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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kinem" data-source="post: 6361375" data-attributes="member: 24234">[sblock=ooc]jkason, you have the right of it now. It's obvious now; I don't know why I didn't see it when I tried it before, but I was posting from work so there were distractions. I knew Cat had to be 2 or 3, since 2x2=4 and 3x3=9 are the only integers that would give results of 10 or less. The Cat is indeed in the third place from the left. The fact that using them in order gives sensible results (nothing like 5 x 3 or 7/2, which would give results the symbols can't cover) seals the deal.[/sblock]Menik paces back and forth, inspecting the symbols several times, while Weel goes off on an insane rant about cats having scorpions when they mate and about and a man and a dog together weighing as much as a tiny insect crawling on the dog.Taking some inspiration from Weel's crazy ramblings, Menik explains the solution to the others."It's an arithmetic puzzle. The scales represent equality, and the ten symbols in a row represent numbers from one to ten. The hands are not among the ten symbols; they represent addition and subtraction. These symbols on the other wall, also not among the ten symbols, represent multiplication and division.If we assume the numbers go left to right from one to ten, it all makes sense. Man plus dog means two plus four. Is the result six? Scarab is six, it checks out. The cat is the third symbol, representing three. Scorpion divided by cat is cat, meaning nine divided by three is three. As you can see, the scorpion is indeed the ninth symbol along the row.Using this code, the answers for the door from top to bottom are: water, scarab, scorpion, and dog.That solves the puzzle, but it may not help us. Personally, if I were an evil necromancer, I would give a false clue to intruders, while keeping the real combination to myself."</blockquote>

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