Test Your Mental Might With The Escapist's First-Ever Puzzle Adventure!

[fallouthirteen]

Huh, well, now that I have what each picture means I have a very definitive thing from it. Just not entirely sure what to do with that now.

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ISBN for a book by some guy I'm sure we all know of.

Wow, that's a fantastic find.

Seriously.

I hope it's not a bait.

Yeah really, either we're pretty close, or this thing has another completely different possible path of reasoning and we are nowhere near it.

 

[Hashime]

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Numbers=ISBN
Conan Volume 10: Iron Shadows in the Moon

I have no idea what this means though.

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I suspect it means you have the wrong numbers

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Jet Scott Volume 2?
I got it now, it is mogworld

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

sigh 4-1 the only one i cant do

Likewise. >_<

Wassamatter?

I've gotten the letters out of 4-1, but otherwise I've been stumped this whole evening. ><

 

[Chrmike]

I tried the bar code method and found something very interesting.
Perhaps this puzzle has more to do with the Escapist then we thought.

If I knew how to do spoiler tags, I'd put something more concrete down.

 

[Lancer723]

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Just ran the numbers, oh snap I think we're on the trail. Coincidently hitting that page has caused me to buy the book, well played there, escapist. Hopefully this isn't a dead end, but we shall see, not sure where to go from here.

Edit: Spoiler'd for safety's sake.

 

[SheleKnights]

Huh, well, now that I have what each picture means I have a very definitive thing from it. Just not entirely sure what to do with that now.

Spoiler

ISBN for a book by some guy I'm sure we all know of.

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Yep, I'd just counted how many digits there were and was thinking of things of that length

Holy shit!

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Now...what's the significance? I tried the game that is the inspiration of the novel. Perhaps works of the author?

 

[Dragonpit]

What shocks me is that

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I just finished Mogworld and now it's being used in a puzzle. Does that mean it involves the author?

This merits further extrapolation...

 

[Yomandude]

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putting 978159582593 into Google brings up The Savage Sword of Kull. It's published by Dark Horse. A Dark Horse is a little-known thing that gains prominence.

 

[Glamorgan]

Damn, this is hard. Does anyone know what the Hi-Fiving one is?

 

[Hashime]

I vote we scour his website for clues.

 

[Blackdoom]

Well the numbers lead to a rather interesting result now to figure where to go from here.

 

[tautologico]

sigh 4-1 the only one i cant do

Likewise. >_<

Wassamatter?

I've gotten the letters out of 4-1, but otherwise I've been stumped this whole evening. ><

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It's a very simple and very old cipher. It's usually given as the first example of a cipher in courses or books about cryptography. It's named after the guy who used it originally. But there are more than one cipher with this name today. The problem uses the original cipher though.

 

[SheleKnights]

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putting 978159582593 into Google brings up The Savage Sword of Kull. It's published by Dark Horse. A Dark Horse is a little-known thing that gains prominence.

That's 592

Please don't let this book be a blue herring...God I hate those.

 

[fallouthirteen]

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putting 978159582593 into Google brings up The Savage Sword of Kull. It's published by Dark Horse. A Dark Horse is a little-known thing that gains prominence.

Uh, I think that last character of yours could be causing you some problems. If that isn't a typo, what made you think of that for that?

 

[inundation1]

I'd agree that we're either very close or completely wrong about the numbers

The ISBN is too much of a coincidence to be wrong. Either it is a complete misdirection or there is something in or about the book that leads to the answer. Commence search!

 

[Lambi]

I tried the bar code method and found something very interesting.
Perhaps this puzzle has more to do with the Escapist then we thought.

If I knew how to do spoiler tags, I'd put something more concrete down.

It's [ spoiler ][ /spoiler ] without the spaces.

If you want to have text on your spoiler, it's [ spoiler=text here ][ /spoiler ] without the spaces.

 

[Wilcroft]

I tried the bar code method and found something very interesting.
Perhaps this puzzle has more to do with the Escapist then we thought.

If I knew how to do spoiler tags, I'd put something more concrete down.

use [*spoiler="whatever"]**spoiled text here** [/spoiler] without any asterisks. the "whatever is option (it is the label that shows before you click, but you need to use quote marks if you do use it.

also:

Spoiler: after using the numbers

so I thought the background looked sort of like the sistine chapel, but the one video be the author that had that the chapel in it didn't work. any other ideas?

 

[Yomandude]

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putting 978159582593 into Google brings up The Savage Sword of Kull. It's published by Dark Horse. A Dark Horse is a little-known thing that gains prominence.

Uh, I think that last character of yours could be causing you some problems. If that isn't a typo, what made you think of that for that?

Ha, true. I'm sorry, that should've been one digit down.

 

[AC Medina]

Hmm...

 

[tautologico]

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putting 978159582593 into Google brings up The Savage Sword of Kull. It's published by Dark Horse. A Dark Horse is a little-known thing that gains prominence.

You seem to have the wrong numbers.