Author
Message
sixsidedsquare
Unfettered
Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E
Over at http://www.perplexcity.com/images/puzzlecards.jpg you can deffinatly see some more sets.
Out of the 6 cards pictured, 4 of them looking like squares or summink, one with a zig/zag maze
type pattern and the other is the flags card wich we already know (hex set)
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 6:16 am
leakingpen
Decorated
Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 187
approprialty that would be card #255 in my book
(well see how many people get that)
im wondering, are you reffereing to pokemon? do you know why it was that number?
(and why 255 or 256 is always the last number in any set in old games quite often?)
number of possibilities in a single byte of data. a single variable to hold it in the computers memory.
_________________My jug is not half empty, it is half full, thank you.
luaeanenun
(leakingpen E3)
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 2:32 pm
djrazz
Decorated
Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 250 Location: Groom Lake
that is what i ment FF
_________________
"Im not a number im a free man"
Trout ARE "FRESH" water fish
and have underwater wepons
http://home.neo.rr.com/djrazz/trout.mp3
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 3:25 pm
Rob_Riv
Unfettered
Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 350
leakingpen wrote:
approprialty that would be card #255 in my book
(well see how many people get that)
im wondering, are you reffereing to pokemon? do you know why it was that number?
(and why 255 or 256 is always the last number in any set in old games quite often?)
number of possibilities in a single byte of data. a single variable to hold it in the computers memory.
In binary (which is basic computer language)
1 = 1
10 = 2
100 = 4
1000 = 8
10000 = 16
100000 = 32
1000000 = 64
10000000 = 128
so ...
11111111 = 255
100000000 = 256
_________________"I suggest something involving a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants. I'm not sure what one could do with those things, but whatever it is it'll be excruciatingly painful." - Ankit Jain (Spankit) on Ryandrew's punishment.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 3:53 pm
Mima
Decorated
Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 260
Following on from Brat-sampson's post here is a possible break down of the colour/pattern of each card which has already been implied. This is just a pretty table breaking it down, and all the known hexes, pixels & maze fit.
Description
Download
Filename
Number and Pattern of Cards.xls
Filesize
15KB
Downloaded
303 Time(s)
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 9:35 am
<PSH>
Decorated
Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 187 Location: 127.0.0.1
There are 10 type of people in this world...
Those that get binary...
Those that don't...
if after everything that been said in this thread you don't get that then well ...
mummble...grummble... ... ...
_________________"Oh, you cant help that," said the Cat; "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're Mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 10:03 am
DogsHead
Veteran
Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Sydney
Had a bit of a search and no-one seems yet to have brought up the observation that 2 of the cards have KURT on them and two have ANNA
027 and 138 = KURT while 074 has an ambigram of ANNA and 170 mentions ANNA heath. for the life of me I can't find any thing hidden on the other two. I guess you could spec that they are authored by these people - The Bar None is clearly by Kurt and he's a bit of a Hax0r as we know (thus the Geek antiques - which raises the awkward question of how he got his sweaty little hans on them) and Anna would seem logical to associate with the Wordspy (if it is Anna Heath) but the Vexillogy card? And if she is the author why does Sente say she needs to see...herself?? Following this rather fractured logic, maybe the names Von, Tippy et al could be associated with the other 2? Bah!
_________________
135 of the 333
____________
Cassandra wrote:
one of the shoe-loving Academy gatehouse gals
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 1:21 am
Scott
Entrenched
Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 1140 Location: 390 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Rochester NY, 14624, USA
DogsHead wrote:
Had a bit of a search and ... Bah!
Bah indeed! what are you on about man?
as a minimum, I talk over here about this anna issue.
Anna did not write the vexillogy card.
and fFrom there I'm not sure what you are talking about at all. several cards are explicitly credited. One is credited to Mr. Hon, even!
I will now venture my own speculation, which will come with supporting evidence: The voice on violet's phone number card is fFirst person ("Violet and I..."). So the puzzle scribe is speaking of a personal experience. Kurt seems to have made the card. So we may assume Kurt and violet hang out fFor drinks. And indeed, Violet's blog supports this idea.
_________________Perplex City is a game whose only rule is: There must be a party.
Balance of Powers is a game whose only rule is: There must be a political party.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 3:04 am
Rob_Riv
Unfettered
Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 350
<PSH> wrote:
There are 10 type of people in this world...
