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dduardo said:
Boxcutter, I would actually remove the ".htm" text because it takes away from the mood of the puzzle. Dracula's Riddle isn't about the internet, it is about the puzzles.

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How about this:

A = 1
J = 11
Q = 12
K = 13

(0+12)/3+1 = 5
(0*11)/5+7 = 7
(0-5)*2+13 = 3
(0/8)+5-1 = 4
(0+12)/6-1 = 1

*Everything begins with zero"

I did it that way at first...but I didn't figure out a way to use it as answer...and I assume you meant K=13?
 
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Hmm, might be relevant, maybe not.

if
J=11
Q=12
K=13
A=14

(0+12)/3+14 = 18
(0*11)/5+7 = 7
(0-5)*2+13 = 3
(0/8)+5-14 = -9
(0+12)/6-14 = -12

1873-9-12 could be a date?

I did a google search but nothing stood out for this date. Anyways, probably nothing
 
Anyone remember a few riddles back where the uRL had x0x0x0x0x0.htm...and when we cent there, it said there are more than 5 x's and we're removing the wrong zeroes? anyone think there's a connection?
 
I GOT IT! dduardo, you got the numbers, all you had to do was change them from 1337 5934k, and it turns out as>>>steal.htm[/color]
 
good job yomamma! i didn't think of that. i got those numbers and never considered that, but i tried it with every other set of numbers i got, heh. yay!
 
yomamma said:
I GOT IT! dduardo, you got the numbers, all you had to do was change them from 1337 5934k, and it turns out as>>>steal.htm[/color]

Good job, care to elaborate a little bit more?
 
how could I elaborate? dduardo had 57341, I conerted it from 1773 5934k
 
well you go all the way back to level two where that stuff was written in the source code, and the difference between them is that this new one says "be" and the other says "have been"
 
omega, in leet a 5 is an S, a 7 is a T, a 3 is an E, a 4 is an A and 1 is an L.
 
Gale said:
omega, in leet a 5 is an S, a 7 is a T, a 3 is an E, a 4 is an A and 1 is an L.

Oh, n00b speak...
 
yeah, so I'm guessing the change in the tenses of "be" is likely the key to this problem. nothing else stands out to me. "have been" is perfect progressive past tense. "be" is just present tense. there's also a comma in the newer version of the phrase.
 
I got it now...it is <<haven[/color]>>
 
ok, so when you listen to her voice its just a song..
 
how do you get her voice?
 
misc/voice.mp3

its in the source.
 
yomamma said:
how do you get her voice?

It is a short song and it doesn't loop, just refresh the page and you should hear it again.

Or do what Gale did.
 
for some reason i can never hear the background noise, so i have to do that.
 
maybe we have to edit the sound? how do you get to that wav editor thing from the run box in Windows?
 
It doesn't sound like there is anything hidden in the sound. Perhaps it is the notes themselves that are important. I haven't done aural training for years, but I can have a go at figuring out what those notes are, perhaps someone better than me will need to do it.
 
well, i was trying to think of how those symbols could be explained by the song and it doesn't look like any music symbols i know. and by the sounds it doesn't seem like the notes of the song directly correlate to the symbols either.

i can probably find out the notes, but it will take some time. i think that would be silly though because there's not as many notes as symbols and like i said, i can't see any correlation myself.
 
My tuner can "read" the notes that it hears...so let me see if i can find it...
Nevermind...
 
ooh, didn't think of that, I'll try it with my tuner. I checked the id3 tags, nothing hidden there

edit: nope the notes are overlapping too much to get anything, will need to be done by ear.
 
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to me it sounds like E, A, B, C, D, E. its definitely straight up a scale. so again, i don't think its significant.
 
http://www.draculasriddle.co.uk/dora/haven.htm"
 
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Its definitely in C major, no sharps or flats.
 
i gave you the first 6 notes, I'm positive that's what they are. but like i said, i don't think its significant. any other ideas?
 
Gale said:
i gave you the first 6 notes, I'm positive that's what they are. but like i said, i don't think its significant. any other ideas?
Maybe by "how to read" it means in terms of music...like in what key.

But it doesn't seem to be working...
 
again, we can try editing it, reversing it, speeding it up.. etc.
 

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