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[Fill-Lips]

Just now, Malfario said:

Is  there any transcript of the notes ?

I dunno if anyone has done frontways, no one has done reversal yet, and I don't know how 

[Ridley]

A small piece of my notes atm. Trying to reverse engineer the values of the ingredients. 


 

[hewind]

Happy New Year

[murat2080]

0:20 0:23

[Aminen]

its crazy just thinking about you have to enter such long code whenever you want to enter your secret basement...

[kiwikenobi]

42 minutes ago, Aminen said:

its crazy just thinking about you have to enter such long code whenever you want to enter your secret basement...

It might be really short. It might be exactly one note, we don't know. Unless someone tried exactly one note for all twenty-four notes already. We have yet to recognize a clear clue.

[Doktoberfest]

Tbf wagstaff wouldnt secure his secret lair door with [12345*]

 

[Ridley]

Still working at those alchemy values.

Here are some notes. I think I messed up at #4 and everything is built on a foundation of lies.

 

 

Edited December 31, 2025 by Ridley
second guessed myself

[GetNerfedOn]

On 12/30/2025 at 7:27 PM, GetNerfedOn said:

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Today is January 1, 2026. this is GetNerfedon your host for today, bringing you your daily arg news.

 

There has been yes news for today. the musical door remains unsolved.

 

this has been your daily news for January 1 2026. happy new year.

 

 

 

Days 81-82 of writing down the script of the Inevitable short letter by letter until this ARG ends:

 

Once upon a time several strangers were stranded in a land lethal, loathsome and large. None got along

Edited January 1 by GetNerfedOn

[Sustenance]

23 hours ago, Ridley said:

Still working at those alchemy values.

Here are some notes. I think I messed up at #4 and everything is built on a foundation of lies.

 

 

Here's my conclusions from the known potion recipes if its useful.

Expectamus Potions Solutions.pdf

Well the pic is unreadable here's a pdf

[Ridley]

2 hours ago, Sustenance said:

Here's my conclusions from the known potion recipes if its useful.

Expectamus Potions Solutions.pdf 1.15 MB · 3 downloads

Well the pic is unreadable here's a pdf

Thank you for the notes! There's a lot of weirdness to this puzzle and it is nice to see another mind's understanding. That said, I have some questions.

1. It looks like you missed a triangle and four germs on the cricket.

2. How do you know the Morel has only one square in solution 2?

3. Most importantly, the max and min ranges for the solution you have listed are as follow:

The max values I agree with, but I think the min values are different. You are interpreting the arrow as its positioning draws the limit like this, setting a min of 2 for circles:

I think it is actually meant to be interpreted that arrows include the symbol they are under, which sets the min to 3 circle.

 

The problem with the min of circles being 2 is that it would allow (Morel + Tall/Red) + Worm + Blue Raspberry + Sap to create a successful recipe.

 

But since we know all the successful recipes already, this must mean this is a failed recipe and the circle min can't be 2.

 

 

 

Edited January 1 by Ridley
basic addition is harder than it looks

[Maxwell5]

Is there anything to be done with the crumpled up note on the desk in the day panel?

[Ridley]

3 hours ago, Maxwell5 said:

Is there anything to be done with the crumpled up note on the desk in the day panel?

We don't know yet. Could be a teaser for a upcoming puzzle or even just lore.

[Sustenance]

16 hours ago, Ridley said:

Thank you for the notes! There's a lot of weirdness to this puzzle and it is nice to see another mind's understanding. That said, I have some questions.

1. It looks like you missed a triangle and four germs on the cricket.

2. How do you know the Morel has only one square in solution 2?

3. Most importantly, the max and min ranges for the solution you have listed are as follow:

The max values I agree with, but I think the min values are different. You are interpreting the arrow as its positioning draws the limit like this, setting a min of 2 for circles:

I think it is actually meant to be interpreted that arrows include the symbol they are under, which sets the min to 3 circle.

 

The problem with the min of circles being 2 is that it would allow (Morel + Tall/Red) + Worm + Blue Raspberry + Sap to create a successful recipe.

 

But since we know all the successful recipes already, this must mean this is a failed recipe and the circle min can't be 2.

 

 

 

Good catches.

1. Def missed that. Idk how bc I had it correct in the table on the left ;-;

2. Morel isn't confirmed to have 1 square in solution 2. Based on my solution values (which may now need to be adjusted) blueberry can have at max 1 square or it would overload solution 5. Therefore in order for solution 4 to hit the minimum square either morel OR brainshroom needs to have a minimum of 1.

3. I had considered this before, but i believe it messed up one of the solutions so i dropped it. However you are correct, I tried the combo (Morel + Tall/Red) + Worm + Blue Raspberry + Sap) and it doesn't work so the mins should be +1 from what I had.

 

TY for the insight

[Maxwell5]

Do you reckon the numbers on that note could be related to the music door?

[gargaM0NK]

I took a look at the deposit note.

The number (1275[0/8/9]) at the bottom seems like a potential data point, but so too do the letters in Buckeye Banking.

