Finished

Well, I finally posted my answer.

I am confident in the location, no matter what is being discussed on the forum. Keeper actually posted the same answer days ago. He said that I directed him there. He showed me the monument but since it was from a distance, there were no names visible.

I did more research in the area and am sure that they are there. Everything is coming together now. 02270, The Music is Key, Mike's drawing, The Route Leads There, Hideous, Between A&C, Hail England, the wires on the spectrocraniomenter, Letter squares, Heigh-Ho, Rossini, Chess, Hoffman, sound files, and more.

What's more is that I found www.steinitzfutures.com web site where the guy actually has a radio show too. MTSM said its legit, so I must leave them alone. I just cant get over how those pictures on that site are of the same caliber as those on the other steinitz sites. If it's a legit site, poor guy is getting a lot of e-mail and phone calls from us.

A Hideous Answer (AHA!)

I don't know if congratulations are in order yet, but Badger did come up with a very good solution to HIDEOUS. Quote (Badger @ Nov 26 2004, 11:57 AM) THE URN SITE HONORS THE DEAD.

Monuments, memorials, plaques. Graves are out because they don't really honor the dead. They just mark them.

Trying to tie it all together

Trying something new to tie in Mike's Picture today. Could the symbols be from MQoS code?

Different track

Wait, I had a thought. Many people are mentioning that the green wire is to be ignored. So what is left? Red, Yellow, Black, and White. There is only one state flag with those colors and it's Maryland. Time to start using a new search engine. Google is not being kind.

THE RACE IS ON

Spent most of the morning waiting for the registration page to update. Then when it does, everyone is having trouble registering. MTSM gets involved and works on solving the page problems. I'm in. An easy matching problem then it lets you submit an answer. "The Music is Key." NOW what does that mean?! So we are looking for two names not in alphabetical order. This could be a marquee, a grave, a monument, or a landmark.

I started in Ohio. I went through Crete and Cypus. I found Apollo temple on Cyprus. The god of Music. Several Apollo personalities are from Ohio. Armstrong is from a town between A&C, OH. Search Search Search. Nothing.

Except This:

Is that it?

MNP post their final blog today. All have differnet pictures of them holding the Urn. Not a word about what was won. That was a total let down. The solve was too easy for them and did not fully explain everything. I guess what is left will partain to the third urn. The hunt starts Monday.

Congratulations to Varin for posting the solve to the letter squares first. FameTrunks headed us in the right direction using both the opera game and "remember where they came from" it was spelled out for us. Some questions are left about the remaining letters though. There were several people on the verge of solving that clue at the same time, including myself.

And in the immortal words of KMS today, "Something like 'the path runs through it' or 'remember where it was played' or 'remember where they came from' or one of those clues?"

And FameTrunks: "Okay, I've been busting my head open about this opera game/chess board thing and I started crawling through the archives verifying VonMuda's list of clues when I stumbled across this clue, which has been left out of recent lists, including my own!

KEEP TRACK OF WHERE THEY CAME FROM"

HIEGH-HO URN #2 A GO

Way to Go FameTrunks! THE GAME REACHED OPERATIC HEIGHTS. is the solve for Heigh-Ho. PMN find Urn #2. No mention of its contents. We will have to wait till Friday.
The opera game must have something to do with solving the letter squares.

What a drag

These past few days have been slow. The players are on their way to the two rivers and we have seen very little. Dr. Harvey showed up to tell us to take a day off. I've been hammering HIDEOUS with my own anagram program, to no avail. That program will take 20 billion years to complete the entire computation. The registration announcement page opened today. So we will have to sign up and post an answer. Hmmm, not what I was expecting, but OK.

STRATEGY

The players didn't update their blogs until late. I was getting ready to leave work. I found a KEY image and link at the bottom of Natalie's blog. The link directed me to a secure page. I had just looked into that type of security recently. I had just begun working with four other players in a team effort to see if we could solve this before everyone else. I set up another blog and researched security measures so that it wouldn't pop up in the search engines. CHMOD was one of the comands I investigated, along with this security device Natalie had. I just thought that it was a production error and they had something left over when the blog got published.

EBay Away

Norman Dean Norman put the Authentic Skulls up on EBay today. This is going to be interesting since Norman stated that these would NOT include any clues to the third urn. NMP dug up a red herring purse, a PI coin and a note telling them to go to where the two rivers meet and to bring scuba gear. Strange. No 2nd urn yet!

Activity. Finally.

The past few days have been agonizing. The trio have not posted much useful information and otherwise have been relatively quiet. The same cannot be said for the forum. Like kudzoo in Georigia, the ideas and thoughts have expanded at exponential rates. Membership also seems to be growing at the same pace.

Mike posted a new puzzle piece today. New colors. Interesting. Now the pieces can only fit together in a handful of ways. This narrows things down.

Gathering Thoughts

Today I decided it was time someone put all those "clues" into a list so that everyone could tear them apart. Bang away people. "PRIMARY CLUES" is now up for pot shots.

Oops

Moretosee made a production error. Someone posted a picture of Mike and Peter and then quickly removed it. They were standing outside, from what I can recall. The shot was from the waist up, and neither looked like they had clothes on. Could have had swim trunks though.

Spent more time analyzing the letter squares and running my Knights Tour program.
Two new items; 1) a new piece to the letter squares, 2) morewasseen.com

Vacaton off of the computer helped

Same ole thing, unhappy pollsters, incomplete election . Another Bush term for four more years? Continuation. Job losses. Lower incomes. Isolation. Divided country. Must move on.

Oh, and passed the century mark for posts. But nothing new happened.

The woodworks

watch out. The meanies are coming out of the woodworks. Boy, the last two days have brought in some new members who are very rude and offensive to the forum. I was called out as well as some of the veterans there. Keep your composure. Calm. Toned down. Unified. That's it! HAUD.

Back to the puzzle. The letter squares. I've been looking for various "Knights Tours" childishly thinking that there are only a few solutions to the Knights Tour. I found a few and have also begun programming a script that will input various Knights Tours and compare them with the various layout options of the know pieces. No luck so far, but I might come up with something that will put me ahead of the others. Keep plugging. Diving. Searching. Googling.