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Post by astree on Feb 18, 2020 8:55:21 GMT -5
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Post by Jenny on Feb 18, 2020 9:29:29 GMT -5
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Post by astree on Feb 18, 2020 10:45:12 GMT -5
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Lots of really good information in your article, Jenny. Thank you.
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Post by david on Feb 25, 2020 12:52:19 GMT -5
Sorry to sound ignorant, but what is the Eye-Nose code for Fandango?
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Post by thedawailey on Feb 25, 2020 15:02:19 GMT -5
Sorry to sound ignorant, but what is the Eye-Nose code for Fandango? david -
I know on page 5, if you draw a line from the right eye through the tip of the nose on the 4 creatures (bear, fox, hare and snake) it spells NOSE. I have never been able to make it work on other pages, but maybe somebody else can give other examples?
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Post by david on Feb 25, 2020 17:19:50 GMT -5
I see, thanks! I just found If you draw lines just for the fox on each page he is on and only when he looks at a Red letter, it anagrams to Leman. Another word for lover or sweetheart...
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Post by dalby2020 on Aug 20, 2020 19:56:45 GMT -5
Did the actual story written in masquerade have anything to do with the solution?
From what I've read, it doesn't seem like the writing was terribly important - the solution was all based on border phrases and illustrations.
Fandango states that both the pictures and words may hint at the key. And there are some weird punctuations in the writing (i.e. .... vs ...).
Does anyone think the Fandango story involves or reveals a riddle?
I mean a real riddle - not a clue saying what picture to look at.
And what about the black and white pictures? They must have some importance.
Did masquerade have any B&W pics?
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Post by thedawailey on Aug 21, 2020 9:08:32 GMT -5
Did the actual story written in masquerade have anything to do with the solution? From what I've read, it doesn't seem like the writing was terribly important - the solution was all based on border phrases and illustrations. Fandango states that both the pictures and words may hint at the key. And there are some weird punctuations in the writing (i.e. .... vs ...). Does anyone think the Fandango story involves or reveals a riddle? I mean a real riddle - not a clue saying what picture to look at. And what about the black and white pictures? They must have some importance. Did masquerade have any B&W pics? In Masquerade, the story did not have anything to do with the solution. And yes, the 'master riddle' was a phase from letters picked out of the borders. The clues were all in the illustrations, except for a simple line at the beginning to "use your eyes...that may point you to your prize", a clue that pointing from the eyes will give you the riddle. The border phrases as written and red-letter words also had nothing to do with solving the puzzle except for the very first one that said "One of Six to Eight" which referred to Catherine of Aragon, Henry the Eight's first of six wives, and the treasure was buried near a monument to her.
Masquerade did not have any black and white drawings.
I have wondered about the page numbers of Fandango as well as the text, though. There are 60 pages, which includes the cover pages as page 1 and page 60 which is unusual.
The spacing of the text is odd as well. For example, some pages are crammed with text, especially page 33 which has 36 lines of text that almost don't fit on the page. Then there are pages with very little text and lots of blank space, like page 9 with only 6 lines of text, or 31 with only 8 lines. Often these are the pages with a pencil drawing to fill in the huge amount of empty space, but often (like page 31) it's just a mostly blank page. Pages 37, 38 & 39 are almost completely blank, but why? Everything on those three pages could easily fit on one page.
I feel the book is organized so certain things fall on specific pages, which is why there is such an inconsistent amount of text on each page.Masquerade was very consistent - one page of text to each illustration (except the double page images). Fandango is all over the place. 1-3 pages of full or partial text per 'chapter', and the last chapter (I Narrowly Manage to Pull It All Off) has 6 pages.
I think the text is organized to make sure each illustrataion is on a specific page. The first seven illustrations are all on a right side page.The next three illustrations (Fairy, Harley, Indian) are on the left. The Fire page is a double-page illustration, the Lady is still on the left left, Cadillac is double, and the last three are back on the right. In Masquerade, all text was on the left, all illustrations were on the right (or double).
The book Fandango says there are clues both visual and verbal, but it isn't clear if the 'verbal' part is finding the letters from the borders that spell the Star Code, or if there is something more in the text. I do find the way the text is written and spaced on each page to be suspicious. At the end we are told to "read a second time for good measure," so there may be something hidden in this text that has such odd phrases, punctuation and capitalized letters.
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Post by catherwood on Aug 22, 2020 13:26:28 GMT -5
I think the text is organized to make sure each illustrataion is on a specific page. The first seven illustrations are all on a right side page.The next three illustrations (Fairy, Harley, Indian) are on the left. The Fire page is a double-page illustration, the Lady is still on the left left, Cadillac is double, and the last three are back on the right. In Masquerade, all text was on the left, all illustrations were on the right (or double). This could just be a cost-cutting measure for printing color sides vs black text sides of the pages. I haven't looked at the binding, but it would make sense to have flats laid out with colored illustrations in sets on one side with the text on the back. But of course, the authors could still use such a layout to their advantage in hiding clues as well. |
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Post by thedawailey on Aug 22, 2020 16:16:14 GMT -5
[/quote]This could just be a cost-cutting measure for printing color sides vs black text sides of the pages. I haven't looked at the binding, but it would make sense to have flats laid out with colored illustrations in sets on one side with the text on the back. But of course, the authors could still use such a layout to their advantage in hiding clues as well.[/quote]
catherwood - I would agree with you, but this arrangement creates more, not fewer pages than is needed.
In Masquerade, there are 15 illustrations and 32 pages. All illustrations are on the right (except the double-page images) and all the text is on the left.
In Fandango, it takes 56 pages for 17 images (24 additional pages for 2 extra images), and color & B&W are not consistently on one side. There is no apparent pattern. So very strange and very different from Masquerade.
But I haven't been able to find what, if anything, it all means. And it fits with everything else about this book. Nothing makes sense.
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Post by pumalion on Aug 23, 2020 18:14:10 GMT -5
I have wondered about the page numbers of Fandango as well as the text, though. There are 60 pages, which includes the cover pages as page 1 and page 60 which is unusual.
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I feel the book is organized so certain things fall on specific pages, which is why there is such an inconsistent amount of text on each page. ...
I think the text is organized to make sure each illustration is on a specific page.
I agree.
To me, the 60 pages suggest a link to the 60 minutes of a clock or, perhaps, the 360 degrees of a compass.
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