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cyberus
Re: Words
surfzoned wrote:
Is it possible that what we have is the phrase necessary to desteg the other photos? Or maybe it connects in some way to Magi and AutumnCountry?


I checked the images for stegging, they don't appear to have anything(if there is, it definitely wasn't done with Camouflage.)

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:57 pm
surfzoned
Words
Is it possible that what we have is the phrase necessary to desteg the other photos? Or maybe it connects in some way to Magi and AutumnCountry?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:37 pm
wkelly42
I'm thinking that the Whitechapel Foundation will be finding another note at their door. Possibly with a ^3 at the bottom corner.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:34 pm
Sylvia
Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
(And am not too confident we have the right editions of the books).

I think you do.

Invisible Cities : p : IC : 7 : 1 : 6
Book : paperback : Italo Calvino : page 7 : line 1 : 6th word = three

In the Hall of the Dragon King : h : SRL : 6 : 22 : 2
Book : hardcover : Stephen R. Lawhead : page 6 : line 22 : 2nd word = king

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings : p : JLB : 4 : 34 : 5
Book : paperback : Jorge Luis Borges : page 4 : line 34 : 5th word = only

The Janissary Tree : p : JG : P : 7 : 9 : 12
Book : paperback : Jason Goodwin : Picador : page 7 : line 9 : 12th word = was .. commanded

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings : p : JLB : 4 : last : first
Book : paperback : Jorge Luis Borges : page 4 : last line : first word = the

The Wise Woman and Other Stories : p : GM&CY : 4 : 6 : last
Book : paperback : George MacDonald & Craig Yoe : page 4 : line 6 : last word = wise


However, the only way it would make sense is to write it like this: The wise king was commanded only three.

Unless, the numbers for the words also tells us where to place them in the sentence. If so, it might look something like this and we would need more info to complete the sentence.

Code:
                                       was
The    King  __ __ only three __ ... commanded ... wise.
first  2nd  3rd 4th 5th  6th  7th .... 12th ... last


edited (to correct the error from The Janissary Tree)

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:14 pm
Rogi Ocnorb
Re: WCF
petunia wrote:
I'd suggest emailing Ethan Grant with the results of the book code. I'd do it, but I didn't have a hand in solving it and don't want to step on any toes.


Go ahead and contact Ethan. I'm not too big on the interactions.
(And am not too confident we have the right editions of the books).

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:32 pm
cyberus
It looks like the caret symbol (^) has quite a few uses. Maybe one of them will help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:29 pm
petunia
Re: WCF
surfzoned wrote:
From the website and the images it seems a lot like a story I read a while ago. Autumn Country.. There was a link for it on DeviantArt.


Whitechapel's News page has a link to Djinn Productions, which has this link: http://www.autumncountry.net/ and some other interesting things.

Does that look anything like the story you read?

I'd suggest emailing Ethan Grant with the results of the book code. I'd do it, but I didn't have a hand in solving it and don't want to step on any toes. I did register at the Open Cases site, though.

The web design looks great so far, very clean and Mac-like. Very TINAG so far, though I haven't really delved into the Djinn side yet.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:34 pm
morelaak
okay, so we have this info now.... so what are we going to do with it? that hardly seems like a viable solution to this puzzle. how does the 2-hat in the bottom corner figure in?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:47 am
yellowcard
Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Page : Line : Word


Line.

Doh!

Really going to bed now.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:02 am
Rogi Ocnorb
Page : Line : Word

gives

Quote:
three
king
only
was
the
wise


with the editions I found.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:00 am
yellowcard
Hmm... page, paragraph, word doesn't work because Lawhead p.6 doesn't have 22 paragraphs.

Ditto for page, word, letter because Borges p.4, word 34, "Asia" doesn't have 5 letters.

Tired, stumped, going to bed.

EDIT: Has anyone noticed that the lower right-hand corner has a handwritten "2" with a "^" over it? In music theory it means the second degree of a scale. Highly doubtful here.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:56 am
surfzoned
Hmm
Just a guess but I think the code is Page->paragraph->word#=word necessary to complete a coherent english sentence.. I could be wrong though. It might be the first letter of those words..

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:50 am
yellowcard
mortality wrote:
Initial hunch: it's a book code. Assuming Google Books didn't send me on a goose chase, then the word from Janissary Tree is "forks."


How do you know? I couldn't figure out the code (though I have all the authors). They also are all previewable at Amazon:

Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
p:IC:7:1:6

In the Hall of the Dragon King, by Stephen R. Lawhead
h:SRL:6:22:2

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges
p:JLB:4:34:5

The Janissary Tree, by Jason Goodwin
p:JG:P:7:9:12

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges
p:JLB:4:last:first

The Wise Women and Other Stories, by George MacDonald & Craig Yoe
p:GM&CY:4:6:last

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:36 am
mortality
Initial hunch: it's a book code. Assuming Google Books didn't send me on a goose chase, then the word from Janissary Tree is "forks."

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:19 am
surfzoned
WCF
From the website and the images it seems a lot like a story I read a while ago. Autumn Country.. There was a link for it on DeviantArt.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 2:10 am
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