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After your last encounter with the vile quizzard, you're intent on getting out before he returns, but you can't afford to get sloppy just because the end's in sight.
[[Enter Password->Question Nine]]
{(if: (history:) contains "Question Nine")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Password", "Password"))
(unless: $ans is "molasses" or "sugar" or "sugar cane")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "molasses" or "sugar" or "sugar cane")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "molasses" or "sugar" or "sugar cane")[[Next->Question Ten]]
(if:$ans is "molasses" or "sugar" or "sugar cane")[(set:$nine to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 1 img" src="Question 1.png" />
You consider things (link:"Hint One")[- You think you might have mixed up the order of the right hand photos as you rearranged the mess of clues.]
You look for more clues (link:"Hint Two")[- You find another part of the left hand set of photos in your searching, it's a scrap of song lyrics. '*Don't avoid it, don't fear it! Embrace your pirate spirit!*']
You think you're close to the answer (link:"Hint Three")[- What could the link between the accident and the drink be? Some ingredient in them both.]
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
In your work for an elite spy agency you've discovered a terrible plot by Hamish Scragglethorpe (World Trivia Champion 1932-1987), to take over the world. After several months of battling with the knowledgeable fiend you've managed to break into his lair, deep beneath his small bedsit in Abingdon.
You're close to foiling his schemes, but he keeps all his plans in a nested set of boxes and filing cabinets, behind ten sets of keypads and locks and an elaborate anti-theft system involving a trebuchet, a box of wasps, and an elderly hedgehog that's no less vicious for his old age. You've no desire to force your way in. Not after last time.
Luckily for you he is very old and his memory is going, so he's left himself a series of hints. Unfortunately, being very proud of his trivia mastery (and also the sort of person who would attempt to take over the world), it's a complex system he's got going on. A corkboard covered in photos and wild scribblings, various parts linked together by a tangled mess of red string.
This isn't your first encounter with this style of memory prompt however, and while your trivia mastery may not be as good as his, you do have access to the internet. [[You cast your mind back to the last puzzle you solved to remind yourself.->Example]]
(set:$one to false)
(set:$two to false)
(set:$three to false)
(set:$four to false)
(set:$five to false)
(set:$six to false)
(set:$seven to false)
(set:$eight to false)
(set:$nine to false)
(set:$ten to false)
(set:$correct to false)<==>
On to the next, you're surprised the wily intellectual isn't too old to know what some of these things are, but it must have come up in a trivia book at some point.
[[Enter Password->Question Two]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question Two")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Password", "Password"))
(unless: $ans is "cells" or "cell" or "genes" or "gene" or "dna")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "cells" or "cell" or "genes" or "gene" or "dna")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "cells" or "cell" or "genes" or "gene" or "dna")[[Next->Question Three]]
(if: $ans is "cells" or "cell" or "genes" or "gene" or "dna")[(set:$two to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 2 img" src="Question 2.png" />
You look online (link:"Hint One")[- Sonic you find easily, but Pikachu is giving you some trouble, it's only 'almost' though, maybe that's only part of the name.]
You inspect the pictures (link:"Hint Two")[- There's something odd about the picture of the book, you stare until you realise, ah ha! Then that means, the code above it is also...]
You hunt for more information (link:"Hint Three")[- You find another clue, scribbled on a scrap of paper '*Hooke-1665*']
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
Not hard to translate, just tedious. You wonder just how many languages the black-hearted boffin has memorised.
[[Enter Password->Question Three]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question Three")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Password", "Password"))
(unless: $ans is "morpheus")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "morpheus")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "morpheus")[[Next->Question Four]]
(if:$ans is "morpheus")[(set:$three to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 3 img" src="Question 3.png" />
You examine the paper (link:"Hint One")[- Holes rather than bumps is an odd choice, but you suppose Hamish Scragglethorpe (World Trivia Champion 1932-1987) isn't actually blind.]
You attempt to decipher things (link:"Hint Two")[- The letters on the film reel aren't a code, you've worked out that much, and you know you've seen IMDB on the internet before.]
