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(Message started by: rmsgrey on Jul 1^st, 2011, 8:12pm)

Title: Letters in Boxes 5
Post by rmsgrey on Jul 1^st, 2011, 8:12pm

JayIsGames offers:

http://jayisgames.com/archives/2011/06/you_are_games_letters_in_boxes_5.php

I believe I've solved it all :)

Title: Re: Letters in Boxes 5
Post by ThudnBlunder on Jul 1^st, 2011, 11:25pm

Amidst all the backslapping of 4th July (that was mentioned before that date), it might be a good idea to also remember the Gettysburg Address:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Title: Re: Letters in Boxes 5
Post by Grimbal on Jul 4^th, 2011, 1:13am

Are we supposed to know what do do with the letters, or is it something we have to figure out?

Title: Re: Letters in Boxes 5
Post by rmsgrey on Jul 4^th, 2011, 7:25am

on 07/04/11 at 01:13:46, Grimbal wrote:

Are we supposed to know what do do with the letters, or is it something we have to figure out?

You have to figure it out - once you have the answer, go to the matching URL

For example, if the answer to the first puzzle were "fish", you'd go to http://images.jayisgames.com/lettersinboxes/fish.gif to get the next.

I found all four to have satisfying answers, even if they're more riddle than puzzle - you're unlikely to randomly guess the ansswers without knowing you've got them right even before you try the URL...

Title: Re: Letters in Boxes 5
Post by Three Hands on Jul 4^th, 2011, 11:25am

After some help from the hints provided, I reckon I've solved the four puzzles as well. The main problem I had was working out what method needed to be used for finding the solutions.

Minor hint: [hide]Only number 2 really needs an anagram solver if you don't spot the correct arrangement for the letters straight off - all the others do have the words spelled out for you[/hide]

Title: Re: Letters in Boxes 5
Post by rmsgrey on Jul 5^th, 2011, 7:30am

Yeah, I resorted to brute-forcing most of the lower half of #2 with an anagram solver - though a certain amount of kicking myself did ensue...