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[Lee Ambolt]

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Gold bars, 24 carat gold, so I took 24. the three 8s with the plusses.

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[Zachary]

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Also, “Day and Night” = 24 hours

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[HarrIson]

Hint: Door numbers

It’s been mentioned already that the symbol for the door to the right is three 8’s, which is 24. By the same principle the design on the other door is six 3’s, which is 18.

However, unlike,

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Hint: Cube in cube

A cube has 12 lines connecting it’s end points. Therefore, the cube within a cube on the stool to the left, has 24 lines.

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[HarrIson]

Hint: Turning Lead into Gold

The text mentions instructions to turn lead into gold. Lead is element 82 in the period table and gold is 79. So to turn lead into gold would require you to subtract three. The number derived by the formula in the center of the room. The idea of subtracting might have been subtlety suggested in the text when it mentions alchemy’s “negative reputation”

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[Creeves]

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Its not a cube; it’s a tesseract which has 24 sides.
Also 24 karat gold. And day & night = 24 hours.
(I think the six 3s is a red herring)

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