Sherlockian Riddle
Sherlockian Riddle is another brain teaser URL changing riddle game. You're invited on a short riddling journey. Your host will be Dr. John Watson - faithful companion of the greatest detective (n)ever existed: Mr. Sherlock Holmes! Jump from clue to clue and crack the password, enter it in the answer box and hit the 'Login' button - hitting 'Enter' won't work. The password is always written in one word, all lowercase, and without any special characters. Good luck and have fun!Note: Please don't post exact answers, just give hints for levels!
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Level 1 is the Latin name.
got that one... hope the rest are as easy
Hi EnJoy,
I rotated the image on level 2 but I can't see letters?
@S-T PH is your friend
I am working on it.. Not sure if I have the letters correct though. I read on another board that you have to decode it twice.
lvl 2: note the image name.....after you ROT it...the answer is there to be seen :)
does it start with GR-H-??
yes Enjoy....try PH for ciphers and codes...
http://www.purplehell.com/cgi-bin/riddles/rot.pl
Thanks, but the name is 20. How can I ROT that?
Ok... you gave clues "PH" so the second decoding starts with PH?
My letters are above with the two "A" or is it two "O"
EnJoy,
I think PH is the site Purple Hell.
sorry PH = Purple Hell....look for riddle tools....then ROT, enter what you have, you will be given 26 options....
Does the dancing man code mean nothing then if we are suppose to only look at the image name?
woo hoo got it!
small-tool.. did you get it yet?
Hi all! Just starting!
Nope, I don't get how to ROT the image name. The name is 20 isn't it?
Small-tool. ROT the decoded dancing man letters then put that into ROT and look at number 20.
lol stuck on lvl 1!
@ Nini .. welcome come help.
SPOILER lvl 2
find the letters, ROT them in PH....go to the 20th decoded word
Thanks EnJoy, but I don't see letters in the dancing men, doesn't matter how I rotate them.
Isn't the tale The Adventure of the Lion's Mane? But what's the name in latin!?!?!
lvl 1: the image shows Dr. Watson with curious hair, that of an animal.....find the story that refers to.....check the name of the image....find the animal in the story, then find what the image name is......that's your answer....no capitals or spaces in the answer box....
Nini xD,
Yep
Wikipedia for the latin name.
YOu have to decode the symbols in purple hell
http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/danceman.htm
Once you have the letters then you go to the other page and ROT them
Level 3. Is it a number?
yay 2! lol had already tried the correct answer but it didn't work in the 1st time!
Thanks EnJoy.
Waiting for everyone on level 3... I have the SH story but stuck..
3 now!
Any clue on 3?
@EnJoy I dont even know the story on lvl 3! lol
lol the name of the picture is "kelvin"
Look at the signature of the letter. It consists of two parts V----- H-----
Google this name and it gives you a WIKI page with info. not sure what to do with the info
Yes, boiling point in Kelvin is what I have been working on, but numbers aren't working
Oh thx go it! Now for the solution...
Numbers? o.O
oh for the safe DOH!
Numbers aren't working for me
In the story (The Adventure of the Copper Beeches) there's the expression : zero-point, but zero is not the answer
jonthewatch help! :D
Well and she was offered a salary of 100 pounds,.. 100 which is the boiling point of water, converted that to Kelvin and don't know what to do. Also, they increased her salary to 120, but that doesnt work either
you have all the clues....Kelvin, boiling point and you know the name of the sender of the letter...Violet Hunter...that will give you the story.....now find the answer ;)
Is Small-Tool still here? Maybe he could help
OMG EnJoy! I think u are in the right track.
Is the answer in numbers?
I'm still here.
The boiling point of copper in Kelvin doesn't help either.
Hm.. there's a difference then of 20ºC which is 293 in Kelvin...
Hm.. isn't beech a tree? Maybe the boiling point of wood in kelvins lol
I was hoping the answer was violet hunter...
I think Violet Hunter was just the hint to get us to the right story.
