Riddle game - Something for you scientists

[Gale]

i'm sure he wouldn't've given it to us if it wasn't complete. he's just working out the bugs. i seriously want to move to the next riddle though. i found your name because last night i was so bored of being stuck that i started looking around for clues to who you were. that entertained me for a while, but we're still stuck on this puzzle! arg!

 

[Gokul43201]

I'm back in...what the hell is going on here ? Someone give me a starting point ...

Nice game boxcutter. What's uu - Uppsala ?
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=117899&highlight=daniel

PS : Sorry Gale (for letting the cat out)

 

[Gale]

hehehe, nice gokul. that's not even how i did it. i went to his paypal donation site and noticed his email there.

we're all in doina still
http://draculasriddle.co.uk/bodley/screamandrun.htm

he should've known that if we could solve these riddles we'd be able to get other sorts of info. there's a couple people with his name from sweeden online from what i found last night. i couldn't tell if they were all the same, but it didn't seem so. just must be a popular name over there. either way, they all were into digital art, soo yep.

 

[dduardo]

Gokul43201, we are here:

http://www.draculasriddle.co.uk/bodley/screamandrun.htm

Then Gale found this:

http://www.draculasriddle.co.uk/bodley/help.htm

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Boxcutter, you never replied to my previous request:

Can you convert the program in help.htm to a flash or javascript so no matter what operating system you're using everyone can play along. I don't like sites that just cater to windows users. Mac users might be interested in playing your game and when they get to this point they might get discouraged after all their hard work.

 

[Omega_6]

[EDIT] dduardo: i am sorry but i have no knowledge of how to convert or reprogramme it in javascript nor in flash. Thank you for pointing it out though. I will work hard to learn how to do it, so that our fellow linux users can solve this riddle as well. For now, you will have to rely on your friends. I can tell you one thing: When you find a way to figure out the combinations of 3 numbers that you need, you will know immediately that that is the right way. So you can put all your energy in trying to find a way to obtain these three digit numbers, and then give them to your windows-using friends for them to convert them!

Perhaps I have said too much now? If so, I am sorry.

Goku: Indeed it is Uppsala. I suppose you are in Sweden as well since you knew of the city?

Gale: I am sorry for not completing the riddle before I put it up on the web. As I said I was not expecting this quick advancement.
First I thought I had made the riddles too easy, but now I realize it is you 4 - 6 people who have brilliant minds (this is because all other people whom I have talked to who is playing the riddle, seem to be having huge problems with each new riddle they come to). You reason in very logical ways and it has been very interesting to follow your journey.

There's just one thing I would like to tell you guys.
Remember back in Bodley Mansion when things got a little confusing? You reached the 666.htm and the demon.htm before you were "supposed to". This is how it really goes:
you come to hall1.htm. you change boldey to bodley and come to hall2. if you look in the sourcode it says <bgsuond instead of <bgsound at one point. if you download the mp3file which is mentioned there you will hear a voice telling you how to get to hall3.

Concerning the Haunted Woods (the 9 mb zip file) which' code dduardo so elegantly broke:
the first riddle talks about the golden number Phi. if you go to 161/80 (which are the first digits of Phi if you skip the comma) you will find a txt file saying /moveon. You go there and you get an image which says "go to the room of your worst fears, from there go to the room of errors split in half". The room of your worst fears is according to the great novel 1984, room 101. The room of errors split in half would be 404/2 = 202.
there it says something about the beast again and from there you go to "666" where you are set free.

Now, good luck on solving the rest of the riddles! I challenge you to race me. Will I complete the game before you catch up with me?
I promise I will not make any "stall-riddles" just to keep you hanging.

Yeah, I knew the first one due to Phi but I just didn't think that you were referring to 1984, so I just used what dduardo did to solve it.

FINALLY...I am on to something. The symbols at the top left of the graveyard SHOW you what to do to the other numbers...

 

[Gale]

how do you mean?

 

[Omega_6]

how do you mean?

<<861

237 the first symbol says to place the bottom middle between the top two outside numbers. So you get 831...which is G...now begin using the other symbols on the other pairs[/color]>>

WOOHOO! I finally got it all. Here it is if you want to know...<<greatflame[/color]>>

 

[Gokul43201]

Is there any way I can do this without downloading the helper ? I'd rather not, if I didn't have to...

 

[Omega_6]

The helper is key...but if you want the answer then it is above. The helper just gives you the letter the corresponds to the 3 numbers you get.

 

[Gokul43201]

The numbers (for something to double-check against) :

831 289 652 117 959
821 (or 216?) 371 734 882 671 [/color]

Do the corresponding letters come from the helper ?

Edit : Omega, got it...I'll just wait for you/Gale/dd to get the letters.

 

[Omega_6]

Yes they do...I didn't write the numbers down but <<greatflame[/color]>> Each letter corresponds to a set of 3 numbers from the helper, so yeah...and hey I already got it...

 

[Gale]

>> the numers were 831, 289, 652, 734, 959 for the first row and 826, 371, 734, 882, 671. which spells greatflame like omega said. nice one omega.[/color]

 

[Gokul43201]

Any thoughts, anyone ? And did you notice the different operators (+, *, -, /) straddling each of the first 4 hint lines in the source ?

