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[MatthewV]

Link to puzzle

[Naboo]

I'm going to hazard a guess and, since this is a very good puzzle and I don't want to spoil, I'm going to both invizz and ROT-13 it.

Gurer vf ebbz sbe gra natryf gb qnapr ba gur urnq bs n cva.

[The Cruciverbalist]

We'll eventually be told whether that's right or wrong, but, well, vagueness abounds in the phrasing of the question. Another teensy little bit of confirmation would be comfort enough.
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[The Cheshire Man]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Naboo has it.

I wonder if I'm so used to math reasearch puzzles that I forget if I've ever considered simple physics or chemistry or any other science. Eventually, I calculate myself crazy: then I never get the Eureka feeling of solving something myself. Sometimes, I need to just listen to my senses.
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[Guest]

Could someone tell me whether the discrepancy in the word "truth" between the graphic (which shows "thuth") and the puzzle text (which shows "truth") is relevant to the solution or merely an oversight?

Thanks. Sean

[Naboo]

It's just an oversight

[Guest]

Ooh, no bodies dozing now!
White rays of summer burn all skin,
And kumquats, roses, mushrooms sink,
"Oh!" says Cee in his sin.

Cee ate a carrot, stole a broach,
(Oh! why so naughty, evil child?)
New Wave, a curse upon our days,
(Oh! DAs runnings wild!)

You all I own, say, "Dose a dram,"
And "Trace a cat," or say it not;
If keen, you say, "Dee Ace, Ease Ace,"
(I cheat an awful lot.)[/sub][/spoiler]

[Guest]

Err...


You all I own, say, "Dose a dram,"
And "Trace a cat," or say it not;
If keen, say you, "Dee Ace, Ease Ace,"
(I cheat an awful lot.)

[3iff]

Seeing the suggested answer from Naboo, I still couldn't work out how he reached that conclusion...

...well, I have now discovered the secret (I hope) and concur with his answer.

I doubt I would have been able to get the answer myself. Nice one.

[shanterusan]

I had to read the inscription out loud several times before I got it.

[MatthewV]

[Tahnan]

Hrm. Not personally thrilled with the puzzle, which could just be sour grapes insofar as I couldn't solve it without shanterusan's hint. But it seems to me that it's a variant on something we've seen often--hidden words--and one that relies on some particular or strange pronunciation, insofar as, reading it aloud, I would pronounce the last two words of line one as, roughly, "trooth rihseev'd", and "soothes even" as "soothz eevehn". (Note: invisible text contains explicit spoilers.) Perhaps this is quibbling; for me, I find it slightly more than that.

[Dred Pirate Westley]

Please pardon my ignorance, but what is ROT-13? I may have misunderstood, but from the entries that followed, it seems that it's a kind of phonetic writing that is understood when read aloud? If so ... I still couldn't figure out what was said when I read it aloud. Maybe I'm slow.
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[Tahnan]

ROT-13 is a simple encryption method: shift each letter thirteen forward in the alphabet, wrapping around (so A=N, B=O, ..., M=Z, N=A...). It's quite popular as a way to disguise text, because encryption and decryption are the same process.

[Tony Gardner]

[Dred Pirate Westley]

Ah! I get it now! "The answer lies within", and "all are accounted for" are great clues! Very good puzzle! Though, I have to admit that I probaby wouldn't have gotten it nearly as quickly without Naboo's post.
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[Gambler]

Why not 25?

[Guest]

There is another way to solve the rhyme. Several words in the limerick can be construed as numbers