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In order of the pictures:
In order of the pictures:
Rock the baby<br>
Rock the baby<br>
Sleeper<br>
Sleeper<br>
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Three Leaf Clover (missing in puzzle; picture given in the projection in London)<br>
Three Leaf Clover (missing in puzzle; picture given in the projection in London)<br>
Behind bars<br>
Behind bars<br>
Flying saucer<br>
Flying saucer<br><br>


These fit into the spaces on the second image.
These fit into the spaces on the second image in the following order.<br>
DOUBLE OR NOTHING<BR>
MAN ON A FLYING TRAPEZE<BR>
FLAG<BR>
SLEEPER<BR>
BEHIND BARS<BR>
ROCK THE BABY<BR>
EIFFEL TOWER<BR>
FLYING SAUCER<BR>
THREE LEAF CLOVER<BR>
AROUND THE WORLD<BR>
<BR>
'''Solved by Wynn from unfiction.com forums.'''<br>


still working on final result.<br><br>
The boxes on the paper represent the Great Pyramids with the point in the top left corner being the "vanishing point". By overlaying a map of the pyramids such as found, [http://goodfelloweb.com/giza/fig3.html here], you get the following:<br>
[[Image:tomb-overlay.jpg]]<br>
Look at the inside and the outside arc. They cross through the following letters:
TIFNIEOMSTRN


(edited by crowen)<br>
This anagrams to FIRST MENTION
Found that when tricks are added to empty spaces the letters inside the boxes look like this
<br><br>
(capital letters are words in boxes)<br><br>


douBLE or nothing<br>
The first hit of the search for first mention yo-yo says:
man on a flying trapeze<br>
[http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=first+mention+yo-yo&mkt=en-us&FORM=LVSP (search)]
sleeper<br>
"The first historical mention of the yo-yo, however, was from Greece in the year 500 B.C."
flag<br>
Behind bars<br>
rock thE BABY<br>
eiffel tower<br>
flying saucer<br>
three leaf clover (there are no boxes on this one, yet it was missing from symbols, must mean something)<br>
around thE WORLD<br><br>
so put these in order and you get<br>
<br>
BLE<br>
B<br>
EBABY<br>
EWORLD<br>
<br>
 
plugged into anagram server and still looking.
</spoiler>
</spoiler>
Answer Spoiler:
<spoiler>The answer is '''Greece''', which seems to be the country of origin of the Yo-Yo</spoiler>


''Onward to: [[Collection Plate]]''
''Onward to: [[Collection Plate]]''

Revision as of 02:55, 24 January 2007

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<spoiler> The images are different yo-yo tricks.

In order of the pictures: Rock the baby
Sleeper
Man on a flying trapeze
Eiffel Tower
Flag
Around the world
Double or Nothing
Three Leaf Clover (missing in puzzle; picture given in the projection in London)
Behind bars
Flying saucer

These fit into the spaces on the second image in the following order.
DOUBLE OR NOTHING
MAN ON A FLYING TRAPEZE
FLAG
SLEEPER
BEHIND BARS
ROCK THE BABY
EIFFEL TOWER
FLYING SAUCER
THREE LEAF CLOVER
AROUND THE WORLD

Solved by Wynn from unfiction.com forums.

The boxes on the paper represent the Great Pyramids with the point in the top left corner being the "vanishing point". By overlaying a map of the pyramids such as found, here, you get the following:
Tomb-overlay.jpg
Look at the inside and the outside arc. They cross through the following letters: TIFNIEOMSTRN

This anagrams to FIRST MENTION

The first hit of the search for first mention yo-yo says: (search) "The first historical mention of the yo-yo, however, was from Greece in the year 500 B.C." </spoiler>

Onward to: Collection Plate

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