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Old 09-10-2003, 03:32 AM   #51
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Looking for two clues that become complementary in their step one solved form, I hit on "Touch-Tone" and "Four-H Club". If we assume that "H"="4" as it does on a touch-tone phone, and converting Jim's grid from alpha to numeric,
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T I C T A C T O E P E N S A C O L A R E B E L Y E L L G E R A L D I N E T H R E E S O N S G I L L E S P I E M I C R O C H I P F O U R H C L U B S O U T H P A R K T O U C H T O N E
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8 4 2 8 2 2 8 6 3 7 3 6 7 2 2 6 5 2 7 3 2 3 5 9 3 5 5 4 3 7 2 5 3 4 6 3 8 4 7 3 3 7 6 6 7 4 4 5 5 3 7 7 4 3 6 4 2 7 6 2 4 4 7 3 6 8 7 4 2 5 8 2 7 6 8 8 4 7 2 7 5 8 6 8 2 4 8 6 6 3

Does that get us anywhere? Actually, it does. Look at the first clue again; it says "Tic Tac Toe". What is the object of Tic Tac Toe? To get three in a row, of course. And so look at our numeric grid. There are six, count them, six instances where the same number is located three times in a row. Left to right, top to bottom, they are 3-3-4-6-8-4. Take those numbers, turn them back into letters, and what do you get?

"E-D-I-M-U-G". Ed, I mug.

It's simple, and it explains Quiksand's fascination with puzzles. He's a hardened criminal, toying with us by broadcasting his intentions to commit crimes against poor Ed. Who else do we know who announces their evil intentions in sadistic puzzles?

Serial killers.

It's a fact, folks. Quiksand's snapped and he's going to kill us all.

Well, 2/3 of us, anyway.

(The message actually spells "F-E-I-N-T-I". Feint, I. There's no puzzle, it's a sham...or a feint. Quiksand hasn't a clue what the answer is, just like the rest of us.

Well, 2/3 of us, anyway.)

Actually, dunno if a numeric grid makes sense at all, but there it is, if it helps anyone. I thought the touch-tone and 4-H thing made some sense while I was drifting off to sleep.


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Old 09-10-2003, 08:11 AM   #52
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I'm very pleased with your progress so far... and am alternately flattered and disturbed by Shkspr's conjectures above.

My sense is that you don't really need any more clues... you really have all the pieces you need in place. The "grid" constructed above doesn't have any errors in it (you got all the correct words in there), you just need to figure out what to do with it. And you've already got the right general idea, you just need to get it with a little more precision.

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Old 09-10-2003, 09:57 AM   #53
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Old 09-10-2003, 01:44 PM   #54
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Okay - it's been sitting all day with nothing but a heroin joke. That's not a good sign for a puzzle. Here's some guidance.

You have hit upon two things that you need to solve this, but you have basically done so separately. You need to work with both of those things.

JeeberD did a good job with the "sandwich" clue... others have taken it in a wrong direction. (Not a bad one, necessarily, just not right for this puzzle)

Solecismic was right to start laying the answers in sequence and noting the "transitions" between the adjacent answers... but collectively, you haven't made the next big link with that.

If you can put those two bits of thinking together, you'll be right on your way. You have so many ideas, it's hard for so much to be getting past you with so few options left.
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:12 PM   #55
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Well, I suppose they could go in some numeric order; touchtone contains 'one', there's a 'three', and a 'four'....a tic-tac-toe grid has 9 squares; I can't make much of anything with the rest though (2 eyes? 5 flags?), so I'm probably headed nowhere. Still lost.
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:16 PM   #56
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I'm not sure exactly what JeeberD said that was a good job with the sandwich clue. What did he say?
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:21 PM   #57
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each of the clues have nine letters, and there are ten total clues. Does doing something like this get us anywhere? I note it is the shape of the touch tone key pad mentioned in JeeberD's post a while back...

TIC PEN REB
TAC SAC ELY
TOE OLA ELL

GER THR GIL
ALD EES LES
INE ONS PIE

MIC FOU SOU
ROC RHC THP
HIP LUB ARK

TOU
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ONE
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:22 PM   #58
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sandwich clue....both first and last clues have to do with a grid

the rest of the clues are the meat...and each one has a relation to a number...transitions could be numerical order...

now what number coincides with each clue

Three sons
4-H
Five flags (?)???????
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:22 PM   #59
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JeeberD said a telephone keypad and a tic-tac-toe grid resembled each other. Those were the top and bottom clues, maybe that forms a sandwich?