• Buckeye Banking - 14 characters (15 including the space between "buckeye" and "banking"
  • The 'e's, the 'a', and the 'g' have stars in them, and e/a/g are all musical notes.
  • Unfortunately, the 'i' has a star above it as well, and 'i' isn't a note. (if it was an 'h', we might fudge things to treat it as a g#)
• For me, the filename of the note using the browser developer tools was: 
  • CAA07473CBE5F4846D85FF5616B708EA
    • This is probably madness, but because the filename appears to be hexadecimal, the letters in the string are all musical notes (there are 13 of them by my count)
• I tried separating the image into different components (CYMK/HSV/HSL/LAB/LCH/RGB) but nothing jumped out to me.
  • There's a small section middle-left (below "Voxola") that looked like it might be characters with contrast increased, but I think that's just my brain's pattern recognition going haywire.

This is the first Klei puzzle I've looked at, so I don't know if there's a convention regarding the squiggly text (not sure if that never matters for klei puzzles), but i went ahead and ran it through some image text recognition tools, with the following possible results:

Line1: 
✓ DEPOSITED WITH 

Line 2:
✓ Buckeye Banking

Line3: 
Post Account Of  |  Post Acryone CF  |  Push Acryment CP  |  Fun ACME CR

Line 4:
✓ Voxola Radio Company

Line 5:
August 10, 191?

Line6:
Aw.time. My menum, machcock 1.00 11.  |  AM TI MONTH Manom, dodala   1:00 11.  |  AM. Time 1 MIPTh Menu 1 RACRnch 1.09 11

Line7:
Cormery     |  Cormenge  |  Cormeye    ........    With___t__n G  |  Withstanding G  |  Withansteng G         1275[8/9/0] [Some unit of measure?]

Line8:
onds    .......      Fo[?]  |  For

Line9:
.......    Tu[?]

 

No silver bullets there.

Sharing Fishgirl's earlier thoughts for reference.

On 12/22/2025 at 10:42 PM, Fishgirl said:

here's my current notes rn,

it seems the 2 leads are 643 and the gramophone, but i swear ive done every possible combo of 643/

EDIT: There's also the whistling, but that suffers the same issue as 643; just not alot of notes compared to the 20 you can have

[Ridley]

I could use some help double checking my work. I keep making silly mistakes and it eats up a lot of time quintuple checking basic addition.

 

First, here the ingredient values as I understand it from the book, along with what I think makes a successful recipe.

 

Here are my first notes:

If I keep getting feedback I will keep posting my notes.

[filipahped]

7 hours ago, gargaM0NK said:

I took a look at the deposit note.

The number (1275[0/8/9]) at the bottom seems like a potential data point, but so too do the letters in Buckeye Banking.

• Buckeye Banking - 14 characters (15 including the space between "buckeye" and "banking"
  • The 'e's, the 'a', and the 'g' have stars in them, and e/a/g are all musical notes.
  • Unfortunately, the 'i' has a star above it as well, and 'i' isn't a note. (if it was an 'h', we might fudge things to treat it as a g#)

Suppose the stars represent pitch? Like, the stars are in the top half of "e" and "i", so those have high pitch, and the star is low on "a", so low pitch. "g" has stars on both sides, so a layered note in both high and low pitch?

As for this note, perhaps it is a count of notes in the puzzle. 6+4+3=13 notes. 4 notes in high pitch, 3 notes in low pitch. The 6 is still confusing, but maybe it's a double-pitch like my theory on the "g"

Also: What if the starred letters are like a letters-to-umbers cipher? Like A=1, B=2, etc. That would make e-e-a-i-g into 5-5-1-9-7. Maybe those are the correct notes to hit on the rotary dial.

[keats95]

On 12/23/2025 at 1:42 PM, Fishgirl said:

here's my current notes rn,

it seems the 2 leads are 643 and the gramophone, but i swear ive done every possible combo of 643/

EDIT: There's also the whistling, but that suffers the same issue as 643; just not alot of notes compared to the 20 you can have

I actually think there’s a strong chance we ARE looking for a three note melody, simply because there are three bells attached to the rotary. Just because there are 20 spaces doesn’t necessarily mean we are looking for 20 notes, perhaps the 643 clue is meant to indicate the spaces between the three notes to be played. (eg. Go up 6 notches, input first note, up 4 notches etc..) 

Or maybe instead the three bells are meant to indicate we are supposed to be playing a trio of notes together at a time, like a standard triad chord. 

[murat2080]

This is my understanding of the mechanism and the order of the notes. All based on research 

 I came to this conclusion because the sounds of the bell are very similar to the sound of a xylophone.

When the lever is lowered and the notes become high-pitched, by adjusting the timing between the notes correctly, it's possible to play Jingle Bells (or almost xD).

And these could be the possible numbering options.

Following the logic of the 7 notes, 6, 4, 3 would be A, F, E,

Following the logic of the 12 notes, 6, 4, 3 would be F, D#, D

But I couldn't find anything with 6, 4, or 3; there must be something more to it, some other hidden numbering, perhaps playing a certain number of notes per beat, or duas or more notes per beat. I believe the maximum number of notes should be 3 because of the number of bells (which are 3), and also the duration of the melody, which can go up to 20 or simply up to 5.

