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[grutte pyr]

Jon in relation to D browns: the Da vinci code

[alcofribas]

Grutte Pyr

I don't think this game (sable & Shuck) is linked at all to the dan brown books although his mini ARG's may have given the PM's some ideas for this promo for Stella Artois - if you go to Dan Brown's website
www.danbrown.com/secrets/index.html
there are 2 mini games to explore which got me into this ARG

I always wanted to be Sherlocks Holmes sidekick so really find this game fun, and it's nicer when you're working with lots of people throughout the world to solve puzzles - keeps the liitle grey cells active (mixing my Sherlock with Hercule Poirot)

this is my first ARG so missed out on ILB which everyone seems to be raving about, but am grateful to the people who put so much effort into creating these things - even though it is supposed to be promoting something - does anyone reckon Stella Artois sales have increased because of this though!

PS if there are peeps out there who like reading detective books as well as playing detective, get reading Boris Akunin books - tongue in cheek "Sherlock Holmes by Boris Pasternak" kinda books...

this game seems to have come to a bit of a stuttering halt, but hopefully someone in this forum is clever enough to solve another clue - that's when things get exciting... so I'll keep playing.. and reading the forum, and will say a big thank you to the person who solves the next puzzle

soz for going on, but do enjoy all this

[Mac]

Grutte,

I have to agree with alcofribas here: IMHO reading tdvc might help in your way of thinking (e.g. cracking codes), but will not contain any actual clues in solves jon's mystery.

I could elaborate on this but it's late and I've had one too many jameson's

[grutte pyr]

i wasnt thinking about finding close inside the book, but merely as a kind of "example".

ways of thinking, things we overlook.

and yes, the game has halted for a bit, which i deduct to two things:

1: new evidences are given in time.
2: we seriously overlooking something here.

as im halfway the book now, it is clear that a lot of stuff on which R langdon struggles, the answer is most of simple.

perhaps we have overlooked the most obvious of clues yet to discover.. but i dont know what it is........

just trying to get other ppls braincells working again, including mine, and perhaps give that tiny bit of evidence someone is overlooking, and then -crack- finds the answer.....

in holland we have a verb: door de bomen het bos niet meer zien

translated as : not seeing the forrest through all the trees.....

meaning we get too much info, and forget the simplicity of some answers...
but then again.... maybe i just unintendly add some trees........... *darn*

[Mac]

Grutte,

I think you're right; we havent reached anything in the last couple of weeks, I really think the PM's are waiting for us to reach some kind of landmark before the game will continue.

Seeing that Jon said he'd contact us early this month I think the PM's are laughing their asses of at our stupidity...

[Aud]

See, I'm worried we've come to a stuttering halt because we all missed his last clue about calling us at the dawn of next month (received last month, therefore meaning january).

This is a shame, because that really was an awkward time to expect people to be able to be about.

Seems that there was a reason for that being the final entry in his latest journal, but we all missed it.

I hope there's a way to work around that though.

[timesuck]

I think there's something we're missing on that last entry in the journal. Jon implies in an earlier email that the errors in ibidem can be "revealing". Then says at the end of the last journal entry that he hopes his allies understand the "difference" that he's made. I bet the changes made from cache 1 to cache 2 are the key somehow....now it'll just take someone brighter than me to figure out how.