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It's not the magnifier in Holmes' hand, is it?
Is it something in the source code?
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Lily wrote:
It's not the magnifier in Holmes' hand, is it?
Is it something in the source code?
No. To both. You're not looking for a magnifying glass. You're not going to find one. You're looking for something, a code, a word, something that tells you where the magnifyer is. And it's not in the source, it's on the riddle page itself.
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So it's in the text...?
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No. If you want I can tell you where to look but I don't want to just spoil it if you don't want to. 
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It's not on the book.
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I am so blind sometimes!
So it's a morse code?
Is it an anagram?
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No, just morse code.
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No, just morse code. You should be able to find a morse code cracking website somwhere.
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I've checked twice but I only get stpieäerreuad. :/
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OK, that's a little bit wierd. Maybe look at a morse code alphabet and try de-coding it yourself. That's what I did 
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What? Just google morse code and look at a picture of the alphabet and do it yourself. That's what I did. You will notice there are little spaces every once in a while. That's where a sequence ends. You probably found some translator that translates it into German. Because English certainly doesn't have the dotted a.
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Whoa, I just noticed another freaky psychic moment... 
No, just morse code.... 
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It says 'international morsecode'. I'll better look for another site.
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Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
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I just don't get it.
I read the code like this:
. . . = S
_ = T
. _ _ . = P
. . = I
. = E
. _ . _ = ?
. = E
. _ . = R
. _ . = R
. = E
. . _ = U
. _ = A
_ . . = D
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You read it wrong then.
the first letter is .._
Last edited by Sparrow (February 24, 2013 4:52 pm)
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You're reading it upside down!
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
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Riiiight... am I the only one who doesn't find that really obvious?
I'm really starting to think that I'm a bit dumb. *sigh*
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Nah. We all have our dumb moments, that doesn't make us so. 
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You should have seen me yesterday evening!! 
I messed up on literally every game on here!!
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I was wondering if you'd like to have coffee...
Hmm. I really don't know. Oh, I'm sorry, did I say 'know'? I meant 'care'. I don't really care.
Douglas Richardson, Cremona
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