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Equinox · Boot Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Norwich, UK

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**Posted:** Wed Aug 03, 2005 6:24 pm

oliverkeers13

I don't think that it is a clue, I have the card BTW. I think that it is odd that it is there, after all, Perplex City can't receive items from Earth. [OOG] What I think happened is that MInd Candy put the back card onto a pack of normal cards, and took a picture of it.[/OOG]

**Posted:** Wed Aug 03, 2005 6:33 pm

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Xanatos · Boot Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 13 Location: London, UK

Entropy... heat.. hot dog I think I've got it Wink

I took the card and gently warmed it and low and behold the card changes, the first two blocks the the last two blocks fade away leaving:

WBBMC HGFIB LXCQY WEZFL ITHPJ LFHWY ETKWY LJOTY YNGYJ BIOGI FUVMR
XIHGU RAGXH NQHRS XAWHU FJTAM SMMOS MVBAA KPGVV WXOVM YKZPL LUL

So you outward looks, ie those who are only looking at a picture of the card are been left out in the cold Smile

**Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:05 am

chippy

woooww!!! thats very clever! Very Happy

**Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:40 am

tanner

the number dont look like its an order of cards

**Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:03 am

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oliverkeers13

**Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:04 am

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Xanatos · Boot Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 13 Location: London, UK

Newish, I was one of the 333 who got the letters, been sleeping on it since then waiting for the cards to come out.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:09 am

oliverkeers13

OK, with the letters missing it's obviously a solitaire cypher. I don't have an app, so am going to do it by hand!

**Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:34 am

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Xanatos · Boot Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 13 Location: London, UK

http://cif.rochester.edu/~la002k/solitaire.htm

**Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:41 am

oliverkeers13

OK, I have tried numerous combinations, but I have no idea what I am doing. I'm gonna leave this to someone who knows about solitaire.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:25 pm

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appleTRON

A question about Solitaire Ciphers:

~~The 4-letter key used to generate the cipher (a la AADA in Cryptonomicon) ... can that include any numbers? I only ask because I'm still hung up on the ACB3 from Pirates vs Ninjas.~~

[EDIT] I'm pretty satisfied that ACB3 is just the artist's sig now.

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If anyone has spare time try 3ea5 for a 4 character key... dunno if it accepts numbers though.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:01 pm

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nichtwahr · Boot Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 15

Hmm. I wonder if we have to do anything with the vanishing/appearing groups of five. Are they extraneous, or might they be the password/phrase?
For the record:
EODMF XRUTH
FHURG IFULP

**Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:05 pm

Macavity

**Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:50 pm

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panterazero · Kilroy Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 1 Location: California

**Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:19 pm