Regarding the lines above and below, I found many different interpretations, for example:

The number alone means a single note.

Line below: means that this note is below the staff, using a lower ledger line.

Line above: means that this note is above the staff, using an upper ledger line.

Or

that the number alone, for example, 6, probably represents a quarter note (note with 4 beats).
Line below: may indicate a half note (note with 2 beats).

Line above: may refer to eighth notes (note with half a beat), half of a quarter note.

And other interpretations also appear in relation to the line, such as indicating notes in a major or minor octave.

I don't know anything about music; all of this is based on research, so it could be very wrong, but I'm posting this in case anyone has any idea where to go, or who understands music and can decipher this possible password, which is 6,4,3.

 

 

Edited January 3 by murat2080

[kiwikenobi]

If we assume that the "643" note is the clue we need to solve the musical puzzle, then I think we need to take into account that the horizontal lines are very much like tenuto in musical notation, which means to play a note longer or louder than usual. Since there's no volume setting on the musical lock, the only option is to make it longer. But, assuming they are tenuto marks, it's very confusing to me.

 

6, without the tenuto, would presumably mean a note of normal length. The "default" note is a quarter note. So maybe it's one beat.

4, with the tenuto line, means to play it a little longer than usual. The position of the tenuto below it means that if it were on a music staff, its stem would go up, which would mean it's in the lower half of the notation, so, it would be in the lower octave, of a lower pitch. It's level with the 6, perhaps suggesting they are both in the same octave.

3 has its tenuto line above it, meaning its stem would go down, which would make it higher pitched. But it's positioned lower on the note, while 6 and 4 are perfectly level with each other.

 

Assuming 643 is AFE, it could theoretically look like this as musical notation. The problem is that if it respects the relative position of the numbers on the note--6 and 4 are higher than 3--it makes the tenuto be in the wrong position.

 

If we're using the tenuto as the clue, then it would have to be positioned like this, with the 3 note much higher than the 6 and 4, no longer matching the 643 note.

 

And we still don't know the tempo. If 6 is a quarter note, how long is a quarter note with tenuto? 2 beats? 4? 10?

So, maybe it's not tenuto at all. Maybe this 643 note has nothing to do with the musical lock. It also doesn't take into account that the lock can play many notes simultaneously to form chords.

And I'm obviously not a total layperson when it comes to musical notation, but I'm in no way an expert. So maybe someone who actually studied music theory would see another way to do this that I'm not thinking of.

 

[Skullinsuit]

On 12/29/2025 at 6:17 PM, kiwikenobi said:

Any combination of twenty-four notes per beat, up to twenty beats, adds up to a number so big, there's no word for it. More than millions, more than quadrillions, more than decillions. I don't think it's possible to brute force this.

12 notes in two octaves, plus rest notes is 25. If the answer is up to a combination of 3 not repeating notes then there are 25*24*23, or 13800 combinations for each beat. If the right combination is exactly 20 beats then there are 13800^20 combinations, which is 6.2745376e+82. 62 followed by 81 zeros is Sixty-two sesvigintillion. Assuming there are approximately 10^80 atoms in the universe then there are over 600 combinations for each atom in the universe.

 

Brute force is definitely impossible

[Torpeda]

I know nothing about music and I don't know if anyone talked about it, but my first association regarding "643" numbers was that the lines below "4" and above "3" could have something to do with the rotary dial which also has two lines.

EDIT: reduced size of the image.

Edited January 4 by Torpeda

[BrixGoBrrr]

3 hours ago, kiwikenobi said:

Assuming 643 is AFE, it could theoretically look like this as musical notation. The problem is that if it respects the relative position of the numbers on the note--6 and 4 are higher than 3--it makes the tenuto be in the wrong position.

oooo, i think it can still make sense tho?
bc the line above the number 3 on the '643' paper note might be mathematical notation as much as musical,
meaning it might be a note to repeat whatever is under the bar,
so the decoded music might be something like 643333333333333, or AFEEEEEEEE .... which aligns decently with Wagstaff's whistle to me, '6433' .. perhaps the whistle is just enough info to remember "six, four, repeat three til end" 


(i don't feel super confident in this take, because i don't quite see how it fits the 20 slots, but maybe someone else might)

[kiwikenobi]

It doesn't have to fill all twenty slots, necessarily. That's the problem with everything we've seen so far--nothing makes it clear how many beats the solution lasts. I feel like when we find the solution we'll be absolutely sure which notes need to be played when, and for how long. I feel like if there's any vague speculation involved, it can't possibly be the intended solution.

I mean, maybe the 643 note is actually indicating it. Like, start on 6 beats, go down 4, go up 3, which gets you to 5. But then what do we play for those five beats? Any combination of zero to twenty-four notes across five beats is still I think at least millions of combinations.

I just feel strongly that when we find the solution, we will know. We'll see how everything lines up, how it matches and makes sense, and we'll know exactly what to put in to make it work. Because if there's any guesswork involved with a lock of this complexity, there probably isn't enough time in the universe to figure it out.