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Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 9:21 pm

Sparrow, I'm stuck again! (Chapter 8) I have absolutely No Idea what to do. So I wondered if you could be clever again??

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:22 pm

Yes, it is rather late.

Which one is the third one? The one where you have to figure out how to prepare the chemical? If you've got the letters, then just use an anagram solver. It's what I did.

Lily · February 23, 2013 9:27 pm

Yes, it is.
I did that but either I've got the wrong letters or I just don't understand the meaning of the words as none of the solutions given by the anagram solver makes sense to me.
I don't have a calculator here, so I might have made a mistake with the letters.

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 9:29 pm

What letters did you get?

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:29 pm

Tell me the letters you found.

Lily · February 23, 2013 9:30 pm

I F C L A O A N C U

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:31 pm

What were you saying about psychics, Molly?

Did you manage to get through 8?

@Lily, those are the wrong letters just one single letter wrong.

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 9:31 pm

There are 12 letters, not 10

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 9:32 pm

Whoa, creepy!!
No, I'm still totally, amazingly, utterly stumped. Can you be clever again?

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:34 pm

Yes, I can, Is it the one with the 14 letters and the 2 heads?

And yes, there are 12 letters. So you're missing 2 and you got one wrong.

Lily · February 23, 2013 9:37 pm

What is 8 - 7?
Isn't a 7 on a calculator just an L upside down? But that doesn't make a letter...

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 9:38 pm

Yep, that's the one!

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:40 pm

Ah, that one was so obvious. Notice how one head is upside down? There are 14 letters and only 7 dials, so you only need seven letters. Which ones do you pick? Well, one head's right side up, one's upside down, so that makes you think about... maybe skipping letters?

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:42 pm

Lily wrote:
What is 8 - 7?
Isn't a 7 on a calculator just an L upside down? But that doesn't make a letter...

It does. But it's a lower case letter. Which is why it's a bit trickier.

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 9:42 pm

Yeah, obvious... Skipping letters is the first thing I think about when I see an upside-down gorgon!!

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:45 pm

It's the first thing I thought of. Did it work?

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 9:46 pm

No

I tried acegikm but I don't think that right...

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:51 pm

Well, of course. You need to anagram that.

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 9:56 pm

Yeah, of course I knew that, I was just testing...
;)

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 9:58 pm

Right, so did you get it?