Thursday, February 18, 2010

Totally Beta

Thursday already!  We've just been working the week away.  You'll be pleased to know that TOT has officially entered into its next developmental stage, Beta. We're quite proud of this one too.  It isn't often we get to beta this early.  We'll have lots of time to make the proper tweaks and changes from our beta data.

On a slightly more fun note, there is a newsletter coming out very very soon...  Like really soon...  For serious...  No TOT spoilers just yet, but certainly some interesting game info I'm sure you'll enjoy seeing.  Keep those eyes peeled.

And of course, following the script of yesterday here's your reveal to Puzzle forty.

- Puzzle 40 Revealed -

Rincvegthesutheb
Ernayendnabblksc
Mewaoardwaedinrf



(1-3)
(1-4)(2-3)
(1-3)(2-5)(4-6)
(1-7)(2-4)(3-8)(5-6)

The parenthetical clues tell you [ which rows you'll need to swap ] For the first one, (1-3), you need to [ swap the first row and the last one ] this gives you the following:
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Mewaoardwaedinrf
Ernayendnabblksc
Rincvegthesutheb

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In order to to do the next set you'll need at least [ 4 rows ] You can do this by converting the [ 3 rows of 16 letters ] into [ 4 rows of 12 letters ]. It will look like this:
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mewaoardwaed
inrfernayend
nabblkscrinc
vegthesutheb

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Following the method of the first clue, [ switch (row 1 with row 4) and (row 2 with row 3,) ]and you get this:
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vegthesutheb
nabblkscrinc
inrfernayend
mewaoardwaed

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For the third set you need [ 6 rows of 8 letters ], so convert to that. Then continue the routine with [ switching (row 1 with 3), (row 2 with 5), and (row 4 with 6) ] Now you have:
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lkscrinc
yendmewa
vegthesu
oardwaed
thebnabb
inrferna

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The last group requires [ 8 rows of 6 letters ] and then [ swapping rows (1 and 7), (2 and 4), (3 and 8), and (5 and 6). ] Once completed you'll end up with:
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nabbin
gthesu
rferna
ncyend
edtheb
oardwa
lkscri
mewave

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Now [ write it all out ] and [ put in spaces ] to get:

[ Nabbing the surfer, Nancy ended the boardwalk’s crime wave! ]

Kudos to those of you who hung in there and solved it (beyond all of my mistakes...)  We'll have another puzzle ready for you tomorrow.  Till then!

- Novel -

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