Puzzles Etc.

Gordon Allocman

00:06

@GordonK I added your intended fish to my answer. Couldn't find a wiki article on the bicolor goatfish though

humn

00:22

@Deusovi, you can tell i'm really glad to be discussing math puzzle closure but,

for better or worse, have to do something else right now.

will check back soon and will be glad to continue however and whenever.

Deusovi

not a problem! take as much time as you need

humn

thanks!

Deusovi

i've enjoyed talking to you so far - hopefully what i'm going for makes sense

cbronson

00:37

You make any progress on that cipher @Deusovi?

I was working on it but had to finish some things at work

Lord of dark

11:49

Character count in Deusovi's transcript :
:65
Z:33
T:32
):21
(:21
O:19
-:18
R:15
_:15
|:13
D:12
L:11
F:11
*:11
Q:10
S:9
B:9
V:8
E:8
C:7
W:5
U:5
J:5
A:4
,:4
.:3
~:3
Y:2
K:2
H:2
G:2
N:1
@:1
?:1

(first one is the space)

Gordon Allocman

14:26

This has me stumped

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Q: I am short lived... yet I love helping people!

My life is so short... too short, indeed. However, I like using it to help people feel better. At least this is what I was made for! Since my countless brothers and I are born, we're called fat. We help people, yet they call us fat! They are right though, and we hate it... ... but this fact clea...

Lord of dark

14:39

i only have "bad" ideas on this one.

Gordon Allocman

yeah, I really hope it isn't actually a fat cell or something...

I'm also stuck on this one haha

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Q: "I'll make a stew of the lot of you"

I'll speak of my letters; though you might be confused: So many to choose from; so many are used. I sometimes have two, often three, at times four. Dot if it helps you; for me it's a bore. I'm known for my seven, my eight, different ways. I can see that your eyes have developed a glaze! ...

riddle

not even sure where to start on this one though

Lord of dark

I was thinking about "ass" : it is spherical, you sit on it to feel better, they are called fat, you can't see your own.

and if you use it correctly it can "open you some doors"

Gordon Allocman

hehe thats pretty good

Lord of dark

does not fit the short life however :(

Gordon Allocman

short is really a relative term

Business Cat

14:44

Maybe it's some kind of pill

Not sure about fat or the doors though...

Gordon Allocman

yeah I thought of that as well, but nothing fits the door clue

Business Cat

Might be a play on words with it's name, you never know

Gordon Allocman

for the stew one, all I can think of is alphabet soup, but nothing comes from that

theres only like 10,000 12 letters words so that narrows it down a little bit

Lord of dark

15:08

I don't understand why we put hints under spoiler ? We all read them... And they are sometimes necessary to have the complete answer

question_asker

yeah I mean

it's not like you're going to convince anybody that you somehow solved the puzzle without the hints

or that it would matter even if you could

LeppyR64

15:27

@Lordofdark The community needed the hint at the time of solving but the asker didn't think (and probably still doesn't) that it was needed. By putting it in the spoiler text you give any new people that arrive at the site to solve the problem the same opportunity that you had, to see the problem how the asker meant to ask it.

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Gordon Allocman

16:53

Have you guys heard that song 7 years? I can't get it out of my head after hearing it haha

Wesley Situ

i really like that song, but it also makes me want to cry when singing it

Gordon Allocman

I've always wondered how new songs blow up so fast

Wesley Situ

probably through radio/social media

Gordon Allocman

I had actually never heard of it until my friend told me about it, since I don't really listen to the radio at all, so you are probably right

Wesley Situ

i think i stumbled upon it on youtube somehow... my friends told me it was on the radio, but not on the channel i listen to :p

Gordon Allocman

16:58

I have a friend that actually periodically checks the billboard top 100 just to see what changes

Wesley Situ

ahhh, ive never really checked that out

Gordon Allocman

I've checked the spotify top songs but never really gone to the billboards

I mostly listen to indie stuff, but I like pop songs so every now and then I see what I may have missed

Business Cat

By my taste in music, the Billboard top 100 is the bottom 100.

