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Re: Save the Date by Google

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Post by graeham »

wes-k wrote: post #132
sja wrote: post #111

As requested: answer to puzzle 4 (I think): 14.2981, 101.2189 Start from top-left, move the number of spaces given by the number of your current square: down right left down right right up down down right down It's a maze; worked backwards from the numbers that have commas and points next to them. Number: 19; Title: Thailand https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-...

How did you work out the movement sequences?

You work from the key stops (decimal and comma), then go backwards to the only steps that can get you to these stops.

Re: Save the Date by Google

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Post by kaoD »

wes-k wrote: post #132
sja wrote: post #111

As requested: answer to puzzle 4 (I think): 14.2981, 101.2189 Start from top-left, move the number of spaces given by the number of your current square: down right left down right right up down down right down It's a maze; worked backwards from the numbers that have commas and points next to them. Number: 19; Title: Thailand https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-...

How did you work out the movement sequences?

If you start at the bottom-right you can count either up or left. Going 8 places up lands on an 8 (this is the only square where delta from bottom right = number in the square) which means that square was the previous one.

Rinse and repeat.

Re: Save the Date by Google

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Post by alejoriveralara »

jafhdjkashdfj wrote: post #110

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-... Pic is called base64 (upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

Chess pieces sometimes have values assigned to them: Pawns: 1, knight/bishop: 3, rook: 5, queen: 9. Might help (?).

Re: Save the Date by Google

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Post by dkonofalski »

dkonofalski wrote: post #117
jafhdjkashdfj wrote: post #110

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-... Pic is called base64 (upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

Conversion of the filename is "Where have you been?"

Note the pawns on the left hand side of each color, maybe?

3.

7.

Maybe we add or subtract from 0 to get the numbers after the decimal?

Re: Save the Date by Google

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Post by jat255 »

jafhdjkashdfj wrote: post #110

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-... Pic is called base64 (upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

Numbers on top half of board

  White     Black
  +10       -12
  + 8       - 7
  - 6       +15
  -11       - 2
  + 4       +19
            + 1
  --------------
  bottom half 
  +3        - 7
  +3        + 1
  +4        -19 
  +5        
  +7        
  +7        
  +5

Re: Save the Date by Google

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Post by dkonofalski »

ltowel wrote: post #128
batrofin wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, we've been to brazil, england, poland, and thailand so far?

place the 3 black pawns and 7 white pawns to add to the appropriate numbers?

If we use chess notation, could that give us a lat/long using the special instructions from the last puzzle?

Re: Save the Date by Google

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Post by xur17 »

jafhdjkashdfj wrote: post #110

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-... Pic is called base64 (upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

Here are the numbers written out in text:

+10 ___ +08 -12 ___ -07 ___ ___ +15 -06 -02 -11 +19 +04 +01 ___

+03 -07 +03 ___ +04 +01 ___ ___ -19 +05 ___ +07 ___ +07 ___ +05

edit: copy and paste it into a fixed width text editor - the formatting is getting messed up here.

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