Riddle game - Something for you scientists

[Zarii]

Morning

so, what you've got? :P

 

[FranklinDR]

Haha, I am not worried about sleep now, my estemated time of departure is sometime between an hour and two hours away. Think we can solve it by then?

 

[SpeedyKupad]

surely! can you give me the directional values of those letters again please. can't find which thread is it on.

hi zarii! go help us!

 

[FranklinDR]

So, if our last two posts are good, the whole compas pairing idea still doesn't work very well because it runs over X again when you hit the third letter. If you modify every letter by 3 first, then you get gibberish. Although I am pretty sure that our answers which don't make sense might become sensicle if we apply the rule of 3. Anyone getting anywhere else?

 

[Zarii]

Any leads in the right direction so I know what to work with here?

 

[FranklinDR]

Ok:

Northwest: A
North: D
Northeast: G
East: J
Southeast: M
South: P
Southwest: S
West: V

That what you wanted?

 

[Zarii]

Ain't west a v? :)

 

[FranklinDR]

Any leads in the right direction so I know what to work with here?

We got a message from boxcutter last page saying two of our posts were good, you might want to read them. Oh, and BE CAREFUL about how you treat diagonalls - if you are going diagonally and you go off the page, it isn't always easy to know where you come back on. That messed me up for a while.

Edit: And yeah, yeah, west is a V. Sorry, twenty one hours without sleep sometimes blurs the line between V and U

 

[SpeedyKupad]

yup. that was what i wanted. i'll try to cook something up.

EDIT: Wrong. that wasnt what i wanted. wasn't there a post few hours back re letter equivalent of N, S, E, W? Or was that it? cause i didnt pay too much attention on that.

if that was it then nevermind. I've had that since yesterday. or is it 2 days ago?

 

[FranklinDR]

Did you mean pairing ahrmmtyd to the compass? Because then you get:

NW 1
N 8
NE 18
E 13
SE 13
S 20
SW 25
W 4

Dunno if that helps. Also, remember that it can be rule-of-three'd to add three to all the numbers - but 26 is the highest number, so SW would become 2, not 28.

 

[SpeedyKupad]

Did you mean pairing ahrmmtyd to the compass? Because then you get:

NW 1
N 8
NE 18
E 13
SE 13
S 20
SW 25
W 4

Dunno if that helps. Also, remember that it can be rule-of-three'd to add three to all the numbers - but 26 is the highest number, so SW would become 2, not 28.

nah, that's not it either. anyways, ill TRY to come up with the number of steps needed first cause i'd like to throw all those big numbers away.

 

[Zarii]

Okey, start at x, should you always start at x or should you start at x at first and then start to use the other coordinations where you landed after x

 

[Zarii]

"whAt is tHis gRid in front of you? it seeMs soMeone is Trying to confuse You, Doesn't it?"

In the first word the A is 3 letter, H the 2, R the second etc.. which gives us

32243111

 

[Boxcutter]

nah, that's not it either. anyways, ill TRY to come up with the number of steps needed first cause i'd like to throw all those big numbers away.

yes, big numbers are dull ;)

 

[FranklinDR]

Btw, zarri, did you catch the modified hint on the first part of 60? Because it changed.

 

[SpeedyKupad]

people: try using the numbers 9-3-8-3-3-5-4-4 or/and 9-4-2-1-3-6-6-2

lets see how it goes.

 

[Zarii]

Btw, zarri, did you catch the modified hint on the first part of 60? Because it changed.

Nah, not really ?

Edit: okej, now I saw it

 

[FranklinDR]

people: try using the numbers 9-3-8-3-3-5-4-4 or/and 9-4-2-1-3-6-6-2

lets see how it goes.

I trust you, but out of curiosity: how those numbers?

 

[aescnt]

Hey guys,
Is there anywhere I can ask for clues? I'm on 54 at the moment.

 

[SpeedyKupad]

mine didn't go well.

how did that go to you guys?

 

[SpeedyKupad]

I trust you, but out of curiosity: how those numbers?

sorry i was in a hurry to do it and didnt get to explain how i got it. i counted the no of times AHRMMTYD and ADGJMPSV appeared on the grid.

 

[FranklinDR]

Good idea, but I didnt have any luck. I am still liking the "go around in a circle" idea - I just need to get it to work. In other words, I need 8 numbers, then the first one goes NW, the second N, the third NE, etc. What other sets of 8 numbers haven't we tried?

 

[Zarii]

when we move by that little grid we move clockwise?, sorry.. Don't get much out of this.

 

[FranklinDR]

Yeah, I think so, since that's the way the 3rd alphabet letter sequence works- starts with A and goes clockwise.

I tried 32243111, got iouaiaar which is lrxdlddu by the 3 rule. Shame, I thought I almost had something.

 

[SpeedyKupad]

when we move by that little grid we move clockwise?, sorry.. Don't get much out of this.

thats how i do it. but its okay to try on your own but justifiable direction so well have a variety of things going on.

just don't forget to share if you get to the right one.

 

[FranklinDR]

Hey guys,
Is there anywhere I can ask for clues? I'm on 54 at the moment.

Yeah, sure, send one of us a PM and we can probably help. I am leaving civilization for a week (pretty soon), so I wouldn't be the best option, but if you can't find clues in previous posts here, then PM someone.

 

[Zarii]

We need some other numbers, or something, those we've already got has lead me nowhere

 

[SpeedyKupad]

anyone who can cut down the numbers a little bit more? i hate the idea of going to the other end of the grid although for the NE, E, SE directions it seems needed.

 

[Boxcutter]

you will never reach the end of the grid if you do it correctly, so if that happens, you know it's the wrong way to do it

 

[FranklinDR]

Yeah, going around the grid seems scetchy. I would normally say to start from X each time, but given the new hint we know now not to do that. Uh, 32243111 is about as small as they get, and they still go through, so I dunno. We know we can't go around... maybe we start from a different direction? But the compass sarts with A, so you think you would start with NW.