You take another look (link:"Hint Three")[- A scrap of paper flutters to the floor as you search for clues, it says '*C17H19NO3 named after*.']
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
This lock here isn't a keypad, but a four digit combination lock.
At least what you're picking up you can use as fun facts down the pub, though you're fairly certain the malevolent factophile wouldn't approve of trivia being used for fun.
[[Enter Code->Question Four]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question Four")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Code", "Code"))
(unless: $ans is "1910")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "1910")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "1910")[[Next->Question Five]]
(if: $ans is "1910")[(set:$four to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 4 img" src="Question 4.png" />
You think on it (link:"Hint One")[- Odd to know a man who did so much for literature also did so much for women's underwear. Maybe that's why he used a different name in his writing?]
You muse some more (link:"Hint Two")[- A portent in the sky in 1066, amazing that people have been aware of it for so long.]
You search for clues (link:"Hint Three")[- You find an old film poster, it's dirty and torn, but you can just make out '*Charles Ogle as the monster*']
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
Another number lock, six dials this time. You know The Inklings were based in the same town the deplorable mastermind grew up in. You wonder if they ever met.
[[Enter Code->Question Five]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question Five")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Code", "Code"))
(unless: $ans is "221163")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "221163")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "221163")[[Next->Question Six]]
(if:$ans is "221163")[(set:$five to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 5 img" src="Question 5.png" />
You think about names (link:"Hint One")[- You wonder why he chose the nickname 'Jack', it is better than Clive though.]
You think about conspiracies (link:"Hint Two")[- What really did happen there, did the Warren Commission tell all they knew?]
You search for another clue (link:"Hint Three")[- You find a handwritten note '*Huxley as well, two great authors in one day.*']
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
Half way through, at least the reprehensible pantomath hasn't put you in a shark tank this time.
[[Enter Password->Question Six]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question Six")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Password", "Password"))
(unless: $ans is "darwin" or "charles darwin")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "darwin" or "charles darwin")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "darwin" or "charles darwin")[[Next->Question Seven]]
(if:$ans is "darwin" or "charles darwin")[(set:$six to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 6 img" src="Question 6.png" />
You look at the photos on the right (link:"Hint One")[- Munroe is singing to a different president, but you suspect what she's singing is more important.]
You contemplate mortality (link:"Hint Two")[- It's a sad story behind the grave, Dr Gully did all he could, but the water cure didn't work.]
You search among the papers (link:"Hint Three")[- You find a drawing of various bird's beaks, there's a note next to it, '*Geospiza and Camarhynchus types.*']
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
Following the pattern of previous encounters with the dastardly maven you're fairly sure this one's the same type of answer as the last.
[[Enter Password->Question Seven]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question Seven")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Password", "Password"))
(unless: $ans is "oppenheimer" or "j. robert oppenheimer" or "j robert oppenheimer" or "robert oppenheimer")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "oppenheimer" or "j. robert oppenheimer" or "j robert oppenheimer" or "robert oppenheimer")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "oppenheimer" or "j. robert oppenheimer" or "j robert oppenheimer" or "robert oppenheimer")[[Next->Question Eight]]
(if:$ans is "oppenheimer" or "j. robert oppenheimer" or "j robert oppenheimer" or "robert oppenheimer")[(set:$seven to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 7 img" src="Question 7.png" />
You think about languages (link:"Hint One")[- You know a few words of Japanese, but you still need to look up the hiragana to transliterate.]
You consider Vishnu (link:"Hint Two")[- A multi-armed form to persuade the Prince. You have to admit it'd probably work on you too.]
You hunt for clues (link:"Hint Three")[- You find another note from Hamish Scragglethorpe (World Trivia Champion 1932-1987) '*I always preferred his work in molecular dynamic approximation with Born*']
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
Seems like the foul schemer is doing something a little different with this set of photos.
