Maybe it says BlockLung because they were expecting the solver to use the air from their lungs to blow through the holes instead of using water like you did. Blow on one hole, maybe with a straw, and feel where it comes out on the other side with your finger?
During the actual event, they gave us a syringe and there was a water source nearby. I believe the intended solution was use water, but I like your idea a lot!
This could be mechanized by adding actuators that r activated by the air pressure. That would be pretty cool. Also, why is the L represented by two different letters?
Wow, this one was super hard, I wouldn't have been able to solve that in a million years! But I still really appreciate the style of thinking that is involved with these types of puzzles.
I think a lot of the ability to solve these puzzles comes from experience dealing with them. They have their own standard ways of solving and a common patterns. There are a number of events where you can find these puzzles: Puzzled Pint, BAPHL, DASH, Panda Magazine, Mystery Hunt, and many more! Those events deal mostly with these types of puzzles on paper (not elaborate constructions like this puzzle), but they're the same type of thinking. If you're interested, check them out! Puzzled Pint is probably the place to start if you're new to this style.
Its not an intro video, its a spoiler marker. Everything before the break is spoiler free, everything after the break is spoilers. This is standard procedure for this type of video; you'll see breaks like this in all sorts of videos and podcasts.
you are my champion of puzzles. if you were a knight you'd win a princess heart of love by solving your puzzles. it's so awesome to see. I wish I could play with puzzles. this solve wasn't interesting but the water through the holes is unique.
The spoiler break is a great idea and it also means that if someone starts stealing your videos and puts them on Facebook, the original creator will still be obvious.
So once the word is deciphered, the puzzle ends there? What does blocklung mean? Why is it that word? Do I need to block my lungs and kill myself? I NEED ANSWERS
If you're interested, most of the public information for this event is available at www.thefaminegame.com/archive.html There were a lot of paper-based puzzles in this competition, which might be easier to adapt/make for a DnD session!
What is/are The Famine Games? My guess is that, when famine hit, people built puzzles to keep themselves occupied and forget about their growling stomachs... How close am I? :)))
It's hard to see on the camera, but it's surprisingly clear in person. If nothing else, if you dry off the bottom of the puzzle, you can see which hole is wet.
You have the idea that you want to connect top holes to bottom holes somehow. Putting something down the holes quickly becomes difficult because the passages inside really twist around. In this competition, we were driving from place to place around Washington DC. So we didn't have a whole lot of tools. At the beginning of the competition, they gave us a bag of stuff that we might have to use (magnets, a syringe, etc.). After thinking about what tools we had, using water seemed to make sense. We actually found a nearby stream and used it, as we were in a forested area!
THATS NOT THE SOLUTION. its a encription key and a clue. hence why blocklung is spelled without an A and why both words are spelled equal letters. here is a hint, if you add all the DIFFERENT letters, not total amount, you have 15 different letters, this is your next key. i wont spoil the rest with a bunch of bits and peices LMAO. im so close to solving it. if you need help just message me. ill write a thing about it soon, its very complex, whoever thought of it is very smart. oh and by the way, notice it is "decrypt us', and not decrypt me. and also its by sircumstance of design that the puzzle has the the names it does, it was just easyer to encrypt
In this puzzle competition, they wrote custom software to check answers while we were at the various locations. The answer checker accepted the answer BLOCKLUNG, so that's the end of the puzzle. You could add more steps, like along the lines you're thinking, but it would have been a very long puzzle!
There is a 3D model! It used to be here: www.thefaminegame.com/puzzles/26-Mining-Artifact.html But it looks like the site is down for me. If it comes back up, you should be able to find the .stl file there!
