http://www.trianglemystery.com/

Just a last minute thought.... Did anyone play this?  I wrote down all the messages in order given, 25 in all.  #16 states everything matters. Doc? and the end is only the beginning # 25.  Many hints and ideas between. First you need to figure out how to break the walls down, then seems random order the messages appear from the bot.  I call it a bot.  Any thought's out there?

Ship

Shipwrecked:

http://www.trianglemystery.com/

Just a last minute thought.... Did anyone play this?  I wrote down all the messages in order given, 25 in all.  #16 states everything matters. Doc? and the end is only the beginning # 25.  Many hints and ideas between. First you need to figure out how to break the walls down, then seems random order the messages appear from the bot.  I call it a bot.  Any thought's out there?

Ship

the messages are random I believe. It has shown me doubles before it completes a cycle. Most of the phrases refer to triangles. "vessels vanish in the atlantic ocean" - Bermuda Triangle; "it took 20 years and 14000 workers to build" - Largest pyramid in Egypt; "One dollar says our country is Unfinished" - The pyramid with the all seeing eye floating on its tip..  I wouldn't think they're clues to anything further, but that's just me.

Doc:

Howdy, Sassy1962!

I've been pondering this since last night, and I have some odd observations and questions.

Do you remember the Excavation Site map that shows up when you complete the Pascal puzzle?

There are three pyramids that are 'illuminated' on that map:  the jungle pyramid where we've spent most of the game, the smaller pyramid from the trianglemystery site, and the home pyramid.

As I've stated, I'm positive that 'The Artifact' is the solution to those cylinders.

However, all these triangles I'm posting about appear to be aiming towards some sort of solution as well.  'The columns align' would be a reference to the front of the package this time--I would start off by aligning them to read S N A C K S T R O N G.  The rest of the alphabet would appear above and below each letter.  The solutions to these triangles I've been working on appear to contain three 'shifts' on each triangle.

I've not really considered this before, but it's curious.

Everything I've done with these triangles revolves around the symbols for 0 - 10 that originated with that smaller pyramid at the trianglemystery site.

Is it a possibility that some sort of solution exists for each of the three illuminated pyramids on the Excavation site map?  That the three finalists aren't the first three folks to submit 'The Artifact', but they are the first people to submit the correct answer associated with each pyramid?

In other words, the first person who submitted 'The Artifact' would be the finalist for the jungle pyramid?  The first person to submit the answer associated with these triangles 0 - 10 associated with the pyramid at the trianglemystery site?  The first person to submit an answer associated with the symbols of the home pyramid?

This would prevent any sharing of the correct answer with your family and friends.

Just musing out loud,

Doc

In my opinion, Doc, your theory is entirely plausible. The BIGGEST problem with this type of online game is that the final answer is not tangible.....you do not have a treasure in your hands. You may recall after I posted the answer to the DB hunt online, several people beat me to the site, since I let half a day go by before starting out. Even though they found the location, they did not find the orb (due to miscalculations and not putting all the info together)--but if they had, they would have been the winner. With these internet hunts like Gold Rush, Pirates, and this one, you won't know the answer until they publish it....and even then there is somebody who questions the validity. Moreover, the glitches that have plagued this game since the beginning are an example of some sloppy planning. For the first three hours of the final round, you could actually take the ring columns OFF the machine simply by dragging them.

Having said that, here is the number one reason why I don't think there is anything more to this game: it has been the pattern throughout that once you figure out how to manipulate the "gadgets" you are pretty much done with that puzzle. The hints and answers have not been ambiguous. And while there has been an element of mathematics in these games, you did not need the math to solve any of them. For example, that big wall full of lights that you had to aim the laser beam? I did no math, no axis calculations.....I dimmed the screen and took a shot at the three brightest lights. Bingo. The suspended three triangles that rotated inside each other? The answer was on a button on the side of the machine.

If you check the posts back far enough, you will see when I posted my theory for how the gadget worked. Beyond that we (several of us working in a chat room) figured out the ordering mechanism (several others hit that same conclusion at the same time, seeming to validate us), and started looking for keywords. I have to tell you, I just started anagramming all possible combinations. And while there are a bunch of really great ANAGRAMMED possibilities, I found no straight up words in the correctly spelled order.

Secondly, there were some very clever red herrings in this game, both intentional and not.

But that is just my opinion....we will soon know for sure.

Sherri

 Strange... a couple of my posts have disappeared from this forum.  Anyone else notice that their posts have gone missing?  The ones I've noticed have just been in the past 12 hours or so.

