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NeopetsRiddle
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Unsolved Riddle
« on: Mar 11th, 2006, 12:43pm » |
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Can someone help me figure this riddle out? I've tried different ways and can't come up with anything.
It was too big to be attached.
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NeopetsRiddle
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #1 on: Mar 11th, 2006, 12:46pm » |
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forgot to add I need it to be solved by this coming Thursday.
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #2 on: Mar 11th, 2006, 1:54pm » |
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Was just that picture given? Or any clue as to what to do with it?
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #3 on: Mar 11th, 2006, 2:45pm » |
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just that picture. Sorry I can't give more.
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #4 on: Mar 11th, 2006, 3:44pm » |
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And what is the solution supposed to look like. Is it a codeword you have to enter in a text field? Or can you interact with the picture (click here, move things, ...)
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #5 on: Mar 11th, 2006, 5:47pm » |
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you can't do anything to the picture. It is not a crossword far as I can tell. And it just has to translate into something meaningfull. The best I've gotten is PANCRB out of it.
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #6 on: Mar 12th, 2006, 8:11am » |
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I'm assuming that it's the weekly prize puzzle from the Neopets site (available at http://www.neopets.com/games/conundrum.phtml, but you need a free account to be able to see it...). The answer is limited to a maximum of 50 characters, and submitted answers are scanned automatically (making it a game of guess the wording).
The deadline for entries is probably Thursday (though not guaranteed) and I'm sure legitimate entrants would prefer we not discuss the answer until then...
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #7 on: Mar 12th, 2006, 8:16am » |
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I said help, did not say give the answer. I just want to have someone help me get on the right track to figuring it out.
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #8 on: Mar 12th, 2006, 5:48pm » |
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Red 10
Green 18
Blue 23
Orange 16
Teal 19
Purple 27
Red 10
Green 16
Blue 18
Orange 19
Teal 23
Purple 27
What do the numbers got to do with the letters? I got this far on my own btw.
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #9 on: Mar 13th, 2006, 2:06am » |
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Is there an outside source for these numbers, or have you derived them somehow from the grid of letters?
After quickly browsing the Neopets site and checking some of the archived "Conundrums" it seemed likely that for some puzzles there are extra clues/hints/information you get by playing the game (or possibly that full descriptions with the puzzles weren't always archived). I could be wrong.
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #10 on: Mar 16th, 2006, 9:39am » |
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Well, the official answer is tropic.
The solution amy require some knowledge of Neopets-related trivia, or might just rely on the grid...
If anyone has any ideas, feel free to post them.
This week's riddle is a classic, so there's probably a thread around on a variant already...
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Re: Unsolved Riddle
« Reply #11 on: Mar 16th, 2006, 12:08pm » |
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The answer clearly comes by taking one letter from each color. It's not the only word that could be formed that way, so you have to figure out that the order of colors has to be red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, purple. That seems to be a standard order for naming the primary and secondary additive colors.
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