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Leeravitz
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 		Just a further thought (not a positive one, unfortunately...)

OOG, the 'PPC puzzles on the Underground' banner must (most likely) have been derived from a scan of a real - life Tube station sign. Then, they've treated the sign to render it nondescript. Either this is a deliberate clue, or we've just found out that they simply used the sign at 'Green Park' as the basis for the image, and there is no broader meaning. I confess that I may be totally wrong on this, as I'm not sure which part of the image the 'Green Park' reference is hidden in, but I'm assuming it's under the 'whooshing lines' across the middle of the red circle. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this...
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misteraitch
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 		Well, I'm buggered if I can see Green Park anywhere on the banner...

...even after altering the Brightness/Levels/Curves/Hue & Saturation/Zoom
in Photoshop - still nowt Sad
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misteraitch
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 		although I did notice this...

Please note that the poster campaign is still in the design phase and is not currently on the London Underground. Check this website for updates.

Patience kids....
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dusty2229
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 		Nothing that I could see at Green Park as yet

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dusty2229
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 		Where does it say it's not running yet misteraitch? I didn't see that, otherwise I wouldn't have gone running around the tube system like some deranged idiot.
All I can see is the banner "Perplex City Subway puzzles now on London Underground!"
If there is nothing up yet why post the banner?
Is this another example of general lameness[/quote]

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BrianEnigma
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dusty2229 wrote:
Where does it say it's not running yet misteraitch? I didn't see that, otherwise I wouldn't have gone running around the tube system like some deranged idiot.
All I can see is the banner "Perplex City Subway puzzles now on London Underground!"
If there is nothing up yet why post the banner?
Is this another example of general lameness

The banner, as it stood yesterday:


The banner, as it stands now:


I am beginning to wonder if we stumbled across this site a little too soon.
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dusty2229
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sledgecallier
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I am beginning to wonder if we stumbled across this site a little too soon.


Why make a site 'live' if you don't want people to see it? Admittedly it may be that MC were not expecting us to find it so quickly but..?

[Edit] Also, it looks like the image on the first banner is from 'Green Park' where as the second version is just a lot more non-descript.
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hamatoyoshi
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drizjr wrote:
I'm embarassed to say how I found it, now that I realize it's considered poor game play.


I'll venture a guess that it was through Whois.sc and a lucky guess (as Perplex City has dozens [hundreds?] of domains registered).

I'll spoilerize the rest for those of you who don't want to know possibly underhanded (though I don't think so) methods.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Then again, Whois.sc's Domain Spinner shows all sites with the initial prefix "perplexcity" that are active and parked, and perplexcitysubway.com suddenly shows active. (I haven't been active in the game for a couple weeks, but I would've found this eventually had drizjr not brought it up.)

Finally, if you followed the [INFO] Access Forbidden? thread, you'll see that Perplexcitysubway.com is now the 13th site to share the IP 67.19.175.242.

One thing of note is that every website with the "perplexcity" prefix has a "pxc" prefix variant. The odd thing is that pxcsubway.com, which is parked at GoDaddy and is almost certainly owned by the PMs, is not directed to the perplexcitysubway.com website.


Anyway, I figure the PMs have to be aware of Whois.sc, and while the particular method is not elegant, it has to be accounted for.

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QBKooky
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chippy wrote:
http://www.perplexcitysubway.com/images/banner1.jpg
the one saying "ppc puzzles on the london undergound" has some text, top right, magnified it says "Green Park"
I've zoomed in on the image and can't see "Green Park"... oh well. I'll take your word for it - I'm miles too far away to use the London Underground. Razz
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kayellehear
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 		I didn't know about that site but through a very simple search of similar name sites on Go Daddy you get about 30 (and I know pretty close to naff all about computers) including the subway site, I did it ages ago (sorry guys didn't know it was poor gamesmanship) hadn't checked them recently tho, clearly...
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Muffin
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QBKooky wrote:
chippy wrote:
http://www.perplexcitysubway.com/images/banner1.jpg
the one saying "ppc puzzles on the london undergound" has some text, top right, magnified it says "Green Park"
I've zoomed in on the image and can't see "Green Park"... oh well. I'll take your word for it - I'm miles too far away to use the London Underground. Razz


Now it doesn't say Green Park - if you had looked earlier, or up at Brienigma's note, then you can see the original does say it Smile HTH

Still can't understand why this site is even available.
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tangohead
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 		lol this is off topic but someone has secured www.perplexcitysucks.com. it is one of the secured urls on whois. the only remaining url with perplexcity in it is perplexcitygames. perplexcitygame is taken. i think the perplexcitysucks is owned by th PM's to stop hate-websites Laughing

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NovacaineX
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Scott, good to see i'm not the only one here from Rochester!
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