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December 19th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Well… a lot to think about here. Many characteristics, but which ones matter?
December 19th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I’d say sort by color first.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Corrections needed if any:
RED - TFARDP@ MQWEHG9XPUMBKRJ
BLUE - NULNITOICOAN
GREEN - DBO$!DU2Ks e(sideways) %TMwCr
VIOLET - oVMHXHDONx]
December 20th, 2007 at 12:09 am
270° - eeecenreinularer
December 20th, 2007 at 12:40 am
The words BORDER RIM and MAN
December 20th, 2007 at 5:01 am
RIM reading upwards, or do you see it somewhere else? I doubt those are useful, in paer because I can find others (FEES, THE, BET, HAT, etc.).
Lots of possible anagrams for the blue ones…
December 20th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Lots of anagrams for the sideways ones, too.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:07 am
RIM in the lower right corner at the end of BORDER
December 20th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
This might be of help:
I have saved the gif and opened it with MS paint.
Using the eyedropper I selected a color then filled the pic in with that color, efectively “erasing” all of the letters of that color. then filled the pic again with white.
Repeat this for all but one color and you end up with the letters of all one color.
I did this for each color letter.
It works for all but the black sidways letters, case, numbers etc.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Looks like alphabet soup…
Categories I see:
letters
numbers
symbols
punctuation
lowercase
uppercase
colors (wonderfully provided by Gulrad)
orientation (left, right, upside down, normal)
The question I ask myself before sorting all of them into their collective categories is how can we know which one is the important category and will this in fact give us the password.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Could be that red fish again.
I do think the word BORDER is a real clue though.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
#5 is missing t
December 20th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Disreguard post 5 and 13.
The letters that are oriented up if the pic is rotated 90° counter clockwise:
eeethcenrneinaulreclr
Of course in no particular order.
All are black but one, an e that is green.
Note that they are all lower case and proper letters.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Add an s to the list.
Could someone double check my work?
With the extra s one can spell
cluechaser.net and
eennirerl left over
ennirerl with the green e gone.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Gulrad,
I have a w to go along with your list of sideways lower case letters. By the green e.
eeethcenrneinaulreclrw
December 20th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Great!
Thanks frnkly.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Looks like a forward slash also:
eeethcenrneinaulreclrw/
December 20th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
And an underscore:
eeethcenrneinaulreclrws/_
December 21st, 2007 at 1:09 am
There also seems to be a colon, unless it’s a sideways umlaut.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:13 am
No, never mind, on consideration I’m pretty sure it’s a double-quote mark.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:19 am
So, I’d think that I likely thing to check would be
cluechaser.net/xxxxx_xxxxx
where the x’s are some anagram of eeeilnnrrw
I tried combinations of
reline wren
reel winner
leer winner
newer liner
renew liner
with no success.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:22 am
Note that we may well have the dot required for “cluechaser.net”, since you can’t tell if a dot is sideways.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:37 am
I was so sure it would be ‘winner_reel’…but, no…
December 21st, 2007 at 9:57 am
I think that this is one of many parts to this puzzle as the final answer gets put into the guess box.
The answer to this particular one may be hidden in another way.
err newline
leer winner
lierne wren
liner newer
liner renew
newer liner
newline err
nil renewer
reel winner
reline wren
renew liner
renewer nil
winner leer
winner reel
wren lierne
wren reline
Some proper names:
err newline
lien werner
line werner
neil werner
newline err
nile werner
werner lien
werner line
werner neil
werner nile
December 21st, 2007 at 10:02 am
Blue letters:
NULINTIOCOAN
coalition nun
continua lion
continua loin
continual ion
continuo lain
continuo nail
ion continual
lain continuo
lion continua
loin continua
lunatic onion
nail continuo
nun coalition
onion lunatic
December 21st, 2007 at 10:08 am
The red “MAY” be an address as there is an @ and a .
but the extention is not .com .net or .org.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:19 am
A hint before the holiday:
This puzzle is to solved like a locked door is to open.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:30 am
Which means that it isn’t. And won’t be until we find a key.
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 am
The blue letters also spell ‘Location in UN’, but I can’t make anything more useful out of that than out of ‘MAN BORDER RIM’.