OMG... How can't the answer be 2840?!!?
Got it! The boiling point of Copper!
Wiki Copper it is on the right hand side of the page!
2835 won't work either
lol I was hitting Enter instead of login! My bad.
So it was numbers, had that a long time ago, but tried to make a word.
Ok lvl 4 now.. Got letters w o r d...
I got .. w.o.r.d.b.i.i
b i i?
Can't find the b.i.i. But an N in the source.
There's definetlly a N in the middle of the code s-t..
if you look down in the source where the quote from the page is, you will see some letters inside <> .. I was using these. I have ready that there are 7 letters???
I am making dinner, so I will check back in between stirring my sauce :)
Read in a forum that there're 7 letters to find.. word (bii) or (n??)
Haha got it!!!!!
Got it too.
Hint: - It's a city in Ohio.
- The letters u find on the source are already in order
there're 7 map pieces
Well I have 7 pictures.
And now what?
Ok.. I'm back
Help! What are the letters then?
I'm trying to connect them. No luck yet.
n o o o w d r
5 was easy. Pin in the middle.
s-t I tried but got letters: bbwhtws
Help!
Where did you get all the O's .. from the NO No NO?
no Enjoy source.
s-t Am I starting correctly: fhr..?
Nini xD
All those letters are wrong.
In the first pic the F is in the middle.
H is wrong.
I did it in paint and made cross lines from corner to opposite corner.
How come I only have one piece? It says Saffron Walden in the middle
EnJoy copy image url and change numbers to 2, 3 and so on
lvl 6 now
Please don't tell me you are printing them all out?
EnJoy use paint lol! For more accuracy I made 1st a diamond in the picture then crossed it w/ lines :D
No idea about 6.
The title is not imperial conversation but imperial conversion. That's all I found.
I am on a Mac.. I don't think I have paint
I have FCRLTAU.. just by eyeballing it
On lvl 6 I think it may be related to metric. Tried converting 6 chains to meters and got 120.7008. But no.
CTAU wrong
We have 6 chains, 1 pole... All measures of length.
In the source is something about span. The words in span are;
two feet
leauge
link
a pole
six chains
yard
thou
And it's about unity.
Also 2 feet.
Yeah s-t all about length
For imperial measurements you need the MM and the answer is 11 digits long you have the right things to look up Wiki has it all ;)
What is MM ?
And do we use the metric system?
MM = milimeter
MM= millimeter you named the 7 things to look up
Thou = 25400 micron
Link = 20,12 cm
Foot = 30,48 cm
Yard = 93,98 or 82,91 cm
Pole = 5,03 m
Chain = 20,12 m
League = 4,83 km
2 feet = 609.6
league= 4828032
link= 201.168
a pole= 5029.2
six chains= 120700.8
yard= 914,4
thou= 0.0254
add those up
got 121615,2254 but It's wrong.
Starts with 49????????4
now got 4954877,5934 lol but no.
that is lots closer lol 49554871??4 and no comma's in the answer
lol finally! lvl 7!
Thanks Clee,
on level 7 now.
Aw Aw.. I'm soo sick and tired of this riddle. Going to finish it tomorrow. See u guys!
Clue for 7
Rot the jpg then you'll find that story faster
It only goes to level 10 right now Nina you almost have it :)
Thanks Clee, but I already found the story.
No idea how to proceed further.
Btw have to go to bed too, almost 3:am here.
with the rot deciphered use that new word for a new jpg
Night sweet dreams
Ah thanks, of course the trick with another .jpg
Well, I think I know what I have to do on level 8, but that will be tomorrow.
Thanks all for the help and see you tomorrow.
Level 9 has me stumped -- I can't think which name they want for the odd object. Hint: anachronism
But I wouldn't have made it this far without all the extra clues above. Still don't understand where the letters to anagram came from in level 4 or what unit we converted everything to in level 6 (I thought it would be spans). Thanks all.
i can't find the answer to level 2 anyone can help me plz?
