Talk:For Want of a Clue, Part 2/@comment-99.179.103.38-20140826191031/@comment-76.102.152.100-20140831215657

The library card idea is interesting, but not all of the books included that, so I'm a bit apprehensive to think that you'd absolutely need it to proceed, especially since there aren't readily available images of it online.

As for matching them to great works of fiction, what throws me off from this idea is still scrap N, which seems more like a metainstruction more than anything. It doesn't seem like it would reasonably match with a book. It does however bring to mind that part of the instructions that mentions that the pages of the book are not meaningless. I don't know what this would mean other than the cards themselves though.

However, unless it's a red herring, it only makes sense to match the 52 scraps to the 52 puzzles in SOME way, if not thematic. Other than the story sections, we have the keywords, the titles, the corresponding cards, and the "transformed" keywords from each chapter's meta. I'm sure the cards will come into play, maybe at a later stage of the puzzle. Some of the keywords are a simple match (the one referencing a deadly sin, and the answer to J of clubs), but this doesn't seem like it would work well for all the scraps. Additionally, I'm wondering as to how to extract a message out of the scraps at the end. Each couplet probably has a 1 word "answer" (The Bully Pulpit's story text mentions Colleen looking over her answers), but who knows what to do from there. There just seems to be an insufficient amount of information at the moment. Mike did mention somewhere that the overall campaign of the book is ARG-like...