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How did you get THAT???

  • 1 of 8: This hint is not needed to solve the puzzle.  Nor is it aimed at the "math-weary"!!  You may wish to skip the explanation below, unless you are mathematically inclined, and really care to follow the logic involved in this calculation.
  • 2 of 8: If you're not familiar with things like base-12 numbers, it might help to remember that our clocks are more or lesson a base-12 system.  Try pretending that the last two symbols are giving you times in hours and minutes (or blocks of 5 minutes, since that's what each number that the minute hand moves represents) and see if the puzzle makes more sense that way.  (You can ignore the first symbol when you're doing the math, because it never changes between the old and new coordinates on any of the tablets in the game.)
  • 3 of 8: So the "A5" part of "7A5" would basically be like a time of 10:25.  The "A" is the hour hand, and "A" is just another way of saying 10.  The "5" becomes :25, because when the minute hand on a real clock is pointing at 5, it's saying you're at 25 minutes after the hour.
  • 4 of 8: Likewise, the "8A" part of "78A" becomes the time of 8:50.  Again, the "8" is just the hour of the time, and the "A" (10th position) means the minute hand is pointing at the 10, or 50 minutes after the hour.
  • 5 of 8: Now, figure out how much time is between 8:50 and 10:25.
  • 6 of 8: It's an hour and 35 minutes.
  • 7 of 8: Remember that the last coordinate counts minutes in blocks of 5 each -- 35 minutes past the hour means the minute hand on a clock is pointing at the 7.
  • 8 of 8: So if we're writing the time of 1:35 as a base-12 number, we'd write 17.  That's what the difference between 78A and 7A5 is.