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Re: Dropquest Scavenger Hunt

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Post by dropinhott » Sat, May 12, 2012, 10:22 PM UTC

powerc9000 wrote: post #30

anybody know anything about chapter 6?

Looks like these are HTML color codes http://html-color-codes.info/ but that is as far as I got so far.

Re: Dropquest Scavenger Hunt

#52

Post by dropinhott » Sat, May 12, 2012, 10:29 PM UTC

dropinhott wrote: post #51

powerc9000 wrote: post #30

anybody know anything about chapter 6?

Looks like these are HTML color codes http://html-color-codes.info/ but that is as far as I got so far.

I was wrong - not html codes

Re: Dropquest Scavenger Hunt

#53

Post by dropinhott » Sat, May 12, 2012, 10:47 PM UTC

swalberg wrote: post #49

dropdeadfred wrote: post #48

Any clues for Chapter 8? Is it a substitution cipher?

I'm completely lost on that one too. The two strings don't have the same number of characters.

no luck with online anagram websites :(

Re: Dropquest Scavenger Hunt

#54

Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 12, 2012, 10:50 PM UTC

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Re: Dropquest Scavenger Hunt

#55

Post by ith3aq » Sat, May 12, 2012, 11:08 PM UTC

sirclueless wrote: post #43

kjemperud wrote: post #37

I'm stuck at Chapter 19. Anyone know the language of the Asian looking letters/numbers?

I think I got the first two parts, I'm just confused as heck by the last one.

You subtract the value of the red cards from the value of the black cards to fill in the blanks.

db.tt/xxJ9xx

Re: Dropquest Scavenger Hunt

#56

Post by rowanquigley » Sun, May 13, 2012, 1:42 AM UTC

I've got the files from 16 but it makes little to no sense on what to do, anyone willing to advice me?