[[Enter Password->Question Eight]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question Eight")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Password", "Password"))
(unless: $ans is "spring heel jack" or "spring-heel jack" or "spring-heeled jack" or "spring heeled jack")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "spring heel jack" or "spring-heel jack" or "spring-heeled jack" or "spring heeled jack")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "spring heel jack" or "spring-heel jack" or "spring-heeled jack" or "spring heeled jack")[[Next->Question Nine]]
(if:$ans is "spring heel jack" or "spring-heel jack" or "spring-heeled jack" or "spring heeled jack")[(set:$eight to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 8 img" src="Question 8.png" />
You think about urban legends (link:"Hint One")[- It would certainly be interesting if such strange creatures were to exist, these, uh, what was the word for them again, began with a c?]
You look at the picture (link:"Hint Two")[- From the clothes and art style you'd guess it's Victorian. Maybe something to do with the similarly names murderer?]
You look for other clues (link:"Hint Three")[- You find a photo of a portrait of the 3rd Marquess of Waterford, with a note written on it '*ridiculous to claim it was all him, the attacks continued after his death*' ]
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
You move to the first set of photos, what could connect these two groups?
[[Enter Password->Question One]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question One")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Password", "Password"))
(unless: $ans is "vampire" or "vampires")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "vampire" or "vampires")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "vampire" or "vampires")[[Next->Question Two]]
(if:$ans is "vampire" or "vampires")[(set:$one to true)]
}
<img alt= "Question 9 img" src="Question 9.png" />
You consider the numbers (link:"Hint One")[- The ones on the postcard are easy, it even says what they are. The others are a little more complex, but it's a basic subtitution cipher, you feel confident you can decode it.]
You think about origins (link:"Hint Two")[- The Wallachian Prince never visited this place, or had this disease, but they're tied to him nonetheless, and he to the answer.]
You search for clues (link:"Hint Three")[- You find a scrap of paper torn from a text book '*...the bat, the ground finch, and the squid. Nature is full of creatures we have named...*']
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
The last question! You're almost there! Good thing too, the library closes soon and the percipient villain will be returning home after a long, hard day memorising.
[[Enter Password->Question Ten]]
{
(if: (history:) contains "Question Ten")[(Set: $ans to (prompt:"Please Enter Password", "Password"))
(unless: $ans is "light brigade" or "the light brigade" or "charge of the light brigade" or "the charge of the light brigade")[(alert:"Password Failed")]
(if: $ans is "light brigade" or "the light brigade" or "charge of the light brigade" or "the charge of the light brigade")[(alert:"Correct")]]
(if:$ans is "light brigade" or "the light brigade" or "charge of the light brigade" or "the charge of the light brigade")[(set: $ten to true)]
(if:$ans is "light brigade" or "the light brigade" or "charge of the light brigade" or "the charge of the light brigade" and $correct is false)[[[Next->List]]]
(if:$correct is true)[[All the Locks Are Open->End]]
}
<img alt= "Question 10 img" src="Question 10.png" />
You think about code (link:"Hint One")[- You wonder; when Samuel Morse invented the telegraph did he realise his name would live on long past his invention?]
You think about names (link:"Hint Two")[- Two items of clothing, one named after the man, the other after his battle. He likely didn't realise they would outlive him either.]
You search for more information (link:"Hint Three")[- You come across what looks like an old military record '*Light Dragoons - 4th and 13th, Lancers - 17th, Hussars - 8th and 11th*']
[[Skip This Question->List]]<==>
You've done it! The final lock clicks open and you see the files before you. You pluck out a few at random; a blueprint for a zimmer frame mounted death ray, an elaborate plan for revenge on the man who stopped Hamish Scragglethorpe (World Trivia Champion 1932-1987) from becoming Hamish Scragglethorpe (World Trivia Champion 1932-1988), contact details for someone called Nikolai with a scrawled note underneath '*is 10g too much polonium???*' You thrust them into your bag with the other files, sealing the locks back up behind you once you're done. With luck you'll have enough time to escape before your educated foe realises they've been taken.
