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Enough attention on these clues?
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Porkchop
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Right! Let's get this straight.

If you actually look at the hiding room site the radio plays a track from:

EXIT MUSIC FOR A FILM :: AFTER DARK 2004 :: UNKLESOUNDS


This is infact wrong as the album is titled:

UNKLESounds: EDIT Music For A Film - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Reconstruction.

So there is a typo in the flash image where there is an X instead of a D

As this is flash there will have to be a drawn image of this text that they scroll across the display using code. Mistake or Typo?

However I'm not sure what we can do by gathering a load of typos together, how is that going to help with the order and value?

We'd just be left with a load of letters that could equal other letters A=B etc, etc.

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Meak
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but 'exit music for a film' is a song by radiohead

who's to say which song they mean?

and if so, how does a one letter typo help us at all in putting 6 symbols into order

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Bidvision
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It makes you wonder doesn't it - are all these odd typos and things clues, or actual mistakes? Clearly there's something in the date differences in the cache, but is "Edit" instead of "Exit" really meant to be a clue?

They've had plenty of time to fix it, so I reckon it's either a clue or a red herring. If they're using the stereo in the Hiding Room to promote Stella's "After Dark" thing, surely they would make sure they had the song title correct, wouldn't they?

Sorry I'm posting questions rather than answers, but I'm stumped.

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Bidvision wrote:
It makes you wonder doesn't it - are all these odd typos and things clues, or actual mistakes? Clearly there's something in the date differences in the cache, but is "Edit" instead of "Exit" really meant to be a clue?


seriously, this has been talked about ages ago. nothing came of it. and before anyone else 'discovers it' - yes cds etc are/were for sale on ebay.
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GuyP
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Exit Music For A Film was a song by Radiohead. UNKLE did a remix, and called it, wittily enough, Edit Music For A Film. As far as I know, then, it's just a play on words.

Let's move on! 7 weeks to get £10,946! Hustle! I have absolutely no idea what the answer is! Kill me!

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Meak
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how come all these 'guest' people are allowed to post new topics in this forum anyway? (look at who started this thread)

don't you have to be a member to post topics?

methinks someone is trolling us.

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Porkchop
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I thought Edit Music For A Film was a dance remix of film soundtracks like Kill Bill & 2001 A Space Oddessey by UNKLE.

Well whatever it is, it isn't helping and as far as typos go this is really the only one i've found, if it is one.

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Sheepy
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I thought Edit Music For A Film was a dance remix of film soundtracks like Kill Bill & 2001 A Space Oddessey by UNKLE.

Well whatever it is, it isn't helping and as far as typos go this is really the only one i've found, if it is one.


In december i thought that all the typo's meant something and i still do, and we did found more typo's than just exit=edit. Throughout the game we found the following typo's:

exit = edit (songtitle on stereo)
thcrc = there (square puzzle in travelbook)
youe = your (popup message after placing a comment on tridentair.com)
somplete = complete (a somplete red herring: translation from Ogcadzshs fsr vsffwbu in travelbooks)

I still don't know what it means, but i'm pretty sure that it has a meaning.

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Porkchop
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Have just checked the Trident Air site and placed a comment, unfortunately the typo seems to have been fixed. Sad

Tried all the sites and placed comments, all had the same result, no typos in the popup, not sure what this means.

Hard to explain the others though, they definitely look deliberate as they are hidden in puzzles or have been drawn that way.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is a somplete red herring Very Happy

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Eddie Nichols
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Will there even be a winner?

Call me a pessimist, but I'm starting to think this entire game is a somplete red herring. Somewhere in the media, soon after the deadline given in the terms and conditions, there will be a story of "a computer-game enthusiast who solved a year-long puzzle hosted by Stella Artois"; the enthusiast, who happens to be some nephew of a friend of a guy who works at Stella.

Ugh.

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Meak
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when is this 'deadline'?

where is it stated?

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rowan
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Meak wrote:
when is this 'deadline'?

where is it stated?

The deadline is the 27th of June.

It is stated in the terms & conditions before the final puzzle. On these boards, it was posted here and here.
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demiurge
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Missing Handle.

The thcrc did contribute to the palindromic nature of the squares puzzle in the guest book. (see suraimu's post).

And I agree that we're missing something, quite possibly related to:
The typos.
Staring you in the face. (again).
Palindromes.
Begins where it ends.

But I don't have a handle on where to dig in.

-D

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Eddie Nichols
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Connections

The phrase "begins where it ends" is directly related to palindromic sequences, no? As in, the end of a palindromic sequence is the mirror image of the beginning sequence. Further, and this is probably only due to my choice of words, the word mirror arises which can be interpreted as the object, through which we had to look, of our search for "staring you in the face".

Edit: So, my thoughts are as this:

1) maybe we are to construct a palindrome for the numbers underneath the symbols.
2) perhaps the numbers underneath the symbols are between 1-26, representing a letter; these letters can arise from typos, the first letters of the objects themselves, etc.

I can not win the prize, as I live in Canada, but I hope it helps someone who can win before this wretched final date arrives. Don't give Stella the satisfaction.

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