Sigma and Tau were also original upgrade levels for (for example) the NMS hyperdrive.
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Due to the origin of its name and concept, the week is always 7 days long because its name comes from a 7-day cycle.
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The chosen date is not necessarily related to a leap year, as the relationship between leap years and the solar cycle is only linked by the synchronization of human calendars.
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Strictly speaking, then the week should only have 5 days, and each season has 12 weeks. Therefore, even if a season begins with a day off, it will inevitably end with a workday, which contradicts the established logic.
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For all calendars to be valid, all concepts must be related. Work week = 5 days (adopted from how work is done globally, but still considers a 7-day week)
Week = 7 days
Six seasons of the planet/world, each equivalent to the description of one year for their planet. Each season is 12 weeks long, for a total of 72 weeks, which, by definition, is equivalent to 504 days.
The description of a 4-day work week with one day off is equivalent to the description of working days that can be found in any employment contract anywhere in the world (for example, in Iceland, the contract is for a 5-day week, but only 4 days are worked, and one day is off).
P.S.: The last part in parentheses is just an example.
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Now, if we want to be strict in terms of calendars⌠days arenât exactly added or subtracted arbitrarily. They are directly related to the time it takes the planet to complete one orbit around the sun. Because of this, we can only vary the definition of a month itself, as it could even be 15 days long if necessary, since itâs related to the lunar cycle. This means that, theoretically, a month must have a full moon to be considered a month⌠otherwise, it can vary according to our own definition.
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Random observation from somebody not paying very close attention to this ARG:
I noticed that the shaded blocks on your calendars look quite similar to the NMS alphabet.
Is it possible that the description serves as a key to the layout, which in turn spells a phrase or sequence in NMS âlanguageâ.
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Taking dates with memory bloc entries as one (after Skyscraperâs automatic correction), the six Titan celebration weeks become.
| Binary | Hex | Address? | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "0110 | "0101 | 6 | 5 | 65 |
| "0110 | "0011 | 6 | 3 | 63 |
| "1000 | "0110 | 8 | 6 | 86 |
| "0110 | "1111 | 6 | F | 6F |
| "0101 | "0110 | 5 | 6 | 56 |
| "0111 | "0011 | 7 | 3 | 73 |
| 6563866F5673 |
Would someone be able to check if the result is a valid portal address?
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I freely admit to not being the sharpest tool in the box. There are people much cleverer than me. However, on looking at the instructions for this puzzle yesterday, two things were immediately apparent to me:
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Even if the instructions were clear, there isnât enough information to attempt a reconstruction, and:
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The instructions are far from clear. They are extremely badly worded, vague, and ambiguous. There are literally dozens of different ways these instructions can be interpreted.
On that basis, I decided I wasnât even going to attempt the puzzle. More, and clearer, information is required.
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Hopping here to chime in on this as a larger feedback for the ARG so far: Iâve felt this repeatedly during this whole thing that the puzzles are not very well communicated. Hoping that this will improve somewhat over time but as of now completely agree with your statement that neither is it well communicated whether we even have all the info(which Iâm fairly sure we donât) and even the parts which are communicated are often not very clear.
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Agree. I did a few hoop jumps and decided to go do something else.
I dislike riddles for how loose they generally are, and this one is a bit wonky currently. Hoping for some more context to apply to it later.
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I will give one small example. We (here, in our world) have a week of 7 days. It runs Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Traditionally, we do not work on Saturdays or Sundays. The âworking weekâ is therefore defined as Monday to Friday, with Saturday and Sunday defined as âweek endsâ. This is the generally accepted standard English interpretation.
By definition, therefore, the âworking weekâ does not, and cannot, start with a day off. If itâs a day off, itâs not part of the working week - thatâs the way the definition works.
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Yeah as much as I try to continue being involved and engaged, unclear stuff like this just doesnât do it for me in an ARG.
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I agree, it also looks like one of the bit characters that was input from the 3031980 puzzle from the Insert Coin â project-skyscraper but have been unable to do anything with that information. My current puzzle solving skills are limited on weekends as I only have access to a iPad lol
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Hey! You have found something in that!!
ASCII hex decode: echoVs
V is often Velocity in orbital terms
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Real life in the way for a few days. But as the Architect is French, I found this about weeks. Nothing jumps out to clear anything up, but just in case it helps others.
I didnât spot it above, but has anyone tried 4bit bytes, separated by the off days and phrases separated by the off weeks?
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Egads. The French live by a different calendar. 
I suggest this entire puzzle presented is la semaine des quatre jeudis
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There are a LOT of entries on project skyscraper now (though most seem empty) - have the dates been added as a result of someone submitting a calendar?
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These were already filling in prior to the calendar puzzle. I think everyone is stumped⌠Are we waiting for it to reach 365?
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@pr1sm managed to extract the string echoes from the entire puzzle! Iâll let em do a proper write up for the logic of course, but this seems like a strong answer!
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Must be quite the answerâŚ7 minutes so farâŚ
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Alright, I think Iâve got it! (and it looks like @Rusty was super close to having it almost 2h ago haha)
I tossed together another calendar organizing by weeks and the dates that we have on the site
If you look at the holiday working weeks as mentioned in the puzzles, and analyze it as binary (0 if that holiday day is not on the site, and 1 if that holiday day IS on the site), you can extract 4 bits of binary per holiday week.
Using the ordering of the puzzle, you can generate 1 byte per line of the puzzle
Putting it all together you can get the word echoes.
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When I saw you post this in discord I was like, look, a chart that lines up like an actual calendar⌠Good work
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