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[kuang]

I have an answer, it's a real word and very relevant in this context, but it doesn't work. Is the next page up, or at least a holding page?

Oh, and apparently my account on the official forum is deactivated - is that the case? Would it be possible to have a look, cheers

[dresherm]

Kuang, did you obtain your solution by not over thinking?

[kuang]

The solution is in two parts (although I may need to do a third on the word I already have if the next level is indeed up). Annoyingly I got the first part instantly when I first saw the puzzle but then didn't follow it up with the correct method - I must have tried everything but that in hindsight

Clue to the first part:

The first section involves rearranging the layout of the clues

Clue to the second part:

The picture is the clue to how to process the result from the first part - not the whole image, but what's in it.

[Cryptos]

I have an answer, it's a real word and very relevant in this context, but it doesn't work. Is the next page up, or at least a holding page?

Oh, and apparently my account on the official forum is deactivated - is that the case? Would it be possible to have a look, cheers

I've added the next page... Please don't tell anybody the answer, if you actually have it; give hints, etc.

I'm not sure about the forum problem, but shall look into it.

P.S. *click* *click*

[kuang]

S'ok, wasn't going to

Clearly I have one more stage to go then as the word I have isn't working - I'm going to go back through the variations/tangents of it I considered

EDIT:

Ah, I *do* have it after all I shall spend some quality time ad-clicking in the interim

[Cryptos]

S'ok, wasn't going to

Clearly I have one more stage to go then as the word I have isn't working - I'm going to go back through the variations/tangents of it I considered

EDIT:

Ah, I *do* have it after all I shall spend some quality time ad-clicking in the interim

I go through all that effort to write these devilishly tricky ciphers and you go and crack them. It's virulently unfair.

I shall have to be satisfied that it took you ten days to do so.

[kuang]

I'm sorry, I apologise profusely. For the next one I intend to pioneer the technique of tying one hemisphere behind my back If my typing goes a bit wobbly, you'll know why

[Jase]

Well Done Kuang ... You are by far the most switched on out of us ... Congratulations to you!

[emby]

I go through all that effort to write these devilishly tricky ciphers and you go and crack them. It's virulently unfair.

I shall have to be satisfied that it took you ten days to do so.

Oh Cryptos, please don't be disheartened by Kuang's speedy genius. Be assured that you're keeping the masses thoroughly bewildered with your cleverness

[Jase]

Finally ... i had most of it all the time ... great one derek

[armadillo_pie]

Level 34

Hmmm... well I'm clearly not as clever as the rest of you. Kuang, I can't imagine what you saw right away in this puzzle. I have yet to see anything other than my own lack of insight.

Does this reformatting of the list have anything to do with

the level title -- Lock, stock and barrel?

Any hints most appreciated.

[kuang]

Nope, the title is just a title in this case

I'd assumed the meanings of A and D from the start as the most obvious thing I could think of. After trying various things related to the numbers, I started to consider why '0' would be one of them, and wondered if it basically mean 'do nothing to this clue', implying that there was a process to be carried out to the others.

One of the things I tried turned out to be true, but it was only after a flash of inspiration as to the meaning of the painting that I tried a process on all the possibilities of 5D I had before realising I'd stumbled on the correct one.

[Seymour]

Level 34

I have shifted and deleted and found a short word but can't do a thing with it...Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

[kuang]

You shouldn't need to delete anything:

you just need to arrange the clues correctly, read off the relevant part and then decipher this using a cipher hinted at by the painting

[fred]

I finally got L34. Thanks, especially Kuang in this forum, for many usefl hints. I had the right idea about the A/D business, but I was using the picture hint on the "bottles" rather than the bottle "labels". Duh! Come visit us in the Cryptos Forums.