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WaniKani
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if you mean in the sense that it isn’t a h2g2 reference?

I looked up the quote, I thought this was disproved years ago?

Douglas Adams was asked many times during his career why he chose the number 42. Many theories were proposed,[6] but he rejected them all. On November 3, 1993, he gave an answer[7] on alt.fan.douglas-adams:

“The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’. I typed it out. End of story.”

Adams described his choice as ‘a completely ordinary number, a number not just divisible by two but also six and seven. In fact it’s the sort of number that you could without any fear introduce to your parents’.

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That I do agree with. ^^ We should hopefully have most of what we need on the page itself.

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Per Borx’s suggestion, swapping the letter pairs gives the following in decimal:

202 123 75 185 91 10 11 27 26

The original ordering in decimal is:

172 183 180 155 181 160 176 177 161

This is interesting because they all seem to be within a fairly narrow range of numbers (183-155 = 28, just two more than the number of letters in the alphabet), whereas the opposite ordering has a large range.

I have to differ with jprspereira a bit in the intended audience for these clues. The other clues demanded a certain level of technical knowledge. Hex codes are not out of the question based just on what it took to get here.

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It’s just a clientside visual bug. Once you refresh it’ll be gone.

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y-you’re just a clientside visual bug!

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Q1G6A2L

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Forsooth such sorrow as I sit here lamenting my fate. Woe is me.

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I don’t know what to do with this, but assuming they’re pairs, if you swap them you get this.

12,10   7,11   4,11

11,9     5,11   0,10

0,11     1,11   1,10

Assuming I didn’t make a mistake.

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1234

The page says pairs. The only way I see to get pairs is to assume that ac, etc. are pairs. So if you convert from hexadecimal to decimal a,c becomes 10,12 and then I swapped them. I have no idea if this is the right direction. I’m not good with numbers so I’m just trying random stuff to see what comes out.

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I tried relating each of those numbers to a letter in the alphabet and got the pairs:

m,k h,l e,l
l,j f,l a,k
a,j b,j b,k

I don’t think this is the right line of thinking on my part, and they don’t seem very helpful, but I thought it was worth a shot

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Also is it just me or do the little boxes saying who I’m replying to not show up half the time

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Doesn’t show when you’re the next post

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if u reply to the person before u, they won’t show up. It’s a new thing.

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makes me sad, man

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No it’s not

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It’s not? I could do it just fine before :thinking:

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Okay, let’s reevaluate so we’re not grasping at everything.

I think we need to figure out what they mean by “make like your review pile”. Burning it?

91 is a clue. “You’re just another one” I believe doesn’t make it 92, it’s just trying to sound like the song to be funny.

I don’t think we should be shifting the pairs, this is just a way to make a story out of the game by mentioning Kristen’s changes to WK. We’re not being asked to decipher the set into a password, we are being asked what’s in common with each pair. Shifting the pairs around won’t help us figure out what is in common with each pair.

However, it would seem strange to even bring up Kristen’s changing things around if it didn’t have any significance, so if there is any swapping to do, it is within the pair and not among pairs.

The other “thing worth worrying about” was the “91 problems”. And the use of “mean” here sounds forced and could be construed as another clue, but it could also just be a segway from talking about Kristen.

So let’s think. If we are taking the mean of something, it would be a set of numbers. However, this usage goes against looking at the pairs individually and leads more towards the “deciphering the set” so I think that’s the wrong path, because you can’t take the mean of a single data point. Therefore, “mean” is probably just a segway and we can disregard it.

This wording has been irking pretty much everyone. Who knows what’s going on there.

To sum up the more plausible clues:

  • “make like your review pile”
  • 91
  • 92
  • Kristen
  • swapping within the pair ?
  • swapping among pairs
  • mean
  • descending ?
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I think that the “make like your review pile” part could well be just a reference to 42 and not a clue at all. :frowning: