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| Noanymous |
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Have you copied the words down? Using Windows Notepad might be helpful.
Or any editor with a Courier-type font.
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| what difference does the font make?
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| The pattern will become clearer in Courier or a similar font. Courier is just the most common font with this property.
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monospace? hmm
i actually got the seal, but kinda used the same stuff in second and third gardens. and also you don't have to type real words at all.
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 Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:47 am
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| drakono |
| herownwings wrote: |
| drakono wrote: |
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Have you copied the words down? Using Windows Notepad might be helpful.
Or any editor with a Courier-type font.
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| what difference does the font make?
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| The pattern will become clearer in Courier or a similar font. Courier is just the most common font with this property.
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:00 am
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| herownwings |
| drakono wrote: |
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Have you copied the words down? Using Windows Notepad might be helpful.
Or any editor with a Courier-type font.
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| what difference does the font make?
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:53 am
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| drakono |
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| There was a reliable single pattern for the first and third. I have no idea what the pattern was for the second, I brute forced it. |
Ah, okay. After going back and not rushing it, I can see the pattern for the second now. I was nearly there when I got through it the first time, but I hadn't generalized it enough.
Let's see, how to give a hint and not give it away? Tricky.
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Have you copied the words down? Using Windows Notepad might be helpful.
Or any editor with a Courier-type font.
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Okay, I finally understand the third one now, too.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 10:45 am
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| The Baffled King |
On the second ('French') garden:
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| The 'pattern' was less of a pattern than the other two gardens. There is a property that the garden words share and the others lack, of course, but the property is not what you'd call a 'pattern' within the words.
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Second hint:
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Just guessing is apt to work better for this one than for the other two gardens.
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:26 am
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| cgeorg |
There was a reliable single pattern for the first and third. I have no idea what the pattern was for the second, I brute forced it.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:17 am
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| drakono |
Re: I got the Garden seal
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But I'm not sure I understand garden 3 in particular.
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| I threw random things at it and kept a list of what worked But I can't say I discerned the universal rule. True for garden 2 as well though the fannee dooley garden was a kind starting point. Brute forced my way through and that's not as fun. Help after the fact is welcome. Also not a plan of having to click through old theorems to find it, but boy...a lot of weeks have gone by.
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Yes, "help after the fact" would be welcome to me, as well. I got through it, but...
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| ...for the second and third gardens, I think I only identified a single pattern and stuck with that, while there appear to be multiple patterns.
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:28 am
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| SoItBegins |
@NoSeeUm: The link to the puzzle is (big spoiler)
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| in the text accompanying a previous theorem. Look for references to a garden.
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You don't need any special screen sizing to access it.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:45 am
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| NoSeeUm |
Having looked at
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| all the old theorems in the archives as well as the archive pages (obvious place to think of as his 'garden')
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I still can't find the damn thing.
I am seeing some odd behavior
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with text that loads as bold then changes to regular after a few seconds. Is this part of it?
Also a small square that loads as white near the anitsocial media link that seems to disappear as the page finalizes.
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What screen resolution etc are those who can find this using?
(I recall another seal the link to which could not be accessed in some screen resolutions in its original version.)
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:54 am
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| SoItBegins |
To the best of my knowledge:
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Garden One had a specific characteristic in the middle of each word.
I have no idea what Garden Two was.
Garden Three accepts only words that follow one of a certain set of patterns (hint: do some of the words seem similar?)
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:26 am
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| paramis |
I got the Garden seal
But I'm not sure I understand garden 3 in particular.
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| I threw random things at it and kept a list of what worked But I can't say I discerned the universal rule. True for garden 2 as well though the fannee dooley garden was a kind starting point. Brute forced my way through and that's not as fun. Help after the fact is welcome. Also not a plan of having to click through old theorems to find it, but boy...a lot of weeks have gone by.
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Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:14 am
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| SoItBegins |
I found and got it! Took some guessing, after the first 'garden'. M sure has some crazy things in there.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 1:39 am
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| jonnois |
I finally solved it and understood it, just; still took a while, lots of guessing
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 12:15 am
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| Fox-fyr |
Re: M's garden seal
I found it and solved it and understood all three parts. Here's a hint as to where to start looking.
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| Check the archives
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:54 pm
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| charonme |
I got the seal, but I don't understand what the third garden was about
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:51 pm
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