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Week 1 (Part 2)

Solution:

I found a round number (Pi) to eat from (dish)

Solution: dig at location with a Pie dish. Line matches the coastline.

Ornate gloves Ornate Boots

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Week 1.5

Solution:

The 3 probabilities from any, 7, or 10 is

255, 0, 0. This is an RGB code for pure red.

The faded numbers are the Poisson distribution. Poisson is a french word for fish.

In other words the solution is “red herring” meaning this clue was deliberately created to mislead people who would guess the URL of the next clue, however it actually worked out as having the same solution as week 2. Unknown if the lines are an actual location.

Found by URL manipulation using the same means as week 1 a day before Week 2’s clue was to be released

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Week 2

Solution:

Roar = how brits saw “raw”

Red Herring is another term for a misdirection and is a term well familiar by the community. The player must dig with a raw herring in their inventory. The line matches the path South of Falador.

Officially released 28th of February 2019

This was a day earlier than planned. It was released to give players a distraction from the rollbacks taking place due to an accidental Twisted bow spawn that was added in an update

Ornate Legs

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Week 3

Solution:

celebrated = cheer

gold rush = grush = anagram for “shrug”

Based on sentence structure the gold rush would necessarily come first, then the celebration, therefore you must shrug then cheer in that order in the correct spot. No digging is required. The lines match the cliff and wilderness ditch.

Officially released 8th of March 2019

Ornate top

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Week 4

Solution:

A creature eating = Gobbling = Goblin

Parcel = a type of mail

Dig with Goblin mail in your inventory at the chaos temple in the wilderness

Officially released 14th of March 2019

Ornate cape

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The Pi Grid (rough draft)

Using the digits of Pi after 3. and the matrices of numbers you can roughly put together a Pi matrix or grid. Some of the numbers are missing, this is on purpose. We will move to a much nicer looking grid in the next slide.

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The Pi Grid (Missing No’s)

In pink are the digits that were not present in the clue Pi grid. If you take these numbers and translate them into letters based on their position in the alphabet you get this:

These can be rearranged to “Bow Clap Yes” which are 3 emotes in game.

Solution:

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The Pi Grid (Symbols)

Using this we can then identify the digits with their symbols and create a string.

The 5 in row 8 column 4 was hard to identify but turned out to be a circle

The numbers are then divided into groups to create degrees. If the number would be more than 360 degrees reduce it to two digits.

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Symbol Angles

A best-fitting circle is drawn to connect digsites on clues 2, 3 and 4 (unknown why clue 1 was not given an appropriate dig site)

Then a secant is drawn between pairs of angles in each symbol category.

The paired angles should be 1st and 4th then 2nd and 3rd

Circle: 42 - 275, 154 - 266

Diamond: 80 - 278, 244 - 262

Triangle: 28 - 216, 105 - 180

Square: 61 - 349, 127 - 297

For some reason the diamond numbers are wrong and don’t land you on Tiffy Cashien and don’t intersect properly.

Larger image here: https://i.imgur.com/R2HlELa.jpeg

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NPCs

Using the angles from the symbols and drawing them out on the map we find a single intersection for each symbol which points us to some NPCs (with exception to Tiffy Cashien which got messed up and needed to be brute forced).

Using Bow Clap Yes which was found from the Pi missing digits in front of these NPCs gives you some special dialogue.

The solutions to these NPCs is covered in the next slide.

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Tiffy’s Puzzle

Tiffy: Each number represents a Pi digit, e.g. 40 turns into 1 because it’s the 40th digit of Pi. This is then turned into letters in the alphabet based on position. Answer is Plain Pizza.

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NPCs

The cook’s puzzle is a set of angles, when mapped out they form an intersection just North of Varrock. This takes you to a wooden shield.

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NPCs

Assign a value to letter based on alphabet placement. Make a cluster until totalling 15 (number of words in original). Each cluster is a line.

Each number tells you how long to make the lines.

Alternate positive vs negative line

Example: Draw a line 3 spaces long, draw nothing for 1 space, draw a line 1 space long, nothing for 1 space, etc.

The people who figured this out, 2019, colorized

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NPCs

Using the center point on the circle as a reference point you then move 5 spaces towards the dark wizards, then 1 space towards varrock. This takes you to the final solution location.

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Final Solution

Get a Plain pizza, Cheese and a Wooden shield in your inventory.

Go 5 spaces west and 1 space north of the center of the circle diagram

Use Bow Clap Yes

Congratulations! You completed Crack the Clue 2 and get the Ornate helm as a reward!

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Credits

Thanks to everyone who submit theories and ideas

Thanks to our content creators for bringing attention to this great event

Thank you to our Admins and Generals for helping to organize the discord, CC and subreddit

Thanks to the developers of the discord bots we use

Thank you to Mod Mat K for creating this fun community event to bring us all together

A special thanks to junkmutt, ah, Ion I, Research, Doctor13J, Bigpapi for their breakthrough contributions to the solution.

An honorable mention to Winter for her concise and insightful observations

7CardStud and Moles for solving the first clue hours before its release

Suhdude for eating soap in the hopes of hiding poll results!

Thanks u/siim2200 for their contributions to putting together the missing pieces to the solution that were originally brute forced rather than solved

Thanks to kvbz, Segway and Ion I for their help collecting information for this write-up

And thank you for everyone who participated in this super fun event!

If I missed anyone’s contributions please send Schmiddy a message on discord!