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[LOCKED] Crack the Code Reality Game SABOTAGE
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poliphilo
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Joined: 29 Jun 2006
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 		Sabotage
Another thought,

One of the Restaurants where live auditions are being held has a Renaissance theme and one of the malls has a nautical theme. These four individuals mentioned in the first clue all have either nautical or Renaissance ties. This can't be a coincidence. Also, that diagram is seems to be most certainly a map of some sort. It's actually VERY similar to one shown in the book "The Rule of Four" ...in fact maybe that's a clue. Four letters and four individuals. Maybe the work of each individual (Porta, Spencer, Wheatstone and Popham) is responsible for one letter each in the final word? Again, this may have already been hashed over by you guys, I just saw this this afternoon.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:49 pm
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poliphilo
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 		C-Dog
C-Dog,

Not sure if you're messing with me here because I'm trying to catch up, but in response to your post, I do know, I think, that the puzzle means that the root of the word sabotage is sabot, which is French for a type of boot or shoe and that a boot or shoe is a type of covering or "protector" like an alpha 1-5 protease inhibitor is. That should be a clue in helping to decipher the discs, along with porta's first name which was John or Gianni. I have simply been trying to go over possible scenarios of WHERE the puzzle is coming from first, as that sometimes helps avoid snares and "red herrings"....although those thoughts may have seemed rambling. I was just trying to see if anyone else was thinking along those lines. All the best

PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:19 am
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c dog2
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 		4 names
Porta (1500s) created a cipher disk with numebers 1-20 on the outside, and symbols on the inside. Clues 2s #disks fit perfectly inside the alphabet disks.
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Popham(1800s) created a maritime flag code signal where each flag either stood for a letter, word, or phrase.
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Spencer (1800s) also had a flag signaling system but used a hand semaphore method. Has more to do with relating numbers to letters and the whole circle thing
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Wheatstone (1800s) perfected the wheatstone bridge, a contraption for morse code... his schematics could have something to do with the blueprints. He also developed what is called the playfair code. Playfair Cipher uses a 5 by 5 square, in which the letters of an agreed key word or phrase are entered (suppressing duplicates), followed by the rest of the alphabet in order. This might be how he enciphered the clue 5 blueprint code.
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(as moderator, i have removed the embedded images and turned them into clickable links instead. It's nicer on dialup connections, and it doesn't unnecessarily steal bandwidth from the hosting source, and really it keeps the forum page loading more quickly and cleanly for all of us. -- catherwood

PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:50 am
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Mystatude
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Joined: 16 Jun 2006
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 		Poliphilo-
You are right..the diagram is similar to the one in "The Rule of Four" ( I happened to pick it up last summer during the DaVinci Code frenzy...it was interesting learning about the Hypnerotamchia Poliphili. (Spelling on that?)

Anyway-I am convinced that the microfilm piece means root= (shoe/shoes/boot/boots) and that the letters of whatever word it is in alphabetical order match up to the numbers 1-5 respectively. Unfortunately, the number of permutations with which ring goes to which disk and which word is alot, and hard to figure.

I am still having trouble, however, with the fact that myspace and you tube have become central in figuring out this code. Its a large pill for me to swallow. Either way, I am still going to work on this....I just wish they would put up the date for the New York in person audition >Surprised. Has anyone gone to one yet? I'd be interested to hear what happened.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:11 am
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poliphilo
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I know, and I think that maybe each one is responsible for one letter in the answer.....maybe. Clue 1 to Spencer Clue 2 to Porta Clue 4 to Popham and Clue 5 to Wheatstone....but I haven't figured out yet why Clue 4 is left out of the answer seems like the DNA, Alpha 1-5 thing. I'm pretty sure Popham's is the letter D......Maybe with the protease clue and the "bomb" it could be............nah.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:15 am
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cdog
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yea, i just putting that myspace thing out there, thought it was more complicated but i get it now.

minus the weevil is just the root, the root of the boot inclines to sabotage which is sabot, the 5 letters for the alphabet to uncode the cipher. Portas disk just puts the alphabet in a disk corosponding to numbers and symbols. still gets me nowhere.

ps
anyone read wikipidies definition for sabotage, mentions the show and the history of the word corresponding to the shoe thing, but also this extorionist tryin to get 10 mill from a train company in 1998. got served life for trying to kill people. anyone else think lee leak is affiliated...lol.

