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[Catsworth]

Just looking back over some of these posts I found some stuff on the 5 of cups, and a link to tarot, I'm not sure if this was followed up or not but the description of that card seems to fit the current PerplexCity situation quite well:

[Malinky]

Doing a search on google for eodmf theres a string of text for a bike website (see text below), when asked to translate it comes up with chinese characters, maybe the "made in china" is a clue hinting at translating the heat sensitive characters and its some sort of phonetic chinese.
Then again......maybe not! Sorry I'm running out of ideas.

¿ÀÅä¹ÙÀÌÀÇ ¸ðµç °Í - ¹ÙÀÌÅ©¶óÀÌÇÁ - °Í°´ÀÇ ¼Ò¸® [ °Ô½Ã¹° ´äÀå ] - [ Translate this page ]
... jrmyi, gqosq, xqtam, mhgpq, lmqwv, /choc-tech.com gja| nlbgl, ntsti, jfvab,
rexhe, xfmoq, tniqa, /chunghotour.co.kr cxj| iaefi, icnvq, eodmf, efjqz, ...
bikelife.co.kr/board/reply.php?table=market&no=13671&page=1325 - 317k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages

[doomsdayred]

Could it be possible that we have already cracked the code but the answer is in the form of a rough Chinese translation.

I'm going back to try and convert all my results to english assuming they are in a romaji style translation of the Chinese language.

If anyone tries this and gets any kind of result please post it.

[akhswfc]

I have a feeling that it could be to do with the tempertaure at which the characters disappear, as that could be the key for the solitaire cipher. beacuse entropy is to do with Thermodynamics it would seem highly possible

[BBuck]

[miplap]

I've been searching around the web for some inspiration on the solution for this.

Apart from the Solitaire and Tarot links already discussed (which, to me, seem the most likely route), I have also stumbled across a few things that might be of help:

1. Djinn is derived from a Genie (Jini) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djinn)
2. Jini is a network architecture for the construction of distributed systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JINI)
3. Jini defines a lookup service that is a fundamental part of the federation infrastructure for a djinn, the group of devices, resources, and users that are joined by the Jini technology infrastructure (http://java.sun.com/products/jini/)
4. Jini uses PKI encryption

I'm not sure if there's any mileage in this but it seems credible on the basis that the Djinn Worm found

[lillyplop]

This was just published in the latest Sentinel newsletter.

Unsolved Murders
Although crime was down this year, even in the Old Town, two murders have remained unsolved -- a shameful mark on the city's police record. Bernardo Holyoke, the proprietor of Old Town drinking establishment the Five of Cups, was murdered in his home in late April. Later in the year, PCBC consulting economist Monica Grand was found murdered in her Ascendancy Point flat. Both cases remain unsolved, and the police indicate they have no firm leads.

Could Bernardo or Holyoke be a key?

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

[Danives]

Hmmm

[Danives]

Website...

[poozle]

Not sure if this is relevent but

[locqust]

Hey everyome, back after christmas! Wishing you all a happy new year!

Nice to see that things are still stuck in the same place since before christmas

Im just wondering if there is something about Djinn that we should know other than what we have already been told in the sentinel that could help solve this? perhaps a historical reference to Djinns or genies' whatever you wanna call them?

Either that or I requote my theory on the joker with a star on it bit

[Aiken]

here goes

[tally]

This may seem a little basic, but going back to what sabrewulf said, and reviving the idea of termodynamics as more than a clue to exposing hidden text, I found this

[doomsdayred]

Spinning off on a mahOOsive tangent now. Using Thermodynamics and motorcycles I did a search and came up with the following.

[Danives]

Ok, worked on a bit further and found some semi-interesting stuff, thought I would share in case anyone picks up on something. Firstly Ive been trying different decoding messages, thinking that possibly the star on the joker is a mislead (I doubt it, but I am so fed up with solitaire atm, lol), so I tried a few. Oddest results I got was with enigma coding, which provided me with full-stops and commas in the text:

LIOLNPOMP.WQRJNKDARAZHZTAUQILLNF,GDNQSE.TRAG.PQIINPPOUVVCCUR.NUBKJMPNERNTUCJ,CQWVH.PAQQGCNCVCOSDD.DNK,C,P

(Although please note I am encoding from WBBMC to YKZPL, ignoring the disapearing letters, and using LUL as the code for enigma)

I have also been looking at the entropy clue, and as a cryptic crossword clue I feel it would give something like ICY (I see - outward look, and ice is cold) although putting that in the solitaire proggie hasnt helped. I also wrote a bit of java to dictionary attack it, but it was flawed in some way when looking for particular words within each decoded message, so unfortnatly thats another dead end

Lastly, Im not to up on the detail of how solitaire works, but I started looking around at different ways to encode messages with cards and came across "Klondike" (I know, a varient of the solitaire game), just wondering if its different at all to the way solitaire works:

http://www.lunchwithgeorge.com/lwg_deck.html

Will post when and if I get any more ATM this puzzle has annoyed me for a week of constant work on it (Im slow, lol), so Ive given in and emailed garnet now, lol. Lets see if he'll say anything -

Dan

[Edit]
Ok couldnt resist looking up more. Just thinking while looking over Kurts blogs, he likes to mention entropy when talking about earth and the cube (sept. 16th, august 31st). Connection maybe?