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[EMAIL] PXC Newsletter

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friggly
Boot

Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 35
Location: Angus, Scotland

[EMAIL] PXC Newsletter

Did you all notice at the end...

Quote:

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

ecapssihthctawgnimocsi4evaw | http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/wave_4_release.html

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Does that make it more likely to be true then?

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:55 am

jonc
Veteran

Joined: 04 Jul 2006
Posts: 144

ecapssihthctawgnimocsi4evaw

backwards:

Wave 4 is coming watch this space

guessing that's a yes....

jonc

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:03 pm

Agent Lex
Entrenched

Joined: 11 May 2006
Posts: 1188
Location: No longer London, still in England

To quote the entire thing (has to be done!)

Quote:

Hi [name],

You've scored [x] Perplex Points. That makes you number [y]
on the global leaderboard, out of 36378 players!

This week...

* New retailers
* Shiny Mind Candy Puzzles stats
* San Francisco Event: New Details
* Perplex City wins Origins Award
* Charity Auction
* Swap meets: Sydney, London
* Perplex City needs students, teachers
* The Scarlett Code continues
* Story Update! Leaderboard Update!
* Newsletter puzzle

Lately in Perplex City, our heroes have been waiting on Earth's Cube-hunting legions to make
sense of the confusing and bizzare Cryptology filesystem to unlock the apparent conspiracy
deep within the Academy. More in our story update, and also in our new podcast, but first there's
lots of stuff to tell you about:

** SHAKE YOUR (RE)TAIL FEATHER **

Perplex City cards and starter kits are now available *online* from Walmart, Best Buy, Buy.com,
Toys R Us and Overstock! Proceed in a calm and orderly fashion to our featured retailers page,
savvy shoppers:

http://www.perplexcity.com/help/stores/online.qbuild

** SAN FRANCISCO LIVE EVENT: NEW DETAILS! **

As announced last week, there's going to be a massive live event in San Francisco on Saturday,
August 12th! With room for around 500 players and 500 spectators, a host of exciting challenges
and an official Academy presence, it's the most ambitious Perplex City event yet. It's being held at
The Palace Of Fine Arts Theatre, from 10.30am to 5pm, and it's absolutely free to take part in this
exciting event - you can even join in the fun online! Read more:

http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2006/07/iona_interviews_17.html

And register:

http://www.perplexcity.com/liveevents/index.qbuild

** YOU MUST BE HAVING A GRAPH, MATE **

There's now a fancy new feature on your Perplex City Profile - you can view a dynamic chart
showing your progress on our sister website, Mind Candy Puzzles.

Check your stats:

http://www.perplexcity.com/profile/mcp/index.qbuild?player=[name]

Or play on, and tell your friends so you can lord your score over them:

http://www.mindcandypuzzles.com

** FIRST WE'D LIKE TO THANK OUR MOMS... **

We're very pleased to announce that Perplex City has won the Vanguard Most Innovative Game
at this year's Origins Awards. These prestigious awards are run by the Game Manufacturers
Association, and it's a great honour for them to recognise all the hard work that both the
Academy and Mind Candy have put into making Perplex City such an innovative and enjoyable
experience. Our mascara is in a right state, though. Go:

http://www.originsgames.com/awards

** THE SCARLETT CODE: THE PUZZLE CHALLENGE CONTINUES **

Scarlett's Myspace puzzle challenge continues - every week, she's posting a new set of questions
on her Myspace profile for you to solve, with a cool prize for a lucky winner! This week, there's a
black Nintendo DS Lite and copy of Brain Training up for grabs, so get cracking - and don't forget
to add as her a friend if you have a profile:

http://www.myspace.com/thescarlettcode

** PERPLEX CITY SCHWAG: CHARITY AUCTION **

The lovely folks behind the Pirates vs Ninjas video competition entry have set up a fantastic
charity auction. Raising money for NSPCC, not only is their framed, signed Perplex City artwork
up for grabs, but we've thrown in a whole bunch of extra stuff like posters, cards, and other
ollectible items. They're calling it The Ultimate Auction Of Ultimate Power, we hear. Bid early
and often:

http://www.tinyurl.com/kwdny

What Pirates vs Ninjas video, you say? Catch all the video competition entries here:

http://www.perplexcity.com/community/competitions/video/index.qbuild

** CARD SWAPPING GOODNESS IN SYDNEY & LONDON **

Two up & coming swap meets:

SYDNEY: Organised by ozisim (http://pxcforums.com/index.php?showuser=2415)

Sunday 16th July
From noon-1pm onwards
Starbucks Circular Quay.
Corner of Pitt and Alfred St.