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:16 pm
It seems like folks are pretty unanimous that we chase the clues to another site or address to find the real password.
Maybe we have to think in puns when looking at possible links. So if you are looking at posts 15-25, you can see they found cluechaser.net/ plus some other letters. I like the list of possibilities but maybe it’s not that simple. For example: when I think of reel winner, I think of either someone who won a fishing contest or an award for a movie.
We may also need to consider the alternate meaning to Cowpattybill’s hint… we are on the wrong track and need to start over.
December 23rd, 2007 at 4:33 pm
New to this game. Thanks to everyone who provided clues. I couldn’t have gotten this far without them.
I suppose it’s my turn to chime in…(lol)
Cowpattybill’s hint was a “key”, (most likely).
Maybe he’s talking about musical keys???
December 26th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Not sure about music… there are a lot of letters that don’t fit into the scales in the various colors and sideways letters. Have you had any further luck though?
A not very useful observation: the violet number 6 near the center has a black top if you zoom in.
December 26th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Has anyone spent any time on the upside down letters or the other sideways letters?
December 26th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Post Christmas clue.
The key is elsewhere.
December 26th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
I’m not sure how to find the key but my best guess is that this is a grille cipher and the key will reveal the important letters/numbers/symbols while covering the useless ones.
December 26th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
UncleBen,
I havn’t noticed any upside-down or side-ways letters, can you point them out?
I think the “cluechaser.net/?_? is the most likely “elswhere”
Maybe the words border and rim are a hint.
December 26th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Maybe this has to do with a crossword puzzle.
The “border
i
m”
thing really reminds me of a crossword puzzle.
December 26th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Sorry.
border
——-i
——m
December 26th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Just found something else in the image:
there is an “s12″ that appears twice.
Once in the left side, about 1/4 of the way down and once on the right side, about half way down.
December 26th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
eeethcenrneinaulreclrws/_.
If “elsewhere” is removed it leaves:
cnrneinaueclr/_.
and removing “.net/” leaves:
crninaueclr_
December 27th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Found it.
Now, what does it mean?
December 27th, 2007 at 6:49 am
sweeet, just nailed seven.
December 27th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Oh, that’s what it means.
December 27th, 2007 at 7:28 am
I still don’t understand any of this…
Any other clues?
December 27th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Yea, I’m also stuck.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Still can’t find the key.
Do I follow Gulrad’s pursuits or border/rim/crossword?
By the way Gulrad, I was mistaken on upside down and other sideways letters.
Lost. Send help.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Anybody watch Dora?
December 27th, 2007 at 10:05 am
I can’t help but think I’ve been chasing that red fish again.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:06 am
The explorer? My kids do sometimes..
December 27th, 2007 at 10:11 am
My daughter thinks that show’s GREAT. Even has a Dora backpack she keeps all her little treasures in. . I just wish those dang songs didn’t get stuck in my head…
December 27th, 2007 at 10:18 am
We mostly watch the shows on PBS. Havn’t seen Dora enough for it to be of any help.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:28 am
posts 35, 28, 31 (last sentence) and 35
December 27th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Do we need a map?
December 27th, 2007 at 10:48 am
The key is elsewhere.
This puzzle is to solved like a locked door is to open.
We may also need to consider the alternate meaning to Cowpattybill’s hint… we are on the wrong track and need to start over.
The key is elsewhere.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:01 am
You have probably seen this key before but of course you wouldn’t have recognized it as a key. Post 36 is on the right track.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Post # 10 was a good idea….
December 27th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Especially the first step.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:26 am
I would wager that not all of you have seen the key.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Some may not have “signed in”.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Five bucks says I haven’t seen it
December 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Well, you can.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Okay, well, #59 was a big help. This would have been impossible, considering I had never figured out what “what you’re trying to solve plus one” meant. So I went back and created an account.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
jjcote,
puzzles1
or maybe
puzzle1
I don’t remember which now. I’m sorry you had to create an account. I know you were against that.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Oh! Now I get it!
Man. I’ve been sitting here quiet for days because I didn’t have *ANY* ideas at all. None. I’ve just been staring at that damn picture.
Well anyway. Thanks for all of y’all’s hints. ^_^