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[goodie] Yeah, I thought of that, but forgot to put that in.

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By the way, there's really no reason to hide discussion of the "colors" behind goodies tags. Anyone can see them if they click the Bar long enough, and I think someone even posted it on the board once (although I can't find it after a few minutes of seraching). Save that tag for discussion of the goodies reward and the solution to the riddle only, please.

Edit: although Ezlo using "goodie" instead of "goodies" doesn't help much.

Game on,

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Well, I think Ezlo's point originally is that the colors relate to the goodie reward.

He's wrong, but it's sensible speculation and justifies the tag use.

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Well, I at least know what I'm supposed to be doing (or at least I think I do), thanks to jbluestein's PM, but... playing with a certain site that would hopefully have helped me isn't, and I just plain can't figure out how to use all ten goodies to create an interesting order :/ I just love banging my head against brick walls...

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Hikari wrote:
Well, I at least know what I'm supposed to be doing (or at least I think I do), thanks to jbluestein's PM, but... playing with a certain site that would hopefully have helped me isn't, and I just plain can't figure out how to use all ten goodies to create an interesting order :/ I just love banging my head against brick walls...

I'll trade hints about the goodie riddle for hints about the red herrings

-Insane

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Insane wrote:

Hikari wrote:
Well, I at least know what I'm supposed to be doing (or at least I think I do), thanks to jbluestein's PM, but... playing with a certain site that would hopefully have helped me isn't, and I just plain can't figure out how to use all ten goodies to create an interesting order :/ I just love banging my head against brick walls...

I'll trade hints about the goodie riddle for hints about the red herrings

-Insane

Sounds good to me. Information-gathering PM sent

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Wooo! Got the riddle!

...

Is it a bad thing that, looking at the hints I got, Insane sledgehammered me and it *still* took a few minutes for me to work it out?


[goodies]I had it in my head that I needed to have 'SECRET' as part of the solution and couldn't figure out why there wasn't anything I could make out of 'SHON'... [/goodies]

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Hikari wrote:
Wooo! Got the riddle!

...

Is it a bad thing that, looking at the hints I got, Insane sledgehammered me and it *still* took a few minutes for me to work it out?

Congratz! So my hints helped..I think...

[goodies]I had it in my head that I needed to have 'SECRET' as part of the solution and couldn't figure out why there wasn't anything I could make out of 'SHON'... [/goodies]

[goodies]I accually started with NO SECRETS but couldn't get the H away [/goodies]

-Insane


PS: I got the two red herrings now (thanks to noone other than Hikari), but I have no idea for the real image..

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Insane wrote:
[goodies]I accually started with NO SECRETS but couldn't get the H away [/goodies]

[goodies]NO SECRETSH![/goodies]

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jbluestein wrote:

Insane wrote:
[goodies]I accually started with NO SECRETS but couldn't get the H away [/goodies]

[goodies]NO SECRETSH![/goodies]

[goodies]NO SHECRETS?[/goodies]

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[goodies] Women must speak only truth. [/goodies]

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[goodies]I accually started with NO SECRETS but couldn't get the H away [/goodies]

[goodies]I started with pretty close to that myself, but I had no trouble at all with the H, because I was convinced that it was "SH, NO SECRET!" I tried it both ways around (with the "SH" at the beginning and end, and even switched my pairs of Es and Ss. It took me far too long to abandon the idea and try something else. Pathetically so, really.[/goodies]

(Perhaps this part of the thread should move over to the Riddle of the Bar discussion...)

Back on topic: I've got both red herrings, and I know what I'm supposed to do, but none of the similar places I've tried have been real pages on the site (save one, and it's a normal page).

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jbluestein wrote:
[goodies]NO SECRETSH![/goodies]

[goodies]I think we've found ourselves an Igor here... [/goodies]

np: New Order - Dracula's Castle (Waiting For The Sirens' Call)

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Briareos wrote:

jbluestein wrote:
[goodies]NO SECRETSH![/goodies]

[goodies]I think we've found ourselves an Igor here... [/goodies]

[goodies]Wouldn't that be 'NO THECRETTTH!'?[/goodies]

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Dammit, guys! Stop teasing me!

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Briareos wrote:
[goodies]I think we've found ourselves an Igor here... [/goodies]

Aaargh! So that's where the latest annotated version went... I tried to find it on the web site for so long... Grrrr...

Thanks!

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Ah, there it is.

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Hikari wrote:

Click here to view the secret text

×There's three numbered things in the forum that you can look at... topic, attachment, and...? (hint: You'll see it sometimes with a # by it)

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Rabscuttle wrote:

Click here to view the secret text

×Ignoring the blobs of colour, I'm curious as to how the room will end up solvable.

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Insane wrote:

Click here to view the secret text

×There are accually 4 things: Topic, Attachement, RoomId and ....

Room 75 is just a plain room though.

-Insane

There's more than that - player ID, for one.

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Mattcrampy wrote:
Dammit, guys! Stop teasing me!

I agree! "" is right!

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Mattcrampy wrote:
Dammit, guys! Stop teasing me!

Don't wanna!

[goodies]It's fun, dammit![/goodies]

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Hikari wrote:

Mattcrampy wrote:
Dammit, guys! Stop teasing me!

Don't wanna!

[goodies]It's fun, dammit![/goodies]

oh, stop taunting them.

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:sniff: oh, fine, I'll stop...

'sides, I think the novelty value of the goodies tag has about worn out for me.

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yet another 1/400th of an increment, which brings us to

75.5%

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As pointed out by Pinnacle on the previous page.

Game on,

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File: TCB_Graphs.PNG (58.4 KB)
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Graph resurrection! I just rebuilt it from scratch after my excel file got corrupted a few weeks or so ago.

TCB progress up to 75,5%. The green rectangle shows the zoomed-in area of the second picture. (Which is probably more interesting than the line from 0 to 42)

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Hmmmm . . . looks like we'll be wating till september then . .