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[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One
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mac_monkey
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 		You should have asked me, I got the card at the launch, although I didn't even see it when I opened all my cards. It was only later that I realised I had a wave 4 silver-mmmm shiny!
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 		I was chatting to Adrian Hon about this card last night and he confirmed that the idea of the card is that we all of us send out the pic (or high res scan of just his face to conform with rules) to everyone we know and ask everyone we know to do the same and someone will know who he is.

So can someone who has the card do a high res scan of the face please?
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mac_monkey
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 		I haven't got a scan of the card but I have started passing the card around.

Wikipedia:

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Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances with no more than five intermediaries.

The theory was first proposed in 1929 by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy in a short story called Chains. The concept is based on the idea that the number of acquaintances grows exponentially with the number of links in the chain, and so only a small number of links is required for the set of acquaintances to become the whole human population. + Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries.

By extension, the same term is often used to describe any other setting in which some form of link exists between individual entities in a large set. For example, "see also" links in a dictionary entry may point the reader to other entries in the same dictionary; after following only six such links, the reader could potentially get to any word in the dictionary that has a link to it. In this special case of a dictionary, it is sometimes called the six links rule.




By the looks of it, this *should* be an easy card to solve, unless this guy is socially inactive.

Just some random spec too, as there are 6 Billion people in the world and it should take 6 to find him 6b/6=1 billion. Actually thats probably just coincidence. Ignore
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mac_monkey
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 		I've set up a Gmail address:

whereisthismanSPLATgooglemail.com

Anyone want to organise a collaborative effort on this one? It shouldn't take too long at all. Someone could perhaps write a viral type email, with intentions of getting it spread and seen.

The biggest thing would be to get people to pass the email on.
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 		As soon as someone gets a hi-res scan if it up, I will make "lost"-look alike posters with him on it, also with put the email address if they do know him. Does anyone know what it asks for on the PXC website when you go to submit the answer?
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 		Gotcha
mac_monkey wrote:
I've set up a Gmail address:

whereisthismanSPLATgooglemail.com

Anyone want to organise a collaborative effort on this one? It shouldn't take too long at all. Someone could perhaps write a viral type email, with intentions of getting it spread and seen.

The biggest thing would be to get people to pass the email on.


I agree that this is probably a six degrees of seperation problem. There have been similar things done before. There have been studies/games where packages are marked for delivery to a random person and you're supposed to pass the package along to the person you think is most likely to know them. Usually the package gets there within 5-8 people.

I think we should set up a website with a quick interface to send mass emails to visitors' address books, or to have an email sent to a particular address for fowarding. If anyone knows him, they can post a "find claim" or some such thing. Maybe get a little banner ad out on some websites "DO YOU KNOW THIS DUDE...". If we can find him, I think we will find the answer to the card.
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 		Whoever is writing this email + picture should politely enquire of the Unfiction peeps (Jamesi or Spacebass) if they can email their user database with it. Or possibly they could volunteer after reading this Very Happy - it would kinda of look more official then AND also spread the good ARG word if everyone passed it on!

Careful with a hi-res scan though - I would stick to the rules, especially if this is going to be banging round the internet.

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mac_monkey
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 		Also, I just put 50p in the Candy filled pockets of Mind Candy Razz to get Von's hint.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
My name is Satoshi



So, that narrows it down a bit Wink
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 		what does the solve page ask for?

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mac_monkey
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 		I'll find out when I get home, though I'm sure someone else is closer to the card than I am right now.
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 		Just my two cents but would it be a good idea to get firebox (or possibly the sunday Telegraph who printed the centerpage ads) to send out a picture of this guy in their forthcoming newsletters/papers to ask their non cubehunter customers to have a look. it would promote sales and get more people into the world of ARG and PPC.

Also I wander if Satoshi knows what hes gotten himself into.
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 		Could it be Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon?
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mac_monkey
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Adam G. wrote:
Just my two cents but would it be a good idea to get firebox (or possibly the sunday Telegraph who printed the centerpage ads) to send out a picture of this guy in their forthcoming newsletters/papers to ask their non cubehunter customers to have a look. it would promote sales and get more people into the world of ARG and PPC.

Also I wander if Satoshi knows what hes gotten himself into.


I'm not sure if they will send out flyers, but we may be able to write a review of pxc for their website and include a small image and give him a mention.

I'm quite certain this is the route we're supposed to be taking, although we've yet to have any other ideas, look at shuffled for example.

Should we have a few more random ideas of how this card should be solved?
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mac_monkey wrote:
Adam G. wrote:
Just my two cents but would it be a good idea to get firebox (or possibly the sunday Telegraph who printed the centerpage ads) to send out a picture of this guy in their forthcoming newsletters/papers to ask their non cubehunter customers to have a look. it would promote sales and get more people into the world of ARG and PPC.

Also I wander if Satoshi knows what hes gotten himself into.


I'm not sure if they will send out flyers, but we may be able to write a review of pxc for their website and include a small image and give him a mention.

I'm quite certain this is the route we're supposed to be taking, although we've yet to have any other ideas, look at shuffled for example.

Should we have a few more random ideas of how this card should be solved?


I was thinging more in firebox's e-mails they send out every week or so, and for random ideas, how about getting someone on the inside of the japanise police to do a search and provide us a list of every japanese man ages 25-50 with that name and we work from there Razz
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obrienk wrote:
what does the solve page ask for?


Not much. It simply says "What is the answer?" with a text box, and the standard three rules of entering an answer above.
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