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The message is
@kristinalustig solved the maze and identified "Finley's breeze" as
@Ewasted translated the Morse Code to
which is
Victory and Bounty are
"that unknown southern land" is
So to find the message
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Oh, this is a fabulous puzzle - seemingly impossible to break into at first sight, but then when you make a breakthrough you start to spot more and more little hints as to how to solve the rest of it...
The mixtape is titled:
and its coded tracklist is as follows:
How do we find all of this out? The secret lies in realising that:
Taking the title as an ...
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You may notice that the fragments
Doing this for all of them gives the following:
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Your friend has been:
To solve this, note that:
To interpret the letters:
Events then unfold like so:
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This is a fun little puzzle! As clued by the bottom-most node of the diagram, which features an 'I' in brackets, each node of the pictured graph represents:
Meanwhile, the numbers suggest that:
So how do we annotate the diagram? I would propose that we need to:
But this could involve a whole heap of guesswork, right? WRONG
This means that our final ...
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The two missing numbers are:
Because:
What then do the numbers represent? Here, we need to use a second piece of knowledge...
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From the hints we can infer that
The first one is easy:
We'll skip the second for now and move on to the third one.
OK, on to number four.
Number five:
Now let's step back to number two.
Finally, the sentence given in the hint is:
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The output from your test Phrase "Saraswati, the goddess of learning." is:
This is because:
Adding it all together:
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'Always six of us'? The answer is:
How do we find this? Firstly:
Next:
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This puzzle suddenly clicked into place when I realized that
The mean-ness of this puzzle comes from
and the contents of the grid are
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Left Guardian is ...
Right Guardian is ...
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The unique solutions to the 3 puzzles have all been found by @Deusovi (Curve Data & Tapa) and @Retudin (Yin-Yang) - here's how to extract the final message... (See their answers for explanations of the puzzles' individual solutions...)
Overall then, the answer to "What should I do to avoid this from happening again?" is:
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solving yin-yang:
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Partial answer - Curve Data and Tapa solved, stuck on Yin-Yang
Curve Data
Note that
Now look at the section
Yin-Yang (unsolved)
Some important lemmas for Yin-Yang that it is good to know:
So, let's think about this puzzle in a different way.
And now we can start getting somewhere!
...and this is where I'm stuck.
Tapa
To start,
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You're doing ok actually,
Let's see if I can fix it for you:
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The rankings from 1 to 10 are:
"Spanish Language is actually #5"
Christianity [3]
Stack Overflow [9]
Amateur Radio [17]
Spanish Language [21]
Biology [29]
Graphic Design [36]
Chemistry [41]
Astronomy [47]
Science Fiction & Fantasy [52]
Earth Science [68]
Thanks to Stiv, who found the details of Biology and Graphic Design.
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Solution logic:
Let's start with the top right as it's easiest. There are 9 square pictures with red borders that work to generate
This is a
Moving to the top left:
I struggled with this one for a while, but kept coming back to the title. It's all about position. After trying many different things, I came back to one of my earlier thoughts. What if the ...
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Here's my answer:
And my reasoning:
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Partial Answer: At this point, I've spent more time on this than I care to admit, so I leave it to the community to complete the solve. 🙃
I overlaid the images together to reveal:
This provides us with 15 letters:
However, I've been unable to proceed further. Some of the things I've looked into so far (perhaps incorrectly):
Resources
I'm also including ...
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(Thanks to Stiv and M Oehm in chat and the partial answer, I just came in the end)
First-Trichain
Second-Slitherlink
Interpreting
Don't let that trick you, though!
Last Steps
Using this revelation to our advantage,
Finally,
Final thoughts
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Partial Answer
This is better as a comment to the existing answer, as it's more observations that might HELP solve (not an actual solution), but I can't comment yet.
I think @Stiv is on the right track, and have come up with several other names
Furthermore...
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The answer is:
The numbers in the equation ...
Note that ...
Hmm. And now?
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Partial answer - figured out how to 'read' the pieces
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Here's a partial answer explaining (in detail) what I believe to be the first few steps of the puzzle's solution. However, beyond that point I am as yet unsure how to proceed...
First off, consider the schematic in 3 and the image in 5 together. We can combine these...
It then makes sense to consider clues 1 and 2 together with what we have found.
Solving ...
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Currently identifying every pokemon in the grid for all our puzzling friends who haven't memorized all the names, because there are a bunch listed here:
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Blipbug
Azumarill
Dracozolt
Noctowl
Pineco
Abra
Doublade
Mudsdale
Diggersby
Espurr
Shroomish
Vulpix
Chimecho
Vibrava
Centiskorch
Ferrothorn
Machop
Obstagoon
Galarian Meowth
...
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I think that this is
Reasoning (warning: spoilers incoming)
As far as I can tell, the black lines from top to bottom are
Also the white section represents
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Across
Down
Still Thinking:
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The things being diagrammed
This leads to the aha moment -- that this chart
The full answer:
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The answer is
The reasoning is that
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Partial Solve, original solution had errors, I have proposed answers for two of the three questions, but no idea on the third.
If we map the numbers to the squares they lie on, we get the string:
The "A B C D" maps to the following:
On to the questions:
What is the meaning of the black line near the bottom-left corner of the image below?
What ...
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The word we're looking for is:
Line by Line
"You insist I should take one"
"Ten I shall take as I won."
"Tendencies are like a corpse"
"Fire spreads over entire course."
"Fighting as they found a hole"
"Bamboos grow on land as whole."
"Bamboozling, I take villages"
"Golden ...
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The word is
Because:
It turns out that
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Wrap-up: The Making Of A Puzzling Easter Egg Hunt
This is not a solution to the puzzle, but provides notes from its poser. This type of answer has been approved by the community.
Caution: This post may contain spoilers.
Inspiration
Cryptic crosswords are not everybody's friend... Around ten years ago they were the kind of puzzle I would skip over in a ...
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