Post by wgardner on Dec 2, 2019 13:32:56 GMT -5
Klarifications on Unintended Red Herrings:
. No kodewords are found by looking at a picture of a thing and just using a description of that thing. There wouldn't be any variation of CHESSBOARD in a kodeword just because you saw a picture of a chessboard, there wouldn't be any variation of YELLOWDUCK just because you saw a yellow duck, etc.
. The Scrabble tiles are meant to provide kryptic hints to help decode things encoded nearby. The letters on the scrabble tiles do not combine together in any way to directly form a kodeword. No variation or anagram of ONESHYRIB is a kodeword. [In fact, no anagrams are used in stage two at all.] Bonus points to you if you can figure out what the tiles are trying to hint at.
. Similarly, the pieces of paper with unusual characters found under Stratego pieces are intended to hint at how to find some kodewords, but the characters themselves do not have to be decoded to find kodewords. They could essentially be replaced by unintelligible splotches on the paper.
Kryptic Advice:
. The "Instructions I" kard's decoded message describes two separate counts of kodewords. Group the second stage kodewords into two different sets with each set holding kodewords with similar characteristics...
. Kards are two sided. Some stage two decodings involve relationships between things on one side and things on the other...
. Second stage kodewords may be found in things you're working on for the first time and in things you've already worked on...
. When the corners with the five black and white squares are used to decode kodewords, only three squares are used at a time...
. See the linked picture for visual kryptic advice about an unintentionally ambiguous puzzle...
. I like the triliteral code. You may find the triliteral code used in scattered places as you search for more kodewords. On the other hand, some things that may look like triliteral codes might end up somewhere else...
Thank you all for participating so far! It's been fun to hear about progress and roadblocks: please keep sharing your progress with me if you're willing. Hopefully it's been fun to do too. Please also read the Q&A posted on facebook and the MW forum if you haven't already.
A link to a google sheet for converting from triliteral numbers to letters is provided below in case it's helpful. Feel free to make your own copy and modify it as you see fit.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mhFKWcbfNR6CgstHGBLjzNWQCQhjtQR2c82BLbeer9o/edit?usp=sharing
Final note: this message is just a plain old message. I did not encode anything in this message for you to find and decode.
. No kodewords are found by looking at a picture of a thing and just using a description of that thing. There wouldn't be any variation of CHESSBOARD in a kodeword just because you saw a picture of a chessboard, there wouldn't be any variation of YELLOWDUCK just because you saw a yellow duck, etc.
. The Scrabble tiles are meant to provide kryptic hints to help decode things encoded nearby. The letters on the scrabble tiles do not combine together in any way to directly form a kodeword. No variation or anagram of ONESHYRIB is a kodeword. [In fact, no anagrams are used in stage two at all.] Bonus points to you if you can figure out what the tiles are trying to hint at.
. Similarly, the pieces of paper with unusual characters found under Stratego pieces are intended to hint at how to find some kodewords, but the characters themselves do not have to be decoded to find kodewords. They could essentially be replaced by unintelligible splotches on the paper.
Kryptic Advice:
. The "Instructions I" kard's decoded message describes two separate counts of kodewords. Group the second stage kodewords into two different sets with each set holding kodewords with similar characteristics...
. Kards are two sided. Some stage two decodings involve relationships between things on one side and things on the other...
. Second stage kodewords may be found in things you're working on for the first time and in things you've already worked on...
. When the corners with the five black and white squares are used to decode kodewords, only three squares are used at a time...
. See the linked picture for visual kryptic advice about an unintentionally ambiguous puzzle...
. I like the triliteral code. You may find the triliteral code used in scattered places as you search for more kodewords. On the other hand, some things that may look like triliteral codes might end up somewhere else...
Thank you all for participating so far! It's been fun to hear about progress and roadblocks: please keep sharing your progress with me if you're willing. Hopefully it's been fun to do too. Please also read the Q&A posted on facebook and the MW forum if you haven't already.
A link to a google sheet for converting from triliteral numbers to letters is provided below in case it's helpful. Feel free to make your own copy and modify it as you see fit.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mhFKWcbfNR6CgstHGBLjzNWQCQhjtQR2c82BLbeer9o/edit?usp=sharing
Final note: this message is just a plain old message. I did not encode anything in this message for you to find and decode.