares, and 12 is the number of squares that light up...

The only letters that light up are B, C, D, E, and F...

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16 = Hexadecimal?


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yanka
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Re: SPEC

Shad0 wrote:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
16 = Hexadecimal?


I think the first clue to hex was "pairs", so that's got to be it... though - aside from having no idea how to go about it - I wonder what can be done to make sure that the result fits withing the 61-7A range... or maybe we can use caps too? Or, maybe, it's going to turn out as a md5 hash Razz ?

Conceivably, it could be a 6-letter word... 5 pairs would have letter and number and 1 pair - 2 numbers... that's about all I got Confused

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Throwing more ideas out: if letters are red, but most of the red output is numbers, we could substitute the numbers for letters (they are within the range) to get:
green: 4(=d), 6(=f), 0, 5(=e), 3
red: b, a(=1), d(=4), e(=5), b(=2), f(=6), c

I cannot see any logic for how to combine them, though. I was thinking about something like r1, c1; r2, c2 etc. - but I'm not sure whether to consider "b" or "d" as r1. Bah...
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