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poliphilo
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 		Bummer
Well, it looks to me like this is all a ruse and not a really good one. All this "crack the code" and in the computer world, this summer is the "summer of code" with the emphasis on php, which is how this is all formatted. Even the one map looks like a php coding set up with the name, cell, color etc. Also, after being lured to Wikipedia, you find a bunch of erroneus information embedded into fake or practice web sites. Good thing I only worked on this for a day. I could be wrong, but I don't think so from the looks of it.

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Mystatude
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 		Well..ruse or not...I'm going to keep with it because ...well i don't know...I just am.

And for the record, attatched is the 8th and final piece of the blueprint, linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:35 am
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catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

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 		Re: Bummer
poliphilo wrote:
Well, it looks to me like this is all a ruse and not a really good one. ... Also, after being lured to Wikipedia, you find a bunch of erroneus information embedded into fake or practice web sites.

I might have missed something in the past week, because i gave up this game in frustration, but how were you "lured" to Wikipedia?

And could you be more specific about what you mean by "fake web sites"? Around here, we're used to ARGs playing out on in-game websites, which by nature need to be fake. For RealSabotage, I only know about the myspace account and a few sites created by the webmaster for his own purposes.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:26 am
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Torrey
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Joined: 17 Jun 2006
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 		Nobody has really posted any info. on the disc's for any one to work on, so I am going to post my take on it and maybe we can get somewhere.

I have noticed that on the number disc's each number 6-0 are across from 1-5.
9 across from 1, 8 across from 2, 7 to 3, 6 to 5 and 0 to 4

So trying to figure out a combination for Sabot being that it is represented twice, I was thinking that Sabot should be 6-0 and the other Sabot is 1-5, here is what I have come up with:

first ring S-0 and A-2, second ring A-7 and B-4, third ring B-9 and T-1, forth ring O-6 and S-5, fifth ring T-8 and O-3
With the rings in order spelling Sabot S-A A-B B-T O-S T-O the rings also lay out in order of A-B-C-D-F

I have also tryed Sabot to be 6-0 and 25135 but it does not work.

So if someone has come up with anything else I would like to hear it.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:21 am
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catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

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 		all eight pieces
and now that we have all eight pieces, here they are combined, although reduced in size for bandwidth.

(adding) to comment on Torrey's post above, I feel like the problem with the rings is that they will move for each encoded letter. If they were like Porta's code, there would be one large letter ring and an inner ring of digits, and with each encoding the ring would shift to a new position. But with 5 sets of wheels, do they all shift in step?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:20 pm
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poliphilo
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 		game
Wow, no posts in a week. And after a hailstorm of activity leading up to that. Does that mean the game is a dud? I'm asking sincerely, not trying to be cynical. If anyone figured it out completely, could you post?

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catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

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 		Mystatude and I figured out one minor thing about that complete blueprint jigsaw. I was waiting for someone else to say something before i replied to myself ;) The final piece in the lower right corner was a clue:
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It looks like a telephone dialpad. The alien glyphs all have a vertex or node which aligns with a square on that 10-unit grid. Therefore, the glyphs are representative of phone number positions. The one thing they all have in common is the small circle. Write down the phone position of each small circle within each glyph and you get: "800-811-8208" -- a quick google of that brings us back to the very beginning of the game: Contact: LM Beasley, Producer BERGS, LLC, Reality Game Station (800) 811-8208
We're the only two people in chat these days, and it feels like everyone has given up on the code wheels. We tried brainstorming where to go next with the blueprint, and whether or not it might be tied to the other web clues. Mystatude refers back to hints in the myspace images, such as the ones on a filmstrip background.
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One possibility is that we need to call that phone number and punch in a specific extension number. All of the indications are that we're solving for a 4-digit answer, either from the word list on the blueprint or the 4 large circles. And do the 4 large circles on the blueprint match the 4 circles on one of the microfilms? He says he called the phone number as a test, but their system accepts only 3-digit extension numbers.
I really hate that there are 5 code wheels and 5 rings. I get no indication that we should combine then into one large Porta wheel, nor any way to know how to order them if we did. Yet, if they are to be moved with every letter enciphered, do they all move in synch or only one at a time? It's rather pointless (to me) to randomly try a bunch of combinations and scenarios. And so, we walk away.

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spwmicrobio
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 		New Clues off of myspace
I found 3 new clues off of the myspace pics page for leeleak, I have attempted to attach them here.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 6:42 pm
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spwmicrobio
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 		Going with the clue about research RSA archive, i did a google search and found a RSA page, which stands for The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce. There is a RSA archive page on there, the webpage is http://www.thersa.net/archive/archive.asp. I tried to look on there for anything, but I really did nto have a clue what I was looking for. Others probably should check it out!!!

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