The Puzzle at the End of This Book
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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This is some Illuminati conspiracy level stuff
lol ok
Sarah Moustafa sure you did
Sarah Moustafa ok. 10 minutes to find two words starting with A and S. Clue - H2, A, V4, O, C5
Sarah Moustafa hurry up. this is far less obscure than the book in this vid...
Sarah Moustafa Sarah Moustafa long enough. A-1,H-2,O-3,V-4,C-5 . ALPHABET - A=1 H=8 O=15 V=22 C=29 (26+3). 1,8,15,22,29 all dates for Saturday in April. Answer = April + Saturday
I would literally have never solved this in my life if it wasn't for the solution... I praise who ever solves these sorts of cryptic puzzles
"The Monster at the End of This Book"
OH NO NOT THE MOVIE AHH THAT GAVE ME AN ETERNAL NIGHTMARRE AHHHH
loved the pokemon names in there XD
this is a very creative puzzle
who else is scared?
Wait Elmo is a muppet? I never knew that
How am i supposed to know those fonts?
is there a crash course for different coding types?
Not really, but there's a good resource for puzzlehunts in general: www.mit.edu/~puzzle/resources/haveyoutried.pdf
Although, puzzlehunt design is moving away from encodings at the moment, as they're seen as inelegant.
And then if you put makeup on the back of the book, you notice an old Gaelic word which means "Independence", which you can attribute to The Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was featured in a Nicolas Cage movie titled "National Treasure" with 2 movies. The Roman Numeral for 2 is presented II, which also looks like the number 11. So you go to page 11 of the book and you notice Grover is holding a parchment. The parchment seems to be raised on the page a bit, so doing some careful digging you notice its actually a flap on the page. Under the flap is a string, which you can pull to reveal a secret compartment revealing an embarrassing picture of SpongeBob at the Christmas party!
Darn, I was going to put all those steps in a second video, but you got it before I could reveal the hidden puzzle!
CameraBot Productions dude are you serious??
lol
Anon Ymous
Tell me this is a joke.........
Right?
-Guy
And to believe people thought that the ORIGINAL puzzle was obscure.
Man😰
I feel like this puzzle is way too obscure.
they gotta make it super hard since these puzzling teams are ridiculously good
His complaint wasnt that it was difficult. It was that the puzzle is too obscure; in as being difficult to understand without a comprehensive knowledge of a certain subject.
I don't think it's obscure. The weird words, braille, morse code, muppet names, hand positions, changing red font, and green words all stick out as something is off. Once you work out each of them, it is clear. The Green words one I think was the hardest for me, and the ending how you recognize they are all the same number of letters.
I think the only one that is stupidly hard is figuring out what the fonts are
Maybe it's because I do some graphic design work, but I got 4 out of 5 fonts right off. On the other hand, never having been exposed to the higher class of crossword clue I couldn't work that out at all and I didn't even notice the semaphore.
Finally my pokemon Knowledge comes in handy
MrLuckygalaxy ikr
same here
ikr
MrLuckygalaxy OH YESSSSSSSSSSS
AHAHAHAHAHA lol I'm also very knowledgeable in Pokémon
Understanding = Ken how?
Ken can mean knowledge, as in the phrase "beyond my ken"
It is one of those words you really only see in crosswords.
Ah dinnae ken whit ye mean, lad.
The word ken, until now, was beyond my ken.
Ah whadya hink 'af at, ye Pajama-Wearing, Basket-Face, Slipper-Wielding, Clype-Dreep-Bachle, Gether-Uping-Blate-Maw, Bleathering, Gomeril, Jessie, Oaf-Looking, Scooner, Nyaff, Plookie, Shan, Milk-Drinking, Soy-Faced Shilpit, Mim-Moothed, Sniveling, Worm-Eyed, Hotten-Blaugh, Vile-Stoochie, Cally-Breek-Tattie?
Could you make a video where you solve a puzzle for the first time? It would be interesting to see your thought process
That sounds like a good idea! Stay tuned...
+FLEB How long does it normally taje you to solve a new puzzle for the first time?
It'd be cool to stream it
doongi01 Q
I've never heard "Ken" to have a definition of 'understanding', so I guess I learned something new today
It's used a lot in Scotland.
