Ludiquest 2 solution (almost)

It's been about a year and a half since I posted here. I've been gaming more recently, including attending the World Boardgaming Championships in Lancaster, PA in the first week of August. I've learned plenty of new games and definitely want to post some reviews, but first I think I need to post the solution (or as much as I remember) to Ludiquest 2.

It's probably easiest to go through it line by line (I've added the hints where relevant):

'With Roman count "as 102"' and "Where does c = 100?", "Where does 1000001 = 65 = A?" - Obviously, in roman numberals 102 would be CII. Which would make the part in quotes read "asCII". ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and is common knowledge to anyone who programs.


"You'll read the writing on the wall" - Nothing exciting here...just continuing the sentence to mention that ASCII is how you'll read what I've written. What is written, of course, is

57 76 57 48 57 55 57 57 57 56

If you plug these numbers into a standard ASCII table, they translate to:

9 L 9 0 9 7 9 9 8


"But you will need to change your view", "When does pi = 180?" - The characters don't make much sense as they are. To change your view, turn them upside down. Regarding the hint, in geometry 2 Pi Radians is equal to 360 degrees of a circle. Pi radians would be half a circle, telling you to turn what you have 180 degrees.

If you do so, they will read (roughly):

8 6 6 L 6 0 6 6 7 6

Now, they are beginning to look a little more familiar.


"Before you make the proper call" - Call this number on the phone. This hint reads "where does L = 5?". On a phone keypad is the answer. If you called 866 560-6676, you would get a voicemail which would give you the next hint. I turned off the phone number about a month or two after my last post. I have no idea who might answer now.

I know that at least two people made it this far, since I saw their numbers on the phone statement. There were multiple calls from each - I assume so they could hear the whole message and write down the numbers. However, no one solved the final one-word answer.

The voicemail clue had another little rhyme about "keys" and I read off a long list of numbers with occasional slightly longer pauses. If you were paying attention to the numbers, you definitely would have noticed that they tended to fall into the same range as the numbers from the original post, and were indeed ASCII. The longer pauses were intended to be line breaks. If you translated these using an ASCII table, you would get the following:

1 4 7 * 0 #

1 4 7 * 0 # 9 6 3

1 4 7 * 2 6 9 0

2 5 8 0 1 2 3 * 0 #

3 2 1 4 7 * 0 #


What does this mean? I'm not going to tell you. I'll leave it as a modest challenge for the reader. The answer is only one word and you have one clue remaining: "The last word will be found by location, not by sound" - really more of a warning not to go down the wrong path.

I have no idea if anyone is reading, but my next post will be a game review (and will be within 2 weeks).

- Happy gaming