New answers tagged enigmatic-puzzle
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Maybe this is just wild guessing, but maybe each person fits into one of the subjects???
Anyways... here is my guess:
Piasco "Crazy" Seacrouch belongs because of marine biology.
Ed Fish does too, for the same reason.
Georgia cross may belong because of cartography, and Georgia is a country/state and also its flag is a cross.
Grimm Bishop may belong ...
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The words are created by
So the three words are:
Images:
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Based on the new hint, one thing I notice is that
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The answer to this puzzle...
We find this by:
Doing so results in something that looks like this (in spoiler, below) and the final answer can be read off:
A note on my solve path:
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Astrid is trying to find:
And its "formula" is simply:
There could be many reasons why this isn't working for Astrid, which are well beyond the scope of this answer!
Some explanation:
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A partial clue that I discovered:
If I really wanted to stretch it, the following possibility suggested itself:
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The answer is:
The logic:
Counting as stated:
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Epilogue:
Outstanding solution by @Amoz
Here is the image that inspired this puzzle:
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In a solitude of the great rectangle of pipes, plus signs, and hyphens lies a list of words.
They are aligned in a staggered manner along a vertical bar which suggests they should be
And so we try this and Now! we see a pattern!
The first word is FORESIGHT.
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A word is in the set $\Pi$ if and only if
Examples
The image of Earth
Hint 1
Hint 2
What do "homo", "cell", "mega" and "micro" have in common?
The crown picture
Astonishing coincidence
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It looks to me like this puzzle is:
Why? First note that:
Next, there seems to be some sort of hint to the right of the vertical dividing line in the image...
We can then...
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Partial Progress
I noticed the arrow sets looked like
And converted them into letters which appear in the corresponding words:
Their scrabble indices match the sum in the red rectangle:
Anagramming the letters give the final answer:
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The two words you are looking for are:
Because:
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Puzzle
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Metapuzzle
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What are we looking at here? Art? No!
First:
What next? Well note that:
Finally:
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Explanation
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Here is a Starting Point:
That was the crux of my earlier comment:
Does the slash indicate closeness or separation ? Meaning : Is "a paid day" one unit or "day/cOmes" is one unit ? Does the comma indicate separation ? Or it is not significant ?
Assuming slash is separation, ignoring comma:
Assuming slash is closeness, ignoring comma:
...
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The answer is
Individually the answers are
Now if you
Which yields
And this is indeed
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The beginning
The first puzzles
The third blanket
Crosses
This suggest the following rule:
Irregular grids
The flower/star/explosion/fireworks-symbol
The last blanket
The last puzzle
Using the
The puzzle is completed!
Extraction
So now we know the final solution!
Some more notes on the final answer
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The top clues
The O grid:
X grid:
What next?
If both players move...
Questions:
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This puzzle makes perfect sense if
Then you find
The right-most column is blank and
If you fill them all in
which is what we say.
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First, here's the solved cryptic crossword:
Clue explanations:
Next, note that...
If we take the highlighted letters from the blank sequences and rearrange them, we can find 'a magical place to be with these sorts of characters':
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The message you have encoded is:
Which you encoded via a multi-step process that is clued in your statement: It's like I was dragged back from third base to second base – not like I'm telegraphing it to you."
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:
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Putting together the formatted letters yields
But I can't seem to find the last step(s) to get the ten-letter word required.
(Final part by @Bass, who tried to offer it in the comments, but got the righteous and exceedingly honourable response of getting the answer turned into a CW)
Combining the clues found in the answers with the ...
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I think I got part 2
If you take the first moderate hint, you can realize that
To use it,
So,
we end up with
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What a delightfully tricky little puzzle to go unsolved for almost 4 years! But I believe I have found the answer at long last... The squished diplomats represent the nations of:
How to work this out? Well, there are a couple of sneaky clues hidden in the introduction to the puzzle...
Because hidden within the text of the eye-witness statement are...
...
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The numbers in the circles
If we then apply that to the diagram,
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Partial answer, dealing with the marshmallows.
Then, the first two rows
Giving
All of the resulting letters give
Which is an anagram of
User39583 suggests that
...you get
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Correct Answer
In the cold they shivered
as they went home.
They walked with a girl
although they were men.
They finally conceded
and their neighbours got together.
Their friends walked onwards
and many didn't succeed.
To fix the story,
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