It's a holdover from Norse that transitioned into the English word Can, As in: to be capable of. Around the 12th century the middle English word kennen (or cennen) split into ken-nowe (Can-know). Eventually they split apart into Can and Know, but in the dialectical speech of Northern England and Scotland the Ken-nowe was simply shortened to Ken. Use of the word did maintain some popularity among English poets as in Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece" - "'Tis double death to drown in ken of shore" or Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - "Nor shapes of men/ nor beasts ye ken/ the ice was all between."
you expanded your ken
You can add at to your ken.
Sarah Moustafa similar to katniss.
Wtf does makeup have to do with anything?
Its a series of like 170 puzzles that all give a one word answer. Then you use the 170 words to complete the final answer/solve the final puzzle.
when is the final coming out ?
I believe it was a part of the mystery hunt he was a part of, so he might or might not show that puzzle. He just wanted to highlight this puzzle from the set of puzzles that he had to solve for that even because he found that this one was cool. English is not my first language so not sure if I explain correctly. I can not think of right word to describe some things.
It was an answer used in the metapuzzle for this round. The Mystery Hunt is arranged in rounds, with sets of puzzles. As you solve the puzzles, the answers themselves form a puzzle.
Usually the answers are very constrained! In this case, the set of answers to this round were all 6 letters, so they could be folded up into cubes. There were 8 puzzles, and the 8 cubes from the 8 puzzles formed a 2x2x2 cube. You can read more about that metapuzzle here: solutions.monsters-et-manus.com/hunt/solution/cube.html
The metapuzzles are usually designed first, because they're the hardest to write, and then the puzzles for the round are written to have the answers needed for the metapuzzle. In this case, they needed to have a puzzle with the answer MAKEUP and chose this set of mechanics for it.
I thought the answer was "MAKEUP", because the puzzle itself is, in some way, "made up".
The puzzle that was supposed to be at the end of the book is non-existent, at least not in the way that it was described to be beforehand. From the last speech bubble you also get the implication that the puzzle that was previously promised is made up, and instead you get another puzzle.
So I guess in some way you get the answer to the first puzzle, by solving the second puzzle. But I'm probably reading into this way too much and I'm not even sure if what I said makes sense heh.
This feels like an absurd conspiracy theory video.
The author of this book has too much time on their hands...
...or to much time for their brain because it's clever... we all know that hands don't give any idea for these puzzles. it's kinda disappointing because the puzzle is not yet complete... kinda not satisfying.
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Understanding clues KEN? Don't understand that connection
Avery Bloch It's some word used mainly in Scotland. There are some more knowledgeable people around in this comment section explaining its meaning and origin if you're into that
ken is a formal-ish word, so you just didn't have it in your vocabulary
This is blowing my mind and it makes me feel so ignorant!
I was BAFFLED when they got to pkemon names
"Six Muppets"
100,000+ people are typing...
10 pictures taken moments before disaster
The link only takes me to the solution!
Open it up, first words I see are all the answers cause they're in bold FML
Oh shoot! I'll go change that now. Sorry about that!!!
I can't believe you
Manny Perez i can't believe you've done this.
Gurkan Ozil
Important video quote???
Are you F- ing kidding me with this puzzle?! how is any normal person supposed to solve this sh**?!
Disappointing ending.
TopMia CareMid the answer is one of many to make a larger phrase, there are other puzzles you solve along this one
I remember solving this at like 3 in the morning... about an hour before Death and Mayhem won the whole thing. But it was a great time and there were tons of spare copies, which I happily grabbed for myself.
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I wonder how long I took him to realize they were Pokémon names 😂😂😂🤓
Why is the answer makeup? *insert conspiracy theory here*
It has to do with the overall structure of this puzzlehunt. The answers to the individual puzzles were themselves a puzzle!
FLEB I'm curious how you MIT guys used that one IP Address of that one abandoned hospital in DC where they conducted MkUltra projects from 1953-1964? Where'd you guys get that from?
I see this book very creepy... Lock it up
hey puzzlers
the monster at the end of this book was literally my favorite book EVER when i was little.
I know this is nitpicky, but it really takes me out of it when these puzzles have these out of place "90s kids remember" pop culture references. I had the same problem with the X-box. Otherwise though really cute and fun puzzle!
Why would the answer be ''make up''? Surely there should be something in the book which would hint why?
About the font thing:
Some of those fonts are pretty common, and also, there's a website named identifont.com, where you can identify fonts.
I'm surprised that "The Monster At The End Of This Book" was well known. I thought that it was an obscure book that only I and a few others knew about.
This is the kind of puzzle that always fascinates me. A bunch of subtle puzzles hidden in plain sight combined together to solve the metapuzzle. Keep up the good work!
