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[New] The Message On The Cards...
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Da Tee In TeeS of doom
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Anagram

Maybe it's just an anagram? Stole - lost... I see there's a spare 'E', but couldn't the entire message be an anagram for something?

EDIT: Of course it would be quite stupid to make a great coded message just to tell that the Cube i stolen... We kind of know that already
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:45 am
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oliverkeers13
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[Crazy wild spec] The message on the back of the cards says something like
Quote:
I stole the cube. I have hidden it in Polygon Playground, under the swings
This would tell us where teh cube is, would explain how things can't be transported between our worlds, and also enable players from all over the world to have a fair chance of finding it. It also suggests that the PM's comments that BUYING the cards isn't neccessary to find teh cube are true, but one may have to LOOK at them online. So we should find out where the cube is when the third wave is brought out, more or less immediately. Then it'll just be a free for all of emails, with the first person to email the answer winning £100,000. [/crazy wild spec]
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Rob_Riv
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Remember we have to be in possision of the cube.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:56 am
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oliverkeers13
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Where does it say that?
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oliverkeers13
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OK. Double posting just to get this noticed. I've pieced together the letters again, with the new cards on them. The message reads (at the moment)
Quote:
I S T O L E T H E C U B E H E L P M E
so I stole the cube help me is the message.
There are a few prime cards I don't have, so if you do, please add them to the wiki!
Edit: updated the wiki to reflect this.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:27 am
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TeamMfM
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letters

It looks like the next letters in the clue might be :

1st letter S or C or G

2nd letter C or O (this one looks more like a previouse C) which means letter 1 would have to be an S


which means the next word could be school scene etc etc

PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:55 pm
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TeamMfM
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oppssss

just wrote it down again it might

I stole the cube help M esc....ape (might be the next letters)

does that mean anything to anyone

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ryandrew
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That bit is a guess though insn't it?
It could also read:(punctuation is mine, to add emphasis)

I stole the cube. Help me, Scarlet, blahblah,
or even,
I stole the cube, help me scrub it clean. It is very dirty.
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TheBozzball
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I don't think that this will lead directly to the location of the cube. But I think it might be a message from, and lead to the identity of, C.

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TheBozzball
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Just trout myself there, the team consisting of V, K, Q and C did not steal the cube.

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pickwick the second
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We don't know that; they may never have held it, but it does seem to be in the possession of the Third Power, the group who, to the best of our current knowledge, sent the four to steal it. It is within the realm of possibilities that 'C' could have hacked into the Mind Candy computers and added the message spanning the cards.

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Pardon if this sounds presumptuously stupid and far too simplistic for the Third Power to do (as I believe it is), but do the use of playing cards as the message key, along with the code name V and the night of the theft, all mesh suspiciously well with Violet's affinity for poker, first name/leaked e-mail nickname, and supposed illness, respectively?

Now, I've been following this thing for a few months, along with keeping with the history of past events, and I know how underhandedly sneaky, manipulative, and downright clever the Third Power is at times (though not as clever as us, surely). Surely nobody elected onto this theft team would be so blatantly stupid as to reveal their nature so outright. Unless, of course, this is meant to frame Violet after being revealed and presumed true by less intelligent thinkers. Especially since she's gone to such lengths to help us and vice versa.

Of course, there's the chance that Violet was a key participant, and some sort of crazy, super-evil Single/Double Reverse Psychology [BLEEP] is going on here. Shocked

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ryandrew
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It's my opinion that Sente was involved in the group who DIDNT manage to steal it's theft attempt (as inside info and such), and Violet was/is involved in the group who DID steal it, ie The Third Power. Or maybe the other way round. But I reckon they both wanted it taken for seperate reasons.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:15 am
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Need more information

I get this feeling that the completed message will mean nothing... BUT...

Can somone post the order of the deck? ... Perhaps im not seeing the whole picture and this makes no sense. But it sounds like we have Suits and Numbers for each of these letters. Whats the Order?

It may be that the order is normal card order. Then perhaps its the order
these cards appear in the set. Aka card number "blah" is Heart-6 or card "blah2" is Spade-Ace Thus we could order them in numerical order and come out with a specific sorted deck of playing cards.

What im trying to do is build an ordered deck from these cards.
If we can come up with a ordered deck of cards. we can use that to decipher the text on the "Shuffled" silver card. Then we dont need a key word to key the deck as it will already be keyd by the order.

So far weve been digging for a keyword. ... and perhaps, there isnt one.

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ryandrew
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No, because we have been told that each puzzle is individual. We don't need one card to help solve another. And Von's hint for this card was that everything we needed could be found on it.
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