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Post by cvsnipe05 on Feb 8, 2021 13:21:20 GMT -5
HERE’S THE WINNER:  |
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Post by whispa on Feb 8, 2021 13:27:08 GMT -5
Oh wow no wonder he got it in just 2 days! Must know how to find inconsistencies and deconstruct things very well. Congrats!
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Post by whispa on Feb 9, 2021 14:57:37 GMT -5
I've looked everywhere to try and find the solve method. I'm guessing it involved the double words but anything official yet?
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Post by thedawailey on Feb 9, 2021 16:13:23 GMT -5
I've looked everywhere to try and find the solve method. I'm guessing it involved the double words but anything official yet? It is the first letter of each word that is seen twice in a sentence, but there are extra letters and gaps making it confusing.
It starts with 'The' in the first sentence after Riley's Tiktok bit, then 'rolled' then 'it', and so on.
I was able to find:TRI SLIDE/ LIONS/ HE_MES BADGE, (couldn't find the R for Hermes), then a series of F's (Four-Four, Five-Five and 'four and four', but there are no F's in the solution), along with a few other letters, then _AMP_ for NAMPA.
I gave up at this point, because it doesn't really matter anymore LOL. I just wanted to see if I could pick my way through.
On to chapter three!
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Post by whispa on Feb 9, 2021 16:17:24 GMT -5
Thanks, I ended up with very similar results/odd gaps etc. Was just wondering if we had official word as to what the precise method was as perhaps it can give some insight into the next solves (CH 3 and the remaining 6 of the next book), as well as picking up the method in past clues. We know it's first letter of double words, but it seems there's something missing, unless the solve is actually that muddled in which case.. oh well.
On to 3 indeed!
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 9, 2021 18:07:11 GMT -5
Wow I was way off. Since it mentioned kangaroo words and they were instructed “Follow Me,” and the title was “Ladies and Gentlemen...”, I was looking at any words following words which contained ME.
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Post by davem on Feb 9, 2021 19:53:47 GMT -5
Wow I was way off. Since it mentioned kangaroo words and they were instructed “Follow Me,” and the title was “Ladies and Gentlemen...”, I was looking at any words following words which contained ME. I was doing something nearly the same... only for Chapter 2 when we were on it. lol Ok, so going by our "much-talked-about" rules, is it safe to say that Chapter 3 will NOT contain any ciphers? lol |
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Post by GeneticBlend on Feb 9, 2021 22:49:05 GMT -5
The solution occurs at the beginning of Chapter 1. If a word appears twice in the same sentence, you use the first letter of that word to arrive at the solution.
Someone on the facebook group posted screen shots of the pages with those words highlighted.
There are some extra words/letters and the R is missing from HERMES.
I believe the extra and missing letters might be intentional so that people who can design computer programs to search for known words can not come up with a solution. But a real human who is sitting down, studying, and looking for patterns and writing things out with pencil and paper may notice the errors and still be able to solve the puzzle. It is tricky, but smart.
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Post by cvsnipe05 on Feb 10, 2021 14:03:05 GMT -5
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Post by David C. on Feb 10, 2021 14:53:37 GMT -5
Thank you for posting this.
Someone got it, so I guess it was gettable. But man, even with a genuine respect for their need to make things tricky and hard to Google, I think it's a bridge too far to include six errors (intentional or not) which renders an unfamiliar city unrecognizable / unsearchable (NAMPA TO NAMMPHA) and an uncommon item also unrecognizable (HEMEWASBOADGE = Hermes Badge?). Making up the term "tri-slide" for a combination of three slides in a playground is okay on its own I suppose, but combining it with the six errors just seems like too much intentional (or unintentional) muddying to me.
(Edited again to reflect the fact that there are six "errors" in the solution, not four.)
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 11, 2021 11:40:09 GMT -5
susb8383’s disgust was palpable.
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Post by thedawailey on Feb 11, 2021 14:29:28 GMT -5
susb8383’s disgust was palpable. And that R from Hermes doesn't follow the pattern. The words are not repeated in the same sentence or even by the same person. But it's the kind of wrench they throw in so it can't be found using algorithms. In chapter four, they used a letter that wasn't the first letter in one of the song titles too, if I recall. And the last letter of the solution could have been a Z or an I until the proxy was found. So I guess this is the solution and method they intended. |
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Post by susb8383 on Feb 17, 2021 7:12:48 GMT -5
Ok I feel much better about this now. I just listened to the podcast with Kristian House. It looks like the wrong extra letters weren’t put in intentionally to throw people off the track. They were just editorial errors that were put in later.
It’s also interesting that Kristian used Winner Winner Chicken Dinner as a clue for using repeating words. That and Double Burger.
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