To Do
From Pablo's ATH 2017
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 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. |
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| 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. |
