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Post by Dante on Jun 20, 2014 3:59:47 GMT -5
LemonySnicketLibrary.com presents... Crack the Case with Lemony Snicket13 Cases13 Clues13 ChallengesWith the long-awaited Choose the Wrong Question interactive adventure still waiting in the wings, LemonySnicketLibrary has unveiled a new feature available now, Cracke the Case with Lemony Snicket. Something like a miniature File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents, you are presented with thirteen mini-mini-mysteries to solve. I'll reproduce the text here for archival purposes, but the challenge is best undertaken at its official webpage, here: www.lemonysnicketlibrary.com/crackthecase/Well? How did you do? Oh? My commiserations.
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Post by The Duchess on Jun 20, 2014 6:37:58 GMT -5
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Post by Hermes on Jun 20, 2014 10:09:36 GMT -5
Ho! (But I was disappointed to find we don't actually get to offer solutions: EDIT except to the last.)
Is this the first time we have actually been told the religious affiliation of a Snicketverse character?
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Post by The Duchess on Jun 20, 2014 11:46:24 GMT -5
Hermes: i don't think so. Also, Lebab tower is a nice name. I hope it won't collapse And thank you Dante. I don't know how to make spoiler tags (embarrassing)
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Post by Dante on Jun 20, 2014 12:07:18 GMT -5
And thank you Dante. I don't know how to make spoiler tags (embarrassing) For future reference, it's square bracket spoiler close square bracket, square bracket forward slash spoiler close square bracket. Or, [spoiler]The seamstress was a more logical culprit in Challenge the Thirteenth.[/spoiler]
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Jun 20, 2014 13:08:49 GMT -5
I got number 1, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 13 right. I grew impatient with number 12 because it's one that I've heard so many times, yet can never remember the answer to, although I do recall that it's not worth the trouble figuring out which date fits that description.
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Post by Hermes on Jun 20, 2014 14:03:07 GMT -5
You don't think it's the first time, or you don't think it's happened before?
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 20, 2014 15:09:23 GMT -5
Yes, the Unitarian detail was interesting. I also hypothesized that the salesman's sticks were wet, but in fact he was merely bald
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Post by Hermes on Jun 20, 2014 15:27:28 GMT -5
As to the salesman my first thought was that he was wearing a hat. Which was not the correct answer to this mystery, but was, in effect, the answer to a later one. Also do you think the Unitarian minister is the murderer?
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Post by Christmas Chief on Jun 20, 2014 15:45:52 GMT -5
do you think the Unitarian minister is the murderer? The connection is suspicious, no doubt. However, I thought it more likely that a churchgoer in attendance was the murderer, since the minister's profession would have been listed as such (particularly given the circumstances). But why would a trained ventriloquist have need for a sermon on throwing one's voice?
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Post by Dante on Jun 20, 2014 16:00:17 GMT -5
As to the salesman my first thought was that he was wearing a hat. Which was not the correct answer to this mystery, but was, in effect, the answer to a later one. Personally, I think it's a little disingenuous that: He refers to his hair as dry, when in fact the hair does not exist and thus can be neither wet nor dry. I do think it's reasonable for both this and the later salesman challenge to operate on separate logics, though. I just wonder if the first challenge could have been reworded slightly. Actually, I have issues with the wording of a couple of the challenges, but it is a very fun exercise overall.
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Post by Hermes on Jun 20, 2014 16:12:37 GMT -5
I am also worried about challenge - five is it? - the apples and oranges one, since while the solution is clearly correct on the information given, it's hard to see how Polly can have had exactly that information.
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Post by The Duchess on Jun 20, 2014 18:03:03 GMT -5
You don't think it's the first time, or you don't think it's happened before? I think i heard about Handler in an interview telling that the baudlaires were Jewish. But this is the first time we saw Christianity.
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Post by bandit on Jun 20, 2014 19:29:27 GMT -5
The technically non-canon religions of characters are of course common knowledge, but I think Hermes was inferring that the religion was mentioned in the text.
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Post by Dante on Jun 21, 2014 2:41:46 GMT -5
I am also worried about challenge - five is it? - the apples and oranges one, since while the solution is clearly correct on the information given, it's hard to see how Polly can have had exactly that information. Personally, I like how so many of the puzzles wear their artifice on their sleeve to the point that they practically break the fourth wall just in existing. I would further add the salesmen named A, B, and C, and the remarkably co-operative cannibal who takes up the same amount of space as a donut.
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