Yea it's lovely.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I came in going "I'm decent at puzzles" and left going "HOW MANY LEVELS IN WIZARD DO I NEED TO TAKE!" It's also kind of sad that of the 2 puzzles I realized were puzzles, it was Pokémon and fonts.
Oh. My. God. This is an amazing puzzle!!!!!! It uses things I learned in engineering and English while also introducing Pokémon and Morse code?!?! .... oh my god. I'm so in love with this puzzle.
any suggestions on a fun puzzle for a beginner?
Puzzled pint is a puzzlehunt event that's been running for a while and is good for beginners. Their entire archive of puzzles is available for free online at: www.puzzledpint.com/
As for mechanical puzzles, my standard recommendation is a puzzle from Hanayama, because they rate their puzzles by difficulty and also are good overall.
FLEB thank you!
Jesus christ, from mythical monsters, to pokemon, to Morse code, to braille and somehow ending up with MAKEUP is a bit dissapointing
this is second puzzle I've seen here where the solution is super obscure and the answer is ultimately disappointing
I just couldn't believe it when you started naming pokémon
wow i wonder how long it took to make this puzzle so that everything matched up perfectly
how does understanding=Ken?
www.dictionary.com/browse/ken
HOLY SHIT I HAVE THE ORIGINAL BOOK
I SWEAR TO GOD I HAVE IT SITTING RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF ME
*NOSTALGIAAAA*
Finally. My Pokemon knowledge is actually useful
"When you get to the end, you realize that the only thing to solve is the book itself," at the particular moment, my mind was blown
I find it amazing that this is solvable. I especially loved the Braille and semaphore parts.
Great book...the Pokemon part sort of kills it IMO an adult would absolutely never clue that. Shame.
Mic Nor To be fair, they're all Generation I Pokémon. The franchise has been around long enough that many of the people who grew up on it are now adults.
It actually kinda fits. Pokémon is short for pocket MONSTERS, but i see that not everyone knows pokémon names like those in the book
Michael Norman Oh shut it, that's generalizing
lepayen OH MY LAWD you think your OPINION is TRUTH XDDDDD
That's not an opinion. Only retards who were stupid enough to obsess over Pokemon would think that's an opinion.
huh at least the Creator of this puzzle like Pokémon
This was so fun to do. I was unable to find the pokemon puzzle but managed to get the rest. Then with your help on the pokemon puzzle I managed the ending after coming back to it a few time throughout the day. Thanks for sharing. I just stumbled on your channel in my feed. I love puzzles and escape rooms and never knew that there was such a community built around these types of puzzle. I am excited to work through some more puzzles from this hunt. You've got my sub!!
Thank you very much! I'm glad you were able to get it in the end! It's not an easy puzzle!
Than you for sharing this book. I'm confused as to why you put each page in their own PDF? PDFs can have multiple pages, it's literally what they're made to do. Why keep them separate?
what the fuck
I feel like they could make a Da Vinci Code/National Treasure movie on this book alone.
can you imagine Nicholas Cage and Tom Hanks sitting there going "the fate of the world depends the answer to this book"
Enter Nicholas Cage, Tom Hanks sitting around the book.
"ELMO MUST MEAN SOMETHING" Nic Cage shouts, eyes bulging from head. "HOW CAN WE USE ELMO IS HE EVEN A MUPPET" Tom Hanks replies, eyes also bulging from head.
I think there's potential!
How the fuck could anyone solve this...
Lol. There is no way this is a kids book! I'm 28 & I wouldn't have picked up on even half of these clues. Hahaha.
You'd need some pretty obscure knowledge and a crazy eye for detail to get most of these clues. I certainly wouldn't have thought it's anything other than a strangely worded children's book.
It was part of a puzzle competition, so we knew that we were looking for some strange things!
FLEB it's called an intro (what you call the brake at the start)
Firestar123abcd but he uses it to signal spoilers. so he calls it a spoiler break for the people who dont want the answers.
How is Succubus the answer for "Lilith Morrigan Scarlet or Queen of Pain"?
Lilith, Morrigan, Scarlet, and Queen of Pain are all example of the monster type SUCCUBUS. We know we're looking for monster types, so it's the most logical answer to the phrase.
I had this book when I was little :0
very interesting and cool how this works. but what does makeup have to do with anything?
CamoSquid21YT hmm
CamoSquid21YT You make up the puzzle.
1OO1O11O11O1O ahh I see
CamoSquid21YT I was venturing a guess. This is actually part of a metapuzzle. There were dozens of puzzles to solve like this and then you put the answers together to get the actual answer.
