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[Whalewashingdolphin]

Hmmm...strange...in his reply he spelt 'UPON' as 'APON' three times...

[Chewy]

[blaqueice]

/drawing.html has been updated...the pic is called
0009300019557000.jpg

[Freshness]

LTWAIMMESYHTANSA --> WHATISMYLASTNAME

[massive]

Well, instinctively the picture looks like binary code ... but doesn't translate into anything useful. Using the checkers as 1's (and going row by row), you get USLW; using them as 0's gets you JLSH. Putting it through a binary translator as a block gives you gobbledygook. I think the fact that there are diagonal lines on the checkerboard must be important, but I can't put the two together.

[Whalewashingdolphin]

I got this e-mail stating that, no, the APONs didn't mean anything significant...but then he mentions something else...

[JRMWilliams]

Hi,
this will be my first post on any ARG forum, But have been researching the subject academically for about 6months for my final year dissertation paper, (I study Time based media development and Internet Viral marketing at a English university) Lurking a hell of a lot and reading in great depth into the field (recommend Szulborski's 'This is not a game') So although I'm a TOTAL noob, and I have never participated before… I'm coming at this thing from a different approach I hope I may be able to help.

this puzzle has drawn me in

Been looking at 0009300019557000.jpg Could the answer be in game notation? As there are pieces on both color squares on the boards it can not be checkers notation, but the KING ME seems to point to it being chess. Algebraic notation is the most common notation in use. For the rows of the chess board it assigns the numbers '1' through '8' starting from the Red side. For the columns of the board it uses the letters 'a' through 'h', left to right from the Red side. The square at the intersection of a column and a row is identified by the letter for the column and the number for the row.
From this you can write down all the pieces and moves on the board needed to check an opponent……problem there is no King on the board! So what could this algebraic notation be used for? Anyone got any idea?

I'm Probably totally of track…but hey, I gotta start somewhere!

[enaxor]

[akelix]

hello,
i am also a noob want to participated i an ARG because i like to puzzle. this will be my first one.

as an reaction at the post of JRMWilliams i want to note that "King me" is a phrase from checkers. In checkers, a king is usually signified by stacking two checkers one on top of the other. but i don't think this is something like checkers. because than the pieces are played only on the black fields. maybe it is something like adding things up.

the post of "massive" gave me the idea that it is not a binary code but a morse code the pieces are dots and the diagonal lines are the dashes

i can't translate the code horizontal but vertical i get from top to bottom: FWLCF and from bottom to top i get LYFÄL. try to figure other things out.

[Chewy]

1. If the 'Whatismylastname' thing is regarding Jason, the answer is 'Young'.

If its regarding Jack, the answer is 'Trever'

2.
0009300019557000

Instead of Binary, I tried 'Hex' which gave the answer of

[freshness]

Well...I saw 16 letters, so I thought to put it in a matrix.

[enaxor]

I asked Jack for a little hint.

[JRMWilliams]

I e-mailed Jack saying: It appears unfair to ask us to King you, when you have changed the rules of checkers, can you tell me the rules of the game you are playing, got this e-mail in return:

[Whalewashingdolphin]

My brain just shut down after reading that e-mail reply...

[enaxor]

One more hint from Jack. I asked what I should count.