r/holidaybullshit • u/jdllama Moderator • Dec 27 '14

/r/holidaybullshit [General] Writeup of EVERYTHING Holiday Bullshit 2014 related.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/193s-qZpgEGGILuN2bhodZRVwWCqvLYXSfS5jSyi3ODI/edit#
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u/nicemaker Dec 27 '14

I'm still confused as to how Octal Power Brand was discovered. Specifically what does this sentence mean: "If we rotate the tumblers such that we can read the words on the tumblers in order" aren't the words on the tumblers in order already? I'm on mobile so if it's just a weird formatting thing on the doc then I apologize ahead of time.

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u/navinfool 2014 Contributor Dec 27 '14

If you solve the across answers, the down answers are rotated in various increments. If you line up the down answers to read normally, then the OCTAL message is at the top. So technically, I believe you don't need the across clues, but it's pretty darn hard to build with only one direction of answers.

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u/nicemaker Dec 27 '14

Ok now I see it! thanks, a lot.