[PA4]The case of the emergency lockdown[Level 2][Ended][Solutions posted in steam group]

2 small hints have been posted in the comments for the music puzzle GA.

Hint for Puzzle 1

Wrote a lengthy reply further down that should help people get started: http://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/T9jOBFk

Music puzzle had a small fix done to it, an error had snuck in somewhere during mid-production of it and neither of the solvers actually bothered to tell me ;) Was not a huge mistake, but it might have confused people trying some ideas that felt like they didn't make any sense because of it.

Puzzle 3 (elevator), Hint 1:

The binary forms a 4 letter word before the ITH code. First letter of that word is "c". Time to put your reverse engineering skills to use.

As a reminder, you already know every 8th digit (as talked about in the disclaimer), that should help to tell you what signifies a 0, and thus a 1 together with the additional information in this hint.

Bonus giveaway to agents.
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Puzzle 3 (elevator), Hint 2:

As always in my puzzles, sometimes you have to read between the lines and sometimes you don't.

Also, next letter is "o". Now you have 27 of the bits needed to complete the binary.

Puzzle 3 (elevator), Hint 3:

Ask a Norwegian what the difference between o and ö is.

Oh yes, and I forgot to add that the 3rd letter is "d". That puts the number of bits you know to 34, almost a third of the puzzle solved right there.

Puzzle 5 (keycard), Hint 1

The order of the symbols may feel reversed. Consider rotation of card while swiping and which row is inserted first into the lock.

Puzzle 1 (Venn Diagram), Hint 2:

Note that the site uses counter-clockwise when adding the colours together in the bottom right corner. I'm asking you to gather them up in clockwise order. If your binary solution starts with "V" you probably used the wrong way around the Venn-diagram. :)

Puzzle 3 (Elevator), Hint 4 (final hint for the elevator):

The message contains a 4 letter word that starts with "cod", a separator and an ITH-code, which means we are looking at a total of 104 bits (which could have been solved mathematically from earlier hints). It starts at the very beginning of the music sheet and ends on the vertical line called 23.

The only thing that can seem odd are the last 4 bits, but if you've solved everything up until that point, I think you can figure out how they are counted.

Solutions posted in the steam group.

But same bat channel, same bat time.

For not solving anything yet? :)

Proper agents do what they are told! scolds SilentGuy for leaving the office without telling everyone where to go

;)

Yeah, I looked at my friendlist and ordered the games based on wishlist popularity. Most popular at the end of course. :)

It looks harder than it is. (At least the first puzzle)

Will do. :)

Congrats on being first solver. :)

No previous experience needed.

However, as always, there are some nodbacks to previous cases, 2½ puzzles are inspired by the bomb and the events around it from two cases ago. For example, a 4-set Venn diagram was used when defusing the bomb, and you're using a 7-set diagram here.

For story purposes you may miss some unimportant details, but the main points are covered in the brief "Previously on"-section at the top.

Also, unlike the last case, you won't really need google to solve this one, I've tried containing all information needed within the case itself, such as a direct link to a wikipedia-article for more information how to understand puzzle 2. There's one question you'll probably have to google, but it's a very easy one and nothing tricky about it. Just a checkpoint question.

Mandrill just solved that one, so now we have two solvers of it. :)

Ah bad timing for a busy weekend, need to play some catch-up :-)

For which puzzle? =)

Oh right, you're on the music puzzle. There's a small hint dropped in the comments there.

Yes, taunt them however much you like. ;)

Overthinking indeed, as I do with almost all puzzles anyway, so it's not really something new for me...

EDIT: so the thing that confused me is now fixed and I solved the music puzzle ;-)

I know what I'm supposedly looking for, but I have no idea "what" should be translated as "what", in that complex music sheet...

You realize you have 4 of the 5 games, and really don't want the other one (tried the beta and hated it), and move on. :)

That's a hard question to answer, and it differs from each puzzle. There are a total of 5 puzzles and in each you're looking for binary sequences that gives you either an 8 letter code or a 5 letter code.

Using the two links in the story-part of the main description you need to find 8 sets of binary numbers, one for each number on the rainbow coloured image. Now since it's a 7-set Venn diagram you'll only get 7 binary numbers from the image, so you have to add a 0 at the start of each set, as written in the Disclaimer.

I've attached a 5-set Venn diagram. If, for example, we look at the area with AD near the top. That means you are inside circle A and D, but outside of circle B, C, E. Now, the key is how to figure out how that translates to binary numbers. As a hint, the very center area is ABCDE = 11111.

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Did my reply clear up anything for you?

Well done, agent. And yet the mystery thickens.

Queue dramatic music.

Yay, our 6th solver of the music sheet. :)

Perhaps there should be a special Jigsaw subforum. :]

hahahaha (patiently waiting for hints)

Well done on the fully solved. :)

Well done, agent!

Should have used that one to control the hellevator!

The hellevator's almost reached the bottom floor. Also a teaser for next case. More teasers in the steam group.

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