Post by searcher1991 on Aug 3, 2020 21:53:10 GMT -5
I’ve only started this after the chase ended so I’m trying to catch up on everything. I really want this to be solved before the end date so that the writers don’t ‘win’ so I’m willing to share all ideas or half ideas. I’ve found that a lot of my best solutions came from reading someone else thoughts and gaining inspiration by taking their idea further or looking at it a different way. So my dead ends and other thoughts are below
- I tried taking the letters from the red scrambled words (island, Neptune, etc.) and turning them into numbers based on alphabet order. So island would be 919121144. I thought maybe these numbers could give us a code to find a word on that page like 9th sentence down first word 9th letter or some combo. Didn’t get anywhere great.
- I made a separate post for this but I thought image 1 was supposed to go with 16, 2 with 15, 3 w 14. and then use the bordered words (reflection style) to create a poem that would lead us to master riddle. My post talks more about this idea but I got there because of reflections and upside down compasses. I still think this is right because the cmasquerade-edareuqsamc. They reflect each other like the illustrations should reflect where the outside matches outside and inside matches inside. My validations for this are the old man matching old woman (both have a rose, 64 tiles on 7x10, dolphins on 2x15, fandango alone on 1x16, hints to Cadillac mt on 4x13).
- read again for good measure hint: take a protractor and measure the angles of the star points that face the illustration? Never did this but I wondered because of that line.
- hidden numbers open treasure riddle. I took this slightly differently. Thought this meant the hidden numbers such as the ones you see the background or the idea of creating hidden numbers from the scrambled words like I mentioned above could lead somewhere.
- the words the foxes nose face in certain pictures creates something like follow across upside down point. Didn’t know if there was a hint there.
- errors in the borders. Some of the borders have slight errors like the first illustration all the blocks mirror each other perfectly except one near the word follows with the ones on the opposite side . (There’s a few more examples of this).
- cmasquerade hint - tnihedareuqdamc. There was an estate on MDI called Sonogee that was later named Eegonos or Sonogee backwards. Kind of like the C masquerade was given to us backwards. It later was called East of Eden. This is basically exactly where the Mr proud Old Fop’s estate from Fandango was located. Nearby is a place called witch hole pond that I believe might have the Key. Just pure speculation based off this hint, me thinking he lost the treasure with the fairies (witch hole), and the lake in the woods title of the book.
- other star points forming words? For instance reds with yellow or something. Or star points giving us a pattern l.
- the fishing page border - There’s 64 different colored tiles. There’s also 64 border sections (each of the 16 illustrations has 4). Couldn’t find a pattern that worked. Also with my mirror image idea the seaman goes with the smoke signals one (#7 and #10) and that one has 64 rectangles.
- using the numbers on the sign page to give us page number, paragraph number, word number or something similar.
I have more ideas but I figured it couldn’t hurt to just put some of my ideas and dead ends out there. If everyone does the same maybe someone will dig deeper on an idea that’s close and push it over the edge.
- I tried taking the letters from the red scrambled words (island, Neptune, etc.) and turning them into numbers based on alphabet order. So island would be 919121144. I thought maybe these numbers could give us a code to find a word on that page like 9th sentence down first word 9th letter or some combo. Didn’t get anywhere great.
- I made a separate post for this but I thought image 1 was supposed to go with 16, 2 with 15, 3 w 14. and then use the bordered words (reflection style) to create a poem that would lead us to master riddle. My post talks more about this idea but I got there because of reflections and upside down compasses. I still think this is right because the cmasquerade-edareuqsamc. They reflect each other like the illustrations should reflect where the outside matches outside and inside matches inside. My validations for this are the old man matching old woman (both have a rose, 64 tiles on 7x10, dolphins on 2x15, fandango alone on 1x16, hints to Cadillac mt on 4x13).
- read again for good measure hint: take a protractor and measure the angles of the star points that face the illustration? Never did this but I wondered because of that line.
- hidden numbers open treasure riddle. I took this slightly differently. Thought this meant the hidden numbers such as the ones you see the background or the idea of creating hidden numbers from the scrambled words like I mentioned above could lead somewhere.
- the words the foxes nose face in certain pictures creates something like follow across upside down point. Didn’t know if there was a hint there.
- errors in the borders. Some of the borders have slight errors like the first illustration all the blocks mirror each other perfectly except one near the word follows with the ones on the opposite side . (There’s a few more examples of this).
- cmasquerade hint - tnihedareuqdamc. There was an estate on MDI called Sonogee that was later named Eegonos or Sonogee backwards. Kind of like the C masquerade was given to us backwards. It later was called East of Eden. This is basically exactly where the Mr proud Old Fop’s estate from Fandango was located. Nearby is a place called witch hole pond that I believe might have the Key. Just pure speculation based off this hint, me thinking he lost the treasure with the fairies (witch hole), and the lake in the woods title of the book.
- other star points forming words? For instance reds with yellow or something. Or star points giving us a pattern l.
- the fishing page border - There’s 64 different colored tiles. There’s also 64 border sections (each of the 16 illustrations has 4). Couldn’t find a pattern that worked. Also with my mirror image idea the seaman goes with the smoke signals one (#7 and #10) and that one has 64 rectangles.
- using the numbers on the sign page to give us page number, paragraph number, word number or something similar.
I have more ideas but I figured it couldn’t hurt to just put some of my ideas and dead ends out there. If everyone does the same maybe someone will dig deeper on an idea that’s close and push it over the edge.
