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kazza474 · June 30, 2012 12:03 pm

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ok you are looking for Sunday's timetable; the bottom one.

So they leave at the times in line with Paddington on Sunday (8;00 8;57. 9;57 etc)
And the bottom line where it says Plymouth we can read what time each one gets there. So simply by working out how long each one takes, we see that the 10:57 one is the fastest.
(more to follow)

kazza474 · June 30, 2012 12:06 pm

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Now that time doesn't work huh?
Ok, we say to ourselves, we've missed something.
Go back & LOOK at the picture. Any hints to any possible addresses there?

Hmmmm .... I can see numbers and letters ????

Molly Hooper · June 30, 2012 12:12 pm

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5553 TXT?

kazza474 · June 30, 2012 12:14 pm

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hmm, that looks like it could have a dot in between and be part of an address huh?
A text file maybe.. that'd be .txt ... hmmmm

Molly Hooper · June 30, 2012 12:18 pm

Text File??

kazza474 · June 30, 2012 12:21 pm

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so put those together & you are going to pop " 5553.txt" somewhere.
You have the first page with the story of catching the train up?

Molly Hooper · June 30, 2012 12:23 pm

Yes!!! Kazza, you're totally AMAZING!
The patience of a saint!
Thank you SO much!!!

(You'll know I'll probably be stuck on the next one in about 2 minutes )

Wholocked · June 30, 2012 12:26 pm

Yep. .txt is a type of file like .htm or .jpg

What might that suggest?

Molly Hooper · June 30, 2012 12:27 pm

It's got text in it??

Wholocked · June 30, 2012 12:40 pm

Haha sorry - I am on my phone and thought I was at the end of the thread when actually it had just gone on to a new page so my reply is late.

And in answer to that, a text file is literally text. No formatting at all.

Molly Hooper · June 30, 2012 12:43 pm

Thanks, Wholocked, I'll stick that in my Mind-Palace!

Molly Hooper · June 30, 2012 2:35 pm

Yes! I almost got through a whole level without needing help! (OK, but I did just read the help you gave to Wholocked!)
I've got the word but then it does this:

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and I have no idea what to make of that!!

kazza474 · June 30, 2012 5:42 pm

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that's good, now follow the instructions.
It is telling you what to try.

Molly Hooper · June 30, 2012 5:54 pm

DOOFUS!
(said while standing in front of mirror!)

Thanks Kazza

Molly Hooper · June 30, 2012 8:48 pm

******SPOILER******

OK, the co-ordinates, how?

sherlockskitty · July 10, 2012 5:52 am

yes, HOW? and no, I haven't even gotten thru the first page of this riddle yet. I know I shouldn't give up, but....well...I'll sleep on it then give it a try tomorrow. after all tmw's another day.

Sparrow · February 22, 2013 3:29 pm

This is such a cool game. I got to question 9 but I can't figure out which cipher I'm supposed to use. I've tried every one I could think of to no avail.

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 7:06 pm

I'm really stuck on chapter 7. I think the little people are some type of code but I can't qork out what letters they form.

Sparrow · February 23, 2013 7:48 pm

You can solve chapter 7 without cracking the men cipher. It is actually a cipher from the canon. But I didn't find it very useful.

I just can't find the proper cipher for 9 and it's driving me mad.

Molly Hooper · February 23, 2013 7:56 pm

I'm still stuck!

Do you think maybe you could give me a tiny clue??