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"The Unfinished ________ Waltz"
Edit:
I figured out the title I think!!!!
"Boxes of boxes"
If you take all the notes given:
Which solves to this:
I know my answer still isn't making use of the red markings, so I'm not ...
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Memorable Quotes
The first step is to realise that these lines:
Doing so gives us the following:
"Seer / prosecuted, ..."
"...repair clothes with a needle? / Not easy..."
"...Ms Hathaway / ...
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Musical message from a long-lost uncle
Featured in the past, compositions by musical uncle Francis, at:
Handbill:
La-Fa-Sol-Do-Re
Ti-Fa-Sol-Do-Re Ti-Ti-Do-Sol-Mi-Re Sol-Do-Do-Mi-Sol Sol-Ti-La-Fa-Mi-Re-Mi-Re
Ti-Fa-...
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"The Unfinished ________ Waltz"
If we continue from MMAdams' discovery (if you like anything in this answer, go upvote MMAdams'!) and
we get the following pattern:
where e.g.
This, if you squint at it a bit, says
which also (...
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A Trivial Pursuit #14 (Entertainment 3/4): Integration by Parts
The items in the middle column are
The columns on either side contain
If we
Taking just
So the final answer is
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This song sounds awful
So:
Now
So I think Alice's favourite song is
which turns out (thanks to Mike Ball in comments) to be
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Which computer-made song is this?
The song is clearly supposed to be
Which is a well known song by
With some imagination it is pronounced the same as
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Who lives in 314?
Partial answer
If you decode every QR code using something like zxing.org, you get these codes (top to bottom):
1
2
3
4
Credits
Gareth McCaughan♦ spotted a mistake.
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Who lives in 314?
Another partial answer because I can't comment
The image's alt attribute is aoPrk, so going to https://i.stack.imgur.com/aoPrk.png, we see the order of the qr ...
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Musical murder mystery
EDIT: Thanks to @00Average for the crucial hint and @Stiv for tieing up the loose ends!
Solution:
Thought process:
The musicians
The siblings
The murder
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Hoping for a satisfying conclusion (a musical connect wall)
Like @Stiv commented, I don’t know if anyone can get them all alone, so I began by making my contribution and adding to it. Contributors to this answer include myself, Braegh, Stiv, GrumpyLlama59, ...
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My Uncle's Music Box
Step 1: The Music Box
Transcription:
Transcribed Values: (using @supinf method)
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What is missing from my aunt's inheritance?
Did she accidentally leave
for her flat?
Or did someone maybe
Either reason would account for
(Probably not the correct answer, since neither reason quite explains the two extra notes in the music, ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 7): Don't forget the lyrics!
The Christmas song we're looking for is:
The solved crossword:
Filling in the letters in the correct places, leads to:
Then:
This leads to the full lyrics of the song:
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A Trivial Pursuit #05 (Science and Nature 1/4): Animal Songs
The answer is
Because all of these is an animal contained in a title of
The note symbol corresponds to the
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Can You Note the Notes?
Just to show what can happen when important ciphers get into the wrong hands,
a partial decryption suggests that
if Jack and Dave were me, what they would do is look for a lawyer.
What were Jack and ...
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A Musical Message
To start, a big shout-out to JNF for getting me most of the way there. (If you upvote me, please upvote them as well!)
Step one:
Step two:
Therefore the encoded message is
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Musical in Nature
Not a solution, but here's a conversion of the image to text, to make this puzzle accessible to the blind. :)
Braille:
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Help me with our discovery!
Doing a Fourier transform on the scan from the newspaper gives us this in the lower left corner:
text: ...
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