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Treasure Quest continues: It's the MINIMOOG KEY!

by eli

We're already one third of the way through TREASURE QUEST, and with each key more challenging and more valuable than the last, it's still EVERYBODY'S QUEST! Remember, if you've got questions, or you're stuck, talk to the other Questers here in this thread or ask a question, you never know what might help!

============================================== ~~~~~ THE MINIMOOG 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 MINIMOOG KEY appears before your eyes, you hear a Cantata and these words:

Before Walter was Wendy, Rachel helped to make a disc,
with tech not so well-tempered, every take was quite a risk.
They took the work of JSB and Robert's Keys and Tools;
then switched it on, and laid it down. The output simply RULES.

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

No i was trying to get 100,000 points for the super package. i only needed a couple hundred, so i was just commenting to get there.
all the badges i had left, i had no idea

and you copied your comments again. now I estimate that I have about 500 comments to go if I want the supreme comment badge. with about 10 days left. 50 comments a day! Yikes!

Is that a doorknocker?!?

I think cryptic hints are cryptic, but what do I know? Claude may like red fish, but I'm not sure if it's a herring or a trout.

I think I'm on the same page as cherylo....I've got Claude set and the part about Claude....but I'm not quite sure what to do with him....or the rest of the riddle.

And I think I have the right cr****g***....but I have no idea how to use it to get the code.

Hmm, it does look like a doorknocker. Now I'm really confused.

Wait, it IS a doorknocker! I looked up "doorknocker" and that thing came up in Google Images except in a different color.

I have tried 4, 5, 12, AND 18 character versions of cgrams for Gabriel. There is some trick I am missing, so I'm not finding "simpler" to be very simple. IIRC, the clue entry is case-insensitive; is there whitespace or other separation involved? I am assuming not, but I am definitely wrong about something here. Also, I am stumped as to how the doorknocker figures.

I'm stuck at the gate clue. I have entered different forms of Gabriel and nothing. Stuck! any hints anyone would like to share?
I already took a closer look and found "doorknocker" does not help.

I never noticed the doorknocker, so if I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about whatever it's supposed to mean. Make sure you encrypt Gabriel's first and last name (12 characters).

I wish I had intended the doorknocker as a red herring, as it would have been a good one apparently, but it's just there because gates have handles? But here's a clue for those of you who are stuck: There are a million ways to encrypt something as general as what you're trying to encrypt; so which one would I have picked? Instead of trying to encode it yourself, look for a list of famous ones in a place known for having such things, and you'll find the canonical cryptogram.

Also, all game codes are space and case insensitive, so don't worry about either of those. And omit any punctuation!

I'm way late in joining this game and have no idea if anyone is still following the thread, but I am seriously stuck with the gate riddle. I have tried pretty much every cipher type I can find on Wikipedia. I've tried googling for famous ciphers. I'm banging my head against the desk. I have the composer and song but I cannot for the life of me figure out the cipher. I've even tried googling things like "music scholar's game" and trying musical notation type ciphers. Any other hint would be awesome. I've been working on this for about 9 or 10 hours now (broken up, not all at once) and am just stumped. Kind of frustrated because the first parts of this one I managed to figure out mostly on my own with only minimal help from the hints in comments, but not this part. I was all excited about getting in a rhythm and getting some of it done mostly on my own and now I'm stuck.

Help? Anyone? Thanks!

Okay... apparently it was a case of "go crazy looking, then ask for help, THEN find the answer". :P Or maybe just different day, different view on the clue. Got it in like 5 minutes tonight. *rolls eyes* Thanks!

post help solve before help is posted? and u mean the cross or the bmaocthif (i think u can figure out what that word is:). even if i tried both it would take time because of all the sites that have the words in it.

I think post-and-solve works because once a person asks a question, his/her brain tries to pre-process what the responses or answers might be, causing new ways of framing or thinking about the problem to arise. Really.

Yeah, we probably should end this conversation. It's going nowhere.
Anyway, interesting team name, Zhengyang1022. The square root of -1, huh? Of course, using imaginary numbers.

In reply to by Morgsush

So is this why you have a gazillion points? I was rather surprised to see this much activity on many of the Treasure Quest posts.

In reply to by Morgsush

well there's a lot of posts to comment on.... yes I need help with this one. stuck on treasure code

Argh... That one was so hard to find in finding an online tool to do... I kind of forgot... X(

Edit: I found it (I think)! Try searching for "Twelve Tone tool" on Google, and click on the first result. Then click on the Matrix Calculator, and enter in the notes! Remember to select "Traditional".

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