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[Wishi-san]

[SOLVED] Holiday Puzzlecard 28/10

[Alzheimers]

If I had to say, looking at it quickly, it almost looks like letters. The top line almost looks like a P or a D repeating, ending in a G. The bottom line, looks like it could be a repeating LY, but backwards.

Then again, it could just be too obvious.[/code]

[Marduk]

It's also possible that it's a sterogram. It does work as one, but I can't see anything intelligible so far.

[konamouse]

SPEC: Ron is alive and trying to send us a message?

[Wishi-san]

Look, a pretty pattern! So er, now what?

[Marduk]

SPEC: The seven sets of underscores are "blanks" and our answer will be seven characters long.

Edit: Also, Wishi - what did you do exactly to the text to come up with your pretty pattern?

[Wishi-san]

I just simply added spaces at the beginning to line up the forward slashes. Oh and ignored the middle line because it looks better without it but is probably needed as a divider.

No idea where to go with it though

[eMouse]

7 seems to be key...

'\ ~=_' is repeated seven times, then followed by '/'
'|/ )/' is repeated seven times, then followed by '/ |'
'/,_ \' is repeated seven times, then followed by '_,'
'/ '' is repeated seven times, then followed by '_/)'

'/ (_/' is repeated seven times, then followed by '_)'

The last row is the exception '// _/' seems to be the common repeater, but a '|' is after the first appearance and at the end.

And there appear to be 7 leters in the solution.

[dmax]

There's a weird line in there. Here are the differences:

\ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- /
|/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ / |
/,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ _,
/ ' / ' / ' / ' / ' / ' / ' _/)
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
/ (_/ / (_/ / (_/ / (_/ / (_/ / (_/ / (_/ _)
// _/ |// _/ // _/ // _/ // _/ // _/ // _/ |
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

Hate to wonder if it's a typo...

[LordKinbote]

I'm working under the hunch that the lines have to be rearranged to show a picture of some sort. I'll let you know how that goes.

EDIT: The answer is: not well. Nothing seems to be appearing and there's just too little that matches up.

[darkphan]

The puzzle card page has changed, the text is now in an image...

[Pixiestix]

The answer is

[The Watcher]

In case it changes, the text of the Lost page is

[dmax]

[Wishi-san]

Since no one explained *mumbles* you have to rearrange the lines to look like the swans. Don't know who solved it.

I never would've been able to see it without the image!