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by lpnotes 931 days ago
Thanks for the question! The octave will shift according to the solution note.

For example, if the solution was:

Bb3 Bb4 Dd5 Db5 C5 Bb4 (the first 6 notes of a "Believer" melody)

... the piano octaves will be [3,4,5,5,4]

In today's puzzle, the first note is in octave 4, and the second note is somewhere in octave 3.

In a VERY early version of the game, we didn't show where the octave positioning was, only 7 white keys, and people got confused because even when they accurately thought that the next note was higher based on the interval, it actually ended up being a "lower" note because it was a lower note on a higher octave scale.

So now we give you the octave positioning.