Hi, Merry Christmas everyone!
So, I'll try to summarize what we know.
First - I hope it's logical puzzle - that means clue A guessed properly leads to clue B and then C etc.
That in mind, we have few obvious clues.
1flamen6 - still unsolved (or I missed solution)
6 ribbons on key - we have lead that it means A1, which helps on naming chessboard tiles. From 01 to F9. Which could be good, but I have two problems with it. We don't have value 00 or any letter with 0, like D0. Second, if it would be encoded in hex, we have to visit one tile many times and what with repeated values like BB, CC, AA, etc. So in my opinion it's something, but not quite solid.
white rabbit visible on puzzle after rotating picture - that could show "proper" way of looking on picture. Also it is clue directing to Lewis Carroll
http://www.chessmaniac.com/lewis-carroll-and-chess/We have White Queen (Alice?) and... Blue Knight, which is odd (in book there is Red Knight). Blue and Red are basic colours, won't get one from another (and negative of blue colour is orange). I think it's worth dig deeper.
White Queen and Blue Knight - don't know, look above
Dove and Phoenix - points to poem about turtle-dove and phoenix - solved. And that lines could direct to some sort of sums:
So they loved as love in twain
Therefore they loved inasmuch as the love in two beings
Had the essence but in one;
Had the substance and nature compounded into only one;
Two distincts, division none;
Two separate birds, but inseparable and indistinguishable;
Number there in love was slain.
Combined as one in love so extinguishing their separate selves.
Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Their hearts were separate, but not divided;
Distance, and no space was seen
No range nor gap was there
'Twixt this turtle and his queen;
Between the hearts of the Dove and his Phoenix;
But in them it were a wonder.
However, their combination was a miracle.
colourful flames around - everyone agrees that they have pure binary information, but we don't know how to read them. 98 inner, 54 outer also 44 with no colour. Very hard to count colourless and sometimes I have trouble with determining height (especially of colourless)
red and blue chessboard tiles still unsolved
17 leaves also unsolved
swirls in corners - direction of flames reading ?
Soooo... it's not much. And we haven't figured out where to start (doesn't get to the point A which could lead to valid point B
) Or am I wrong? What do you think?
