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[Tinad]

Please help... I'm on day 5 now

[Tinad]

Nothing helped me but what I can say if you're really stuck is do the next two and you will get this key word as well.

[Tallis]

This one is quite tricky because it is so easy to overthink once you get the idea of what its about. Below are some graded hints leading to the solution. It assumes you know keys 25, 26, and 27. If you don't know them, do not continue.

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1) You can ignore the 'ohm' symbol on the stones as well as the '3' - shaped pattern of stones itself. They do not directly contribute to the solving of the puzzle.

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2) The arrangement of the 6 large numbered-stones in the 2X3 grid is essential, as it forms an iconic shape in our digital world-- that of a digital '8' whose individual sections can display each number from 0 to 9, as occurring on billboards, scoreboards, clock radios, digital watches, etc.

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3) keys 25-27 are 'seven', 'two', and 'five'. The bottom of the page tells you that you need to add them together, but 'seven' is not the same as the number 7 in this puzzle. 'seven' has a different numeric meaning because of the digital diagram above it.

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4) If you 'digitally draw' the number seven onto the diagram, you will notice that the lines of a digital '7' connect the dots with numbers 12, 41, 8, and 31. If you add those, you get 92. That's the value of 'seven' in this puzzle.

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5) Likewise, drawing the number two on the diagram connects dots with numbers 12, 41, 8, 19, 22, and 31, which sums to 133. This is the value of 'two'.

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6) Drawing 'five' in the same way yields 133 also. Now, do as the bottom of the page indicates and add 'seven' (92), 'two' (133), and 'five' (133) to get 358. This is the answer to the puzzle.

[ZAK]

I protest. The key25,26 and 27 it had to be in the same line...

[HairyAlan]

I must query the solution given by the previous contributor

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On every digital display I posess, and also on the number 38076 printed on puzzle number 2 of this book, the number 7 starts with an upward stroke on the left hand side. This means that the number sequence for 7 is 19, 12, 41, 8, 31 and not 12, 41, 8, 31 as given.

[HairyAlan]

I have a revision to my previous entry.

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I can now envisage a way in which the number list for 7 could be 12,41,8,31 after all. The grid of stones represents a digital LED display of course, but I previously discounted the small, in between stones. I thought they were only there to give a clue as to what the grid was - an LED display with, in this case, an example of 3 on it. However, now I think they represent working LED segments - the two blank segments on the left are faulty and do not light up.

So now when the digit 7 is displayed the 19-12 segment is blank, so the number 19 can, no longer, be included in the list of lit-up end points. 12 remains in the list because it is one end of the 12-41 segment.

With number 2 the 19-22 segment is unlit, but both 19 and 22 are end points of other, lit segments, so both remain in the 2 list.

Similarly with 5, the 12-19 segment is unlit, but both are again end points of other, lit segments.

So, congratulations Mr Puzzle Writer - that was a real teaser!