Shipwrecked:

Well I sent in my final answer today after reading the posts. Thanks everyone. Due to a nursing shortage, I was called in to work .    So I missed starting with everyone else.  You guys did an awesome job. Wow!  Doc I love the way your mind works! I'm sure even if someone has the correct answer and is number one. They will have to decipher either more puzzles or name the place.  On one of the contests I won years ago, I had to come up with the state, town, building in the town and the correct room in the building! Whew I had to do alot of research!!  So keep pondering, it may pay off.  Pro thanks for the omniglot site. I LOVE IT!

Well if it's anything like Volvo The Hunt the end is going to be "Adventurous".  If I remember correctly the gold is still at the bottom.....oh my...another hunt matey's?

Ship 

 

Sucks that you couldn't be around for the launch of the final chapter, I'm sure you would have had a good chance at the prize.  Also, I might have to find out what this "omniglot" website is, as I've not heard of it before.  Hopefully it's something mentally stimulating =)  I don't get enough of that these days. 

tdawgxgib:

Shipwrecked:

http://www.trianglemystery.com/

Just a last minute thought.... Did anyone play this?  I wrote down all the messages in order given, 25 in all.  #16 states everything matters. Doc? and the end is only the beginning # 25.  Many hints and ideas between. First you need to figure out how to break the walls down, then seems random order the messages appear from the bot.  I call it a bot.  Any thought's out there?

Ship

the messages are random I believe. It has shown me doubles before it completes a cycle. Most of the phrases refer to triangles. "vessels vanish in the atlantic ocean" - Bermuda Triangle; "it took 20 years and 14000 workers to build" - Largest pyramid in Egypt; "One dollar says our country is Unfinished" - The pyramid with the all seeing eye floating on its tip..  I wouldn't think they're clues to anything further, but that's just me.

 

Having been given the Doritos - The Quest link directly, I wasn't aware of trianglemystery.com, so I went to check it out. First thing I see are numbered white triangles flying at me out of the void. Ah, a coded message? I quickly start jotting down numbers until they stop. Then I start throwing the bot around, breaking the wall, reading the messages. The scene is revealed, familiar landmarks and symbols abound. My cursor changes from pointer to text input near the slots at the bottom of the foreground pyramid, there's "@" in the middle: e-mail! More cursor(y) cruising (glowing symbols!), then...

Back to the numbered triangles: did I get them all? Reload. Ah, slightly different this time, but between 1 and 100, just like the first group. What's the game here? Reload. Slightly different again, but still between 1 and 100: [lightbulb="on"] [dope_slap="upside the head"] Flash percent-loaded status animation.

Must... walk... away...  

applejack1963:

Having been given the Doritos - The Quest link directly, I wasn't aware of trianglemystery.com, so I went to check it out. First thing I see are numbered white triangles flying at me out of the void. Ah, a coded message? I quickly start jotting down numbers until they stop. Then I start throwing the bot around, breaking the wall, reading the messages. The scene is revealed, familiar landmarks and symbols abound. My cursor changes from pointer to text input near the slots at the bottom of the foreground pyramid, there's "@" in the middle: e-mail! More cursor(y) cruising (glowing symbols!), then...

Back to the numbered triangles: did I get them all? Reload. Ah, slightly different this time, but between 1 and 100, just like the first group. What's the game here? Reload. Slightly different again, but still between 1 and 100: [lightbulb="on"] [dope_slap="upside the head"] Flash percent-loaded status animation.

Must... walk... away...  

lol.  I was about to go back to the site just to see if I had missed a series of numbered triangles.

I remember when Doritos was only one flavor.
Would you LOOK at us NOW.

Sassy1962:

For example, that big wall full of lights that you had to aim the laser beam? I did no math, no axis calculations.....I dimmed the screen and took a shot at the three brightest lights. Bingo.

 

This method may have worked for you, but you have missed entirely the use of the colored triangles on the bags to follow the paths along the wall.  It was a much easier solution to follow with no trial and error aiming (or math) involved.  It was the correct and intended solution..  Doriitos gave a way out to the more unobservant by allowing the lasers to be manipulated manually.

marooned:

It was the correct and intended solution..  Doriitos gave a way out to the more unobservant by allowing the lasers to be manipulated manually.

EXACTLY, Marooned....that was the point I was trying to make. You just said it better.

In the interest of saving time, I tried that first. Had it not worked I would have looked for the "method" and eventually found it. The colored triangles on the bag were the obvious choice there....it didn't escape my observation, it just would have taken me much longer to apply that method. The fact that I was able to finish it without using the correct method validates my point, I believe....

Sassy1962:

marooned:

It was the correct and intended solution..  Doriitos gave a way out to the more unobservant by allowing the lasers to be manipulated manually.

EXACTLY, Marooned....that was the point I was trying to make. You just said it better.

