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[Night565]

Here is my cleaned up version of the pertinent part of the code. I've removed a couple bits which I think were not cleverly disguised letters but merely misleading lines. If we ever find the chap who made the blueprint, I say we give him a good walloping. But that's me.

I've included two different orientations for the code. I personally will be working more on orientation B, as that is my current choice for 'most likely orientation'. Why? Because that's the orientation where the Euro symbol faces the right direction. Feel free to work at it from a different angle if you feel the need.

[ziot]

It's all really everyones perspective, but I still don't think there is any direct meaning from the text behind the font, I think the meaning comes from the actual image. The blue print and types of font used.

I messaged him on myspace - http://www.whataboutpp.com/upload/leak.jpg.

I guess we're waiting for the 'next press release'.

[Ehsan]

This was the best I could do with it...

[equi_design]

Site design

[Max Steele]

Re: Site design

[Night565]

It seems odd that they'd offer a $10 mill prize without having a backer to start. Could be independently wealthy, or could just be part of the game. Of course, if they offer a prize, even within the context of an alternate reality game, they're still liable to provide the prize. So, let's hope they're not just ignorant of the law.

[MageSteff]

[Ehsan]

[Night565]

Straight from myspace. The blurry bird picture has been there a little while, though without a caption until now. The caption for it now reads, "why iS iT looking at me?" The caps are intentionally that way. Could be another reference to St. Louis, dunno.

New today is the pic of the knight. Also, if you haven't seen, Clue 1 has been unhidden: http://tinyurl.com/qwmhx

Already attempted answers to the clue: SirCharles/Wheatstone.php and Charles/Wheatstone.php

[Night565]

Thanks to the kind folks at SEOrefugee.com, we bring you this pic. Apparently Ehsan's interpretation of the fonts on the blueprint were right. It's all about the symbols, and not the code.

[catherwood]

blueprint without text

[konamouse]

The "favorite code maker" is a chess piece, a "knight".

Sir Charles Wheatstone maybe a code creator (telegraph, playfair cipher), but he was only born in 1802, so how could he have created a code in 1809 that is now obsolete.
On the other hand, the other part of the clue mentions using the photo of Leak to solve. The only photo of Leak on the website has him holding the "Money Bomb" that has the big "S" on it.

Sir Home Popham is remembered for his scientific accomplishments, particularly the development of a signal code that was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1803.

I'm at a loss regarding Porta and Spencer.

[Night565]

Logic Puzzle

[catherwood-offline]

well done!

So, we have an idea of the kind of puzzlemaster we are dealing with:

• on the plus side, no trick questions -- The first blank in Who stole the microfilm? _____ is the same answer as the second blank in This individual, ____, created a code in 1809
  
• on the neutral side, clear instructions -- we are told specifically how to submit our answers, with a URL formatted like /firstname/lastname
  
• on the negative side, poor examples -- the instruction was originally done with UpperCase in the name, and still does not include .php at the end (see below)
  
• on the neutral side, extraneous hints -- There seems to have been no need whatsoever for the sentence, Find the code and use the photo of the Leak to decipher the first clue, as we have "deciphered" the clue with the logic puzzle alone.
  
• on the negative side, fact checking -- Mr. Knight Spencer may or may not have invented this code in 1809; all i can find is that he was awarded a medal in 1809 for his invention.

http://www.realsabotage.com/Knight/Spencer doesn't work
http://www.realsabotage.com/Knight/Spencer.php doesn't work
http://www.realsabotage.com/knight/spencer doesn't work
http://www.realsabotage.com/knight/spencer.php is the ONLY format which works.

/me moves on.

[Night565]

So, as to the proof above. Apparently it warrants a little more explaining. Starting with the premise that Spencer did it:

S1 is false since he'd have to be awake to steal it.
S2 is true because if Spencer stole it, Porta would be lying about Wheatstone.
S3 is false because if it weren't, P3 and O4 would be false, which would create too many false's, and because:
S4 is true, because W1 is false, because if it weren't, Wheatstone would have too many trues. (Stick with me)

P1 is true because we're operating under the assumption Spencer did it.
P2 is false because, again, we think Spencer did it.
P3 is true because we don't have a sufficiently good reason to believe it's false, and because if it weren't Porta would have too many falses, and because of S3 being assumed false there's no conflict.
P4 is false because if Spencer did it, he couldn't be on a plane.

O1 is true because we think Spencer did it.
O2 is false, again, because we think Spencer did it.
O3 is false because if Spencer did it, he couldn't have been at the movies.
O4 is true because if it weren't, Popham would have too many falses.

W1 is false because S4 is assumed true.
W2 is true because there's no reason for it not to be, and if it were false Wheatstone would have too many false's.
W3 is false because O4 was assumed true.
W4 is true because Wheatstone could very well have taken the photos without ever having seen the developed film.

Sorry if that all seems a bit of a runaround, but I'm not very good at explaining things some times. I think the reason Ehsan initially believed P3 would be false if Spencer did it is because he thought that whoever did it would have had to have used their own key, or at the least, that there was only one key. Not sure.

Either way, I'm just barely mentally tasked enough that I can't directly prove Ehsan's solve wrong. There is the possibility that Ehsan's solve is still technically correct, in which case we'd have two solves to the same logic puzzle, which would be nothing short of... puzzling.