Talk:For Want of a Clue, Part 2/@comment-35774517-20180626033946/@comment-35774517-20181108171655

@Kroomp - that's really interesting about the horizontal flipping! I didn't notice that.

It's curious that V is the one that is both upside-down and backwards. The letter V is mentioned multiple places in the book (Madame Esmeralda's card reading, Colleen using the V of her catapult to trap the snake in The Bad Seed, the orc scout cookies in The Shifty, Craven Kind has a V made with fingers, and the librarian is looking through the V cards). On the other hand, the instructions specifically say "the letters on them are otherwise meaningless for your escape", so it is probably just a coincidence.

I'd be cautious about going to far into the shapes of the vellum though. The Puzzazz version doesn't have the shapes at all, and the meta is indended to be solvable in both formats. That's not to say that this isn't a potential hint, just that it can't be required to solve the meta.

It's very possible that the authors did not think too hard about the vellum patterns and just didn't want them all to look the same, and it just so happens that 12 of them are not oriented the same as the others (12 that doesn't all correspond to illustrated cards).