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[Puzzle] 3. Dark Blue Face - Piano Keys
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Boot

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"Listen To It" was in the Austin Powers clue.

I don't mean Radio Gaga the station (does it exist??) or Radio Gaga the song. I mean the masked voice when you solve a side.

Another interesting idea is that of a beziere cipher, where the numbers stand for phonetic sounds instead of specific letters. Problem is there's only about 50 phonemes in the English language.

Still, I believe this is also known as a Royal Cipher, which has some Queen-related relevance, and I guess you could call GaGa a phonetic sound? Smile

Are any of y'all crypto experts that could test/shoot down this theory?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:49 pm
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StevenR
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I converted the numbers into words based on the lyrics in Radio Gaga and noticed a pattern.
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Words showed up when I looked at the first letters of the words. Some of these are slightly odd (such as ROYAL RHINO TO PICK ANSWERS!) but
I've created an image with the numbers replaced the the first letter of the word. The final image looks a bit like a wordsearch. Here is a link to my image.
http://www.srdl18217.myby.co.uk/gagapuzzleletters.jpg


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neopuff34
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Wow! Finally a possible lead! Anyone else thinking that we have to eliminate letters to get words for face 6?
The only thing I see potentially wrong with this lead is it doesn't seem to use the Austin Powers clue... Then again, we aren't done yet I suppose.

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Still, I believe this is also known as a Royal Cipher, which has some Queen-related relevance, and I guess you could call GaGa a phonetic sound? Smile


Does that royal cipher need a keyword or anything like that (I'm thinking maybe it's rhino?) or am I way off, considering I know absolutely nothing about it...

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Here are the sentences that are in that wordsearch bit.

Add to panic not to horror
Alibi Proof
Show which idea fit
Big hello to Ed
Royal rhino to pick answer
SHock me today help ma read
You toss apple
visit church game
Dogs are fine
Glad to borrow pen
High above
Aim mini rig through street
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aznxasazn
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Putting them in order according to the key order:
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Show which idea fit
Aim mini rig through street
Visit church game
Big hello to Ed
Add to panic not to horror
Dogs are fine
Alibi Proof
High above
Royal rhino to pick answers
Glad to borrow pen
You toss apple
Shock me today help ma read

Then:
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Take the last letter of each word:

What might the good doctor see if he looks down? Use keypad.


I believe we have finally solved face 3. So now I guess we are dealing with Dr. Seuss (since he's the good doctor and we had the clue from Dr. Seuss ABC's earlier).

PostPosted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:40 pm
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xardox
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not solved

Side 3: Not Solved.

We need the answer to the riddle. props guys on finally getting the
GAGA lyrics to match up. I gotta say i did it like 4 times in frustration and never got the pattern to work. Wrong lyrics i guess.

First before we jump to the conclusion that we have side 3. remember the suess hint is 4our. not thr33.

My first thought. ... His Feet. but i tried that. 447 - 3338, didnt work.
I tried the keypad. and clicking the keys on the piano.

nothing. I guess we really need to think who is the "good doctor"
Is it really suess? There are several books called "the good doctor"

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dcthejoker
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I think that face three is solved and the answer to the riddle is the answer to face four, personally. (Especially since it says use keypad, etc)

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xardox
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Check the http://www.virtuquest.com

Side three is still listed as NOT SOLVED.

Side one triggered when
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we typed KWB


Side two triggered when
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"a coffin" was entered


i believe Side three needs
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something to be typed on the keypad.


But hell maybe not. It would break the pattern so far though.

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aznxasazn
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Actually, I think they only knew side 1 was solved when side 2 was completed and after reading this forum (and yes they clearly do). I doubt they've read the progress on face 3 so far, though I could be wrong of course. I am presuming the answer to the riddle is the answer to face 4.
As for the "good doctor", Dr. Seuss is sometimes called the "good doctor". Mainly of course the idea that triggered him as being the "good doctor" is the silly sammy slick clue I got back in february.

There are two books written by Dr. Seuss that use this name:
Seuss-isms for Success: insider tips on economic health from the good doctor
Seuss-isms: wise and witty prescriptions for living from the good doctor

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I agree it needs to be put in the face 4 calculator as an answer. I have tried simple things like


shoes = 53045
hell = 7734
legs = 5937

but no luck, It might even be a sentence which would explain the strange line deliniations. ______ ____ ___ _____ 6/4/3/5 when turned upside down. If it is Dr. Seuss, then it could possibly rhyme.

Hope that makes sense, I am tired and just tossing out ideas so others might get an idea.
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aznxasazn
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Aye, there are a few possibilities here. "looks down" could mean that we do it as you have been doing it and form words out of upside down letters. If that is the case, we can only really form words out of the letters: b,e,g,h,i,l,o,s,z which doesn't allow for much..especially since the answer seems to be a 4 word answer.

Another possibility (and what I think is more plausible) is that it is 4 words as they would appear if they were SMSs/typed into a phone, etc. What I am further unsure of is if a letter like C would be one 2 or if it would be considered three 2s. If the latter is the case, the second word is probably "I".
After running through a list of book titles and character names the only pre-hyphenated grouping of 4 words I could find is

Beagle-Beaked-Bald-Headed

which unfortunately doesn't fit no matter how you go about it.

So far the only real Dr. Seuss book I can find referring to looking
down is Yertle the Turtle

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dcthejoker
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Looking down could also mean looking further down the page... which has a piano. There's a book by Dr. Seuss about a guy and a magical piano...

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kbwojo
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I wanted my first post should be a good one so here is the answer to side 4.

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I found out that Dr. Suess name is Geisel (something that can be made with an upside down calculator). Then I found another clue in surfersticks post "shoes". I put them together with other words you can type on the calculator and came up with "Geisel sees his shoes" or upside down on the calculator it is 53045 514 5335 735136.


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Wait, I'm confused. What is the actual solve to Face 3?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:43 pm
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Side 3 and 4 solve

Question on side Thr33

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What does the good doctor see when he looks down?


Answer on side 4our
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Geisel sees his shoes
63137 5335 415 54035


remember to read the words on a calculator, you flip it upside down
thus the numbers are entered backwards.
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53045 514 5335 73136


enter that on side 4. and side 5 opens.[/spoiler]

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