The 39 Clues ROX!!! discussion

Hey!!! Did you know that you can play a game with your 39 clues cards?!?!?!?!?!

no

but that's soooooo cool!!!

it's called Double Cross!

oh, don't you have to download that?

no, it's with the actual cards as in in reality

ohh.... cool!!

Whoa! I didn't know that! How do you play???

well it's 2-4 players, each player needs 2 books and 2 packs worth of cards. separate your cards into piles of single-sided(ones with crests on the back) and double-sided(ones with a picture on the back) cards. put the 2 groups of cards on opposite sides of your playing feild(just a bit of space for you to play) with single-sides faced down and double-sides faced up. draw 4 cards from the singles, and lay out 4 doubles in front of you. if your turn comes first, you need to find an agent of any branch and a location of any branch, but if you don't have one of both, you have to lay out four new cards(on top of the old cards, and btw you can use the card on the top of the doubles' deck). after everyone elses' turns come end, you can look for agent and locaation cards. I gtg bye

i'd get it but, you have to download the board,and im not aloud to do that.

Didn't you hear say R-E-A-L-I-T-Y?

Sounds cool! I'm really confused about it right now, but if I start playing it I'll probably get it!

Go to the site and you'll learn the rules!

Ok I found something out that has to do with the cards so I thought this was a good place to post it. Cards 6, 33, 78, 91, and 111 have similar backs that when arranged in the correct order create a large picture, like a puzzle. Except I only have those five, and I think there are 8 to the whole puzzle.

Also, on the back of card 91 there is a ring in the upper right-had corner that is a gold dragon curling in on itself, like it's eating its tail. If any of you have read Septimus Heap, that's the same ring that Septimus Heap finds that used to belong to Hotep-Ra. Weird, huh? Maybe it's a symbol of magic or alchemy. Or maybe it just represents the Ekats.

Lastly, I recently bought a card game called "Cahill Commotion," which doesn't actually use the real cards that you collect. It's just a card game, and frankly, it's not very fun because I don't understand the instructions at all. So, if anyone else has this game, can you please tell me how to play it? Thanks!

Okay, you know the card you are talking about? Card 91, kremlin Surveilance? it says: "Top Secret." When you look at the card and it says, "Kabra's know!" Know what? And on the back, that symbol is EVERYWHERE. Yes, I have connected the puzzle, yet I only have 6 of the 8 or 10 puzzle peices...

I think it means that the Kabras know about the whole Amber clue. What do you mean, "that symbol is EVERYWHERE"?

Okay, so I have card pack 2... there is a Madrigal's notebook... one Close to Grace, because he said that he told Grace not to go look for the clues and that, "She should have listened." So, on one of the last pages, it has that symbol repeated over and over again, the one with the Madrigal...

Hold on let me go get my Madrigal notebook.

Yeah!!!

So, this notebook belonged to a Madrigal who was close to Grace and told her to not look for the clues--that's on the first page. Ok, and so the page you're talking about with the Madrigal is the seventh page that's full of doodles and stuff. Is the symbol you're talking about the circle with the triangle, square, and another circle in the middle?

Okay, on the page BEFORE that then... It has the man, Gideon? Thomas? Luke? Remember Madeleine... Maybe she is the founder of the Madrigals and the madrigals are a branh...

Hey, did you figure out the codes?

That's Thomas Cahill, I assume, cuz of the way he looks and because of the message on that page concealed with code. But what is the symbol that you were saying was everywhere?

Oh, that Septimus one? Well, the circle square triangle, circle one (or something like that) is the symble for the philosiphers stone thing.. Kind of like Harry Potter.

Really? I thought it was just the alchemical symbol for gold. Oh, and yeah, I figured out all the codes. It was really fun. Although I didn't get one of the most obvious ones (the Dragon Nautical one). Haha my sister figured it out before me.

On card 85, Keat's Grave, it says:
My dear Charles,
The warm Italian air has cured my soul but, alas, it has not exorcised the plague that ravages its shell. The doctor looks grave when he takes poor Joseph aside. He pleads with me to rest, but I find it difficult to close my eyes knowing that those figures in black lurk in the shadows. They are with me always. They followed me when I was well enough to go on walks. I heard the soft thud of their boots in between the tolling of the bells. Even as I lie in bed, I feel them all around. In my room. In my head. In my dreams. I can only hope that death will provide a reprieve, that there will be no "M" carved on the gates of Heaven.
John


Please note: There should be a big yellow J on the top left corner, and the letters get bigger in the end, and John and Heaven are smeared, John, VERY smeared.

You didn't get it? TOday i ATE lunch beFORE a water MAIN exploded on the STREET.

Haha yeah I get it now. Again, so obvious but I guess I thought it was supposed to be harder than it was. I don't have card 85 so I don't really know what you're talking about...sorry.

Well, it's scary, isn't it? It might be a code because it says, "The doctor was GRAVE" And the card is Keat's grave, so... :O I just googled it and it said: John Keat's grave...

Wow that is creepy. I can't decide if the Madrigals are good or bad.

Yeah, me either... Hmmm.... I was looking at the Anastasia card and she KNEW Grace..

Grace appears to have known EVERYBODY. Seriously, I can't keep it all straight.

I know!! Madrigals, Anastasia, Anastasia's daughter... : )