Those that get binary...
Those that don't...
if after everything that been said in this thread you don't get that then well ...
mummble...grummble... ... ...
I love that saying.. I had it as my msn name once, only about 3 people understood it
_________________"I suggest something involving a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants. I'm not sure what one could do with those things, but whatever it is it'll be excruciatingly painful." - Ankit Jain (Spankit) on Ryandrew's punishment.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 5:10 am
DogsHead
Veteran
Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Sydney
Scott wrote:
DogsHead wrote:
Had a bit of a search and ... Bah!
Bah indeed! what are you on about man?
as a minimum, I talk over here about this anna issue.
Anna did not write the vexillogy card.
and fFrom there I'm not sure what you are talking about at all. several cards are explicitly credited. One is credited to Mr. Hon, even!
Did you actually read my post Scott? You "talk" about anna being the author (or not, as you point out) - I am wondering about a possible grouping/deeper clue level given that the names KURT and ANNA appear on 4 of the cards. I know Anna didnt write the Vexillogy card. It's patently obvious. Nor did I refer to the design and contribution credits.
Come on mate. Get your hand off it. I read and appreciate yours and everyother persons posts here. Give me the same courtesy.
_________________
135 of the 333
____________
Cassandra wrote:
one of the shoe-loving Academy gatehouse gals
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 9:04 am
chrome_halo
Boot
Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Bedfordshire UK
Quote:
There are 10 type of people in this world...
Those that get binary...
Those that don't...
if after everything that been said in this thread you don't get that then well ...
mummble...grummble... ... ...
I love that saying.. I had it as my msn name once, only about 3 people understood it
Don't you mean 11 people Rob?
_________________something's going to happen, something wonderful...
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 9:18 am
Scott
Entrenched
Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 1140 Location: 390 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Rochester NY, 14624, USA
Well sure i read your post, DogsHead. But i guess i'm just not sure what you are saying, then. Your initial post only seemed to talk about card authors. Are you just heading to the stance of possibility where each card is not only grouped by colours, but instead may be grouped by occurence of words on each card? Kurt, Anna, and so on?
_________________Perplex City is a game whose only rule is: There must be a party.
Balance of Powers is a game whose only rule is: There must be a political party.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 2:31 pm
Rob_Riv
Unfettered
Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 350
chrome_halo wrote:
Quote:
There are 10 type of people in this world...
Those that get binary...
Those that don't...
if after everything that been said in this thread you don't get that then well ...
mummble...grummble... ... ...
I love that saying.. I had it as my msn name once, only about 3 people understood it
Don't you mean 11 people Rob?
1 = 1
10 = 2
11 = 3
100 = 4
101 = 5
110 = 6
111 = 7
1000 = 8
_________________"I suggest something involving a corkscrew, a 9 volt battery, and a colony of fire ants. I'm not sure what one could do with those things, but whatever it is it'll be excruciatingly painful." - Ankit Jain (Spankit) on Ryandrew's punishment.
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:41 pm
InspJJ
Veteran
Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 111 Location: Sheffield, England
the set at http://www.perplexcity.com/images/puzzlecards.jpg is very different in design to the ones we got in the 333 pack - I reckon these were just to test what level they needed to make the impossible ones to stop our groupmind running a truck through their plans...
_________________The end of the world is nig
Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:09 pm
DogsHead
Veteran
Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Sydney
Scott wrote:
Well sure i read your post, DogsHead. But i guess i'm just not sure what you are saying, then. Your initial post only seemed to talk about card authors. Are you just heading to the stance of possibility where each card is not only grouped by colours, but instead may be grouped by occurence of words on each card? Kurt, Anna, and so on?
Sorry bro, wrote that one in fit of pique, but yeah the arrangement of the letters (KURT) and the ambigramness of anna and the fact that they appear as well as contributer credits, makes their presence seem to have more importance than mere sigs... not that this helps us with the Geek antique solve... my initial thought was it may guide us further into the academy
_________________
135 of the 333
____________
Cassandra wrote:
one of the shoe-loving Academy gatehouse gals
Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 1:56 am
Display posts from previous: All Posts 1 Day 1 Week 2 Weeks 1 Month 3 Months 6 Months 1 Year Sort by: Post Time Post Subject Author Ascending Descending