That South Park answer has me thrown for two reasons - one, I still can't see any similarities between the two clues provided, and second, because it just looks wrong in the grid. Also, why are there 10 answers and not nine if we're supposed to lay out a keypad?
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:22 PM   #60
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Dola...Sorry about the formatting, but even with good formatting, I'm not sure that gets us anywhere.
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:37 PM   #61
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But it's a sandwiched pair of secondary clues -- doesn't that mean TWO clues are inside the sandwich?
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:39 PM   #62
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I should add why I think South Park looks wrong.

All the other answers have two links between them.

For instance, from TICTACTOE to PENSACOLA, there's an A in the 5th position and a C in the 6th.

Going down, there are two links between the first eight answers.

AC EL EL RN ES II RC.

And then you get to SOUTHPARK. Three links. And the same three links between that and TOUCHTONE.

OUH OUH.

Now, those aren't word pieces. At least not word pieces that connect to each other. There's one more thing we need to do to those letter segments.
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:41 PM   #63
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This may be a red herring, but could the tie-in between the "sanwhich" clues of Tic Tac Toe and Touchtone have anything to do with the "pound" sign (i.e. the little button on the phone that looks like a tic-tac-toe board)?
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:42 PM   #64
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Would this be a bad time to mention that before I read people mention South Park, that I was thinking of four square? Doesn't one person have to leave the game, or 'die', after each time?
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:45 PM   #65
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While you seem to be focusing on the things that are staying the same from segment to segment, perhaps you need to think instead about the things that are staying the same.
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:47 PM   #66
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Would this be a bad time to mention that before I read people mention South Park, that I was thinking of four square? Doesn't one person have to leave the game, or 'die', after each time?


But what does that have to do with Disney?

I'm pretty sure QS would have let us know if South Park was wrong...
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:48 PM   #67
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While you seem to be focusing on the things that are staying the same from segment to segment, perhaps you need to think instead about the things that are staying the same.
Now he's just mocking us with nonsensical riddles...
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:52 PM   #68
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Well, that's why I didn't say anything. But with Jim going on about it, I thought I'd throw him a bone.
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Old 09-10-2003, 02:55 PM   #69
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Now he's just mocking us with nonsensical riddles...



Well, that would give us four less letters in the segments, but I doubt the final answer is some brute-force unscramble.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:02 PM   #70
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Of all the clues, the "Four H Club" one just seems out of place. Maybe it's an American thing, but I have no idea what a Four H Club is. It seems like something like "Fight Club" would have been a better fit, which makes me wonder if the "Four H" is part of a hint. A tic tac toe board (or a pound sign) does look kind of like four H's connected in the middle.

Hmm... club... a clue "sandwhiched" in... club sandwhich?

I got nothing.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:06 PM   #71
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6 of our answers have food connections

"Tic Tac" toe
Pensa "Cola"
Geral "Dine"
Gilles "Pie"
Micro "Chip"
Four H "Club" (sandwich)

the other four....well......ummmmmm
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:06 PM   #72
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I'm very pleased with your progress so far...

The "grid" constructed above doesn't have any errors in it (you got all the correct words in there), you just need to figure out what to do with it.


I'm getting the sense that some folks missed this.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:19 PM   #73
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I'm getting the sense that you must have a lot of time on your hands... how do you come up with this stuff?
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:21 PM   #74
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I'm getting the sense that the time he spent making the puzzle is much less than the time I've spent staring at it. And I'm really busy (well, supposedly I am).

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Old 09-10-2003, 03:29 PM   #75
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The first big needed insight has already been made, it just wasn't recognized as such.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:33 PM   #76
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Maybe all but two of the lines deal with food, and the other two are considered 'inside' the sandwich?
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:36 PM   #77
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I haven't dola'ed in a loooong time.

Maybe it's that there are two clues INSIDE the food clues: Rebel Yell and Three Sons? South Park and Touch Tone are OUTSIDE the food clues.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:39 PM   #78
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Here it is in a more "grid" like format (I hope this works...)

It didn't work

So go here to see it

I don't know if this actually helps....but there it is.

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Old 09-10-2003, 03:46 PM   #79
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Very helpful! Now I don't have to keep scrolling!
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:49 PM   #80
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However, you misspelled Rebel Yell.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:49 PM   #81
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It's a picture of Quik's dog chasing its tail.

Code:
AC E AC L E L LL ER L N REES N ILLES I ICR C I OURHC OU H OU H
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:50 PM   #82
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Here it is in a more "grid" like format (I hope this works...)

