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[Ridley]

I've been entering 1275 as one note beats like I am dialling a rotary phone, then trying to enter the three different whistle notes together as a chord on the 5th beat, but it hasn't yielded any results yet.

[TechnoMoth]

1 hour ago, Malfario said:

I think we are overcomplicating this to an extreme, the solution has to be much more simplier and we know people here has gotten close.

1275 + 643 is most likely the solution  and we just need an iteration of it that makes sense. 

Aditionally i wanted to point out something i recently noticed

If you notice the 1275 is torned up in a way the 2 and 7 could be interpreted as being underlined, and by contrast the 1 and 5 seem upper lined, this could indicate the 2 and 7 are played with the lower pitch and the 1 and 5 with a higher pitch. My former theory interpreted the two clues like this.

1(H) I 2(L) I 7(L) I 5(H) I 6(H)4(H)3(L) // H=High note L=Low note

I got nothing, Sure i am interpreting the upper lines like high pitch and the under lines like low pitch and it might as well be the reversed, Gotta try all those variants.

However i have the feeling there is more that meet the (Buck)eye, If we look up the names we can read "With G For TU", but if we get a little creative and read those as they sound/look we can get "With 642" AND WOUDL YOU LOOK AT THAT, THE 6 HAS THE PART WITH THE DOTTED LINE RIPPED UP, SO WE COULD GET THAT THE 6 IS UPPERLINED, AND THE 4 AND 2 UNDERLINED HAVING THE PITCH FOR A THRE NOTE CORD.

The three lines on the clues from the notebook i am not sure if they are just meant to indicate that the bank receipt its what we are looking for, if its the separation between cords, indicate spaces on the beat etc, however if we understand those notes like just the separation between beats, it would give us 4 beats plus thr adtional one for the right side of the clue, which matches with the 5 beat solution hinted by the new higlited ring on the beat counter.

I dont know if anything here its close ott he solution but i think we are getting close, good luck everybody

This is very interesting. I can't check it right now, but as soon as i get home i'll check this out.
We know that the code is five beats long, and, as Nome said, four first beats are easier and the fifth one is complicated (According to Nome). So i believe that the fifth beat is several notes in one beat. 
But the "G, For and Tu" theory is kinda bad. It is UNLIKELY to be that way.

Edited January 20 by TechnoMoth

[alainmcd]

That's it!

[GetNerfedOn]

the next arg news shall herald the dawn of the solved music puzzle

until then, the herald shall sleep (so as to not interrup current discussion + i feel like absolute s-)

[Malfario]

41 minutes ago, GetNerfedOn said:

the next arg news shall herald the dawn of the solved music puzzle

until then, the herald shall sleep (so as to not interrup current discussion + i feel like absolute s-)

I hope you feel better soon, thanks for the amazing work 

[AtxSmudge]

I went back a few weeks in this thread, and I'm trying to figure what people are really confident about, as far as what are real clues. It seems there's a consensus that "1,2,7,5" and "6,4,3" are part of it. Is that right? 

From the dev posts, it seems there are 2 parts to the musical sequence, so is it just those 2 parts? Does the whistle have ANYTHING to do with it? Would the puzzle makers expect people to understand music theory/logic... or just be able decode the numerical clues? It seems to me, it should be solvable as just a numeric puzzle?

And apparently the individual parts were solved fairly quickly on day one, but I can't figure out in the thread what day that was. 

[layangan putus]

3 hours ago, TechnoMoth said:

as Nome said, four first beats are easier and the fifth one is complicated (According to Nome).

How easy is the first 4-beat? Like, does it only consist of a note per beat? And it happens to be 1275? If so, we're in luck because...

 

In the end, we only need to figure out the "plus something", which might have its own unique rule, and combine it 16 times to rule it out. Doable. 

Edited January 20 by DST enjoyer

[BrixGoBrrr]

about the bank note's date: August 10, 191? ( 8/10/191? )

-> i checked the moon cycle for Ohio in Aug 1918 and Aug 1919 ( using timeanddate[dot]com/moon/usa/columbus?month=8&year=1919 )

-> the moon on Aug 10 1918 was not notable to me at all (it's roughly half way between the New Moon and First Quarter)

-> the night of Aug 10 1919 was a Full Moon, peaking midday on Aug 11 1919

[note1: i did not check all of the 1910s, but can if anyone sees value in doing so, lmk] 
[note2: i don't currently see this detail as a direct connection to the rotary door puzzle, but it might be/become relevant any time, so i'm sharing this idea now bc i discovered this info today] 

[TicTac_Andy]

My Headcanon atm:

But surely we can do it without another hint, good luck!

[layangan putus]

The last hint really narrows the answer. We know it's 5 beats. As long as the first four beats are one note, and the fifth beat is a chord made of 3 notes. Then, it's gonna be 16 times 8, which equals 128 pitch patterns. It's doable through brute forcing when someone knows the correct inputs, but numbers have many interpretations. Maybe the inputs are not even numbers. They said the correct answers were already entered separately, so people already figured it out. Still, my door remains closed. 

Anyway...

It means nothing, really; a chord doesn't care about order. Maybe there is another way to use the "643".

