Defeated by puzzle - campaign over: Here is the offending puzzle!

[oracle of truth]

What if it is unimportant what symbols to fill into the blanks? I mean, as rushloght said, there are 3 blocks filled with circles, 3 with arrows, 3 with triangles but there are also 3 areas with blanks! Well just an idea.

But actually I think Algolei's suggestion is the best so far.

 

[Wormwood]

I would like to humbly invite Andre La Roche, dunbruha, Jaws, Woas, hawkwing2k5, MarauderX, Kordak, or pbd to kindly post their solution the puzzle that they proclaimed to be "Very" or "Extremely" Easy.

 

[Torm]

I think this thing may be a visual virus. I think that Roman is evil for posting it, and I don't think it was used in a D&D game at all - I think he's out to get us!

 

[Tuzenbach]

Fwiw..........

"Fill in the proper symbols into the blanks"


If you deconstruct the above sentence, you do indeed get 35 letters. Moreover, there ARE 35 blank spaces. See if this helps:

A

BB

EEE

F

HH

III

K

LLLL

M

NNN

OOO

PP

RR

SSS

TTT

Y



What I'm getting at is putting all the 35 letters into groups of their own. After that, though, I'm a little lost. Could they be arranged in alphabetical order?

 

[Tuzenbach]

HEY!!!!!!!!!!


The big section has 25 squares.........



THERE ARE 25 CONSONANTS!!!!!!

 

[Tuzenbach]

Something about the "0"'s and the "O"'s determines how the vowels are distributed amongst the other ten boxes, methinks.

 

[megamania]

Didn't vote.

I'm looking at this and thinking "Why the **** do I need this headache?"

I see repeating with declining sequence but beyond that- so what.


I enjoy puzzles but there has to be something to it that is fun. This is not IMDA

 

[Darkness]

And this one puzzle was at the culmination of an extended campaign. I'm sure plenty of different things led up to that puzzle.

Yeah, the question is: Was it possible to come to a different end point (TPKs aside) than this one? Only the DM knows...

 

[Torm]

Maybe it is a word trick? Maybe instead of any of the symbols shown, you're supposed to fill the blanks in with the "proper symbol" - the symbol for a proper subset. In other words, a 'U' turned 90 degrees clockwise.

Probably not, though.

 

[Felikeries]

CODE=
c for 'cold' these sections are less affetced by the 't'
a for 'altitude' these sections take bordering cymbols to 1 relief map style
b for 'bubbled' this makes a rough hewn border at these and some 3 dimension
t for 'tornado' this whips the bordring stuff about

the result is a three dimensional relief key or rune that may be more obvious
to the players of this campiagn,as to it's significance