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Thursday, September 28, 2006
The Truth Unmasked
Yes, Jesnails 1875 was supposed to be here already. It's Ella's fault, and she's being distracted by otherstuff. I was going to wait until it went online before I posted this, but...meh.
I mentioned in the last post (oh so long ago) the Glom Your Balls On This riddle that was posted on the site back in May. I thought just for the sake of archiving it that I'd provide the solution. A grand total of two people, with assistance, reached the hidden message, not including Ella who got linked straight to it. These two were Detective Aliengirl and Mr Blambourne.
It's not hard to get the basic meaning of this. Somewhere on the site, some dates were wrong. The target was also in a pretty obvious place. The main problems were that Detective Aliengirl and Mr Blambourne were looking too hard (Detective Aliengirl, for example, went so far as to compare the dates of site updates to their related blog posts), or that they were looking in the wrong obvious place - the archive links for the news and updates rather than the archive links for the blog, where the chronology error actually was. And the chronology error, despite being in one of the first places you'd look for 'unchronology', was easy to miss.
Sneaky little bastard, really. But heads were smacked in disbelief that such an obvious place had not been so forthcoming to the brains encased within.
Of course, the whole thing is completely unsolvable when, as was the case with Mad Old Holly, you insist that it is not a riddle at all. Mad Old Holly claimed that, as it was not in question form, it was not legitimate. On occasions where one should find that such problems arise, it may be useful to consult a dictionary.
Clicking on the chronological error led you to the cryptic teaser, the content of which alludes to Jesnails and time travel. Mr Blambourne guessed at Jesnails from having read previous Jesnails stories, and Detective Aliengirl later got the name by cracking the 'message ID' code.
Neither got the hints at time travel from the teaser, but it's worth mentioning an offhand, jokey guess that Mr Blambourne made when he was still only on the riddle:
'Does it mean that you've invented a time machine?'
Anyway, that's that. And although I've removed the chronology error since Jesnails was revealed, you can still get to the now not-so-cryptic teaser to glean anything else now that the context is known.
Rest assured that the first proper installments will be here sometime this century.
I mentioned in the last post (oh so long ago) the Glom Your Balls On This riddle that was posted on the site back in May. I thought just for the sake of archiving it that I'd provide the solution. A grand total of two people, with assistance, reached the hidden message, not including Ella who got linked straight to it. These two were Detective Aliengirl and Mr Blambourne.
Unchronology lies conspicuously hereabouts.
It's not hard to get the basic meaning of this. Somewhere on the site, some dates were wrong. The target was also in a pretty obvious place. The main problems were that Detective Aliengirl and Mr Blambourne were looking too hard (Detective Aliengirl, for example, went so far as to compare the dates of site updates to their related blog posts), or that they were looking in the wrong obvious place - the archive links for the news and updates rather than the archive links for the blog, where the chronology error actually was. And the chronology error, despite being in one of the first places you'd look for 'unchronology', was easy to miss.
Sneaky little bastard, really. But heads were smacked in disbelief that such an obvious place had not been so forthcoming to the brains encased within.
Of course, the whole thing is completely unsolvable when, as was the case with Mad Old Holly, you insist that it is not a riddle at all. Mad Old Holly claimed that, as it was not in question form, it was not legitimate. On occasions where one should find that such problems arise, it may be useful to consult a dictionary.
Clicking on the chronological error led you to the cryptic teaser, the content of which alludes to Jesnails and time travel. Mr Blambourne guessed at Jesnails from having read previous Jesnails stories, and Detective Aliengirl later got the name by cracking the 'message ID' code.
10=J; 5=E; 19=S; 14=N; 1=A; 9=I; 12=L; 19=S.
Neither got the hints at time travel from the teaser, but it's worth mentioning an offhand, jokey guess that Mr Blambourne made when he was still only on the riddle:
'Does it mean that you've invented a time machine?'
Anyway, that's that. And although I've removed the chronology error since Jesnails was revealed, you can still get to the now not-so-cryptic teaser to glean anything else now that the context is known.
Rest assured that the first proper installments will be here sometime this century.
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