 

[JamesU]

any ideas anyone?

 

[JamesU]

Could elite mean 1337? I don't think so...just asking

 

[JamesU]

So everyone left?

 

[Gale]

hey yomamma, i'll give it an other go. i haven't been very good at the last few though.

also, boxcutter, I'm just curious, but i don't know how we got past the map part. that didn't make sense to me.

 

[Kazza_765]

Perhaps something to do with astrology; fire, water, Earth and air are how the zodiac signs are classified. I'm looking into birth charts right now.

edit: Just now I think the picture changed. It looks like there's another line of numbers underneath the cards now. Maybe I just missed it before but I'm pretty sure I didn't.

 

[Kazza_765]

Well I'm just about sick of this one. But here's my thinking for others anyways.

The cards have values, and the operators are given by what suit they are (from the source file). The source file also says read it in the x direction first, and then in the negative y.

I'm thinking start at zero means start in the top left corner where the purple zero is. I'm not sure about 'elite', but perhaps it refers to the kings and queens?

I have no idea what the numbers in the background mean, but if I was right and boxcutter just recently added the '25 5 4 8 2' and I didn't just miss it earlier then its probably important.

I've tried looking up all sorts of different points systems for the cards, but I get all sorts of funny results, none of which has helped. Hopefully someone else can figure this out.

 

[Boxcutter]

i did not add any numbers.

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Might be a coincidence but from the level name North and Bridge things are both indicate bridge the card game? I would of said the four face cards were players NSEW, with S as the other queen and dummy. but one card is the same ace wise? Maybe I'm just reading too much into the cards only the tens, aces and face cards score in bridge, the other cards are worth 0? Mmmm, will look again this evening after work.

 

[Kazza_765]

Yeah I tried the bridge connection as well, but couldn't make anything of it. I don't play bridge though, so tried to work out the scoring from wikipedia. By the way Boxcutter, this is by far the best quiz of this sort I have ever come across, absolutetly fantastic.

 

[JamesU]

well...I seriously can't figure it out...I'll try again later

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

Gokul43201, we are here:

Then Gale found this:

http://www.draculasriddle.co.uk/bodley/help.htm

Actually I discovered that about a page or two before Gale posted, since I havent' been that helpfull so far I'd hate to think my 1 small moment in the sun went unheeded, actually what am I on about it obviously did

I know that's terribly imodest but it's been eating me up all day, wha! but I said that

Putting the me in team work

http://www.draculasriddle.co.uk/bodley/greatflame.htm

putting the url on this page, too lazy to keep clicking back

Seriously I played notpron I stopped playing at level 8 when I found I had to use some sort of insider geekoid knowledge about html, because of my lack of skill with html I had to use the spoilers to get passed some levels; for me a good riddle should be about thinking not computer experience and so far I've yet to see any sign of how riddles can't be completed unless you know such and such a language format or jargon. This is much better than not pron, and I think the fact that we are the first means we really are getting these off our own backs and not cheating from spoliers, that makes it more fun and more rewarding.

Good job Box cutter, word of advice though, number and letter solving riddles are fun but don't forget the obscure knowledge once in while, like you did with the Devil hallway, googling it is also fun(I had to do some research on the number of the beast myself quite recently so I particularly enjoyed that level, off the top of my head I'd say... ) I think gale prefers them as well

I tried using the first letters of the cards numbers minus the picture cards. I came up with a few anagrams that made vague sense but none of the worked. i.e A staff feast and one or two others, nothing helps? I can't see any relation to those numbers in the cards, are they even related?

 

[Boxcutter]

thank you schrodinger and kazza for your kind words. it is always nice to get positive feedback. if you have any ideas in how to improve passed riddles, please let me know.

 

[Kazza_765]

Heh, thanks for the extra hint boxcutter, working on it now.

 

[JamesU]

extra hint...?

 

[Kazza_765]

<!-- Read it x wise until your goal is reached, then fall in the negative y. Each row is a unit. -->

 

[Gale]

anyone around and trying to get this? i think we did loads better when we were all solving things together. i keep trying the same things with this one, i need some fresh ideas...

i was using the numbers on the card with their respective opperation, but with the division i get decimals, which i think is no good. I'm thinking you'll get 5 numbers when you go across, and 3 more down, and I'm hoping its just assigning letters to the numbers after that. first we have to find the numbers though...

also, with the new hint, i wonder if he meant literally a "unit" or 1. and then perhaps the cards are all variables. I'm going to fuss with that probably.

and anyway, i got a little bored, and went through this whole thread for inspiration. boxcutter apparently didn't realize I'm a girl, cause he called me a guy earlier. just thought i'd clear that up. does gale seem like a masculine name? everyone always thinks I'm a guy...

but back to the riddle. i think I'm the only one up, so i'll just diddle around some.

 

[Omega_6]

May I ask what you have tried so far Gale? I looked at it a little bit yesterday, but I am going to begin working on it now for a little while.

P.S. I didn't think you were a guy...