LONDON: Organised by Mind Candy!

Monday 31st July, evening
A secret Central London location
To celebrate a yet unannounced event
Games, puzzles and good times!
More details soon on PXC.com & the next newsletter...

** TEACHERS! UNI STUDENTS! PERPLEX CITY NEEDS YOU!**

Teachers: We'd love to hear from you and your schools if you'd like some Perplex City goodies
to give to your pupils or adorn your classroom walls - we're talking posters of puzzle cards,
stickers, tourist guides and maybe even more! Let us know if you're interested.

Uni students: If you would like to help us out by distributing loose cards around your campus,
putting up posters and generally chatting to people about the hunt for the Cube, do let us know.
There'll be exciting rewards as a token of our appreciation!

In both cases, email Fiona at:

fionaSPLATmindcandydesign.com

** STORY UPDATE **

All roads lead to Crypto. Caine has continued his investigations into the department, stumbling upon a
series of audio recordings made by Karen Moro, a junior member of the faculty who was blackmailed
into spying on her colleagues and reporting any suspicious activity.

Anna's research has unearthed a set of reference numbers that identify the high-tech items already
stolen from Crypto.

And Kurt has revealed that he and Karen dated briefly during the period of these recordings (though
she didn't seem too impressed with him at the time). Now, a year later, he must ask for her help in
tracking down the missing parts - and perhaps finding the Cube at last...

Check out all the latest developments at the Story So Far:

http://story.perplexcity.com

Or listen to the latest podcast - "Echo" - at:

http://story.perplexcity.com/podcast/

** LEADERBOARD UPDATE - SPECIAL HAIKU EDITION **

Tally is the queen
Of the leaderboard, for now.
But after wave 4?

Almagest's profile
Tells us little. Still,
He's player of the week!

Monthly champion
Obrienk? Scarily
fast. Be afraid...

http://www.perplexcity.com/leaderboard/leaderboard.qbuild?start=1

** SENTINEL QUESTIONS **

The team at the Perplex City Sentinel have finally got around to browsing through your fantastic
responses to the Sentinel Questions, available to answer in your profile! They've chosen this week's
winner, doublecross, who gets 5 points into the bargain. They'll be doing this every week from now on,
so if you haven't answered them already, go go go:

http://www.perplexcity.com/profile/sentinel/answer.nbuild

** BONUS NEWSLETTER PUZZLE **

Last time around, we posed a clever little brain-teaser. To recap:

You're lost deep within the Perplex City catacombs and are trying to work out where you are when you
stumble across a hermit. You quickly look up "Hermit" on your key to discover:

There are two hermits - one in Newguard Ruins, and the other by the Coast.
They can answer any yes/no question truthfully.
Unfortunately, they only answer with a hermit-like scowl, or by a spot of beard scratching.
Nobody knows whether scowling or scratching means yes or no, but the two hermits use opposite
systems.

What single question can you ask to find out where you are?

One (possible!) answer is: "Does the Newguard hermit scratch his beard to mean 'yes'?"

His possible actions are:

He scratches his beard...
To mean YES, the newguard hermit scratches his beard to mean 'yes' (this means you're at Newguard)
To mean NO, the newguard hermit scowls to mean 'yes' (this means you're at Newguard too!)

He scowls...
To mean YES, the newguard hermit scratches his beard to mean 'yes' (this means you're at The Coast)
To mean NO, the newguard hermit scowls to mean 'yes' (this means you're at The Coast too)

Actually, any variation on "Does X hermit do Y to mean Yes/No?" works too. See?

- - - - - -

This week, something a bit simpler! What does the following mean?

the other one
the one other
one the other
other the one
the other one
one other the

Answer in the next newsletter!

Until next time, happy hunting,

Mind Candy

Aswell as the backward message, the July 31st celebration of the "yet unannounced event" seems to confirm the Sentinel article.

PS: Mind Candy, your Haiku are rubbish.

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:07 pm

friggly
Boot

Joined: 03 May 2006
Posts: 35
Location: Angus, Scotland

Sorry, I should have posted the full thing. A hastily done post in the midst of a frantic year-end! Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:21 pm

Ashin
Veteran

Joined: 22 Nov 2005
Posts: 140

Quote:

Perplex City cards and starter kits are now available *online* from Walmart

I originally read that this morning as:

Quote:

Perplex City cards and starter kits are now available from Walmart

Wouldn't that be a trip. There'd be more stores carrying the PXC cards than there are US players.

Surprised

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:09 pm

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