Been a while since the latest posts on this forum but figured I’d reach out and see if anyone else is still following this. After the minor bump in popularity from Youtubers picking this up, started checking it out myself. Y’know, for the shiz and giggles.
Some strong ideas already posted already like Jacob’s catch on the flipping of K4 in reverse using the Layer 2.
Adrienne’s – https://imgur.com/a/bSf9yyc
With the interesting alignment of the X’s in K2-K3.
I’m also drawn to the misspellings like most with desparatly, Iqlusion, and undergruund. The AnythingQ and IQlusions draws some attention too.
Could IQlusion be a nod towards thinking of IQ, or quotients, the Berlin Clock (the light one) is based on set theory, X is also a form of noting multiplication. hmmm… to much grasping at straws though. anything more than 2 degrees of assumptions is going to lead to obscurity.
I don’t have an answer like the rest of everyone else, just some advice for anyone else digging into this who has gotten to the bottom of this forum page looking for answers.
1. Mr. Sanborn is not a mathematician, so crazy math requirements to solve is already a bad assumption.
2. Mr. Sanborn is not a cryptographer, but he did have advice from those who are to develop the code. So it should be possible to solve, rule out anything that would be impossible to solve with a critical part missing and no way of generating it.
3. Pretend all you have is the info of K1-K3 and some of the sculpture to work with, will keep you from going into any rabbit holes about book passages and locations.
4. Be mindful of your degrees of assumptions. If you have to assume something based on another assumption, stop and start from the beginning again. Compounding assumptions leads right into how cryptography traps layman would-be code crackers.