# Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D

## Introduction

As requested by @Rubio, I am here to state that this is a metapuzzle based on other puzzles listed below.

"Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D" ~ Mr Pie

## The Puzzle

Or does it? Answer is a two-digit number.

|....-..|||-||...-...||//.||||/....|-.....

## Answers from various users in different questions:

CARBON (by Gareth McCaughan)

CALCIUM (by Gareth McCaughan)

GERMANIUM (by Gareth McCaughan, still...)

DUBNIUM (by Gareth McCaughan, for the $$n^{th}$$ time...)

The part is yet to be solved...

## Hint:

|. rot 90°

• It's showtime ;) – Mr Pie Jun 28 at 11:17
• Wow, so many! You should be the answer in one of the 'I make billions' riddles! – Duck Jun 28 at 23:45
• Is the ellipsis supposed to be a single character, or three separate dots? – Deusovi Jul 8 at 0:40
• @ACoolGuy it is rot13 :) (decode it with rot13.com) – Omega Krypton Jul 8 at 15:41
• thank you so much! – A Cool Guy Jul 8 at 16:24

As JProblems found out, the cipher is Morse code but with | instead of -. In decimal form, it's 6-2-7-3//1/4-5.

radium-calcium-dubnium-vanadium//carbon/germanium-lead.

This describes lines drawn on the periodic table:

So the final two-digit answer is

the atomic number of Ni (nickel), which is 28.

• Ah clever! I wrote down the elements but didn't think to draw the lines on the table. Well done! – JProblems Jul 8 at 19:25
• nice job as usual @jafe, will award check later! – Omega Krypton Jul 9 at 2:33
• Perfect! – Omega Krypton Jul 9 at 15:35

Is it

61?

Because

If you rotate the vertical lines 90 degrees, they become dashes. Taking the dots and vertical lines to be Morse code, the small dashes to be minus signs, the single slash to be division, and the double slash to be a "word break" denoting the two separate digits, we have for the first digit 6-2-7-3 = -6, and (admittedly playing fast and loose with the order of operations to get a single digit answer) 1/(4-5) = -1 for the second digit.

In keeping with the other puzzles,

Element 61 is Promethium, Pm. Perhaps since there are negatives, it is subtracted somehow from the set of other elements to solve the metapuzzle?