Test Your Mental Might With The Escapist's First-Ever Puzzle Adventure!
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I feel like some of these were made harder by their instructions. Even after I knew the answer it still look me a minute to figure out what I was supposed to do to 2-3.
Only twigged this earlier and had to do it, finally caught up with the two days worth of puzzles. Looking forward to the next lot.
That google translate was what it finally took to figure it out. I kept saying "done tazing for now" over and over in my head and it just wouldn't enter my thick skull. If you're still having problems with question three just ignore the clue. It doesn't make any sense unless you know the answer.The Red Spy said:
These are some explanations of the puzzles. There is no advice on how to solve them, I'm just telling you very specifically what the puzzles are.
1. is a phonetics thing. Use the pronunciation, not spelling, of each picture, and put it all together. The game name relates to that answer.
2. More phonetics. All the combined syllables of the puzzle section of that question hold meaning to the question. The hint doesn't matter, however.
3. An anagram. Bananagram. Ring ring ring ring...
...where was I? Oh, yeah. TJMEXAICCHPHEKRAEISEENOLCEN is just a huge anagram. You can add spaces, but not punctuation.
4. Each row represents seven letters of binary. Translate left-to-right and down, the same way American books are read. Find out what the seemingly disconnected message means, and think about what that place symbolizes (you'll get what I mean). Translation, Location, Vocation means a lot.
2. More phonetics. All the combined syllables of the puzzle section of that question hold meaning to the question. The hint doesn't matter, however.
3. An anagram. Bananagram. Ring ring ring ring...
...where was I? Oh, yeah. TJMEXAICCHPHEKRAEISEENOLCEN is just a huge anagram. You can add spaces, but not punctuation.
4. Each row represents seven letters of binary. Translate left-to-right and down, the same way American books are read. Find out what the seemingly disconnected message means, and think about what that place symbolizes (you'll get what I mean). Translation, Location, Vocation means a lot.
It's a soldering iron.XinfiniteX said:Okay I'm not looking for a hint or anything, I just need to know what this actually is! It's the 4th pic in the first puzzle.
I know I'm on the right track but I can't solve the rest of it without know what this is a picture of!
Ah why thank you! I thought it was some kind of weird pen lolMatt-the-twat said:It's a soldering iron.XinfiniteX said:Okay I'm not looking for a hint or anything, I just need to know what this actually is! It's the 4th pic in the first puzzle.
I know I'm on the right track but I can't solve the rest of it without know what this is a picture of!
Well, the first block is laid out like this:Ashcrexl said:
- - - - -
o - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
o - - - -
o - - - -
o - - - -
o - - - -
What you have to do is read it downwards. Only focus on the first character of each line. It's either a dot or a dash. Dots represent 1s; dashes represent 0s. Once you've read it vertically, you'll get the binary string 01001111.
Open a word document and put that in. Then, add a space, and solve the second block, adding the binary string into the document, followed by a space. You don't have to space them if you don't want to, but I recommend it, because it makes it far easier to read, and far easier to correct a mistake, if you make one.
Do the first row of blocks using this, and make sure they're written down in that document. Then, move onto the second row of blocks and do the same thing. Then, go to the third, then the fourth. You'll end up with a very long binary string. I'm sure you can work out what to do then.
I'd cracked 2-3 ages ago but it wasn't counting it because I had the third word in the first words place (is that a clue?)
I think they took me longer because it's 12:30 in the morning for me.
Still, very good puzzles (even if they are quite hard)
Also the question for 2-1 seemed unnecessary to me. If you had put more detail into the last picture and used that as the centre of the question I think it would have been better (but that's just personal preference)
As it was it wasn't until I looked at some clues on here that I realised there was a box there at all
I think they took me longer because it's 12:30 in the morning for me.
Still, very good puzzles (even if they are quite hard)
Also the question for 2-1 seemed unnecessary to me. If you had put more detail into the last picture and used that as the centre of the question I think it would have been better (but that's just personal preference)
As it was it wasn't until I looked at some clues on here that I realised there was a box there at all
I like being mentally challenged for a while a day. Seriously, more of this everyday.ajluczak said:
Heh, I had to laugh when I finally figured out how to solve #4 for day 2. The Playlist I was listening to reached L's Theme B the instant inspiration struck. Thank you, obscure measurement knowledge.