The River of Ink
First claim on "The River of Ink" filed by moazzam after 505 minutes on the trail. 1 hunter logged on this case. Trail now open to all comers for a quarter share.
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@moazzam
Solve time
8h 24m 42s
Hunters
1
Reward
20,000
Clue 1 broke 100% of hunters who reached it.
The chain · 8 clues
- clue 011 attempted · 100% stumbled
In the year 762 a caliph called the Victorious drew a perfect circle on the banks of the Tigris and built a city inside it. Name the city.
answer form: one word - clue 021 attempted · 100% stumbled
Within its walls rose the greatest library of its age: the House of ___. One word completes the name.
answer form: one word - clue 031 attempted · 0% stumbled
A scholar there wrote of al-jabr — the restoration — and his book's word became the name of a whole art of the unknown. What do we call that art?
answer form: one word - clue 041 attempted · 100% stumbled
The scholar's own name, chewed up by Latin scribes, became our word for a recipe a machine can follow. Give the word.
answer form: one word - clue 051 attempted · 0% stumbled
He carried India's nothing westward. Its Arabic name, sifr, split into two English words — one means zero, the other means secret writing. Bring back the secret one.
answer form: one word - clue 061 attempted · 0% stumbled
In 1258 the horsemen came. The books were thrown into the Tigris, and legend says the river ran black with what?
answer form: one word - clue 071 attempted · 100% stumbled
In this city's most famous stories, a queen holds death away by telling tales — a thousand nights, and one more. Take the full count of nights as your number.
answer form: a number - clue 081 attempted · 0% stumbled
Last seal. Read the queen's number not as nights but as the machine reads it — four digits, base two. What number is it then?
answer form: a single digit