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This is a comprehensive and complete roundup of the answers submitted by various users and brought together by the OP. A lot of this was solved in chat, mainly by Deusovi, Rubio, Techidiot and Volatility.
The answer to this is
Because
Each algebraic equation:
Doing this for every equation gives:
So
Transcribed this is
If we use
However
EPILOGUE ...
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Solved
Map:
Individual Puzzles:
As per @Henkie's post, the second door from EXAMPLE ROOM solved
COLLISIONS solved
REASSEMBLY solved
GET TWO FREE solved
MAZES IN MAZES solved
HALF THE PICTURE solved
MIND GAMES solved
WHERE ARE YOU? solved
ILL OMENS solved
ACCOLADES solved
BACKTRACKING solved
GOAL IN SIGHT solved
BLOCK CIPHER solved
BLOCK ...
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Solution:
Explanation:
When the QR code is decrypted, we are given NGnc7. As @LeppyR64 figured out, this is an Imgur address, which leads us to this image:
Open this image with a text editor and you will find the bitcoin address at the end (see here for an image):
Running a blockchain search for this address gives us :
And that address belongs to...
...
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Partial - No time to finish it now
As was mentioned by Beastly Gerbil the QR-Code decodes to:
This points to a new image:
With this image:
Next Step:
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Solution:
EDIT FROM OP
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Partial...
We get
Hence,
Which when applied on the meaning less letters gives -
Lets try solving the algebraic equations -
With the help of @Rubio and @Deusovi it seems like a pattern stating (Paragraph Number-Letter+Number of characters to move towards Direction(E,W,N,S)
Applying this on the image of the page we get
Hence the sequence we get is -
...
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The first stage leads us fairly clearly to
And here are the clues in total
this leads us to
Which clues
The spoiler text is
This brings us to
The title of which is
While the text decodes to
All credit to everything going on here
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Partial answer
Following from @Techidiot's finding,
which seems to be the clue for what @Deusovi figured out with the "meaningless letters".
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Full answer:
First:
Second:
Third:
Fourth:
I noticed few things:
Thanks to @Techidiot: I've already guessed the correct solution, but he gave me the right way to approach the answer.
Fifth:
Sixth:
7th:thanks @Sid for the tip:
Notes:
8th:
9th:
Last:
The solution:
That was so much fun, thanks @Techidiot for the puzzle I learned a ...
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On the first page, the right side
Collisions:
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Partial answer:
Maze 1
Maze 2
Maze 3
(solved by ffao)
Maze 4
And 2012rcampion has solved the fourth maze!
...Maze? 5
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Final Complete Answer:
The original image QR gives:
Clicking on the image and reading the QR there gives
Notably it's upside down
The barcode on the cereal says:
And the QR says:
The barcode on the side gives
a link to here
The QR there says:
The barcode there says:
there is also a hidden imgur address
which leads to:
The solution to the ...
answered Sep 4 '16 at 18:47
Beastly Gerbil
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(OP Edit: This answer solves the final (and crucial) part of the puzzle. For a complete answer, please see BeastyGerbil's answer, which includes the works of BeastlyGerbil, olesaw, MOehm and Xenocacia.)
I feel bad posting this as an answer when other people have done so much of the work, and I'm missing some of the details, but I believe the answer to the ...
answered Oct 14 '16 at 12:44
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Step 1: The Music Box
Transcription:
Transcribed Values: (using @supinf method)
BASS CLEF (ROWS):
7 1 2 3 7
1 1 2 2 2 1 1
1 3 1 3 1 1 2 1 3 1
1 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 1
1 3 1 1 4 3 1 3 1
1 1 1 1 5 1 1
7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7
2 1 1
5 5 1 2 1 2 1 1 1
2 1 1 1 1 9 1
2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1
4 1 3 1 1 1 3 1
1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 2
1 2 1 2 3 9 1
2 2 2 3 1 2 1 2
1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1
8 1 3 ...
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Clicking on the picture gives an image with the text
The answer must be 5 letters. It is
Which using the conversion table gives
Which is
Which is
@oleslaw got it. It is
Which is
@oleslaw got this too, it is
Which is
The answer (from @MOehm) is
Which is
The answer from @MOehm is
Which is
So we must look at the signs we've seen through our ...
answered Oct 12 '16 at 6:18
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Which finally gives
Text version -
Decoding the above
Now
Text version
As @Gareth already figured out the key, trying to look at the note we get
Finally
Which is
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Partial Answer
The meaningless letters
Each line seems to clue some word:
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The person who emailed you is trying to tell you
Your mind wanders back to the effort they put into hiding this message...
Clicking on the image you found a picture of a bookcase and a computer. The bookcase contained links which led to other images. A lot were filler images, but there were a few that caught your eye...
The trickiest to find
Ordering ...
answered Nov 20 '16 at 14:21
Beastly Gerbil
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Grandpa has gone to
The first note -
Box One -
Box Two -
Back to Box One -
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(Don't worry, I haven't been spoiled for this! I just know the final passcode and that's it.)
After a few story images, we get to this:
Now we have a branch!
That final image contains a code using the same method as the other codes we've seen so far. That code decodes to the password:
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The missing door is - >
Explanation -
Hence -
Which gives -
Next...
More findings -
So,
So
The Door!
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Following on from rhsquared:
Now to decipher that:
Could that be the final answer, or is there more to discover?
answered Dec 17 '18 at 21:28
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Continuing from oleslaw's answer:
I go to ...
This leads us to ...
So I say:
The last image has ...
So there's a final answer that we can find in the journey.
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Ignoring all the other smart discoveries,
So, this means either
or
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Working from Sid's answer, and taking into account that:
New image!
which is:
So, another image!
And we find the final solution hidden in this riddle:
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Solution of mazes 2 and 3
Maze 2
Sounds like you guys need some programming duty! Thanks in huge part to @Anton's huge help in organizing all the paths in a friendly format, I was able to quickly cook a Python script that goes through all possibilities:
import itertools
BASE62 = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
def ...
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Wrap-up: The Making Of This is it. This is the One. Save your wife
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.
For a similar post, see the wrap-up on the first of the series - This is it. This is the one. Find your wife.
Inspiration
...
answered Dec 13 '16 at 18:15
Beastly Gerbil
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Community Wiki from OP with complete answer:
By clicking on the image we get
To get the next image
Which is
This is
So
Giving
which is
This is
If part of the image is higher up then it represents capitalization.
This gives
Giving
The
They give
Which is
Sign language for
which is the final image
The answer is
which is hidden
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Partial answer (part 1)
Thanks to @GentlePurpleRain and @El-Guest for decoding.
The answers to the decoded riddle are:
because
These characters (after trial and error with capitalization) point to the following image:
Partial answer (part 2)
Improving on @practiced_liar's findings,
For convenience, I wrote myself a sloppy but functional script to fetch ...
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Using the imgur link @maxathaousand provided and the partial answer by @brian, the image gave me:
With the hint, I tried all cases until I got:
With the image:
Partial Answer Part 4.
Using hint 4, we see:
The typos in the text lead us to:
Final Answer Part 5.
Using the hint provided:
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