Initial thoughts:
Looks like hexadecimal, but converting to decimal doesn’t suggest anything
18 nodes (16 unique with C6 and 56 repeated)
41 lines in 15 colors, all line colors match one of its connected nodes
3 nodes have no lines in their color (4, 57, 27)
the other 15 nodes have 1 to 6 matching lines
If each node is a letter (with 16 of the 26 being used) and each line color set a separate word it could be a 15 word phrase with 2 to 7 letters each and 56 total letters.
The coloring of the lines is pretty clear. Starting with the node at the 12 o clock position that node’s color is the same as all lines emanating from it. Moving clockwise this pattern repeats until you hit a node that already has a connection. After that only the new connections have lines that match the node’s color.
That’s why I think the colors don’t matter. There are many people with degrees of color blindness. I feel like SN wouldn’t publish a puzzle that required some physical ability
I think the colors are significant. I’m wondering if it indicates which letters come before or after other letters. For example, nothing precedes “9” which comes before “27” which comes before “66”… “C6,” “56,” “44” and “35” also appear before “27” at different points in the message. Or something like that.
It’s funny that each node has a unique color, but not necessarily a unique code. I don’t know what to make of that.
Lol nope. Whenever there are two colors on a chart, they’re always red and green. I have the most mild form of the most common form of colorblindness, and to me, red and green look absolutely identical. If I explain this to people, they react as if they’ve never heard of that. I’ve had sales associates at clothing stores literally call me stupid, and have people laugh at me in business meetings when I couldn’t tell items marked in red from items marked in green. Ten percent of the population has this problem, but because nobody ever talks about it, the other ninety percent are unaware that it even exists. But that’s just my lived experience.
There’s a question (which they refer to as a “hint”) above the answer box on the webpage - “Which path did you take?”.
I put in about 3 Robert Frost variations and gave up, but the question’s definitely relevant.