 

"Every 6 something... mark the 4th, then smack every three wearing a line-hat."

Edited January 21 by DST enjoyer

[gargaM0NK]

I don't have a specific new piece of the puzzle. But I do have some gut thoughts.

The rectangular hole comment makes me think that we're going way overboard on trying to interpret things as musical notes.

• The most likely clues, to me, are (in order), Wagstaff's whistle notes, the cricket chirp note, and the music from the record player.

And the comment about an old man who needs a mnemonic suggests, to me, that the 643 paper is that mnemonic (it's hung up right where he can see it):

• Part of me wants to parse the lines somehow ("six, four over (forever?), three-under", etc)
• But a saner part of me thinks it's simply, "6 for 3", as in "Swap six for three," or "play six [notes] for three [beats] each", etc.
   

Edited January 20 by gargaM0NK
edited for clarity

[Aldair Reis]

On 1/19/2026 at 4:03 PM, nome said:

A new small clue has been deployed

Where?

Is this new?

[aPotato]

 

4 hours ago, Aldair Reis said:

Where?

Is this new?

We got this book last week, since then the first clue has been updated like this:

On 1/17/2026 at 12:23 AM, LavenderLillie said:

Update: There's been a change to the empty stamp in the Victory Journal
It now has 3 lines in it on the large side

Notably, this is similar to the gaps in between the numbers on the Buckeye Banking slip, so presumably we need those numbers plus something else

and then we got this: 

On 1/19/2026 at 8:06 PM, Tytush said:

New clue detected.

I'm thinking that maybe the (6_4-3) clue is pointing to the "chord" we need to make with the numbers, as only 3 bells ring at a time per imput. and The 1-2-7-5-X Is the main note. But I can't figure out how to make the right chords. 7 (7_5-4) and 5 (5_3-2) are quite easy. But I don't know what to do with 1 and 2... (1_11-10), (1-11_10)? Someone willing to help forcing this to erase it from the list?

1.  

further indicating the melody is played in 5 steps. 

and the newest update

On 1/20/2026 at 1:51 AM, nome said:

Incoming change: we've adjusted the bell sound for additional clarity. You may need to force-reload to get the new sounds.

[Ianbah]

Yesterday I asked my former guitar teacher for help. I sent him the sound Wagstaff makes, and he identified it as D-A-C-E in that order. Researching it, I found the natural D minor scale. Coincidentally, the whistle leaves out exactly the third, fourth, and sixth notes i don't know the octaves of the notes, nor the meaning of the lines on 4 and 3.

Edited January 21 by Ianbah

[Grifffffffff]

so has anyone solved it yet? cus this feels close

[Ridley]

52 minutes ago, Grifffffffff said:

so has anyone solved it yet? cus this feels close

Not yet, but any second now...

 

any second now....

[HowlVoid]

Its probably not as complicated as you guys are making it.

Now give me the answer 

[Ridley]

I think I will work on this possibilities later unless a hint comes along:

 

[The Starver]

On 1/20/2026 at 10:30 AM, AtxSmudge said:

I went back a few weeks in this thread, and I'm trying to figure what people are really confident about, as far as what are real clues. It seems there's a consensus that "1,2,7,5" and "6,4,3" are part of it. Is that right? 

From the dev posts, it seems there are 2 parts to the musical sequence, so is it just those 2 parts? Does the whistle have ANYTHING to do with it? Would the puzzle makers expect people to understand music theory/logic... or just be able decode the numerical clues? It seems to me, it should be solvable as just a numeric puzzle?

And apparently the individual parts were solved fairly quickly on day one, but I can't figure out in the thread what day that was. 

Did you just type 1 2 3 4 5 6 7?

We may have found ourselves a clue.

Edited January 21 by The Starver
And no, I don’t mean 6-7.

[nome]

OK, we've finally split this puzzle into two parts. If you successfully get the first 4 beats of the puzzle right you should now see that reflected in your victories journal. Having to switch pages is not ideal we know, but hopefully this will help a lot anyway. It's also NOT retroactive so don't expect it to show whether you've previously entered a valid solution.

[Gooba]

[Popian]

41 minutes ago, nome said:

OK, we've finally split this puzzle into two parts.

Will it accept the final chord as 1 entry or do we have to enter the rest for every attempt?

[nome]

6 minutes ago, Popian said:

Will it accept the final chord as 1 entry or do we have to enter the rest for every attempt?

Every attempt, sorry. It's a hack on a preexisting puzzle, I didn't want to rip out the guts of it too badly.

[Dr. Safety]

2 hours ago, Gooba said:

Wow... so it was the thing he was whistling

[Popian]

I know I am burnt out on entering things into the door. Collectively documenting what has been attempted as the final chord in sharps only pitch notation might help. I can say for sure that I tried no chord and D#4C#5.

 

It might be possible that some clues are for revealing hidden panels beside the drawer and door. I will try this:

There is 1 word to enter on the day side.
There are 2 words to enter on the day side.
There is something to enter not on the door lock on the night side to reveal something hidden.

Edited January 22 by Popian
not on the door lock