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[trevdak]

Brute Force?

[Faithers]

Holy Cow!..I was messing around earlier and put in about 100 different possiblilites..not even close to what you have listed there. I, however, was running under the assumption that the beginning of the spiral would be the spot for the most precious. So that is what I based all of combinations on. (1 being the smallest square, 6 being the largest)

[trevdak]

The request made by the flash animation goes to
http://sableshuck.com/finFinalCheck.php
I'm gonna see if my packet sniffer can tell me whether the rotation matters

[Faithers]

This is just a small observation I have made and probably means nothing but it's worth a mention....

Each piece has the curved line on it plus a straight line...if you put all the pieces on the grid and rotate them so they form the same spiral on the webcam picture..you will notice something with the straight lines...If you zoom in on it..and look at the star in the middle you'll notice the spiral starts at the top left portion of the star and continues to spiral around towards the right...well, from each of the other three points, those straight lines also start to form a spiral...only they go in the opposite direction....Just kinda looks odd that they threw all those extra lines in there and what not and I'm wondering if they aren't supposed to mean something. The straight lines seem to link two different symbols together and then that leads back to the center...

[flo]

anyone wishing to look into Faust... the text is here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/g

i'll have a look today.


the fibonacci spiral is the only shape that makes sense. the straight lines dont look ok if you don't follow the fibonacci shape either.

ive been trying to see whether the different website that marlowe has worked for could help with it. if you look at the list and the designs, i was thinking:

s+s -> dog (shuck)
ophis -> snake
trident air -> trident
pathway travel -> raven
inferno cargo -> fire
no butterflies, and i couldnt get anywhere with it :/

[GuyP]

I thought that too, making a connection with the sites... I tried putting the butterflies last because I thought that represented the last site to appear, helpmefindjon, what with butterfiles being souls of the dead, and Jon being, uh, dead. I've tried putting them in the order they are on the marlowe website (both up the list and down the list) and no joy. I had a brief brainwave that the coloured squares from the Day8 image matched the sites respective colour schemes, but no luck.

I'm convinced the values you type in are fibonacci numbers, or at the very very least not 1 2 3 4 5 6.

[GuyP]

I was thinking about using higher fibonacci numbers (for instance, starting with 21 - as we're getting 21 pieces of silver, and 10,946 is the 21st fibonacci number) but the smallest piece and the star are both the same size, and the only two fibonacci numbers the same are 1 & 1. Hence it must must must be 1 2 3 5 8 13?

[skarob]

hey all, good to see this game up and runnin again! am at the grid, no idea what to do!

[rowan]

Re: Brute Force?

[Meak]

My reckoning is that we wont be able to fill in the grid until we've managed to find the password for the mezzanine door, and then solved the 'Book of Star'..... which will then give us the order for the six symbols.

i'm going by the Hornurch horoscope dates here... this game is not set to end until april.

also, i read the whole of faust and just checked over it this morning.... all the symbols appear in the book during the witches night "Walpurgis Night".
it mentions ravens, butterflies, snakes, a dog, lots of fire and satans trident.
walpurgis night is on april 30th.
another reason to wait......


edit: one more thing.... the six colours on the webcam8.jpg..... they look like the six primary hues according to greek art. the greeks were the first to use the golden ratio (in the parthenon)

[setters393]

hold that thought

[6ix]

Meak said...

[mephistopheles]

[lepidopteran]

[quote=meak] i'm going by the Hornurch horoscope dates here... this game is not set to end until april [/quote]
Actually, in the privacy policy after the final assessment, it gives the breakdown of the contest... First time i've seen it in print. It says the prize is to be given out by july 27, 2005 if no one has solved it. It also says, if no one actually solves it, the person who came the closest (in the promoter's opinion) will be awarded the 10,946 sterling. It ALSO says that this contest is open to residents of the UK, so i'm not sure us North Americans can even win (what a bummer!). As a final note, the whole game is promoted by inbev, not many of the other subdivisions we considered earlier... well its all there in plain english- check it for yourself!

[green ice queen]