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Agreed...

Posted By: Locucious <locucious@mail.com>
Date: 4 June 2001, 20:58

In Response To: a mini-tirade (Shade)

> I've been looking at this puzzle two ways. First way -- each center symbol
> or set of symbols singles out one of the surrounding numbers. That would
> give us seven pieces of useful information and forty nine junk numbers.
> Second way -- every number in the puzzle is significant. Not just because
> the numbers in a glyph sum to certain total (how many sets of eight
> numbers can sum to 365?), but because each distinct number is needed in
> order to get to the answer.

The first idea is interesting, with 7 good numbers and 7^2 bad ones. However, teh second does seem much more likely.

> My gut tells me (and I hope it's right) that we're dealing with the latter
> situation. I just don't think a puzzle with the heavily foreshadowed
> significance of these glyphs would have us throwing away seven numbers out
> of every eight. I think we should be looking for partial solutions that
> incorporate all the numbers in a glyph (don't ask me how just yet).

Of course. Remember, we're not just trying to fit these glyphs together in some way, but we're trying to derive something from them. There's something in them that translates to words. But we haven't the slightest idea what.

> Along similar lines, I feel that pieces of the puzzle such as the glyph in
> symbol five can't just be a stylized ampersand or letter J. I think Bungie
> made the symbol that way for a reason. Perhaps we should look for a
> solution that involves rearranging the glyphs (as someone already
> mentioned). Maybe they fit together or on top of each other after some
> rotation. The numbers might tell us more that way.
> Does this line of thinking make sense to anyone else?

I definately agree about the symbol in glyph 5. They obviously wanted it to look the way it does. But that doesn't help us any with what it means...

As for the rotation, I think that's the most probable path. They're circles with evenly spaced numbers and one thing in the center; they just BEG to be rotated. I noticed a long time ago that if you rotate glyph 5 180° and line up the zeroes around the edges, the 9 flips around perfectly to fit on top of the 6. However, none of the other glyphs do this, so I always assumed it wasn't important.

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