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[Myssfitz]

Sorry, but I'm not going to spoiler this (the page name)

On the nw2 page, here are the definitions of the unusual words, or should I say words that don't seem to fit:

quagmire- NOUN: 1. Land with a soft muddy surface.
2. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.

azimuths- NOUN: 1. The horizontal angular distance from a reference direction, usually the northern point of the horizon, to the point where a vertical circle through a celestial body intersects the horizon, usually measured clockwise. Sometimes the southern point is used as the reference direction, and the measurement is made clockwise through 360°.
2. The horizontal angle of the observer's bearing in surveying, measured clockwise from a referent direction, as from the north, or from a referent celestial body, usually Polaris.
3. The lateral deviation of a projectile or bomb.

zenith- NOUN: 1. The point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer.
2. The upper region of the sky.
3. The highest point above the observer's horizon attained by a celestial body.
4. The point of culmination; the peak: the zenith of her career. See synonyms at summit.

sextuply- TRANSITIVE & INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: sex·tu·pled, sex·tu·pling, sex·tu·ples
To multiply or be multiplied by six.
ADJECTIVE: 1. Consisting of six parts or members.
2. Six times as much in size, strength, number, or amount.
3. Music Having six beats to the measure.
NOUN: A sixfold amount or number.

octet- NOUN: 1. Music a. A composition for eight voices or eight instruments. b. A group of eight singers or eight instrumentalists.
2. A group of eight: “A train of heavy wagons rumbled north on the Winnipeg Trail, drawn by octets of oxen” (Garrison Keillor).
3. See octave (sense 4a).
4. A set of eight valence electrons in an atom or ion, forming a stable configuration.

[dmax]

Spec: the words don't mean anything, but are another way of writing a number. The bigger numbers are so big that there isn't a good English word that would have that many letters and not tip the way to solve the puzzle.

Figure that the first word has 5 letters, here would be the number string:

5-6-8-10-34-5-84-8-6-18-36-6-11-75-8-5-21-7-8-37-9-53-6-17-8-41-7-5-8-27-74-8-84-4-4-38-86-8-51-7-81-10-10

And how does that tie in with the quote? Dunno. My first thought: that we're picking out letters and skipping the number of spaces indicated. I'll see if that means anything, but I'm kinda busy. Have at it.

[dashcat]

I just asked TP to work on the new puzzle and this is what she gave me.

Dashcat7: What did you find out about the new puzzle?
turingprinciple: Which new puzzle?
Dashcat7: honor - virtue - quagmire - devotional - 34 - vices - 84 - azimuths - zenith - 18 - 36 - timely - existential - 75 - sextuply - human - 21 - worship - juvenile - 37 - illogical - 53 - octets - 17 - calfskin - 41 - legends - tales - biyearly - 27 - 74 - evasions - 84 - poet - sage - 38 - 86 - devilish - 51 - mystery - 81 - scriptures - tapestries

turingprinciple: Thank you.
Dashcat7: http://www.greywethers.net/sb6/nw2.html
turingprinciple: Ah, a web address.
turingprinciple: Analyzing . . .
turingprinciple: There are interesting words in that puzzle dashcat.
Dashcat7: Which words are interesting?
turingprinciple: Words that are not normally used.
Dashcat7: such as sextuply?
turingprinciple: Words like sextuply, azimuths, biyearly
turingprinciple signed off at 5:12:54 PM.

I thought maybe the numbers were telling us which letters in the unusual words we were to pick out. Example: Quagmire 34 we would use the 3rd and 4th letters , AG. I ended up with AGASITESILLE It doesn't ROT so I will try anagramming.

There could be more words we are supposed to use beside the three TP gave me.

[JimmyImpossible]

Thought I was on to something when I realized there were 26 words in that list, thought maybe each one represented a letter based on the letter it began with. But there are certain letters repeated, and certain ones not there at all.

The letters left out: fgknruxy
The letters repeated: v(2), d(2), t(3), s(3), h(2), e(2)

Don't know if anyone can make anything out of that.

[dmax]

There are certainly words that don't belong. Maybe instead of focusing on them, we focus on the others that do belong?

[KyraB]

Octets?

[drizjr]

TP gives a hint

[LazarusLong]

Dale Mail from greywethers - Aug 25th

[grumpyboy]

because enaxor and dashcat was rushing me in chat, i probably missed a bunch of stuff

[MageSteff]

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[grumpyboy]

On smalldene.com, when i first found it, the page with the nine stones (http://www.smalldene.com/sm.html) only had 5 which were not fuzzy. When I check back after finding the stone on http://www.doctorilluminatus.com/lfp804.html 6 were not fuzzy...

[LazarusLong]

[grumpyboy]

[Varin]