Demon's Notes

This bulletin board is filled with scraps of paper that all depict a 3 letter trigram. For example, the first image of a boat with an arrow pointing at the back represent AFT. All the trigrams are given in alphabetical order and can be decoded the the list below.

AFT

API

APP

ARD

ART

ASY

BAR

BUM

BYR

CEL

-

CIA

CLI

DAM

DFO

EHI

ELL

-

-

-

-

-

ENT

ERA

ERE

GAT

ICH

IDE

IFI

ISI

KEB

LEC

LLA

LLO

MED

NAP

NBE

NDA

NEY

NYS

OAL

OMP

ONA

-

OND

PLE

RNA

ROV

SEC

SER

SOL

SUN

-

-

-

TAL

THE

TOR

TSC

UPO

UTE

WIN

WOR

YCA

-

-

The six rows of numbers on the left all add up to a total of 162, which matches the total number of letters given by the trigrams, a clue that indicates the phrase lengths to be able to order the trigrams.

5 8 5 5 2 5 10 4 6 1 3 9 2 3 7 6 4 5 2 7 6 4 3 2 5-4 2 2 4 4 4 9 8-6

Rearranging the trigrams with the numbering clues gives the following crossword style clues.

APPLE COMPUTER NAMED AFTER AN APPLE ARTIFICIAL LAKE BEHIND A DAM BARCELONA IS ITS CAPITAL SECOND SOLO ALBUM BY RICHARD SER(R)ELL THEY CAN BE SUNNY-SIDE UP OR OVER EASY WORD FOLLOWING ATTORNEY-CLIENT

Each of these crossword clues can be solved to a 9 letter answer as shown below

APPLE COMPUTER NAMED AFTER AN APPLE = MACINTOSH ARTIFICIAL LAKE BEHIND A DAM = RESERVOIR BARCELONA IS ITS CAPITAL = CATALONIA SECOND SOLO ALBUM BY RICHARD SER(R)ELL = HALF THANG THEY CAN BE SUNNY-SIDE UP OR OVER EASY = FRIED EGGS WORD FOLLOWING ATTORNEY-CLIENT = PRIVILEGE

As hinted by the grid on the right, the final step is to break these answers into trigrams also and read the green column.

MAC

INT

OSH

RES

ERV

OIR

CAT

ALO

NIA

HAL

FTH

ANG

FRI

EDE

GGS

PRI

VIL

EGE

This gives the final phrase of INTERVAL OF THE DEVIL which is a final crossword clue for the answer of TRITONE

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