BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / The Sherlock Holmes Riddle

**Posted by Lily** February 24, 2013 3:39 pm

It's not the magnifier in Holmes' hand, is it?

Is it something in the source code?

**Posted by Sparrow** February 24, 2013 3:42 pm

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.

**Posted by Lily** February 24, 2013 3:48 pm

So it's in the text...?

**Posted by Sparrow** February 24, 2013 3:50 pm

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.

**Posted by Molly Hooper** February 24, 2013 3:51 pm

It's not on the book.

**Posted by Lily** February 24, 2013 4:03 pm

I am so blind sometimes!

So it's a morse code?
Is it an anagram?

**Posted by Sparrow** February 24, 2013 4:04 pm

No, just morse code.

**Posted by Molly Hooper** February 24, 2013 4:05 pm

No, just morse code. You should be able to find a morse code cracking website somwhere.

**Posted by Lily** February 24, 2013 4:27 pm

I've checked twice but I only get stpieäerreuad. :/

**Posted by Molly Hooper** February 24, 2013 4:29 pm

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

**Posted by Sparrow** February 24, 2013 4:29 pm

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.

**Posted by Molly Hooper** February 24, 2013 4:32 pm

Whoa, I just noticed another freaky psychic moment...

No, just morse code....

Last edited by Molly Hooper (February 24, 2013 4:33 pm)

**Posted by Lily** February 24, 2013 4:34 pm

It says 'international morsecode'. I'll better look for another site.

**Posted by Molly Hooper** February 24, 2013 4:36 pm

http://www.bl.uk/learning/images/whywrite/morse-large.jpg

**Posted by Lily** February 24, 2013 4:47 pm

I just don't get it.

I read the code like this:

. . . = S
_ = T
. _ _ . = P
. . = I
. = E
. _ . _ = ?
. = E
. _ . = R
. _ . = R
. = E
. . _ = U
. _ = A
_ . . = D

**Posted by Sparrow** February 24, 2013 4:51 pm

You read it wrong then.

the first letter is .._

Last edited by Sparrow (February 24, 2013 4:52 pm)

**Posted by Molly Hooper** February 24, 2013 4:52 pm

You're reading it upside down!

**Posted by Lily** February 24, 2013 4:57 pm

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*

Last edited by Lily (February 24, 2013 4:57 pm)

**Posted by Sparrow** February 24, 2013 5:02 pm

Nah. We all have our dumb moments, that doesn't make us so.

**Posted by Molly Hooper** February 24, 2013 5:06 pm

You should have seen me yesterday evening!!
I messed up on literally every game on here!!