[Welcome to my puzzle event set as part of Jeff’s world landmarks event. Les énigmes du musée du palais de Louvre is a huge event, in its own right, with some 35 complex interlocked puzzles. Only the introduction below which explains the background and structure of the hunt is in French (which seemed fitting for an event set in the heart of Paris). I should add that there are absolutely no hidden messages, secret links or other puzzle content on this page. – Mikalye]

Les énigmes du musée du palais de Louvre

Le musée du Louvre est un musée d'art et d'antiquités situé au centre de Paris dans le palais du Louvre. Il est le plus grand des musées d'art du monde par sa surface d'exposition de 72735 m2. Ses collections comprennent près de 460 000 œuvres. Celles-ci présentent l'art occidental du Moyen Âge à 1848, celui des civilisations antiques qui l'ont précédé et influencé (orientales, égyptienne, grecque, étrusque et romaine), les arts des premiers chrétiens et de l'Islam. Le musée compte 2 100 employés (fonctionnaires, contractuels et vacataires), dont 1 200 agents de surveillance, un garde pour chacune des 403 salles d’exposition, que complètent les effectifs affectés aux 900 caméras du système de télésurveillance.

Situé dans le 1er arrondissement de Paris, sur la rive droite entre la Seine et la rue de Rivoli, le musée se signale par la pyramide de verre de son hall d'accueil, érigée en 1989 dans la cour Napoléon et qui en est devenue emblématique, tandis que la statue équestre de Louis XIV constitue le point de départ de l'axe historique parisien. Avec environ neuf millions de visiteurs annuels (depuis 2011), le Louvre est le musée le plus visité au monde et le site culturel payant le plus visité de France.

À propos de cet événement:

Au lieu d'entrer dans la pyramide et ensuite de parcourir tout le musée à votre guise, dans cette chasse, vous visiterez quatre parties distinctes du Louvre accessibles par le nord, le sud, l'est ou l'ouest de la pyramide. En réalité, les visiteurs traversent le côté est et descendent un escalier vers la galerie d'entrée (voir l'image ci-dessous), mais cela ne semblait pas idéal pour cet événement, alors, dans notre monde, vous traverserez simplement l'un des côtés de la pyramide et serez transporté(e) ailleurs. Chaque côté est distinct et peut être maîtrisé séparément (on ne peut pas passer de l’un à l’autre). Lorsque vous aurez réussi les quatre côtés, vous serez considéré comme ayant réussi l'événement.

En outre, sur chacune des quatre "ailes" du Louvre, il y a une énigme cachée (l’énigme secrète, l’énigme roublarde, L’énigme astucieuse et l’énigme sournoise). Aucun de ces éléments n'est requis pour réussir l'événement. Cependant, si vous les trouvez tous les quatre, vous pouvez gagner le titre de « Master of Secrets » (ce qui en fait mon premier événement avec récompense).

Au cours de cet événement, vous découvrirez un site archéologique secret, vous appréhenderez les criminels de base, vous explorerez un espace multidimensionnel, et oh, vous pourrez visiter (et j'espère en apprendre quelque chose) les merveilleux trésors conservés dans Musée du Louvre.
Amusez-vous bien! -Mikalye

Vous commencez ici.

[Note: Collect the passcodes from the landmarks from this week to gain access to a train for week 4!
Schedule for complete event and access to weekly trains can be found HERE]

View of the Louvre Pyramid
Welcome to the Louvre Palace
Google Maps overhead view of the Louvre

Icon for the Louvre Pyramid Landmark - Note that this appears at the top of every page in the hunt, but there is no puzzle content in the icon here or elsewhere.

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Hi, on the hint for the West+north puzzle (the 15 pyramids), on 12 you wrote that bottom letters are SK. But there is no S in the available letters... (ABDEKLNORT).

6 years ago
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Nevermind. I guess you changed 12, but did not change the hint.

6 years ago
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Indeed, absolutely my fault. I did note in the errata that I needed to replace 12, but in my rush to get the hint up, I used the original, flawed 12 rather than the new and improved 12. Sigh... Sorry, I will fix the hint now.

6 years ago
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Bump for the west wing solved. There are so many great and fun puzzles in there! It's quite sad only a few people got far enough to even see them...

6 years ago
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And one more bump for making it to the end! ...I still have one small piece to return to, and some secrets to find (not sure where to look now). A great event of an enormous scale! Thanks a lot for the experience, I actually did learn quite a few new and interesting things!

Edit: Finished the last bit and completed the southern wing -- that was fun as well... It would be hard to say which wing was my favorite.

