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Introducing: TREASURE QUEST! And the CHRONO KEY appears!

by eli

One game is over, one begins; a long and winding path
of keys and gates and codes and plates and pixels and wikis and math.
A Key appears upon each First, along with tiny clues;
Your brain, the web, our catalog: the only tools you'll use.

Find the codes for every key, they'll lead you to the gate;
combine the two to find the way to treasures that await.
(Rest assured these treasures, though exciting, cool, and grand,
Are not the type of treasures you can hold within your hand).

9 keys to find, 9 gates to clear; the start of something big.
Find the codes and earn the points as through the site you'll dig.
Quests are puzzles, and puzzles are games, and games are always fun,
And now it's time to start your quest. Ready, Player One?

============================================ ~~~~~ THE CHRONO KEY APPEARS! ~~~~~~ ============================================

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What do you want to do?

1. Go to Treasure Quest Leaderboards
2. Visit the Key Gallery
3. See Your Character
4. Attempt to Enter a Key Code, Gate Code, or Treasure Code

As a vision of the CHRONO KEY appears before your eyes, you hear an English boy's voice say:

Agamemnon slew the beast; I saw the villain fall.
He swept me up upon his mount and took me to his hall.
I learned the ways of King and Court, was poised to take the throne;
My "friends" refused to let me choose this dad above my own.

Unlock the Chrono Key by solving the Key Riddle hidden in an item in the AADL Catalog!
Use your head, use the web, and remember to LOOK CLOSELY!

READY PLAYER ONE?

Note: in the thread below, Questers and sharing info with each other and getting hints; if you want to solve this puzzle without any help, don't keep reading as there are SPOILERS below!

Comments

In reply to by Morgsush

no need to put the explaination. just say what you need help with now.

Well done Shreeman! Just remember, Treasure Quest Points are not shop points! It's just a scoreboard. Points-o-matic points may someday be tradable for shop points, but that's not known yet. THANKS FOR PLAYING!

When I click on the link for entering a key code I get the access denied error message. The URL is play.aadl.org/summergame/player/gamecode. When I change it to play.aadl.org/summergame/player/gamecode/47, which is my player number(47) I get the regular enter game code page.

I appear to be stumped after the Gate. I suspect blaze may need capitalization, but even with that supposition I seem to be getting no where. I think I will try again tomorrow; maybe the little grey cells will figure something out overnight. :)

Glad you guys are stumped, this puzzle is supposed to last the month ! =) One thing to know, game codes are space, case and punctuation insensitive. THISCODE is equal to This Code is equal to Thisc o d e. (AND THAT IS NOT A CODE)

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When it says the AADL Catalog does it mean the play.aadl.org site it gives me or aadl.org/catalog, the real catalog site?

Good question, tree64! You'll find a Treasure Quest box right under the Where to Find It box when you find the right item. It won't contain the code, but it will give you what you need to figure out the codes, one way, or another.

-[:eli]

9 keys and 9 gates... wow. This treasure hunt will take me a lot more effort than the badges.

Wow! These riddles are tough. While doing to "research" on trying to figure out the riddle, I'm learning actually quite a lot of (probably) unnecessary for Treasure Quest yet interesting information about world history!

ompopp, glad to hear you're finding out interesting stuff, that's the idea! Jingcong, when you find an item in the catalog containing a key or gate riddle, it will be hard to miss; a big box labeled "Treasure Quest" will be in the main column on the item page, right below "Where to find it." Good Question!

Jingcong, who said anything about a book? But agamemnon will certainly help lead the way to the chrono key. As for the gate, the gate riddle really does give you everything you need, and we do now have 2 players who have cleared the chrono gate! Some of the terminology in the riddle might be nonstandard or new to you. For example, there's a word in the gate riddle that will help you more if you add a common prefix that just so happens to be the initials of my first and last name.

-??? =)

Here's a few tips, guys. The boy's voice you heard when the chrono key appears tells about something that happens in the catalog item that holds the Key Riddle. You can't miss the Key Riddle when you visit the right item, there's a picture of the chrono key right in the middle of the page. The Key Riddle tells you what you need to figure out the code that unlocks the Chrono Key and gives you a clue to find the Chrono Gate! Any questions?

Logan111222, here's your hint. I'm a big bandit, and you should be like me and time travel to the riddle. Oh, and cherylo's 'nerdy classic' review is on the item. Good luck! P.S. Ditto shreeman1999. Completely stuck. P.P.S The only copy is at West. In the video section.

Hmm, finally found the item.
Looked around, and found what hoped to be what the riddle is referring to, but I can't find the actual code or whatever it is itself. I'm puzzled by the second line of the riddle, if anyone could help...thanks!

Hey ompopp, if you go to the IMDb and look at the item's page, look at the quotes and the riddle as well as the answer are there. It(the answer) is some number of pixels above the riddle. Remember, a yard is 3 feet.

