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This was completely unintentional, and now I'm scared.

I think Jason stated in the contest thread that the order they were being given out was to place the more valuable amulets on the weekend. So I think it's alright to assume that item 1 is irrelevant, as you said.

Regarding a 13th amulet, I think we also noticed that there was enough materials in the photo of the coins used to cast the amulets to create one more silver amulet. Also with them being named after the zodiac, there is a 13th zodiac that's been lost with time and superstition. With that information, the notches, and Jason's elusive answer toward the funky ordering, we sorta ran with the idea that this puzzle was working toward finding this lost amulet...

Either way, it won't make any difference if we can't find a cipher to solve!

Jason's comment was referring to the swapped 12 and 13 order.

I think we're getting our wires crossed somewhere.

He did hand them out in a different order to have high value ones the weekend. Once you restack them into broze, silver, and gold they go in notch order, except there isn't an amulet with 11 notches. Also, the amulets with 12 and 13 notches were handed out in reverse order. When you translate their code names to the signs of the zodiac, having 13 before 12 is the proper zodiac order, but then when you put them in notch order, the zodiac signs for 12 and 13 are backwards. We also speculated that the missing 11th amulet was Ophiuchus, the sidereal astrology 13th zodiac, but then the order is still incorrect.

Hope this helps us get on the same page!
(Let me know if I'm misunderstanding what you're saying!)

Edit: I put links to help anyone coming into the thread late, since it's grown pretty far past the things we figured out a few months ago.
Edit 2: I'm using "figured out" loosely.

Ya, we never really could figure out why the notches put them in the wrong order. We did figure out that there is the mysterious 13th Zodiac that falls between Scorpio and Sagittarius, which would also be in the wrong position as the 11th amulet. Jason did this intentionally, though... so it's part of the puzzle.

Everything I've seen says they're in the proper zodiac order except for 12 and 13 being switched. How should they be ordered?

Hey jere!

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Ah, good point! I need to start going all-in more...

There's definitely a balance between being fair for both someone who needs to leave for legitimate reasons and the person who gets stood up. Matching the penalty to the ante seemed intimidating, but I think this 1/2 coin idea sounds pretty good.

Thanks for posting up photos! We need to see if we can encourage the others with amulets to do the same.

This is exactly what I was thinking. Maybe it'll start becoming clearer as we get more pieces to the puzzle.

Hm! Ok, I think I may have to get a Pi to play around with then. It seems like it might be a good solution for what I'm trying to do.

How about something like this, with little tournaments throughout the week, but then also running a week-long tournament once a month?
The thing with the little ones is not only does someone have to be available when it starts, but also for their entire short duration. With a longer tournament, availability matters less.

That sounds like a good plan. I'd love to see another multi-day tournament too.

To anyone receiving an amulet, please post a photo of the back to this thread!