Puzzle 4.4 was a standard puzzle type, followed by a second step which required Australian knowledge and Jonathan solved on his own. So, nothing too interesting to blog about there.

Puzzle 4.5 was a nice quick solve, at about 22 minutes the easy puzzle for round four.  It was surprisingly similar to the easy puzzle in round two.  The puzzle is available here and our solving log is after the cut.

Log:

0:00:00

Opening puzzle

0:00:23

Writing on body parts… J says it looks familiar.

0:01:05

ANKLE, ARMPIT, CHEST, EAR, ELBOW, FINGERTIP, NOSE, PALM, THIGH

0:02:44

J agrees on all 9.

0:02:50

J: God of War is ARIES  [Uh, wrong, Jonathan.]

0:02:59

J: Unless it’s the game, then it’s KRATOS, or MARS for Roman.

0:04:21

J: PETRIFYING, for medusa’s gaze, maybe

0:04:41

J: APE for SIMIAN? (or APELIKE, I add)

0:05:33

“The lord..” is from PSALM 23, so PSALM maybe.. which is one more than PALM, of course

0:06:02

ROAR could be NOISE, to have the same characteristic.

0:06:12

J: EIGHTH for THIGH

0:07:23

J: CHASTE?

0:07:41

god is ARES. so S for 9th letter.

0:10:57

 ?IS?A?E?S

0:11:51

STONE for NOSE… but we already used NOISE/NOSE… hmm

0:12:37

J: PETRIFYING for FINGERTIP  [I was impressed by this one.]

0:13:37

J: PRIMATE for ARMPIT

0:15:01

J: Let’s do BELLOW for ROAR

0:15:18

SHONE/NOSE

0:15:47

J: They’ll form a chain.

0:19:44

J: in chain order: YELASHESA

0:21:27

EYELASHES using NPL’s transposal finder on YLSAEEHS. … correct!   [Probably more fun to use our brains than a tool, but we used a tool.]k