In the interest of saving time, I tried that first. Had it not worked I would have looked for the "method" and eventually found it. The colored triangles on the bag were the obvious choice there....it didn't escape my observation, it just would have taken me much longer to apply that method. The fact that I was able to finish it without using the correct method validates my point, I believe....

The rules of the Quest say-

"Each challenge conquered builds upon the next, as clues find their places in future chapters--intersecting pieces of a grand enigma."  

This was a contest for the observant, as elements of some of the puzzles interconnected with others.  It was wise to go back and understand them even if there was another simpler way to get through them.   The alphabet used for the final cryptex was shown on the very first day of the contest, if one bothered to notice it.  Had there been no forums or people willing to share, this and other clues would have given a player the winning advantage.

While I have yet to be convinced of Doc's complicated theory,  I admire his great curiosity. I also wondered why that rock was inscribed "Thou hast solved the sum of 9".       

 

Ok could any please explain to me how everything correlates together.  Like how the numbers go w/entering them into code. I've tried everything and cannot seem to figure it out. Thanks.

Well good luck to everyone. I didn't have the time nor patience to bother cracking the final code. I figured my chances were slim to none and slim just got up and walked out the door, so I just ramdonly spun the wheels til I saw a pattern that looked cool and locked that in as my answer. Pre congrats to the winner and the other 2 chosen. Take care.

marooned:

The rules of the Quest say-

"Each challenge conquered builds upon the next, as clues find their places in future chapters--intersecting pieces of a grand enigma."  

This was a contest for the observant, as elements of some of the puzzles interconnected with others.  It was wise to go back and understand them even if there was another simpler way to get through them.   The alphabet used for the final cryptex was shown on the very first day of the contest, if one bothered to notice it.  Had there been no forums or people willing to share, this and other clues would have given a player the winning advantage.

While I have yet to be convinced of Doc's complicated theory,  I admire his great curiosity. I also wondered why that rock was inscribed "Thou hast solved the sum of 9".       

I didn't say it wasn't wise to understand them, and I didn't say being observant wasn't important. All I said was that because it was POSSIBLE to solve it without benefit of either, it seemed less likely they have a more complex final answer than what is readily being accepted by the community as correct. And trust me, if there IS a different solution, Doc will be the one to find it.

With this type of internet puzzle, you WANT the puzzles to be interrelated, since that is the easiest way to double check an answer. Worst case scenario is a final puzzle that has absolutely nothing to do with the way any of the previous levels were played or storied...somewhat like the first Volvo Pirates game was constructed.

In addition to the phrase you have curiosity for ('cuz I *would* like to attribute its significance), I have thought about the different "doors" people claim to have gone through. Quite frankly--and I would dearly love Promethius to chime in here because he is the expert--I don't see anything in the scripts or flash files that indicates an "if-then" scenario. In other words, the way it is coded once you enter an answer it simply plays out a flash file--the same flash file for everyone. There is no parameter for entering different codes/words. So I am beginning to think folks were either counting wrong, or there was a hiccup in the system when their doors appeared. According to the script, everyone should have gone to the 7th door.

You get anything different Pro?

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Sassy1962.  :)  I'm still not convinced there's anything to this, but my curiosity compels me to look at it.  I don't like so MANY loose ends that appear to tie together.

I actually sat down tonight and had to rework the entire game to get back to the cylinders.  Thanks SO much for the cryptex alphabet you posted and to Jed for the walkthrough on those HORRID slide puzzles.  LOL.

I just finished my first pass through all this triangle stuff, and I arrived at an 11-letter string of random-appearing letters in the same fashion that the 11 letters derived from the tablet appeared random.

I dutifully aligned the cylinders, plugged in this newly-acquired 11-letter string, and hit my switch three times.

I'm not entirely happy with the result, but something in the middle of it caught my eye:

__ __ __ B M W  Z 4 __ __ __

 I don't know if this is correct or not, but I'll gnaw on it some more over the weekend and see what comes of it.

Doc

Hi, all.  Since Doc and Marooned and others are trying to figure out some of the intricacies of the whole puzzle, I just want to throw this in. I've mentioned it before and no one has commented on it. I think it needs some thought. I posted this picture about the numbering on the Home Pyramid. As you solved each puzzle, the next symbol lit up in the following order, which I assumed was a clue to the number interpretation.

But in another post, Sassy posted the following number/symbol interpretation, which was from the 4-in-1 triangle puzzle.

Sassy1962:

As long as we are tying loose ends.....here is another post with all the symbols translated....however, we have some that have not yet been defined--unless I missed it. If you know what they translate to, let me know and I will fix this....scroll down for all three.

My question here is why are there different number schemes? Are the number systems just thrown in at random? The twisty pyramid puzzle also had these symbols and they were all random.  If the number/symbol interpretations are not consistent, then are some of the other mysteries inconsistent as well?  Just confused and wondering....