Hey smv, excellent question! Clearing each gate will involve 5 riddles. The Riddle that drops with the Key (as above, the Key Clue), the Key Riddle to figure out the Key Code, the Gate Clue riddle that leads you to the Gate, the Gate Riddle to figure out the Gate Code, and the Treasure Clue that tells you how to figure out the code that clears the gate and unlocks the Treasure. Does that help? As for where you're stuck, smv, you shouldn't need the web to solve that one. Everything you need is in the riddle and the key item.

smv, I think you're chasing down the wrong end of the gate clue. "this film so fun" refers to the key item, and an object from the film. Try thinking about the tagline clue, it might bear fruit.

Cherylo, sounds like you've found the right tool! If you encrypt readable text with a readable key, the encrypted text probably would look like gibberish. And who said the right code wouldn't look like gibberish?

Taglines are marketing slogans... they often appear near the end of comedic movie trailers. Read the part of the gate clue about the tag line and do what it says!

I found the riddle, but can't figure it out. Help please!
::Edit:: Found it! Thanks IMDb! Very subtle. Great work.

If the riddle is not hidden in the poem, then I've been wasting my time looking in the wrong place. :P

Hint please?

The hints from eli, plus catalog, IMDB, and google searches let me figure it out. For the catalog, remember those summer game badges when you'd search a clue and have to click of bunch of items to find the right one? Some of that with this.

When you find the Key Riddle or the Gate Riddle, you'll need to use the web to figure out what the code is! Those codes do not appear anywhere in our catalog, but as I said, the riddle tells you everything you need to know to search the web and figure out the code. 6 players have now cleared the Chrono Gate.... will you be next?

I'm still stuck on the last riddle (the one I get from entering the code found from the Gate riddle). I think I have the right algorithm (named for B.V.), but have gotten gibberish for all the way's I've tried to combine. I must be missing something, which I am sure is right in front of my nose. sigh.

Now I'm stuck on the riddle from the gate item. What do you mean by Og's toast?
::Edit:: Never mind. Just passed the gate. But what about the "cipher misattributed to blaze"? What's that?

Ah, these are getting a bit easier for me, probably since I'm realizing now the way to search the web and the catalog for items now.

Still stuck on the same thing as smv and Morgsush.

I've been expecting an email follow up, per the Treasure code paragraph/instructions. Did I miss it somehow?

I just tried google. Searched for "cipher misattributed to blaze". Found nothing that would point to a cipher or even a solver. I also found Eli's "blaze might be misspelled" clue, but had no idea what to do.

The next key is coming soon! Stay tuned, treasure hunters. A few notes: there are still some treasures coming for those of you that have cleared the gate, but you can still solve all the treasure quest puzzles all the way through the start of the next summer game. When a new key drops, you can still solve all the new keys, so no worries smv! As for the ancient cipher, I'd bet that the misattributed part will help you narrow it down more than the blaze part, especially since you know it's misspelled. You're very close!

-[:eli]

Yes! Finally got it....very satisfying :D

Very clever, Eli. Had to make sure that the "blaze" spelling I was looking at actually was pronounced "blaze"!

I can't believe that I missed the link on the web! I was searching for a long time.....and I can't believe I skipped that one >.<

smv, since you helped me out before, here's my hint to you: Think first name, and French. If that doesn't help, then think "Zabini" from Harry Potter.

Thanks, ompopp. I still don't get the "use the key to crypt the gate" thing. I am trying the Vigenére cipher(yes, the accent over the second e is backwards, don't know how to do the other direction accent) with the key code as the key and the gate code as the plaintext.

Solved it!!! For those of you stuck on the Gate riddle, use the vigenere cipher, search "How do you use a vigenere cipher?" and click on the yahoo answers link. The "key" is the code for the key riddle, while the "gate" is the gate riddle's code.

While I certainly used some of the hints in the comments, I think some of these hints are giving away the riddles and would ruin the fun for people who are still trying to do the puzzle on their own.

Wow, my bad; I posted the BOOLEAN KEY last night but missed checking the "actually show up on play.aadl.org" button. Sorry guys, it's fixed now!

Also, I think that the conversation and hints happening in this thread are exactly the way that puzzles like this get solved on the web, but you're right, KathyD, that some of this is worthy of a spoiler warning. I'll add it to this post and the new one so people who want to try to crack the puzzles without help from other questers or hints will knownwhat they're getting into.

Happy questing!

When you're not sure what you're looking for, it's usually helpful to start with the most unique words... there's a very unusual name in this clue. That oughta narrow it way down!

-[:eli]

Totally off-topic, but does anyone know who wrote the riddles for Treasure Quest? Whoever wrote them, good job! It must have been hard, writing the quatrain so that it actually makes sense and giving a clue about the key, gate, or treasure. (Whoever knew what a quatrain was before I commented is awesome. Especially if they learned it from RPO.)

Totally off-topic, but does anyone know who wrote the riddles for Treasure Quest? Whoever wrote them, good job! It must have been hard, writing the quatrain so that it actually makes sense and giving a clue about the key, gate, or treasure. (Whoever knew what a quatrain was before I commented is awesome. Especially if they learned it from RPO.)
Edit: Why?! I hate duplicated comments, did I ever mention that?

ME!

In reply to by mysterio

ME! :D

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