Gordon Allocman

what is your taste in music?

Business Cat

I like indie or alternative stuff too

I was exaggerating but I really hate pop which is most of the top 100

Gordon Allocman

17:03

yeah, I like pop as mostly car music, 90%+ of the stuff I listen to is indie folk/ alt rock

Wesley Situ

@LeppyR64 For the remaining names, can you identify who the friend (author of the journal is) and also who "we" are.

Jonathan Allan

Not something I'll search for again.

LeppyR64

Are you asking me specifically to do it, or are you asking me if I know?

Wesley Situ

if you know

i havent connected the names at all, so you probably have a better chance of knowing off the top of your head :P

LeppyR64

@WesleySitu I do not know who "I am" or who "Capt Wall of the Street" is. The Eiffel clue is a big thing. Sick Harming's tombstone has morse code on the side that says "City of Love" which reinforces Paris.

Wesley Situ

17:10

o wow i totally missed the morse code

Business Cat

Which puzzle is thisÉ

LeppyR64

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Q: A pirate's treasure-hunt

My dear puzzle friends, I need your help! An old acquaintance of mine has recently passed away and mentioned me in his will. I was quite thrilled, as the man was rather rich due to some clever investments during his lifetime. Unfortunately, he was as, hmm, unconventional as he was rich. He alway...

enigmatic-puzzles visual geography treasure-hunt

I already clarified the typo on the morse code was actually "---" and not "--" the whitespace got washed out between the 2nd and third dashes.

Gordon Allocman

@BusinessCat you might like this song, it is the other song stuck in my head :P youtube.com/watch?v=c_yengUrkaU

LeppyR64

Svem Orm just sounds too contrived, maybe an anagram for something.

Wesley Situ

for the map, i've extended the lines and tried connecting them to things within the map. some of them connect to letters, some connect to the castle looking things, and two of them i couldnt connect to anything

6 numbers/letters were not connected

LeppyR64

17:14

Yeah I haven't looked at the map too much. I did agree that was the next step.

Wesley Situ

did you ever solve the hidden ports clue on page 2?

i'd have thought it was another i.stack.imgur link, but i tried all 120 combinations and got nothing

LeppyR64

yes. Those places were all travelled in the 9 journies.

Wesley Situ

ahhh i see

do you think the giraffe to reptileish animorph thing is a clue of some sort? or just there to look pretty

LeppyR64

I can't believe that with all the other detail in this puzzle so far that it can't bean something.

*mean

It's the Eiffel tower

Neon612

@LeppyR64 Could "Capt Wall of the Street" have something to do with Wall Street in NYC?

LeppyR64

17:22

Look up "Eiffel Tower vs Giraffe"

@Neon612 I assume it does. Since the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower were made by the same guy.

(Honeymoon Treip ftw)

Giraffe problem solved

@WesleySitu After all this I hope the answer isn't to just point at the Eiffel Tower on the map. I feel like we've short circuited a lot of stuff in the graveyard and map if that's the case.

Wesley Situ

@LeppyR64 I don't think it'd be that simple :P I also really do hope...

Lord of dark

New puzzle coming soon

Wesley Situ

it does say that we just have to point on the map where the treasure is hidden

LeppyR64

gtg meetign

Business Cat

17:39

@GordonAllocman Cant listen to it now, Im at work :P I`ll try to remember when I get home

Wesley Situ

18:26

@LeppyR64 Here's a more or less pixel perfect line extension for the map. I won't post it as an answer since it's just a rough idea. Let me know if you can make sense out of it and I'll edit the image. imgur.com/YNqyeXI

LeppyR64

18:38

@WesleySitu Lots of interesting things, but no "aha" moments.

Wesley Situ

none of the lines connect to the eiffel tower

LeppyR64

That was the biggest detail :)

The fact that his tombstone says his work is central, maybe things need to emanate from there.

Again, not certain, but it's odd that some of the letters and numbers are not intersected and that some lines don't intersect with anything of note.

Navigator says "Any line connects two dots"

Wesley Situ

I guess i can post that and maybe op will chime in :P

LeppyR64

I've notice his other puzzles. He's generally pretty good at knowing when you're shooting blanks :)

I'm more or less just posting details as I sum them so that someone else can chime in too. We chip away at it, but we all have our own expertise and perspectives.

Wesley Situ

i also still have no idea where to go from the K = 50 and X = 1 thing

LeppyR64

18:45

Yeah I was thinking some form of ascii/whatever with the numbers and letters on the grid. Just seems like such an odd detail. Probably be pretty when we sort it :)

Paris / Eiffel is definitely something to keep in the back of the head.

I'm trying to make headway on Fartlings tombstone. Some lettes are backwards some aren't.

Wesley Situ

yea i cant wrap my head around that

also, the location from the first parchment for 8 Rue Alphonse Penaud is the address to the Subaquatique Pirate Club, which is also in paris

LeppyR64

Yeah that's the very first thing I looked up when I started the puzzle.

So as far as the clues are from the parchment, the only thing still outstanding is "the ghosts of good men will help you and point you to your final steps"

GOOD MEN!

Wesley Situ

i wouldnt know which ones are good. somewhere in the story i recall he thought some of them were scheming behind his back

LeppyR64

Maybe ignore Navigator, Cook, Tattenshoe, Maurice and one of the Wils (Not sure which stone is which)

Wesley Situ

the wil with 'U' is the dumb one

LeppyR64

18:57

Bad will is not the dumb one

Wesley Situ

that's Wil the joker right?

LeppyR64

Can't tell tbh

Wesley Situ

mmm Wil the joker is the drunkard, so thats the gravestone with Grog and Wine

who would also be Ironfist

LeppyR64

How did you sum that up?

Wesley Situ

the dumb-witted Wil would be the good Wil

oh wait...

LeppyR64

19:01

Dumb witted is good will. How did you link joker to drunkard?

Wesley Situ

misread

it was the Doc who was the drunkard

LeppyR64

got it

Wesley Situ

i would guess...

i'll review the story once more lol

LeppyR64

Wil N'thing is dumb witted good will. Wil Ironfist is bad will. I can't link Wil the Joker from page 1 to anything else.

Where's the rum?

Wesley Situ

rum?

LeppyR64

19:07

To help me think :)

Google "Why's the rum gone?"

(It has nothing to do with this puzzle)

Wesley Situ

oh haha

LeppyR64

Need to get in the right frame of mind :)

Wesley Situ

the rum was taken by doc, navigator, and cook

LeppyR64

19:20

You're good with pictures. Can you overlay the merged map with a map of paris? Get the Eiffel tower lined up of course? I wouldn't even begin to know what scale to use. Oh wait, is K and X possibly related to map scale? 50:1?

I gotta go

LeppyR64

19:36

That's not solving anything I don't think yet. More of a guess. I think we need to sort out the graveyard before the map.

Wesley Situ

yea

ive tried unfolding the dice and that made my head spin

@BmyGuest Hi there! :p

LeppyR64

Are we being watched? On mobile right now.

Wesley Situ

yes haha

regarding the crew, I believe Sick Harming is the Doc, who has a peg leg, who could also have his leg nailed to the ship. However, this would also mean that Navigator is one of the bad guys

LeppyR64

19:53

Yup. Did I not make that clear in my list in my answer? I'll have to summarize it better.