Hi noa. Go to purple hell http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/
Scroll down to codes and ciphers and click on "dancing man" to decode the paper. Then go back to codes and ciphers and click on ROT (Caesars)and enter the letters you got and you'll find a 5 letter word.
Hint: a****
I found the story for 7 right away and on 2nd jpg thought I knew what to do. However, nothing I enter works?? I do just need to enter whose it was, right?
nvm...got it
Hey Guys I'm back and can't guess lvl 7! Got the crown image but my answers won't work. Help. :D
mkganda help me!!!
It's not Henry VII (the seventh) or Charles I (the first) or King or King of England. Help!
Sorry, Nini!!! I didn't refresh and didn't see your comments! It's the 2nd one you mentioned in your last comment. Don't enter king and remember to use lowercase.
c******i
Hope you get it soon b/c I'm sorting out 8, but getting nowhere.
ty mkganda on 8 now!
Oh good! I need help. I thought I'd sorted them right, but am not getting a word. Are we getting a 12 letter word?
Probably mkganda.
Do we consider Angel a criminal or someone he didn't know? Angel was a made-up person by the real criminal right?
oh sry mkganda I'm playin lots of games at once and can't concentrate on this 1.
Need help on 8 if anyone comes around.
@mkganda (sorry I wasn't in here earlier):
Level 8 is a 4-letter word.
Sherlock says he forms the word by COUNTing the people by category. This gives you a 4-digit number.
I did it by googling sherlock holmes plus each name.
For example, there is only one policeman, so the 3rd digit is a "1".
Then, convert the numbers to letters.
When you get this, maybe you can help me with level 9.
Going back - level 6 was converting everything to mm; not sure what that has to do with "unity" or "spans already told you what form".
I'm on lvl 9 now! Thx PuzzledinCA.
Puzzled any ideas for 9? Got the name of the picture (insert_wierd_thing_here) but dunno what's the odd thing in the photo. We probably have to find it out and replace it on the picture URl.
Hm.... The Adventure of the Misfit... maybe an object out of place?
Look at the picture in the upper left.
That big wheel wasn't in London in Holme's time.
Names I've found are:
Millennium Wheel, London Eye (official name), Eye of London.
Just to get started ...
well.. but URL won't accept giant wheel.
Got it! replace to londoneye
Oh, that's it! I thought that was a clue to something being pasted onto the picture!
Haha Got to the End! :P
Oh, boohoo. I thought there was going to be 1 more puzzle. :(
I guess the start counted as a level!
Thanks, Nini xD!
This is the first time I've had the patience to get all the way through one of these.
Oh man! You guys finally come back and I wasn't here! Eating dinner soon so this will have to wait a little longer.
@PuzzledinCA Thanks for the help! I guess I was half on the right track and half on the wrong one lol. I've got my names all sorted so when I can come back I should have no problem passing it.
Congrats to both of you for finishing! Hoping to join the ranks soon! :D
I finished!
@author
Please do finish this one. I found looking around for S.Holmes clues really fun. Theme riddles are my favorite.
Thanks Nini and puzzledinCA for your helpful comments! :D
i'm not even through the "seaside adventure" level :(
what i see:
lion
"seaside adventure"
and the name of the picture (l*t*n)
i never read the stories so i tried to look up the seaside adventure but all i found is some random fanfiction.
so i tried lion, sealion and some other animalnames (in l*t*n), in one word, no capital letters.
but nothing works.
some more help please. or a website where i can find more clues...
Google
'The Adventure of the Lion's Mane'
Look for the latin name.
thank you!!! :)
(that animal is a creep though)
@mumu: Also the name must be typed entirely in lower case and without and normal space, otherwise it will not be accepted. Wrong answers take you to a 404 page. Do not press enter after typing the name, instead click on the Login button.
Another hint for someone trying to use google on the hints -- put "Sherlock" in front of the search. This should get you quickly to those relevant to Sherlock Holmes.
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