LogFAQs > #916324345

Ah, Junpei tosses the wooden box in, and then they put the fire out with the bottle of water and retrieve what came out with the fire hook. It's coin number two, which...is of no help on its own. Ah, the red X on the trap door matches the one on the hammer...I had to investigate those things, I guess, before I could use the hammer on the chess board? We get a round cylinder (that's redundant), and the board is open. I examine the cylinder, and it has three windows for chess pieces. I enter rook, bishop, king, and it opens. Yielding a coin, and also a note that tells us the correct order to put the letters in for that roulette puzzle. Guess I was supposed to do this before the roulette puzzle, huh? But now all I have left are the puzzle pieces, and no idea where to use them. They don't fit in the holes on the card table...examining the card table suggests using the cards to calculate. They're not sure what the ripped kings are about, nor what to do about the Queens and Jacks, and suggests there's a clue around here somewhere.

...Aha.

94Q74A
SADMAN

So A = 4, S = 9, M = 7, N = ace, D = queen. Except that seems odd, because our four-digit number was TQQ9, which ends in DDS. Our only four-letter word with a double letter in the middle is BEER. And A83 most certainly cannot be "JAM".

But BEER had no attached number. Our four-letter word with a number attached was JUKE. The oil had a number attached, but wasn't all-caps.

Ah, but what does it matter?! We have no input device!

A thing I missed in the slot machine. Odds = 35(%). ...JAM also had a % sign!

I was right all along. O = 10. But that means our three-letter word is, in fact, probably not JAM. Unless I completely whiffed on doing the math blind, and just got lucky. ...Well, the 9 = S is obvious regardless of which six-letter word we use. ...Our base word was 94Q58J. That, uh...doesn't fit the pattern for SADMAN or SUNSET. No repeated letters. But if it was SADMAN, the 8 would indeed be an A. A83, the only thing we have to go on is the 8. Maybe it is JAM?

...Bugger, the pieces are for making the heart. Oh man this puzzle's annoying...and it seems you can rotate the pieces after all. ...Finally got it. Coin and card...calendar...

Mother fucker. A83 is JAM, and TQQ9 is ODDS, and and 94Q58J is, indeed, SADMAN. 100 - 35 + 570 = 635. Sticking the card calendar into the jukebox reveals the three dice, which we stick into the table at 6, 3, 5 to get the last coin. Pressing the button gets us our first "You found it!" of the match. The armor seems to be pointing guns at them, and the decision game's rules are explained. Each person must roll one of the three dice, and if all three dice display a 1, they win and can all escape, but if even one person's die shows something else, or if someone refuses to roll, everyone gets gunned down. We get "decision game", but our only decision is to roll the dice. 1, 3, 5. Carlos has us cower behind the bar. Doesn't work. Seems that whatever happened for the other two teams, Phi is the only one of the nine that survived this iteration.
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