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Post by susb8383 on Apr 18, 2021 5:44:36 GMT -5
Just wondering, where does everyone think the seven major pieces are represented in the puzzle?
Maybe:
The stamps The fronts of playing cards The letters around the border The number pyramid The postcards The missions The calendars
What do you think?
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Post by stercox on Apr 18, 2021 14:25:49 GMT -5
I like that! That's where we are too. That would leave the main picture to help define the methodology to puling these all together.
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Post by artofhiddenmessages on Apr 18, 2021 15:08:04 GMT -5
Just wondering, where does everyone think the seven major pieces are represented in the puzzle? Maybe: The stamps The fronts of playing cards The letters around the border The number pyramid The postcards The missions The calendars What do you think? I think two of those are incorrect.
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Post by susb8383 on Apr 18, 2021 21:58:53 GMT -5
Hmmmm....
Thanks for the nudge!
This reminds me of playing Mastermind with my brother growing up. Which he’d always win incidentally.
Ok. If two of those are incorrect, aside from trying to figure out which two, it probably means there are two correct ones that I didn’t list. Which makes me think there’s something in the painting itself other than the letters.
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Post by susb8383 on Apr 18, 2021 22:00:34 GMT -5
I like that! That's where we are too. That would leave the main picture to help define the methodology to puling these all together. Just curious, how many other people are you working with? And how many pieces do you feel you’ve worked out, if I can ask?
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Post by stercox on Apr 18, 2021 22:47:51 GMT -5
One other teammate. It's hard to say on the pieces. Your grouping of 7 seemed correct to me. There are correlations and other things to uncover in those. But there are other observations that we're not sure about in the central painting. Without piecing things together it's hard to tell if we've actually found the things we're supposed to and how they all relate to each other. There are disparate things that we cannot google search into a nice tidy box, pushing us to look for some methodology that will solve this dilemma. My gut tells me it's found in the central painting, mostly because we haven't really used that for anything purposeful yet and because all else lies peripheral to it. It's a tough puzzle that will surely continue to twist my brain into a pretzel!!
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Post by susb8383 on Apr 19, 2021 5:18:18 GMT -5
One other teammate. It's hard to say on the pieces. Your grouping of 7 seemed correct to me. There are correlations and other things to uncover in those. But there are other observations that we're not sure about in the central painting. Without piecing things together it's hard to tell if we've actually found the things we're supposed to and how they all relate to each other. There are disparate things that we cannot google search into a nice tidy box, pushing us to look for some methodology that will solve this dilemma. My gut tells me it's found in the central painting, mostly because we haven't really used that for anything purposeful yet and because all else lies peripheral to it. It's a tough puzzle that will surely continue to twist my brain into a pretzel!! Yup exactly. Even without knowing the solution, I’m going to venture to say that of all the 9 hunts, this one is the most complicated and planned. I don’t mean that the others aren’t well-thought out, but I think this one is the most precise with multiple pieces that all fit together perfectly, like a wooden box with dovetailed joints that needs no glue to hold it together if the pieces are all put together correctly. I really like that. Just a hunch of course.
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Post by susb8383 on Apr 19, 2021 5:41:41 GMT -5
Beth, here’s a general question, i don't know if it’s something you can answer or not.
You've said that the seven major pieces all come together in the final solution.
Is solving one piece needed to solve another?
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Post by stercox on Apr 19, 2021 13:12:34 GMT -5
There seems to be only one area of the 7 you mentioned that give hints to a methodology that we can see. And there are at least 3 mini-puzzles there, and we're unsure if the puzzle master is utilizing a 4th (sort of a two-fer). What I can report, having worked on many of Beth's puzzle, is they are usually very tight, very layered, and she doesn't leave things hanging out there. There is a clue in there somewhere that will lead us down the right path, if we're clever enough to see it. Also, the other thing I've noticed from previous puzzles is she doesn't like a lot of noise, junk or throw-aways, most things we see will have a purpose. And FWIW, and this just a guess on my part, the 2 wrong items might be the stamps (while they have a utility, they are not in themselves puzzle pieces) and the calendars (again they may serve as a nudge, they may not really function as a puzzle piece).
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Post by artofhiddenmessages on Apr 19, 2021 16:23:45 GMT -5
Beth, here’s a general question, i don't know if it’s something you can answer or not. You've said that the seven major pieces all come together in the final solution. Is solving one piece needed to solve another? No. You can solve each independently, however, some overlap. For example, most of you have read the postcard and know it directed you to the missions. But there may be other uses for the postcards too. (Maybe that is also how you need to update your list of the seven puzzles. Some things might be used more than once. )
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Post by artofhiddenmessages on Apr 19, 2021 16:33:34 GMT -5
There is a clue in there somewhere that will lead us down the right path, if we're clever enough to see it. Also, the other thing I've noticed from previous puzzles is she doesn't like a lot of noise, junk or throw-aways, most things we see will have a purpose. And FWIW, and this just a guess on my part, the 2 wrong items might be the stamps (while they have a utility, they are not in themselves puzzle pieces) and the calendars (again they may serve as a nudge, they may not really function as a puzzle piece). My comments on the above: The "clue" that is in there somewhere could be that you have to figure out how these seven puzzles all lead to something that is alike.
I think this might have a bit more noise and junk than usual.
One of your guesses on the two wrong items is correct. The other guess is incorrect.
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Post by artofhiddenmessages on Apr 19, 2021 19:30:20 GMT -5
Someone sent an email, and a zoomed in picture of an area near the rabbit's ear. When it is zoomed in, it looks like there are tiny letters there. I have to admit, it is really strange! But I didn't hide any tiny letters there, or anywhere for that matter!
If you print my treasure hunt out on an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper, you should be able to solve everything by just looking at the hunt on that size of paper. However, looking on a computer and enlarging things does help make things more clear, and you can examine things in a more intimate way, but it is not really needed. So don't go looking for hidden things that aren't there. Just try to figure out the puzzles from what IS there.
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Post by susb8383 on Apr 20, 2021 12:57:59 GMT -5
Thanks, the above answers are helpful. Or will be once I get a little further along.
One last question. Do you think we’ll need to solve all seven major pieces to solve the hunt? Or could someone solve most and make an educated guess about the final answer?
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Post by susb8383 on Apr 20, 2021 13:01:01 GMT -5
And FWIW, and this just a guess on my part, the 2 wrong items might be the stamps (while they have a utility, they are not in themselves puzzle pieces) and the calendars (again they may serve as a nudge, they may not really function as a puzzle piece). I came to the same conclusion before Beth’s comment.
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Post by susb8383 on Apr 22, 2021 21:22:40 GMT -5
And FWIW, and this just a guess on my part, the 2 wrong items might be the stamps (while they have a utility, they are not in themselves puzzle pieces) and the calendars (again they may serve as a nudge, they may not really function as a puzzle piece). My new hunch is that the stamps are filler, the calendars are not. Mainly because the calendars have some inconsistent capitalization.
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