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Here's the place to discuss Stonehenge Puzzle #4, just in time for Imbolc.
Oh dear. Hmm.
Beautifully rendered.
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Chief Technical Officer
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Beautifully rendered.
Well, thanks! It's actually a (very slightly simplified) version of the game board, and the druids are colorized photos of an actual pawn from the game! (They're colorized because the plastics haven't been cast in the correct colors yet, only in white for testing purposes.)
Hmm indeed. Well, the top right group and the bottom center group both consist of two blue, one red, and three black druids. I'm assuming that the arrangement of druids within a group is not meaningful since it looks pretty haphazard to me.
-LB
Not only that but the URL answer seems to be six characters long and there are six (druid pawns in both of those identical groups. Observant eye you've got there, Lurk!
Believe it or not, I got it without having to bribe Gary (again). The game looks gorgeous, Mike.
Believe it or not, I got it without having to bribe Gary (again). The game looks gorgeous, Mike.Since you've done it before, what does it take to bribe Gary? I may need to at the rate I'm going.
-LB
It's odd... but sheets of collectable stamps are good as gold with that guy. He REALLY likes postage.
Hey, nobody accuses me of being a philatelist and gets away with it!
I'm really a phylacterist.
Like I said... bribe this magus with soul jarring amulets. Sorry, I always gets my P's mixed up, which wouldn't be so bad if I didn't work in the urine test transport service. Whizzaway is going to fire me for sure.
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Like I said... bribe this magus with soul jarring amulets. Sorry, I always gets my P's mixed up, which wouldn't be so bad if I didn't work in the urine test transport service. Whizzaway is going to fire me for sure.Hey, nobody accuses me of being a philatelist and gets away with it!
I'm really a phylacterist.
Uh oh. You're in trouble now.
I'm really a phylacterist.Was that a hint? Because if I take the right 6 letters from "phylacterist" and arrange them just so I get the answer to the puzzle. Of course, there are 332,639 incorrect ways to do that...
Like I said... bribe this magus with soul jarring amulets.Um, soul jar? In the SRD I see magic jar and trap the soul, but not soul jar. Is that in the Spell Compendium?
-LB
I shouldn't have italicized it... it wasn't from D&D, just a description of what such an amulet can do.
Listen B, you are very close to the answer already.
In retrospect I see that you're very talented at dropping subtle hints. What's your game, anyway?
-LB
My game might very well be Stonehenge. Right now it's D&D.
Sorry 'bout messing up your intials before submitting. Wrote LB first then turned the L into listen. I'd hate to be called The Ade. I certainly wasn't calling you Beneath! <:)
I've really enjoyed this series of puzzles. I like the way each one has a different way of using the board to come up with a final word - which sort of reflects the design of the game(s), it seems to me.
Like The Jade, I would have liked some puzzles that were a little harder - and actually required us to co-operate to solve them. But that's just griping, really - and LB certainly helped me by writing out my thought processes! ;-)
One thing really does puzzle me, though (or maybe I'm just dumb). What's the connection between this solution and Stonehenge?
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Chief Technical Officer
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I like the way each one has a different way of using the board to come up with a final word - which sort of reflects the design of the game(s), it seems to me.
More than you know....
One thing really does puzzle me, though (or maybe I'm just dumb). What's the connection between this solution and Stonehenge?
I refer you back to the "More than you know..." above.
Consider that sort of a metapuzzle. Has anyone figured it out? You have to have really been paying attention to both the puzzles and the diaries to get it.
(Personally, I have to confess I didn't notice until Mike told me.)
-Vic.
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Consider that sort of a metapuzzle. Has anyone figured it out? You have to have really been paying attention to both the puzzles and the diaries to get it.
(Personally, I have to confess I didn't notice until Mike told me.)
-Vic.
Through a very convoluted reasoning I thought perhaps the metapuzzle may have referred to the Author's Ridge section of the Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, MA. The obelisk layout in there has possibilities. If not I'd still like to play a game that has anything to do with that place... it calls to a writer's blood.
Then again maybe it's Mystery Hill--the American Stonehenge. It's an amazing place.
If not that then the metapuzzle surely speaks to Selinker's love of good drink: Pretty Ales... an anagram of which is playtester. So did I win a free copy to playtest? I think Titanic would benefit from having Lurk, Callum and I join their team.
I got this one without much difficulty. But that was in part to what someone else had posted earlier. So I only take half-credit. :)
I've really enjoyed this series of puzzles. I like the way each one has a different way of using the board to come up with a final word - which sort of reflects the design of the game(s), it seems to me.
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One thing really does puzzle me, though (or maybe I'm just dumb). What's the connection between this solution and Stonehenge?
Re-read these two parts of your post and see if that makes it any clearer.