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Puzzle 4: ACTIN RELEASE [6 points] #4

Open tjperr opened 3 years ago

tjperr commented 3 years ago

Which award-winning 2009 album is cryptically encoded below?

(Hint: (6,5,3,4,9,9,5) and (7,3,5).)

Given the title of the album, which celebrity name is instantly evoked by the language of #5 (R-N), and how is this person vicariously connected with Christmas 2020?

mjtriggs commented 3 years ago

I'm wondering if this could be read as some sort of guitar chords?

mjtriggs commented 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_top-ten_albums_in_2009

sajohnston commented 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2009_albums

Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix won some awards and also evokes the name of Mozart, but I'm not sure they'd refer to Mozart as a 'celebrity' and I don't see how R-N fits.

Reality Killed the Video Star is a 2009 album by Robbie Williams. The name evokes Video Killed the Radio Star, which maybe evokes Trevor Horn. If the R-N refers to the final letters in the name, then Trevor Horn would fit. However, I'm not sure if that album won any awards and I don't know what the Christmas connection would be.

The Blueprint III maybe evokes the name of Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, for whom R-N could be a pattern if R is the final letter of the last name and N is the final letter of the first name. I don't know if this won any awards as an album though.

johnmatthewswift commented 3 years ago

Ignoring the colour of the shaded circles, the pattern of filled / blank circles repeats exactly twice left to right.