The help provided only confused me more…

I’m hoping the letters that end up in the circles can be added to where the colored letters take us. However, the top it tells us “Twelve shalt thou not count” and, the only thing that I see that is 12 are the number of circles. Everything else (puzzle clues and the *help* items) are 11.

I;m a big fan of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The quote at the top is a modified version of something from it.

aloe01, how’s about a trade?

So working in a primary color gave me words like compost. After discovery of the help, the order of things and the meaning were quickly discovered. Twelve I did not count but the number of my counting was eleven.

Not sure where to start with the clues, is it letters alone or numbers or both?

Is it an eleet solution?

the illuminating letters should be included.

I may be gone for a few days as I’m technically on vacation right now. But I do plan on finishing the puzzles.

OK I have worked out my first one and now see the method. though I was never very good at these.

Having got the first though I can’t yet see how it is a clue for what goes in the crossword.

Have a feeling I will know more when I get a couple more.

will keep you posted.

Hay aloe1 I got 5
Maybe we can organise a swap : )

Anyone kind enough to point me in the direction of clue number one.
I dont seem to be getting anywhere with it.

Thought it might have something to do with “the book of revelation” but nothing seems to fit.

Your right. Cowpatty I can honestly say I would not have got that without the hint…

Now to decode the answer.

hmm I wonder if the count of eleven applies here to.

11cc

11 ClueChaser Clues.

back from my short trip, but it will be an early night for me. Hopefully I can finish my last two tomorrow after taking a fresh look at the clues.

Of course, I wouldn’t mind a nice shove in the right direction with them either.

beginning to think maybe i am chasing a red herring. Maybe I’m just reading the message to much.

Twelve shalt thou not count: Don’t count the twelve circled letters.

Eleven shall be the number thou shalt count: Use the eleven coloured letters only.

but this doesn’t seem to help me either..

You are spot on about 11cc.
Apply that method to all clues.

As for working them out. Some may require intuitive leaps.
Some are easily found through research if you guess some of the ’small’ words ‘in a’ for instance.

Some might be easier once you have a couple of answers in the crossword.

Some you may never know without help. Eg. Clue 1 for me would have been impossible without cowpatties hint.

I’ll be away for a day or two. If your still struggling I’ll leave a few more clues then.

goodluck.

It’s realy two puzzles in one UncleBen.Or should I say:

ir2pi1u

Make sure you get the right letters for the right numbers and then look for some help.

No, not a fluke. Which makes solving some of them a little easier once you solve a few.

Funny enough, I was able to figure out both 3 and 10 using wikipedia.

Just finished all the clues! Now on to the next part.

I never actually found any similar puzzles while searching for answers (though I have seen them before). But, that’s probably a good thing because it forced me to solve them myself (or with help from friends and other cluechasers).

UncleBen:

Still stuck?

How ’bout them Mets? Or Yankees, depending on where you are from…

It doesn’t have anything to do with a public waste disposal technician does it?

UncleBen. I got your email but when I try to reply I’m getting delivery failure notices. I’ve tried 3 different times. Yesterday and today.

Um, yeah, found one but the chick is nuts about cupcakes. Dead end?

soozook - I did get 5 and 7 finally - thanks!

And, no, the letters in the circles are not another diltoid. The original help provided comes in handy again here.

Diltoid huh? Sounds like another epithet to add to my repetoire, along with Boner Tard.

Speaking of boner tards, I’ve found two connections. One in her December archive referencing the Puzzle Master series and her enjoyment of Indiana Jones movies.

Actually one of her posts includes a days-left-to-the-fourth-movie. A movie about boner tards, made by boner tards, for boner tards.

I’m still here too.
Found where you are, but just as lost…

Got it now. Just needed to be a bit more persistant and observant.
Getting right back to the source would’ve been helpful as well..

OK well I’m stuck again then.
Tried applying the same rule to the crossword letters as I did to the blue letters with no result.
tried reversing it and tried some different orders of the letters from the crossword.

I’m fairly certain the letters are correct except maybe 10. can someone confirm if this has anything to do with christmas.

I seem to be so close yet so far.
applying the rule exactly gives me a tantalisingly close female name starting with T and ending in A. but its not working even if shortened to 11. Suggesting I may have not solved one of my clues correctly.

Can someone confirm these for me.
1) Something originally right about this.
2) A religious conviction
3) a northerly nieghbour
4) a pound of rice
5) a liberating clue
6) whats between the sheets
7) another planet
its miles away in another land
9) you may want to ‘run home’
10) christmas
11) I’d kil fOr a Bite to eat.

Got it?

Ok. I’ve almost caught up.

I solved everything except #5.

I tried mixing up the circle letters, but can’t make sense of anything. the closest I got was a vampire’s mother.

Never mind. I finished.