Post by wgardner on Dec 13, 2019 6:11:37 GMT -5
Kryptic Advice (KA) #2
. Reminder 1: Review earlier Kryptic Advice too!
. Reminder 2: Kryptic Advice is trying to help everybody, including people who have just started and people who might be solving things you haven't thought about yet.
. Paraphrased from a previous Q&A post: The two-sidedness of the kards opens up many possibilities, as does the ability of parts of the kards to overlap and form single images. There are things that can be done with kards that could not be done with books or single pictures...
. If something doesn't seem to be working right, check your assumptions. There might be another way to do something very simple that will produce a different result...
. If something seems out of place or unused, it might be hinting at a connection with something similar somewhere else...
. If something doesn't look quite right, it probably isn't quite right. How could you make it look completely right???
. If one sense fails you, try another...
. Sometimes a single kard arrangement might be used multiple different ways to reveal multiple different kodewords...
. Some codes might be used to decode different things with different keys. Some keys might be used to unlock different things using different codes...
. Some coded messages might be decodeable more than one way...
. Alphabets show letters in alphabetical order. Clocks show time in chronological order, but where to start???
. The gymnastics team took turns doing back-flips one-by-one in place in the corner of the gym. They thought it was too dangerous to do back-flips all together at the same time...
. English reads left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Some stuff might be hidden or encoded in that order too...
. ROYGBIV might be used even if not every color in the rainbow can be seen...
. Kard IIO=M ...
. One of the first twenty-seven codes is related to one of the types of game pieces and to one of the corners on the black-and-white sides of the kards...
. Two of the examples shown on the two-digit kards are used in decoding two important kodewords elsewhere. The specific example shown on Kard XX is NOT used in decoding any kodewords...
. It might be helpful to put a separating wrinkle on each gold ribbon after the first three text characters coming from the bow...
. In case you didn't notice, the character at the corner of the long ternary Ls is always "O"...
. Some kodewords are kryptic because they had to be squeezed into a fixed length. If one interpretation of a kryptic abbreviation doesn't work, try another. As a very very poor example, if a kodeword was TRPMUSE, it could be short for TRAP MOOSE or TRIP MUSE or maybe even TRAP MOUSE. Some kryptic abbreviations might become more clear when a group of them is looked at together in order once you find enough of them...
. Not sure if something is a kodeword? Put it in your "maybe" pile. There might be ways to confirm some kodewords later...
. The fraction of stage-2 kodewords that have been reported discovered so far by at least one person or team is 20/27 or .740740...
. This does NOT mean that a single submission by a single person or team has identified 20 of the stage-2 kodewords, but only that 20 of them have been discovered using only the kards and the Q&A and KA released before this message.
. General comment: For every piece of kryptic advice above that says something might be true somewhere, that same something might also not be true somewhere else.
. Final note: this message and all KA are just plain old messages. I did not encode anything in this message for you to find and decode.
Happy Holiday Hunting!
Bonus Kryptic Advice Picture Here
. Reminder 1: Review earlier Kryptic Advice too!
. Reminder 2: Kryptic Advice is trying to help everybody, including people who have just started and people who might be solving things you haven't thought about yet.
. Paraphrased from a previous Q&A post: The two-sidedness of the kards opens up many possibilities, as does the ability of parts of the kards to overlap and form single images. There are things that can be done with kards that could not be done with books or single pictures...
. If something doesn't seem to be working right, check your assumptions. There might be another way to do something very simple that will produce a different result...
. If something seems out of place or unused, it might be hinting at a connection with something similar somewhere else...
. If something doesn't look quite right, it probably isn't quite right. How could you make it look completely right???
. If one sense fails you, try another...
. Sometimes a single kard arrangement might be used multiple different ways to reveal multiple different kodewords...
. Some codes might be used to decode different things with different keys. Some keys might be used to unlock different things using different codes...
. Some coded messages might be decodeable more than one way...
. Alphabets show letters in alphabetical order. Clocks show time in chronological order, but where to start???
. The gymnastics team took turns doing back-flips one-by-one in place in the corner of the gym. They thought it was too dangerous to do back-flips all together at the same time...
. English reads left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Some stuff might be hidden or encoded in that order too...
. ROYGBIV might be used even if not every color in the rainbow can be seen...
. Kard IIO=M ...
. One of the first twenty-seven codes is related to one of the types of game pieces and to one of the corners on the black-and-white sides of the kards...
. Two of the examples shown on the two-digit kards are used in decoding two important kodewords elsewhere. The specific example shown on Kard XX is NOT used in decoding any kodewords...
. It might be helpful to put a separating wrinkle on each gold ribbon after the first three text characters coming from the bow...
. In case you didn't notice, the character at the corner of the long ternary Ls is always "O"...
. Some kodewords are kryptic because they had to be squeezed into a fixed length. If one interpretation of a kryptic abbreviation doesn't work, try another. As a very very poor example, if a kodeword was TRPMUSE, it could be short for TRAP MOOSE or TRIP MUSE or maybe even TRAP MOUSE. Some kryptic abbreviations might become more clear when a group of them is looked at together in order once you find enough of them...
. Not sure if something is a kodeword? Put it in your "maybe" pile. There might be ways to confirm some kodewords later...
. The fraction of stage-2 kodewords that have been reported discovered so far by at least one person or team is 20/27 or .740740...
. This does NOT mean that a single submission by a single person or team has identified 20 of the stage-2 kodewords, but only that 20 of them have been discovered using only the kards and the Q&A and KA released before this message.
. General comment: For every piece of kryptic advice above that says something might be true somewhere, that same something might also not be true somewhere else.
. Final note: this message and all KA are just plain old messages. I did not encode anything in this message for you to find and decode.
Happy Holiday Hunting!
Bonus Kryptic Advice Picture Here