Talk:For Want of a Clue, Part 2/@comment-71.197.218.118-20180531061448/@comment-131.107.160.36-20180531211854

My hypothesis is that the clock faces are not all oriented with 12 = up, and there is a "reference line" that gives the right orientation. For 5Hearts, this is the minutes hand on the watch (so minute and hour hand in the same place = 12 o'clock). The clock itself has 1 2 3 on it, and 1 next to 2 can mean "12".

Maybe this is crazy, but if there isn't some trick like this going on, 9Clubs (which would clearly be 5) and 9Spades (again, clearly 5) overlap. But if you use Colleen's knife as the reference in 9Spades, then the lit star is at 9 o'clock (which matches with the repeated '9' mentions in the text).

For 9Clubs, the Gatekeeper's hands are the reference, so it really is 5 o'clock formed by the hourglass.

Then I get this. Some I am less sure about than others (7Hearts is weird, and JSpades feels like it should be one too, maybe Colleen's skirt is like a clock shape? maybe?)