Comments on: Yule Quiz (#1)

By: Puzzle Pirate (@PuzzlePirate)

Puzzle Pirate (@PuzzlePirate) — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 17:46:38 +0000

“Outside in accepts no responsibility for any hazardous or harmful xenocosmic occurrences resulting from calculations associated with this quiz.”

I would like to have said xenocosmic experience, so could you please enlighten us on the numerics of this problem?

By: Artemisia

Artemisia — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 02:11:42 +0000

I can’t see what extra step is needed (and can’t even see why it’s needed)…
Well, the only regularity I took away from the original series (unless I am missing some obscure one) is it following an alphabetic order. Assuming it’s significant (and by now it’s that late at night whereby it instantly dawns on me that it must be terribly significant and I am an idiot for not understanding why), Sigol, Tactt, Umneo would be Stoag, Texcl, Uxelf?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:41:31 +0000

“… won’t Tecxl be equivalent to Tactt” — you’re counting just fine. One more step …

By: Artemisia

Artemisia — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:35:55 +0000

Wait, won’t Tecxl be equivalent to Tactt (and not to Sigol)? It’s either that or a day of counting made me forget how to count.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:24:31 +0000

OK, you’re clearly almost there — but what is the value you are aiming for.

Another clue: “Tecxl” would have been correct.

By: Artemisia

Artemisia — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:20:56 +0000

But I took this to be compeletely numerical – list of primes and a certain gematria system was all I needed (I thought I needed, apparently) to catch the regularity. I was confused about which gematria to use, until I saw Daniel Barker’s “and yet = 123″. That made things fairly clear. I thought. Damn.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 28 Dec 2013 01:12:14 +0000

No cigar yet. Clue: it’s a completely numerical problem — any semantics / phonetics is irrelevant.

By: Artemisia

Artemisia — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:41:55 +0000

Can’t believe it took me so long; and with such a fine clue from Prof. Daniel Barker, too.

I am rather bad at crafting terms, so…erm…equivalences to Qush, Rakht, Sigol would be Ibdjhad (stole that from above, obviously), Chron and Texla.