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You are very welcome.

6 years ago
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Bump for solving the North wing! :)

6 years ago
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Huge hint for the east wing now posted.

Other big hints will now be available. Let me know where you are stuck. I am happy to try to get people through.

6 years ago*
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I so wish I wasn’t so wrapped into creating future puzzles so I could devote some time to this... there have been so many awesome things said about how good it is...

6 years ago
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Thanks for the kind words. I am pleased that I managed a different feel for the Louvre, the Vimy Memorial and the Castel Sant'Angelo. I am up to my eyeballs on designing the Acropolis at present. I think I did take on too much.

6 years ago
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well, good thing I can go back and solve all your landmarks even after GAs are done... like many others the solving is so worth it regardless of GAs...

6 years ago
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I am stuck on west in front of the fortune teller. Just to say...

6 years ago
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I spoke to you in chat. Think of the theme of all of the puzzles you get from going in this direction from the entryway. What could the fortune teller be referring to?

6 years ago
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Made it to the end of the west wing. Nice GA!

6 years ago
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Thanks, it was always my idea that for the predicted small numbers of people who made it through (I figured less than 20) that there would be some really nice GA at the end, but the joke is on me, with only 4 getting through, I am not going to get any GA credit for any of these. But if anyone else makes it in the next couple of days, the odds of winning are really very good.

6 years ago
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New Hinting has now been posted on the location of the hidden puzzles.

6 years ago
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Mhh it seems like I don't understand the instructions of West->East right, I wrote some code to get the number but it's wrong. Unfortunatelly I can't see where I possibly have an error in my thinking 😟

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Sorry Moony, in which puzzle?

Edit. I understand, the first room you get if you go east from the west entryway. OK, the best advice I can give is to solve it in 2 dimensions. using a "flat" pyramid.

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I understand it that way (with numbers as it's easier):

Possible values: 1111 till 7777 with for example 1112, 1121, 1211, 2111 counting as ONE variant. Is there something wrong in this?

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Yes, because it misses the pyramid "tipping over".

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So for example, there are only 3 ways to paint such a pyramid with two colours. As in the picture below.

So we ask how many ways are there to choose 2 colours from 7. This is 7 choose 2 in combinatorics, and if you know the math, it is 7!/(5!x2!), which is 21. Or we can do it manually. Red-Orange, Red-Yellow, Red-Green, Red-Blue, Red-Indigo, Red-Violet, Orange-Yellow, Orange-Green, Orange-Blue, Orange-Indigo, Orange-Violet, Yellow-Green, Yellow-Blue, Yellow-Indigo, Yellow-Violet, Green-Blue, Green-Indigo, Green-Violet, Blue-Indigo, Blue-Violet, Indigo-Violet. We still get 21.

So how many ways are there to paint a pyramid with 2 colours - 21 (ways to pick 2 colours) x 3 (ways to paint a pyramid with 2 colours).
Answer - there are 63 ways to paint a pyramid with 2 colours.

Repeat the analysis for 3 colours, 4 colours and 1 colour and then add.

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6 years ago
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South is down. Only East is resisting. For some reasons the gods are not nice with me and my gps seems to point me nowhere. Only 7 hours to go. This may be a sign I should stop puzzling and begin creating the puzzle I have overdue for this week :)

6 years ago
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Ouch. I will contact you in chat.

You were indeed very, very close.

6 years ago*
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And ... done. Thanks Mikalye for the time and effort you put in creating these puzzles. I particularly liked the fortune teller ones. As always it was inventive, with a 'oh shit' effect when you can hear things in your brain clicking together. Still few hours to go for all the other contenders (nice giveaways with very low number of entries).

6 years ago
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I should have started earlier.. After a 1.5-2 days puzzle marathon to catch up, now I'm beat, time is running out and I haven't finished any of the directions completely.Done some South, some North, some East and some West. Got stuck there, at the wall of text and yellow stars. As soon as I saw that I thought: Yep, that's it!
Cheers..

6 years ago
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I meant to get back to this, but never felt the motivation. I wish I had clicked with it better, it does look interesting, and I left a bunch of puzzles only half solved.

Can we expect solutions to be posted some time? (You can redact key words on the ITH reveal text, if that's a concern.) I'd like to get past some of my stumbling blocks and see the rest.

6 years ago
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Solutions will be posted this weekend.

6 years ago
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Looking forward to it Thanks for all the time you put into making all this 🙂

6 years ago
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I'm working every night at present on the Acropolis set of puzzles.

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