This puzzle is so cool!
I went to the website and started doing the puzzle myself. I gave up after finding a few words and came back here to see the result.
I'm so glad I did.
this is something only you would know the answer to good lord. I did though find all the clues but not the answers to them :(
yo am i the only one who found the drawings and such in this "puzzle" super uncanny
"And then you might notice..." No, actually I am sure none of us noticed anything of these things.
SPOILER
FOR
THE
ULTIMATE
META
PUZZLE
HIDDEN
WITHIN
Makeup... MAKEUP?
"It's time to put on makeup, it's time to dress up right."
FLEB: it spells out "sandshrew"
me: OMG ITS A POKEMON
FLEB: **spells out more pokemon**
me: OMG POKEMON IT HAS TO DO WITH THIS
Jesus Christ this puzzle includes Pokémon? COUNT ME IN!!!😂😂😂😂
Woah. I thought this was going to be some kids puzzle book. ...NOPE! More like professional-level code cracking! That's pretty cool though, especially since I like secret codes.
These comment section are such cringe lol they don't know what puzzlehunts puzzles are like so they just insist that "not giving complete information" is "wrong and bad design"
Like, grow up, please.
Caralho o Cellbit se inspirou totalmente nesse livro pra fazer o Enigma dele! Muito bom !!!
That was awesome, I never taught about getting into Puzzles until I found your channel. You think you can review the book Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse, I got as a present since I like the game.
Too complicated, convoluted, and frankly, completely random. I don't get this kind of "puzzle".
You have to be Nicholas Cage in National treasure to solve this lol
This is a terrible puzzle, since it can be solved only by a few people - who know the language spesifics of a particular place. It's ok if it's just for Scotland, but really, puzzles should use logic more than minuetes in linguistics degree.
Ken is a common Scottish colloquialism for understanding, "A dinnae ken" = "I don't understand" just fyi! We don't say it in England really
God that is intense. I couldn't even begin to solve it myself, it requires too much outside knowledge. I wouldn't have recognized his arm positions as signalling letters. My first guess was clock hands.
This is the kind of puzzle the protagonist of the story can only solve because the plot demands it. This is Sherlock Holmes level.
Got the Morse, Braille and Grover Arms right.. But not being a native english speaker screwed me over on the last puzzles. Thats kind of a shame, some wordplays were way to obscure for me
There is accually 7 puzzles.
Grover can count as the 7th monster, so you get "MAKEUP".
If you children misbehave give them this puzzle, afterwards they even want to go to church gladly.
I managed to successfully guess what the clues were, even got the kraken clue and spotted a Pokemon, now all I have to do is go learn morse code, Braille and how to land a jumbo jet and I'll be able to read this children's book!!! 😂
This isn't a puzzle? That wasn't even a comprehensible solution! This is just silly...
I don't understand how you came to certain conclusions can you explain how you reached the answer of succubus and similarly ken from understanding?
Would love to solve your puzzle but the links are broken. edit- thank god i did not I'm enraged just watching you solve it.
Holy fuck, this is insane. If you can figure this out you should join cicada.
Also how did you get succubus from the moors code?
how do you know when you have the final solution? without knowing that the solution is "makeup" how do you know that "makeup" isnt just another piece of the puzzle?
I got the Braille, Morse Code and Semaphore ones, couldn't figure out the green puzzle but knew one was there and had no idea about the other puzzles, a lot more in-depth than expected!
this puzzle is a good representation of trying to find out what your girlfriend wants you to get her "MAKEUP"
Why do I feel like I’m watching a Sesame Street/Muppets mash-up conspiracy?
Oh my god, The Monster At The End O f This Book was my favourite book as a child xD
How the heck was I supposed to solve that!?! I thought it was a children's puzzle!!!
Man you are a genius .
But I am not , like ... I enjoyed the video but I didn't understand any thing .
Oh .. and you talk like an actor in horror movie
you sound like Willy Wonka from Charlie and the chocolate factory so Johnny Depp I guess
something tells me your kid made a book, and you went through and found minor details and proceeded to create an insanely indepth puzzle video.
understanding = KEN?
how? please, i wanna know!
scottish word
WAYY too obscure WTF! I actually tried super hard on this one and got about 20%
To be fair, you need a very high IQ to understand the true genius of "The Puzzle at the End of This Book"
I feel as if I did this puzzle even if I was doing it right I would doubt myself and give up. Hard but nice puzzle