The Golden Key has been found!

manasecret · 12-09-2006, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Neo

I know Clue#5 (0 2 7 17 14 13 14 2 14 3 4 22 8 19 7 15 14 8 13 19 18 13 20 12 1 4 17 4 3 19 7 17 4 4) gave people a lot of trouble. In fact ZebraRampage is the only one I know of who solved it.

I just want to say that I figured this one out as well, and I think many others did, too. I complained about it in some other thread, but then almost immediately after I wrote that post I figured it out.

As for the rest of the puzzle....... jesus the christ, I was no where close.

Congrats HappyDude!

Fox 6 · 12-10-2006, 12:35 AM

Way to go Happydude!

btw how long did the hunt last in total?

Neo · 12-10-2006, 01:36 AM

Well the story was first released to Survivors, and then in the middle of June it was released to everyone so we're looking at over 6 months. I for one am glad it's finally over. Now we can move on to bigger and better things.

Originally I had pictures drawn with clues embedded to go along with the hunt but I misplaced them. I couldn't remember what I had done so I abandoned that path.

thatmariolover · 12-10-2006, 01:53 AM

Wow, grats Happydude. I can finally delete my farking text file with all my solutions.

I in fact want to thank you. You cleared up about 30 hours over the course of the next two weeks of my life.

Neo · 12-10-2006, 02:42 AM

The clue about "I am a sphere and a wavelength" referred to an orange, or the color orange. Orange has 6 letters in it and another clue tells you this refers to how far apart you should space the tips the of the "V". The word "Begins" in my avatar is also orange to draw more attention to this, and the word Begins also has 6 letters. You should also find that the word orange appears 6 times in the story.

manasecret · 12-10-2006, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Neo

The clue about "I am a sphere and a wavelength" referred to an orange, or the color orange.

Daaaaaaaah... I thought you were talking about photons, i.e. light particles, which as you likely know are often thought of as both discreet particles (or "spheres" as such) AND having the properties of a wavelength. Then of course I got nowhere from there.

Neo · 12-10-2006, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by manasecret

Daaaaaaaah... I thought you were talking about photons, i.e. light particles, which as you likely know are often thought of as both discreet particles (or "spheres" as such) AND having the properties of a wavelength. Then of course I got nowhere from there.

Discrete particles are actually considered to be points, but that's an interesting approach I hadn't thought of.

ZebraRampage · 12-10-2006, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Neo

The clue about "I am a sphere and a wavelength" referred to an orange, or the color orange. Orange has 6 letters in it and another clue tells you this refers to how far apart you should space the tips the of the "V". The word "Begins" in my avatar is also orange to draw more attention to this, and the word Begins also has 6 letters. You should also find that the word orange appears 6 times in the story.

I actually figured that out, but I thought that the spacing of the tips of the V was 590 nm since that is the the wavelength of orange. I wasn't sure where to go from there.