You make a daring exit; using your grappling hook to fly over the heads of the patrolling robo-guards, an elaborate system of mirrors to bypass the laser grid, and, for a tense moment, your suction cups to cling to the ceiling as Hamish Scragglethorpe (World Trivia etc.) walks past underneath, knowing there's no way you can take him on alone.
You grapple-hook your way to the top of the elevator shaft that leads to the lair and emerge into the inconspicuous bedsit, slipping out the door and back to your agency. One step closer to stopping Hamish Scragglethorpe (WTC and so on) for good.
==>
[(css: "font-size: 200%;")+(font:"calisto")[The End]]
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The last puzzle was to connect a picture of a cat, with an old photo of a man in military uniform.
<img alt= "Example Question img" src="Example Question.png" />
From your experience with the nefarious quizzer (and from the tag), you knew the cat is called Hannay, and a quick google search told you that the only famous Hannay is Richard Hannay, the main character of The 39 Steps. The other was a little harder, but you spied a clue! While the writing was meaningless for now, the covered writing seemed to imply that a B had become an O, and in that case... Of course!
Back to your phone, to a caeser cipher decyption site, and you had it! The man in the photo is Baron Tweedsmuir, but who was he? Another search tells you that was the title of James Buchan. The author of The 39 Steps! You know the villainous eclectic never uses capitals in his passwords, so you plugged in 'the 39 steps' and moved on. You come out of your reminiscence confident you know what to do, and set about sorting the papers into some semblence of order.
[[Next->Question One]](if:$one is true and $two is true and $three is true and $four is true and $five is true and $six is true and $seven is true and $eight is true and $nine is true and $ten is true)[[All the Locks Are Open->End]]
[[Example]]
{(if: $one is false)[[[Question One]]]
(if:$one is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question One]]]
}
{(if: $two is false)[[[Question Two]]]
(if:$two is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Two]]]
}
{(if: $three is false)[[[Question Three]]]
(if:$three is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Three]]]
}
{(if: $four is false)[[[Question Four]]]
(if:$four is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Four]]]
}
{(if: $five is false)[[[Question Five]]]
(if:$five is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Five]]]
}
{(if: $six is false)[[[Question Six]]]
(if:$six is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Six]]]
}
{(if: $seven is false)[[[Question Seven]]]
(if:$seven is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Seven]]]
}
{(if: $eight is false)[[[Question Eight]]]
(if:$eight is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Eight]]]
}
{(if: $nine is false)[[[Question Nine]]]
(if:$nine is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Nine]]]
}
{(if: $ten is false)[[[Question Ten]]]
(if:$ten is true)[(text-style:"strike")[[Question Ten]]]
}
(if:$one is true and $two is true and $three is true and $four is true and $five is true and $six is true and $seven is true and $eight is true and $nine is true and $ten is true)[(set:$correct to true)]
(replace:?sidebar)[[[Restart->Intro]]]
RestartIn your work for an elite spy agency you've discovered a terrible plot by Hamish Scragglethorpe (World Trivia Champion 1932-1987), to take over the world. After several months of battling with the knowledgeable fiend you've managed to break into his lair, deep beneath his small bedsit in Abingdon.
You're close to foiling his schemes, but he keeps all his plans in a nested set of boxes and filing cabinets, behind ten sets of keypads and locks and an elaborate anti-theft system involving a trebuchet, a box of wasps, and an elderly hedgehog that's no less vicious for his old age. You've no desire to force your way in. Not after last time.
Luckily for you he is very old and his memory is going, so he's left himself a series of hints. Unfortunately, being very proud of his trivia mastery (and also the sort of person who would attempt to take over the world), it's a complex system he's got going on. A corkboard covered in photos and wild scribblings, various parts linked together by a tangled mess of red string.
This isn't your first encounter with this style of memory prompt however, and while your trivia mastery may not be as good as his, you do have access to the internet. You cast your mind back to the last puzzle you solved to remind yourself.