This email is part of a puzzle. It does not ask for any money or personal information.  Read on and you can help a large global community to solve a massive problem.

There is a game that exists called Perplex City (Think perplexity). Chances are that you received this e-mail from somebody participating in this game. This is an alternate reality game where the ultimate objective is to find a hidden cube somewhere on earth to help the citizens of a fictional world known as Perplex City. Another part of the game, though, is a series of 256 puzzles that could be solved in any way possible. Some solutions have involved codes, other languages including ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and to the extent of some players in the game actually having to publish a book to solve a puzzle.

But this is where our request comes in. There is a puzzle that many of us, hundreds actually, are trying to solve. The puzzle's title is "Billion to One". The puzzle is only a picture of a man who is clearly eastern Asian, probably Japanese or Chinese. There is Japanese text, however, that roughly translates to "Find me" on the card. A hint from the puzzle creators has revealed that the name of the man is “Satoshi”.

That is the whole puzzle.

Those of us that are trying to solve the puzzle aren't entirely sure what the solution should be, whether it's his location, or full name, or some code that only he possesses, but we are pretty sure that this will turn out to be a six-degrees-of-separation type of problem. After many people who were familiar with architecture did research on the buildings in the background of the photo, the location has been identified as probably being Kayserberg, Alsace, France. Unfortunately, this has not yet provided us enough information yet to identify or find the man.

This is where we are hoping for your help. In an attempt to do a six-degrees type problem solve for this, we are hoping that you will send this message along to five or six friends that you feel may have a chance of knowing Satoshi, or who may know someone that knows Satoshi.

You can see a picture of Satoshi at the top of this e-mail, or view a picture online at http://billion2one.org/satoshi.jpg.

If you have received this e-mail and think that you know who Satoshi is, please visit http://forums.unfiction.com or http://billion2one.org/.

For the safety of your identity, if you help us out by forwarding this message, we recommend sending this e-mail to yourself, and blind carbon copying (bcc) it to those you want to send it to. This prevents having a long list of names in the "To:" line after each generation.

Please help us try to find Satoshi. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

- The players of Perplex City and Unfiction.com