LeppyR64
14:56
Maybe ignore Navigator, Cook, Tattenshoe, Maurice and one of the Wils (Not sure which stone is which)

Bad guys

Iron fist is the bad Wil in case we need to rehash that

Wesley Situ

i mustve missed that

BmyGuest

@WesleySitu Hi, just checking on your progress guys. Impressive work. But I'll take myself out of the picture here (and only comment in comments), so don't let yourself be disturbed. Lot's of good stuff you've found so far!

LeppyR64

@BmyGuest Cheers.

BmyGuest

A lot of things you're onto might become clearer in retrospect, as those are clues to confirm/narrow down.

LeppyR64

@WesleySitu Odd though because I thought Navigator's clue sounded relevant. All the other one's to ignore seemed to carry some snarky backhanded comment.

@BmyGuest When we remove the fluff all that's left is the truth ;)

BmyGuest

20:05

:c) Yup. I'm (literally) sitting on my hands to prevent me from giving you more clues. It would just spoil the fun (for you guys). But before you're willing to give up, shoot me a "comment"...

Gordon K

If you're sitting on your hands, I dread to think what you're typing with!

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Jonathan Allan

20:41

0

Q: How will you weather this riddle?

Battle me, if you dare: I can have four copies, Or over a hundred. I am essential to many things, Yet you can be set without me. What am I?

riddle

could it be

could it

plastic bag??

humn

20:59

Be serious, Jonathan, a plastic bag is only one thing.

This answer obviously includes three things with something in common.

Lord of dark

So the "bus" answer is over... it's a plastic bag now ?

humn

now that's two things! bag and bus

one to go... kismet?

probably something that starts with T

. . . but, Jonathan, i haven't forgotten about trying to link the logical list . . .

. . . and suspect ternary, you trit loving Brit (if I remember)

. . . don't mind if that's a false lead, enjoying the elbow room in a neglected puzzle . . .

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Q: Logically linked numbers

The left and right numbers are linked. What should the last number on the right be, and why? \begin{align} 135759&: 1 \\ 151364&: 4 \\ 255075&: 9 \\ 279422&: 36 \\ 292620&: 91 \\ 348777&: 135 \\ 398067&: 147 \\ 417894&: 265 \\ 459431&: 279 \\ 478926&: 307 \\ 609941&: 363 \\ 689245&: 435 \\ 814576&...

pattern calculation-puzzle number-sequence

(bye for now, thought it was a chance to mention that puzzle to your face)

LeppyR64

23:41

Ok @WesleySitu, he wasn't joking, we've got a photoshop mess for the next part. I think I know what to do. If I'm not mistaken we're going to end up with a 6 row by 16 column grid. Each row is all all 16 of matching die face. They go in order from left to right following the grids on page 1 of the journal.

Wesley Situ

do you have a small illustration of what you mean by that

LeppyR64

yeah just a sec

doodling with pen and paper now

Wesley Situ

i hope what im doing right now is actually what i need to be doing.... i've drawn and cut out the dice so its easier for me to see how they get unfolded lol

LeppyR64

Yeah if you've cut them out into squares I can manipulate them in paint too.

If you look at page one in the book, look at the 4x4 squares. The first one is for the little key layer (face 1)

Notice that the cross in row #2 (from the top) and column 3 from the left is the only one that has a star on it's face

I'm not certian if that cross is the start point or the end point, but follow the path in the 4x4 grid to the end, ending at row 1, column 1. Append the faces left to right

So in order from left to right you will have the faces of:(2,3)

(2,3)(1,3)(1,4)(2,4),(3,4)(4,4)(4,3)(3,3)(3,2)(4,2)(4,1)(3,1)(2,1)(2,2)(1,2)(1,1‌)

oh you actually drew them! wow!

I was planning to print them tomorrow

Wesley Situ

printing would be much better, but i dont have access to a printer right now :P

though i still dont see what the end result looks like for what youre doing

LeppyR64

23:58

Standby, I'm working on the key row in paint

I really wish I was better with gimp.

Wesley Situ

you can practice :p

im not a pro at this stuff either

LeppyR64

I am :)

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