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[Qball]

I believe they all have to be two digit answers and total a 3 digit answer.

[Gomez]

That gives us:

Sequence 1 = 11
Sequence 2 = 19
Sequence 3 = 12
Sequence 4 = 2
Sequence 5 = 99
Sequence 6 = 135

Which gives a grand total of 278.

Which doesn't work



<edit> I thought about that Qball but the way I figure sequence 6 (the difference between each term decreases by reverse multiples of 6 each time) 135 is the last term in the sequence.</edit>

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[Lepton]

No avail to numbers around 278.

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[What if...]

Shouldn't 5 be 108 instead (fits the pattern I was thinking of, but doesn't work)?

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[Qball]

Assuming 135 is correct, I tried 81, 90, 99, and 108 for seq 5.

Nada.

grrrrr

[What if...]

How'd you get 3?

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[Lepton]

alternating doubling...I suppose it could also be 09

[Gomez]

Re. no 4:

3x2=6, 4x2=8 etc...

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[What if...]

Got it. I prefer 108 because then we have a number being the last 2 plus nine, but that doesn't help much.

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[Qball]

OK .... for seq 3 i tried 11, 12, or 13. (according to int seq database, 11 and 13 were slight probables, but 12 was the favorite.) for the 5th seq, i also tried 81, 90, 99, + 108. I then tried all the combinations. Nothing.

I think seq 1 and seq 2 are easily correct. I am 98% sure seq 3 is correct. I am 90% sure seq 4 is correct. I am torn on seq 5 and seq 6. All my searches turn up 135 for seq 6, but it doesn't "feel" right.

grrrrr ....

[Lepton]

It's the name of a computer many of us have bragged about, apparently

[What if...]

I tried around 287, from the 108, and 286 is it. Any clue why?

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[Lepton]

For the record, I'm not in this for the money.
The Air France?

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[What if...]

Look at the advertisement in the top left corner. Sneaky hiding.

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[What if...]

In this one, the 1s become 11s, the 2s 12s, and the 11s 21s. I still can't get it, though.

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[Gomez]

I'm 99% sure no. 5 is right. The difference between the numbers increases by consecutive multiples of 9.

[Gomez]

Stage 10 is a bit of a chestnut the answer is (invizzed)


312211 (three 1's, two 2's, one 1 - Each line describes the line above it)

[Gomez]

Stage 11 Answers are

1) Oscar Wilde - OW
2) Kurt Cobain - KC
3) Great Britain (I think)
4) 1958 - 58 or maybe FE
5) Toxicology (I think) - T
6) Maine - M
7) Aerosmith - A
8) Martin Luther King - MLK
9) Tasmania - T
10) Patrick Stewart - PS

OW - KC - GB - 58 - T - M - A - MLK - T - PS

Doesn't look like there are enough vowels to make anything coherent. I'm fairly certain of my answers tho'.


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[groza528]

I had also got 24789 for stage 7 or whatever, but I can't get it to work. Where in the URL does it go? Link to next?

[groza528]

Never mind, I found it. Boy do I feel stupid

[mole]

Doesn't have to be coherent. Answer is OWKCN58TMAMLKTPS.

[edit] For Gomez, that one... [/edit]

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[Gomez]

Oh! Thanks mole

[groza528]

Gomez: A bit of googling showed that Norway is the answer to question 3, not Great Britain. The rest appear correct

[groza528]

bah, should've refreshed first

[Gomez]

For stage 12 I've got (invizzed)

1)Tennessee
2)Gnome
3)Revival
4)Saint Peter
5)Coroner or Mortician or Pathologist
6)Yorkshire or, more precisely, Wetherby
7)Square Mile
8)Zeus (I think)
9)Benjamin
10)Victoria
11)Mint


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[groza528]

5 is probably MD but I match the rest

[Gomez]

I don't think it can be MD because there's only one ? next to the question and so far the amount of letters we've needed from each answer have matched the number of ? at the end of each question.

[groza528]

Didn't even notice that. Have you found any string that works?

[Eykir]

I've tried all combinations of TGRSP?WSMZBVM with ? being each letter, and none worked.

[mole]

I've decided to cheat. Try Googling for "Stage 1 Part 12".

[Eykir]

I did that too mole, then figured out the M1 used to end at "Leeds" which is why we weren't getting it.

[Gomez]

Nice work Mole & Eykir!

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[Eykir]

1. Barbed wire
2. Snake
3. Mark Taylor (Australia Cricket)
4. Manchester
5. Provis
6. MacBeth
7. Michael
8. Magma
9. The Monkees
10. Mastercook
11. Moses
12. Malcomn X

Lots of M's..

[Gomez]

For Section 13 I've got


1)Barbedwire (I think we're meant to treat this as 1 word)
2)Lizard
3)Bobby Moore
4)Manchester
5)Magwich
6)Macbeth
7)Michael
8)Minerals (I think. I'm not sure about this one)
9)The Monkees
10)Mexico
11)Moses
12)Malcolm X

I've tried BLBMMMMMMTMMMMX but it didn't work

[mikeamok]

for that one, the first one is BW, despite only one question mark.

[Logain]

Hehe, I was just trying this out finally and I was completely stuck on the horse one cause I couldn't get the answer KITT out of my mind. I kept thinking to myself, "Well, he'd be a night rider (Knight Rider), so that would make the horse K.I.T.T.)

[groza528]

Of course I meant ME, not MD, but that's beside the point because neither was correct.

[Werebear]

*cough* googling for "stage 2 part 1" works too....

[Gomez]

I have to say I don't think this is particularly well made. The question after Stage 13 is so vague, with so many possibilities, that it'd take far more patience than I have to answer it.

[What if...]

Some of the puzzles are good enough, but on some I've thought: WHAT?

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