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[Daffy889]

Having just folded the thing properly (including the step that I skipped the first time) some of those 'extra letters' are now covered up by some other folds at the base of the wings, so maybe they don't mean anything after all.

Edit - Oh, and I printed in colour this time. That blue star I mentioned earlier in this thread ends up right in the middle of the crane (on the 'body' of it).

[Sasuntsi Davit]

Ill try and make an origami crane today out of a scan of my card, if i get a duplicate, then I'll cut it up and make one.

[Sasuntsi Davit]

right...
after my failed attempt at making the paper crane, (I don't know how I managed to screw up, but I did), I decided to use my comp to try and figure out what the middle letters are.

To make it easy, what I have done is clean up the background letters around the 4 chunks of letters at the top, left, bottom and right sides.

I have rotated the letters so they all face the correct way.

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there we go, all of them cleaned up, uploaded and put together
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[diddymac]

A few links from this puzzle that occurred to me:
-AI
-Meteorology (perhaps the Met Office?)
-Cranes (like in the view from the balcony)
-The Red Pale at Westminster (the site of the first printing press in Britain, set up by William Caxton)

[JamesDart]

Remember, this is only a blue level card. I think the answer is simply "cloudmaker." The other characters are just there to draw us away from the obvious answer without folding it up. If they weren't there, I bet we could just look at it and see that it matches up to say cloudmaker. Try cropping out the other letters and you'll see why their there.

Of course, I could always be wrong...

[oliverkeers13]

Guys, someone folded it correctly a few posts back. the middle letters are not there, just Cloudmakers. Read the whole topic before posting!

[breadmower]

Hey guys,

I've just got hold of this card, and thought I'd throw my 2p in. Had a search around, and no-one else seems to have mentioned it...

The title of the card, "Sadako Sasaki" is the name of a Japanese girl who was a victim of the Hiroshima bombing. There's a wiki entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki, but the basic gist is that a friend told her of a tradition saying that if a person folded a thousand paper cranes, they would be granted a wish - in her case, to get well again.

Perhaps Cloud Maker isn't the answer, but a hint. Maybe the answer is the name of the (Mushroom) Cloud Maker: "Little Boy", the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.


Apologies if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but thought it might be food for thought



Breadmower

[tanner]

now thats good thinking

[breadmower]

Thanks, always a pleasure to help out

[Don Lon]

I'm with breadmower on this one. Its too much of a coincidence that the story of Sadako revolves around the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Besides the revealed words are "cloud" and "maker" which suggests the atomic bomb and not "cloud" and "makers" which would suggest the A.I. group.

[appleTRON]

Wow ... way to think outside The Cube, breadmower.

Just a follow-up with a little more research here:

The T-12 Cloudmaker was actually a bomb designed by the US (in the style of the British "Grand Slam") for use and fitting to the B-36 bomber. The Cloudmaker was a 44,000 behemoth designed to burrow underground and create, essentially, an earthquake upon detonation. The bomb wasn't actually developed until after the war (double ya double ya too, that is) and was never used. It wasn't a nuclear device, either. In case you were interested.

I like the thinking that Little Boy could be the solve to this puzzle. We'll see when it all goes up, eh?

[appleTRON]

Wow ... way to think outside The Cube, breadmower.

Just a follow-up with a little more research here:

The T-12 Cloudmaker was actually a bomb designed by the US (in the style of the British "Grand Slam") for use and fitting to the B-36 bomber. The Cloudmaker was a 44,000 POUND behemoth designed to burrow underground and create, essentially, an earthquake upon detonation. The bomb wasn't actually developed until after the war (double ya double ya too, that is) and was never used. It wasn't a nuclear device, either. In case you were interested.

I like the thinking that Little Boy could be the solve to this puzzle. We'll see when it all goes up, eh?

[Macavity]

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[appleTRON]