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Titanium22 your chamber lye breeds fleas
Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 12253
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject: A Bonus Puzzle |
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This is for our American members...
There's no submit box, so feel free to post the answer if you want to. Have fun putting it together...!
T22 _________________ Puzzletome - for serious riddlers
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theandygrant This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet
Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 1264 Location: The Lethargic Dodecahedron
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Hooray! I got one
I second that emotion. Now I must go watch a movie... |
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Carootje He hath a half face
Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1785 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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Have a great day
Caroline |
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Mario 64 Master Thy mother's name is ominous to children
Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Trumbull, Connecticut, USA
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:48 am Post subject: |
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Well that gave me something to do, I guess mine looks ok but a little bit messy.
Don't look if you want to find it yourself...
http://img10.exs.cx/img10/518/bonus.jpg |
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Titanium22 your chamber lye breeds fleas
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Mario 64 Master wrote: | Well that gave me something to do, I guess mine looks ok but a little bit messy. |
Would it be really churlish to suggest that you haven't quite got it right? Yes, of course the message you have decoded is obviously correct - but I'm not at all sure that the way you've assembled the letters is.
All the letters in the "puzzle" are in the same font, so have identical height and width. And there is a fixed and repeated pattern in the way the message is written in terms of the colour sequence ...
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Rebecca Thou whoreson cullionly barbermonger
Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 128 Location: Perth
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:16 am Post subject: |
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It was probably just the way it was cut and pasted, some programs differ in the smoothness when it comes to copy and pasting. _________________ Growing old is INEVITABLE. Growing up is OPTIONAL |
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Mario 64 Master Thy mother's name is ominous to children
Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Trumbull, Connecticut, USA
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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I thought there might be a pattern to the color of the letters but after cutting all those pieces out with the Free-Form Select in paint I was a little tired of moving things around. I know a lot of them look like they weren't put together right because there is some extra black sticking off or maybe I put the pieces of the letters slightly over each other. As you can see by the remains of the original picture I accidentally left off a bunch of some pieces as a result of my sloppy work. Regardless, I looked at the pixels at the ends of the pieces to make sure I stuck the right ones together and I think I have it right for most of the letters. The blue I and E in particular look weird but I think I just got too tired to bother cutting them out and lining them up just right.
Besides, if this was a real riddle and the answer was just the message then I've gotten the point anyway. |
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Titanium22 your chamber lye breeds fleas
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Mario 64 Master wrote: | I thought there might be a pattern to the color of the letters but after cutting all those pieces out with the Free-Form Select in paint I was a little tired of moving things around.
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Besides, if this was a real riddle and the answer was just the message then I've gotten the point anyway. |
Very true - it's always the solve that's important rather than the way you got there.
As a general hint on a puzzle such as this, the easiest starting point is to change the black background to white using the flood-fill tool - with a white background, it's much easier to overlay things because white in Paint is effectively transparent. In this particular puzzle, the sequence was (if I remember correctly) Red, Blue, Yellow, Green repeated several times.
I didn't keep a worksheet for this as it was only a bit of fun, so forgive me if I've got the sequence wrong...
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Mario 64 Master Thy mother's name is ominous to children
Joined: 28 Jan 2004 Posts: 42 Location: Trumbull, Connecticut, USA
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I just realized after looking at it again how easily I could have changed the background.
Just to make it look better I starting working at it again in photoshop this time... Magic Wand Tool makes it so much easier. |
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