To Do

Things to solve and do!

Page or theme	Things we know	To do
Poster	Messier, Messiaen and Messi are our characters; our themes are (at least): rainbows, angels, music, stars/comets/astronomy, messiahs, Advent.	Any mine/WW1 refs on the Poster? Did the Messerschmitt ever come in useful?! Need to update to add Messi as third character.
Page 1	See Music.	Messi's thought bubble is probably not fully solved.
Page 2	N/A (all on theme pages).	N/A (all on theme pages).
Page 3	N/A (all on theme pages).	N/A (all on theme pages).
Page 4	Solved: Ye Nymphs of Solyma! begin the song:	Decrypt the dominos. Use the Pope quote? Why are popes/messiah on a domino shape - just to show the two puzzles are linked?
Page 5		Why is the mine added to the map for the Battle of Messines? Do the themes for the square/oval/hex symbols relate to the postmarks on postcards?
Page 6	Solved: GEOGRAPHY from the grid/minesweeper; relates to Harington quote re. Messines/mines.	What else does GEOGRAPHY tell us? Does the grid of letters give us anything else - there are 63 alpha chars and a + sign. 9 used in GEOGRAPHY, maybe 54 left over? Why is the + sign positioned over nothing-much-really and why is the map underlay of Oosttaverne (rather than, say, where all the mines were mainly exploded!) Are those ponds under the + sign, or mine craters? See also Grey Dashed Lines.
Page 7	See Music. Solved: minesweeper. Solved: Great Comet	There were 9 mines in minesweeper; is that useful (apart from the same no. letters being in GEOGRAPHY!)? Timeline: there are ten distinct years, perhaps corresponding to 10 digits? Is all that we get from the timeline a message about the pub? Is 'palatable' useful, e.g. palaces, popes (I'm thinking of Avignon again!) Is all we get from the Great Comet pic a bit of info that Messier observed it in 1769?! See also Grey Dashed Lines.
Page 8	Solved: Arabic writing.	See Hexagonal Grid page. See also Grey Dashed Lines.
Page 9	See Music.	N/A (all on theme pages).
Page 10	See Music. Solved: ADD SENDER TO STAMP, from bird code.	Catalogue d'oiseaux also says he related the birds to a specific French province; is that relevant? See Birds page.
Page 11	Semi-solved? AK-47 Semi-solved? Match of the Day.	Not sure we fully understand these yet. See Hexagonal Grid page.
Page 12		ATH scoreboard - what is the meaning of the five themes highlighted?
Thumbnail Map
Hexes
Splodges	Nothing yet	Finish mapping them. The hexagons may also be splodges?
Blue Edged Cards
Postcards
Mr Messy Trail
Hexagonal Grid
Music	The notations each relate to a phrase from the Messiaen quote.	We haven't done anything with the phrases apart from spot connections to e.g. rainbows. Are they just indicating four themes for the Hunt (NB: do sword of fire = mines in that case?, plus comets, mess, rainbows)? One phrase (coulées de lave bleu-orange) is omitted - why? What could we do with it? Are these a key to another code? This book: [1] gives a far longer quote than that in most sources ('Mon secret désir m'a poussé vers ces épées de feu, ces brusques étoiles, ces coulées de lave bleu-orange, ces planètes de turquoise, ces violets, ces grenats d'arborescences chevelus, ces tournoisements de sons et de coleurs en fouillis d'arc-en-ciel.') ... why? Is it more useful/better/adds anything?
Birds
Grey Dashed Lines
Chat	Misc :-)	Jo to go through and pull out facts not yet recorded on a page.