Do the first two line add anything except to give direction? Good post about the riddle Daldaris? I actually ran across that early yesterday and than totally forgot about it. I noticed and am still wondering about the plus signs also, that da_shiz_wiz_19 has posted about. In the past they have been used as both addition and concatenation operations. And since garbot1 seems to be intent on using them in the posts I would gather they have some significance. So what is that significance. I believe in this case we can assume it means concatenation. Does it mean that we have multiple parts/paths to the answer? Because the Plus is on the second line of each set, to me in the way they are being used it seems more likely that its a concatenation of two words to get one answer. If the Plus sign was on the first line of each set than I would be more likely to think of each set being a seperate answer. This may be semantics, but the difference is that either each line of the set produces a word that when combined gives the answer or the answer is only one word. Hope I didn't confuse anyone there and is my take on what hiurdin wrote. So then does each set of lines represent an answer and are they combined or seperate parts? To me if each set of lines is a seperate answer then they are seperate parts. If this is truly a riddle tho that kinda breaks the mold and we should be only looking for a single answer. Daldaris again has mentioned something I've also been wondering about and that is taking the object of each set of lines and looking at them as a combination. varnish/garnish swoon/room noise/nose around/ground ring/NOTHING. MIRROR fits fairly well with swoon/room, but what about the others? OIL for varnish/garnish? EARTH for around/ground(I tried this and DIRT,SOIL for a single answer but they didn't work either.)? I know I had something else but it has escaped me at the moment. I have to say tho some very good creativeness going on here.
Well, I think the first two line is just a guidence, to use caps. I tried lots of words for the whole riddle, and also for the varnish/garnish part, but nothing worked so far. Hmm hmm
aaah...I just remember my other thought. So garnish doesn't only mean decorate, it also means to take or put a hold on as in garnish wages. So if you take varnish/garnish and useit could be STAINREMOVER. Boy don't you just love the english language!?! You can read anything into anything.
So with the general 4/5/6/7/8 pattern we've been seeing, the two line theory (as it will now be called) makes sense. Only way to prove it though is to find the first word. Unless of course they are all mixed up. Which is probably the case.
Wow! Looks like the teamwork is going strong! Good job team! Many very good ideas are being presented here! Very creative! Very dedicated deciphering! Now we just have to make sure that we harness all of this creativity and KEEP IT TOGETHER and work AS ONE to find the password needed to get my optical video link program to work Well done everyone! Good luck solving this one!
If I understand this hint correctly, it looks like the words are not going to be separated with / this time. --> KEEP IT TOGETHER, AS ONE
I prefer to reserve judgement until the puzzle is solved. Then and only then will I tell you where I stand. (but it does seem heavy handed in pointing us in the right direction doesn't it.) Sadly it gets me no closer to the truth.
Just gettin movin around here. Got some ideas I want to try today and maybe some insight good or bad. Will post more later need to get to work.
Still haven't had much time to do anything but a couple more thoughts. garbot1's first post about this puzzle had the word 'riddle' in it. His second post had the line, 'Who here is usually good at riddles?' So can we read into this that riddles plural, jives with our current thought that each 2 line entry is a standalone riddle? Thus further cementing our current position. Not that it makes a difference at this point I have another thought about the 'Plus', could it mean that each line of the set with Plus in it has a different answer and then to combine the two answers to get a single word or phrase that is then used to come up with another meaning from that (i.e. Dill + Pickle = DillPickle = green)? or is this just being too sadistic. I will provide more reasoning on why I think this maybe, later. The few other things I've tried haven't panned out, so still searchin
hello... anybody out there?! Wow! Morning, noon, and night and no posts in between. But I can empathize. It was a long hard day at work and my brain is already toasted. Might just give it a rest here. I have to organize my thoughts.
I hit them purdy hard yesterday. Even tried using noise like an electrical disturbance and plus like a proton and something else related to electricity to try and peice together something. Nope. This 'un is a toughy
Man, things keep interrupting me, but maybe it was for the better as it let me clarify my thoughts as well as I could. Okay I said I would get back to this and finely maybe have my thoughts together. I mentioned about how the plus may be a concatenation of answers for the two lines and then taken a step further. Let me show you what I mean Take this set of lines: On the surface I'm a fine varnish Plus, I make a divine garnish Interpreted as such: Say the word answer to the first line is OIL and the word answer to the second line is PAINTING (something that garnishes a wall). Then combine them to get OILPAINTING, this may be the word we're looking for but, what if this word combination is a clue and then we take it that next step and get PICTURE as final answer?! Don't worry I have my reasons. Then take the other set: Bling-bling ring Plus, I OWE NOTHING I think the first word is DIAMOND and using the same process as the riddle we mentioned awhile back the second part is 100. Combined it makes DIAMOND 100, but then interpret that as VODKA (Diamond 100 is a type of vodka) for the answer. Again don't worry I have the same reasoning which I will now explain. The next part was in figuring how to combine the clues in the correct order. I somehow don't think the the answers to the riddles will be combined in order as listed in the puzzle, they could be, but I really don't think so. So I have a method that may be how to do it with out a brute force approach. I noticed in garbot1's second to the last response that he mentions "the password needed to get my optical video link program to work ". Hmm, which got me thinking that 'Optical Video Link Program' is significant and in fact signifies the ordering of the clues. O V L P, which then in turn assumes that the each answers will start with one of these letters. So I started trying to figure out different answers that would fit this method, which got me double thinking about how the 'Plus' fit into things and that was that. So some of the words I came up with are as follows: varnish/garnish oil, vinegar, light Oil+Painting=Picture swoon/room perfume, painting, vacuum noise/nose ??? around/ground planet, light ring/NOTHING VODKA (Diamond-ring + 1-I 0-Owe 0-Nothing = Diamond 100), as you notice there are 5 sets of clues and I only have four positions figured out. So what could the fifth position be? Some of my ideas where Fix Start Run Debug Launch Password...so the 5th answer would have to start with one of these 1st letters. So am I out in left field? Again am I making this harder than it should be? I still don't have a full password to try. Maybe this will knock loose a few more brain cells. Onward.
