Bah... all right, here's all the info I have. Anyway, I wouldn't
have gotten any of this without other people solving the first parts
and asking the correct questions to lead me this far; I would still be
trying to rearrange the rainbow-colored words.
Mikeduffy13's
questions really helped me with this. Once you confirmed that the
inverting is horizontal, I knew for certain what the material I need to
be working with is. Then you mentioned letter substitution and that
"every other letter" doesn't apply to it, so there are only so many
ways to solve it.
I know that words with double letters in them are a good starting
point, so I was searching for a site I've seen before that lists the
most common patterns of double letter words and has a list of what the
words could be. I couldn't find it again, but I did come across this -
http://tomacorp.com/codes/workbench.html
GAS FSHG VNWS
EU T IELSQ VNWS
LQ T KQQKNS IELSQ
USTMVA JQM SKKHXSMG
XMEPS CQH XWPPNS
SNSISF GQ IESY
I just started working on it without a list. KQQKNS really stood
out, there aren't many words that fit that pattern. I was pretty sure
the puzzle didn't involve BOOBIEs or POOPIEs (I have a very mature
thought process). My best bet seemed to be GOOGLE. The only other word
I could think of is SEESAW, and those letters didn't seem to fit in
with the rest of the puzzle very well at all.
After that, I just
filled in the blanks. _ _ _ E O, directly after Google, is clearly
VIDEO. E L E _ E _ is ELEVEN, E G G _ _ E _ _ is EGGXPERT, and so on.
the next clue
is a video clue
do a google video
search for eggxpert
prize box puzzle
eleven to view
I
was expecting a more direct answer and not such a vague clue, to be
honest. I typed in the lyrics of the song and found it is "The Little
Things Give You Away" by Linkin Park. I searched for more information
about the song, and people are saying the song refers to New Orleans
and Hurricane Katrina. The video wasn't quite clear to me... there are
some images of a storm... and really a wide variety of images. There
are plenty of images of a city, of food, and musical instruments mixed
in there... so to me the clues were pointing towards New Orleans.
Once
again I have to say I really like this puzzle, it's so difficult when
you first start looking at it, and so incredibly easy and obvious once
you see how it works. It's also pretty funny that if anyone had just
typed "eggxpert puzzle" or "eggxpert prize" into Google (for instance
if they lost the link to this forum) it would have led directly to the
final clue.
And if anyone had just looked directly at the third
clue and realized it's a substitution cypher and just started working
on that right away, it could have been solved very quickly. I just
assumed that with all the colors and shapes that this was going to lead
to something more complicated... great job with the misdirection
tactics, lol.
But as for the final answer... I'm completely stuck once again, so someone else can have the honor of uncovering the red X's.