Quote from: neogabe on January 20, 2018, 09:31:53 PM

Quote from: bug.lady on January 20, 2018, 02:28:20 PM

Anybody can help me connect the original message with a 7x9 board? I was working on rewriting the message into 7x9 and 9x7 grids, but the Xs don't align with any particularly meaningful objects on board (like leaves and/or chess pieces). I thought about aligning the M (text message) with the key or ribbons, but the key is in between the tiles and the ribbons are on the rightmost column and I cannot align it either.

EDIT: It is an old idea, but at that time the "hearts on fire" painting had not been published yet so puzzle solvers who connected the original message with a chessboard idea played with a 8x8 chessboard. To no avail, at that time. I am wondering if there is any new value in the idea after we have received new puzzle pieces.

I barely remember that @coin_artist said that the picture is enough to resolve the puzzle, there is no need for using other pieces of information from other puzzles or previous steps... I am sure that the exact comment is in one of the pages of this thread. Nevertheless, I don't discard your idea, I think that the "347" thing, in the puzzles and the user names of the "people involved" belongs to other lines of work.

Did you check this right? http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/cvwiki//index.php?title=Yari_Shogi Is one of the old clues, already posted a year ago I think...

Sorry not being really helpful...

I read through the whole thread and that one hint (the Xs and their sequence) were never used to solve anything, also I find it awkward that the chessboard was considered in the thread before it actually appeared on the painting. It is kind of too much of a coincidence. Then again, it may be an awkward coincidence...

Also there was this comment

Quote from: mirth23 on September 14, 2014, 02:42:15 PM

Quote from: frisco on September 14, 2014, 02:13:40 PM

Ok this one is pretty obvious but I have not think about it until now.
The first message has two series of numbers the encoded in the X and the 347 final part, maybe that's the user and password and we just need to properly decode both.
3 4 7 9 12 16 30 37 43 48 51 55 59 65 - 3 4 7
(...)

I think that series may be important later on, but it isn't part of this password puzzle.
(...)

and mirth23 knows what he is saying, he solved a large part of this puzzle. If this painting is really the last puzzle piece, than when to use the sequence if not NOW?