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PatamonKid · Boot Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 23 Location: New York

[SOLVED] Puzzlecards.net Sample Cards 1,2 and 3

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:47 am

sequoya

Perhaps we should just make this a single thread for discussing all the puzzles on puzzlecards.net?

I've just completed the Crossword one.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:08 am

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**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:22 am

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**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 10:32 am

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Alzheimers · Unfettered Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 339

Has anyone tried card3 yet? It's a poem, followed up by a signature then a sequence of Xs and Os which looks pretty suspicious:

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:42 pm

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wvlf_prower · Boot Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Memphis, TN

Well, what caught my eyes was the KISS in caps. It's either pointing to the X's in the signature, or it's an abbreviation for Keep It Simple, Stupid.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:52 pm

Alzheimers · Unfettered Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 339

x0xx00xx00xx
x00x00x00xxx0

X's are "Kisses" - http://www.hugkiss.com/valentine/xoxo.shtml

so it would be 1,2,2,2,1,1,1,3 -- that run of three bothers me, it can be either 1,2 or 2,1 or 1,1,1 if trying to make it binary.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:20 pm

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I tried using morse code on this, similar to the dreadhouse puzzles, setting X to dot and O to dash (or vice versa), and finding my own breaks in the code. I didn't get far because this stuff showed up just before bed last night, but I was able to find the word "egg" in the code, which is conspicuous since the background picture for the puzzle is a big breakfast including eggs. But I was not able to get most of it to translate into something coherent. There were words here and there in the code, but as a whole, I couldn't make it work in the little bit of time I worked on it...

**Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:58 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:30 am

BestFriendChris

Here's the text for the third one... (Replaying it was driving me up the wall...)

**Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:41 am

wvlf_prower · Boot Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Memphis, TN

As I've let this sit, I was thinking that PERHAPS we're reading too much into it, and the KISS is a reminder to Keep It Simple, Stupid! so the answer is sitting right in front of us, and we're ignoring it looking for code.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:38 am

catherwood

the first letters of the 2nd verse stand out as LISA for me, the last could be scrambled (eggs?) as WANT, but the first NOTT just confuses me.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:42 am

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**Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:51 am

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Dare · Boot Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 18

I found a pattern to the X's and O's... but I got stuck... maybe another set of eyes can see something I can't?

I tried rearranging the X's and O's in groups of 5, then thought of rearranging them in a matrix... and I found a seeming pattern to them...

Here's how the X's and O's look like arranged in a 5 x 5 matrix:

wvlf_prower · Boot Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Memphis, TN

With that matrix, it ALMOST looks like we can get rid of that last column, making it a 4x5 matrix, so

**Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:39 pm