SLWTF – A Second Life travelogue by Garth Goode

I’ll admit to being extremely math-phobic, so when I landed on Clock Island I was at once curious and appalled. As I explored the shores strewn with giant numbers and the massive hourglass through which numbers tumble downward, it was as if I were reliving a bad dream from by childhood. These are the things that wake you up screaming the night before a math test.

The numbers, though, are really the numbers from a clock. There are golden numbers (often verywell hidden) that contain notecards with clues from someone calling themself the Crazy Genius. His web site (www.crazy-genius.com) is part of the puzzle. The notecards are in Japanese, which makes the puzzle that much harder (no, I haven’t figured it out yet) but Babelfish or Google Translations help to get you past that barrier.

Even if you don’t care to solve the puzzle, this is an imaginatively surreal build. Is the builder a crazy genius or a nutty fruitcake? I’m not– uh oh, I have to go, the Number 5 is attacking me again! NOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Clock%20Island/184/88/56/

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