I remember my family puzzling over Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse back in the day. I recently read an article about the Masquerade solution and yeah... even had the internet existed I doubt I'd ever have been able to solve those weirdo "puzzles"
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Replying to @christopherdrum
I hope somehow the Alkemstone one gets some traction, so that enough people will randomly guess things until we happen to stumble upon something that works :)
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Replying to @cmuratori
That would be cool. I guess I'll throw my two cents into that chat. Maybe it will spark someone smarter than me to solve something. But wait, if the puzzle designs are BAD... An idiot like me might be just the person to get it done!
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Replying to @cmuratori
Well, somehow my post to that discussion didn't work. So I'm off to a rollicking start! (although I blame dumb computers for this one)
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Replying to @christopherdrum @cmuratori
It thought you were spam. It should be up now.
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Replying to @christopherdrum @jdyer
The Einstein Memorial having a star map embedded into it seems very relevant! I don't remember anyone mentioning that in previous comments.
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Replying to @cmuratori @jdyer
It seems unlikely to me that the map itself is used, because I don't see how anyone would obtain a copy of that map in 1981. Maybe you could mail away for one? But more to the point, the fact of the map existing is to point to the stars/astrology as a guiding principle.
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Replying to @christopherdrum @jdyer
Well, given how bad most of these things were, I'm pretty sure we can't rule things out on the basis of "where would people get the map". I'm pretty sure the designers never thought about stuff like that, as obvious as it should have seemed :)
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At least if the Golden Hare is any indication, these things were designed with complete obliviousness as to whether anyone could actually have known at the time all the information they would need to "solve" the puzzles.
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