It didn't work

So go here to see it

I don't know if this actually helps....but there it is.


You misspelled "rebel"
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:50 PM   #83
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Here it is in a more "grid" like format (I hope this works...)

It didn't work

So go here to see it

I don't know if this actually helps....but there it is.


Edit: What Passacaglia said.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:51 PM   #84
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:53 PM   #85
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Oh gee, it's good that EVERYONE decided to tell me! If just one person said so, I would have missed it for sure!!!!!

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Old 09-10-2003, 03:53 PM   #86
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The first big needed insight has already been made, it just wasn't recognized as such.


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I should add why I think South Park looks wrong.

All the other answers have two links between them.

For instance, from TICTACTOE to PENSACOLA, there's an A in the 5th position and a C in the 6th.

Going down, there are two links between the first eight answers.

AC EL EL RN ES II RC.

And then you get to SOUTHPARK. Three links. And the same three links between that and TOUCHTONE.

OUH OUH.

Now, those aren't word pieces. At least not word pieces that connect to each other. There's one more thing we need to do to those letter segments.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:55 PM   #87
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Hey sabotai, rebel is spelled correctly now.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:57 PM   #88
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Following what Jim has done, the only letters next to each other that are the same are:

A, C, E, L, N, R, O, U, H, I, S
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:57 PM   #89
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Maybe Jim is on the right track, and that the last two pairs are OU and UH, and the fact that OUH works for all three is coincidence.

Even though this goes against Quik's saying that we shouldn't look at what is the same between segments, rather what is the same, I'm bringing it up since Kevin's silent quoting brought it to the forefront with no further explanation.
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Old 09-10-2003, 03:59 PM   #90
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The "sandwiched" clue that I referenced was, indeed, just the commonality of the first and last clues from the list. It's not a reference to food, nor does it have anything to do with the potential "contents" of the so-called sandwich. Just the fact that the first and last clues had something in common... that's the clue toward the next big breakthrough here. In fact, without realizing it, that big breakthrough has already been nibbled at, at least. (And not by Solecismic)
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:02 PM   #91
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http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bin/anagram.cgi?phrase=ACELNROUHIS&cpw=1
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:04 PM   #92
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The "grid" constructed above doesn't have any errors in it (you got all the correct words in there), you just need to figure out what to do with it.


Sionce my statements are getting parsed so finely here, I want to clarify this one. My parenthetical statement was meant to explain - not just to reinforce. Whan I said that the "grid" was error-free, I didn't intend to leave the impression that placing the words into that particular "grid" was essential to solving the puzzle. All I meant by it was what I put in parentheses: you got all the correct words.

Hope that helps. I'll be away for a while, but will hope for a breakthrough.
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:04 PM   #93
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Wow, there's 2553 and skimming through the first couple hundred gave me:

147. A CHORUS LINE

Probably not right, but interesting nonetheless.
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:08 PM   #94
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"Sionce my statements are getting parsed so finely here, I want to clarify this one. My parenthetical statement was meant to explain - not just to reinforce. Whan I said that the "grid" was error-free, I didn't intend to leave the impression that placing the words into that particular "grid" was essential to solving the puzzle. All I meant by it was what I put in parentheses: you got all the correct words."

Well, gee, that little bit of info helps a lot NOW doesn't it?
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:08 PM   #95
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http://www.mbhs.edu/~bconnell/cgi-bin/anagram.cgi?phrase=ACELNROUHIS&cpw=1


It's fascinating that the anagram search revealed "A CHORUS LINE" - but alas, that's a wrong turn.

(I found this before I saw Passacaglia's observation, by the way)

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Old 09-10-2003, 04:09 PM   #96
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Well, gee, that little bit of info helps a lot NOW doesn't it?


Grid good. That grid bad.
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:11 PM   #97
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Serves me right for making fun of your dog.

So, the big insight has something to do with zit cream.

Or the ordering of clues for placement in the grid.
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:13 PM   #98
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HEROIN! Heroin's the big breakthrough that....I'm just going to stop now. This oxycontin is really numbing my brain....
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:13 PM   #99
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I am getting really sick of that zit cream comment. Whenever I refresh this page, it takes me to the top, where I read, "I didn't know you could get high off zit cream!" Incidentally, I was thinking the same thing when I read the previous posts.
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Old 09-10-2003, 04:20 PM   #100
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Grid good. That grid bad.

Doh!
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