On December 29, 2023 at 4:25PM EST EMC2 responded to RickByers:
I think it might be more officially known with the "an": https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/10956
On December 29, 2023 at 2:16PM EST RickByers wrote:
Note that there appears to be an error in this puzzle. The final painting should be labeled "LANDSCAPER WITH OBELISK" (no "AN").
On December 29, 2023 at 2:16PM EST RickByers wrote:
Note that there appears to be an error in this puzzle. The final painting should be labeled "LANDSCAPER WITH OBELISK" (no "AN").
On March 18, 2023 at 5:17PM EST Radar wrote:
Ohhhh - I like this one. I KNEW the first painting title was incorrect. Without any hints - I was off and running gathering correct titles and painters. Of course, there was a small deviation (to be expected). But what two word phase -- “POP into my head will you”....half way through Hint 3. Yippee...and I spelled it correctly!
On January 24, 2023 at 2:07PM EST Just-A responded to Rubik’s:
This is a bit of an oddball in that you're asked to solve the puzzle (THE WAY THEY WORK), and then somehow interpret that phrase into yet another "solution" that isn't about the puzzle you just solved. At this point it's not really a puzzle: consider, for example, that the red lines are framed within the same pattern as used for the sofa below, but that actually has nothing to do with anything, or that while the puzzle is about artwork, the solution has nothing to do with artwork. You would be forgiven, for example, if you assumed THE WAY THEY WORK was referring to techniques used by the artists, artistic periods, common geographies, or even the simple response of "WITH PAINT", which are all correct solutions to this ambiguous prompt.
If you want a hint for the sake of completion, consider the focus of the introductory text and the resulting empty frames in the picture. A second hint would be given it's about committing crimes, what is the term for how criminals "work"? A third hint: it's Latin and often abbreviated to two letters.
On March 15, 2022 at 12:32PM EST Rubik’s wrote:
I cracked most of the puzzle and got the way they work I am stuck trying to think what the two word phrase could be. Is there another code/cipher in the page, because I can’t think of any two word phrase that makes sense and that I haven’t tried to put into the answer box. Any hints?
On March 15, 2022 at 12:32PM EST Rubik’s wrote:
I cracked most of the puzzle and got the way they work I am stuck trying to think what the two word phrase could be. Is there another code/cipher in the page, because I can’t think of any two word phrase that makes sense and that I haven’t tried to put into the answer box. Any hints?
On January 17, 2022 at 5:07PM EST MisterMalaka wrote:
Was stuck on this one for quite a bit. My Google searches kept coming back with "Landscape With Obelisk" as the name of the painting, so I thought the letters "A" and "N" were also part of the changed letters.
On December 29, 2021 at 12:03AM EST TheMulchMan wrote:
Figured out the hint quickly and banged my head against finding the real answer for twice that time. On the bright side, I learned what that acronym means.
