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I was idly browsing the news yesterday, when I came across this article about a numeral system devised by an order of monks:

https://kottke.org/23/01/cistercian-numerals

In short, these are symbols with sub-symbols in each of the four quadrants... strikingly similar to the winner of the old DROD Number contest, and thereby the DROD numbers used by the Deadly Bar of Death:

http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=19559
http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=20307

Interesting how a similar problem has led to a similar solution. I wonder what other DROD notation or symbology might also have real world analogues...

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Now that I think about it, isn't that similar to how D'ni numerals work? Just with twice as many rotations?

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where can I get "DROD Numbers in the Real World" hold?

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DROD Number wasn't an architecture contest, so there's no hold. Here's the contest thread (back from 2008): http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=19559

Although, I did make some rooms for my entry:
http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=19559&page=5#232777
They are self-solving rooms, so not that exciting to play, and apparently no-one was a big fan of it as an entry haha.




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