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Re: Page 77

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 11:56 am
by globeadnak
I solved it by accident,
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why is it related to the newspaper?

Re: Page 77

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:53 pm
by yodazhang
Because the newspaper
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shows you the date

Re: Page 77

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:05 pm
by Delly1984
I've tried the date of the incident and the date of the paper.

No luck, what am I doing wrong ?

Re: Page 77

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:16 pm
by yodazhang
The
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photo at the end of the book says he died at his birthday.
The
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newspaper shows the date of the incident.
Make sure to
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calculate the right date, because the date of the newspaper is not the date of the incident. Read the text.

Re: Page 77

Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 6:04 pm
by qwaserity
Finally got it. The number format is:
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six digits long.
It is also:
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MDYEAR
And now I feel stupid because:
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It's the type of a date you would use as a password.

Re: Page 77

Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:02 pm
by Tallis
This is a challenging and very rewarding puzzle that requires observation, deduction, and maybe a touch of old fashioned trial and error. Escape room fans and point-and-click adventure gamers will find this right up their alley. It requires information in other areas of the book. Below are some graded hints leading to the solution, which is ultimately a 6-digit number.
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Within the storyline of the book, the crew makes the realization that someone has explored this area before (Jason). The goal is to learn more about Jason, and specifically his birth and death dates.
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The information you need to solve the puzzle is in the Notes section, specifically the map page (with the scrap of a newspaper article) and the picture of the sign taken near the camp of the team of explorers.
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The newspaper scrap on the map page (dated Thursday, April 8th, 1982) says that a man died in the cave 4 days earlier on the Sunday previous. Figure out the date of Jason's death.
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The picture of the sign says that Jason died on his 53rd birthday (unfortunate indeed). Calculate his birth date, for it is the answer to the puzzle.
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Getting the answer in the right format is tricky and may take several tries to get it right, due to differing conventions of dates (month first vs day first, year abbreviated or not, etc)
And the solution is below. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER!!
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The date format is MDYYYY - 441929

Re: Page 77

Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 3:19 pm
by mhbstigter
I think the first hint should be:
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the secret code is this mans date of birth.
Because that is something i would have never thought of

Re: Page 77

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 3:28 pm
by dsr
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This is an interesting discussion! I didn't realize that Jason was the person mentioned in the article, and that it directly pointed to his date of death.
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I actually got the birth/death month and day a different (and presumably valid) way: by looking for the room on the map where Jason presumably died.
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However, I'm still confused about the text after puzzle 79. It mentions a familiar date of birth in which some numbers have been selectively inverted. I assumed this referred to Jason, and my guess was that the numbers were inverted in the birth date vs. death date. But that interpretation doesn't seem to make sense with the actual dates.