One of the many reasons I don’t normally finish Cryptex Hunts is because life gets in the way. That is definitely true this time around as well. Still, today is a lovely day, too lovely to be stressing out and worrying about finding a new job, so I am sitting here in the shade with a light breeze and doing puzzles.
Blog: Script Scribbles
This one had me stumped for ages, and still does to some extent. It consists of a fight scene from Romeo and Juliet, with a grid at the top and a series of letters in various shapes at the bottom. Some of the blocks in the grid are highlighted, so it makes sense that you are going to try to fit the blocks of letters into the grid. Except, at first, you can’t. There are configurations that simply do not work. I tried turning the grid on its side, rotating the blocks of letters, nada. Eventually, I checked the Discord, and got the hint that the grid itself isn’t the answer, it’s a HINT to the answer, and that while yes, you do need to fit blocks into the grid, not all blocks, and some can be used multiple times. OK, fine. With that hint it took me a minute or two only to fit the blocks that I could into the grid, so that the shaded blocks spelled SEMAPHORE.
Ok, so the letter blocks are to be drawn as semaphore shapes, makes total sense. Until you realize that there is a lot of room for interpretation there. I’m still stuck on this one, and the copious hints on the Discord re de-coding and en-coding aren’t making much sense to me. Trying another puzzle to come back to this one.
ETA: One of the reasons I am sleep deprived is I have a new foster kitten, Turkey. He's just barely a week old now, and weighs only 7 oz, which means I'm awake every 2.5 hours or so to feed him. The solution to this bloody puzzle came to me at our 3 am feeding, because of course it was bothering me. The letters aren't only useful to spell out semaphore, they are part of the semaphore. Got out grid paper this morning, after a double shot latte, to sort out the answer itself. Ain't nothin' gonna breaka my stride, ain't nothing gonna slow me dow-wn, oh no, I've got to keep on... SOLVIN'
Cast & Crew
Admittedly I had no idea where to start on this one. I tried messing with the names of the characters, trying to merge the houses as it were, nothing. Then the Discord hinted I was probably looking at the wrong line of the intro text. Looking, I realized it was all about their journeys. So, I got out my handy map app, and mapped their journeys and what do you know, going west to east, they spell out a word. Huzzah for one I could wrap my admittedly sleep-deprived brain around!
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