Wolfe's Puzzles

brunians at brunians.org · 10 Jul 2010, 07:04 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:04:28 -0400
Subject: (urth) Wolfe's Puzzles
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> Anyway, the group came to one puzzle that none of us could make heads nor
> tails of, including Mantis, (at least I inferred that from his silence).
> It regarded a series of numbers, arranged in a pattern which was found
> on the Seal of Pas.

> 5553  8783  4223  9700  34

> 2221  0401  1101  7276  56

> SEALED FOR THE MONARCH

> I am no cryptographer type but I gamely gave the puzzle a few days of
> intense thought and effort. I mostly tried combinations of adding the
> numbers together, since Silk makes the sign of addition over them
> (and various other things) I tried working in base 9 since that
> might be in use in Viron math. No luck. I could not come up with an
> answer.

These are not random numbers.

I would be shocked if they did not solve to something.

What that is solution is, I have no idea.

Several of the numbers are qabalistically interesting: if I were to try
solving this puzzle I might start there.

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