The Stone (puzzle site)

Subject: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 22 Nov 01 - 06:36 PM

Taking note of a general fascination for quizzes and puzzles, does anyone else do "The Stone"?
It's an online game made up of incredibly difficult, frustrating and totally compulsive puzzles. If you put "thestone" into a search engine, you can try some for free.
The stone pendant that you need to do the game costs £15. but guarantees hours of entertainment.
I've completed 20 of the 50-odd puzzles so far.
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 22 Nov 01 - 06:49 PM

Free puzzles are here

Far too hard for me :-(

Paul

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 22 Nov 01 - 07:16 PM

Thanks for the link, Paul.
Links are too hard for me!!!
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 22 Nov 01 - 07:31 PM

Actually,

I don't understand what they want. In the free puzzle '3x' where they give a couple of hints, there is a map of New Mexico and a UFO. They say put this together, and you'll have the answer...

So, I obviously thought of Roswell, but told I was wrong :-(

Any hints?

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 23 Nov 01 - 04:37 AM

It's more specific than that, Paul. They want to know exactly where.
If you are seriously stumped, I'll give you further nudges. It is against the ethos of the game to give answers outright!!!
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 06:30 PM

Did you get it, Paul?

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Morticia
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 07:03 PM

Just had a look at the site and will yield to no-one in my admiration for your prodigious brain,Bron.....I didn't even understand the questions.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 08:01 PM

I don't get any of it either. I tried the Roswell one. I can't get much more explicit than Roswell, New Mexico, Area 47, aliens, UFO's.......forget it. I don't need this in my Stress Level.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Giac
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 08:05 PM

Argh! Bron this may plunge me into the pit. Rearranging the puzzle is like those little plastic tray things where you slide the pieces around until you complete a picture, or make the numbers consecutive. I could do those okay, when I was ten. Now, it just makes my eyes cross. I'll try it again though.

Thanks ?????

Mary

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 04:13 AM

Sorcha, you just got the number wrong!!!
Most of the puzzles have taken hours of searching the net for information, which I enjoy doing, although a lot of the information is centred around the USA.
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: lady penelope
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 05:21 AM

Boggle!

maybe when we get broad band.

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 05:31 AM

Finally got it (but only thanks to the big hint you gave Sorcha)

Managed the Easter Island statues easily enough, now for Newton's apple...

Paul

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 10:50 AM

Careful now!! I forgot to mention that it's addictive!!!
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 11:42 AM

I was told Area 57 was wrong. Was it supposed to be right? Also, although I solved the Eye of the Storm, I haven't managed the apple or any of the others, not even the one that looks like Confucious. Will keep at it, have no access to anything like work till they get the virus out of my machine...

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 12:07 PM

OK, whose idea was it to get me into this? HELP on chupacabra please somebody, I need a better hint!

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: alison
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 06:25 PM

OK... so I'm a thicky.... I can't even figure out what the pics are supposed to be.... and Easter Island was driving me nuts... so close but yet so far.....lol

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 06:43 PM

Mrrzy, the number's still wrong!!! take away 6!!!
I've just looked at the free puzzles, and there are a couple I haven't done yet. Oh goody!!!!!
Alison, check out the history via a search engine, and the title is also a clue. Sometimes it helps to lighten or darken the screen, other images appear. Also, if you use your mouse to go over a picture, sometimes there is a reaction.
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 01:54 PM

Yes, I noticed that, and the action is often somewhere else. Look at the goat and devil one, focus on something and the goat gets its throat slit. Very nice. Oho.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 02:14 PM

I dunno, Bron

The problem with these puzzles is that you don't know when you've got the right answer.

With, say, a cryptic crossword, there's a certain elegance, and however hard the clue is, you're pretty damn sure that it's right when you've solved it. With these you're not...

To take the New Mexico/UFO example, you said to be more precise, so I searched and found 'Foster's ranch' (where the weather balloon landed). There is no reason for 'Area xx' being a better answer, other than the puzzle creator decided it was the right one.

I find that too frustrating

Paul

P.S. Any clues on the Shakespeare / Tempest one???

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 02:30 PM

Yes - you've got it already! (That was my clue). Now, any help available for the goat/devil/newspaper one, I've gotten something that ought to be right but isn't?

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 02:43 PM

Hey?

I've got it?

I tried 'tempest' but got another 'not quite right screen'

Do you have the co-ordinates (x, y, 1, 2, 3 etc) for your goat/devil/newspaper one? I'm not sure which one you mean

Paul

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Noreen
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 02:50 PM

Look up the name of the mayor on the newspaper in google, and you'll find it, Mrrz.)

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Noreen
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 02:54 PM

Yes, Paul, I'm finding that frustrating. I know about the Easter Island statues, and I sorted the puzzle, but I can't find the exact word it's looking for!

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 02:57 PM

Noreen,

That was the only one I found easy!

Do a Google search for ["Easter Island" Statues Force]without the square brackets of course! and you'll find it in a minute

Paul

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Noreen
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 03:04 PM

yes, it was the next word i tried! I'm going now before I get addicted.

Thanks, Bron!

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: SharonA
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 03:27 PM

This is WAY over my head. I needed a hint to complete today's Mad Blast word search, fer chrissake! (I also need the "reward" of having the computer tell me I've solved a puzzle!) My brain cells just ain't skewed for this sort of torture.

Sharon (hanging head in shame and shuffling away...)

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 05:49 PM

Glad to see you are having fun!!!
Paul, I like cryptic crosswords, too, but if you do get a wrong answer, it throws the whole puzzle off. You are told when the answer is right, and can then move on!!!
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: GUEST,Paul
Date: 29 Nov 01 - 06:02 PM

Bron,

Don't think you got my point. With crosswords there is an answer that you know beyond all doubt is correct.

With these, there could be several 'correct' answers. The puzzle maker has decided which is the best.

I find that too frustrating

Paul

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Llanfair
Date: 30 Nov 01 - 04:10 AM

Ah, I see.

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 11:21 AM

Paul, try the FULL NAME of the appropriate piece.

Also, I know who that "mayor" is on the goat-devil one, but I'm not getting the right answer.

I am now completely failing to solve the Easter island puzzle so I can't try the hint we got... but I do have a new word to try, we'll see if that works... if I ever get that puzzle solved again!

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 11:35 AM

Whew, that took for bloody ever! But that's the Watchers done... now, back to that bloody goat!

Subject: RE: The Stone
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 11:59 AM

Gave up on the goat for now. Gave up on the one that doesn't quite anagram to In The Beginning ditto; any hints on the one with the babydoll whose eyes open, the teddy that moves, the shadowy figure, and the flushing ladies room?

Subject: RE: The Stone (puzzle site)
From: Llanfair
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:50 PM

Funny, the title of the thread's changed!!! I'll have a look at the offending puzzles.

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: The Stone (puzzle site)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 12:47 PM

Bloody (&$($#(, it wanted a different SPELLING of the same bloody goat thing I'd been being told was wrong! I *knew* I had it solved! Whew!

Any hints on the baby whose eyes open?