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[BBuck]

I think there are also shapes on #058 Breaking and Entering (just left of the middle at the bottom) and #060 Celebration (same place). These two are a bit different as they are not a single colour, but contain different shades. I've not got a scanner, so can't post them.

[poozle]

[arnezami]

Something just hit me.

There are 21 cards with digits strings.
There are 21 subway stations in PXC.

Makes you wonder.......

[SteveC]

[arnezami]

Just some (very) loose thoughts. Do whatever you please with them. Maybe it will inspire somebody.

Rubik Cube:



This is the first card with the digits on it. Is the Rubik Cube meaningless or not? It also works with 4 directions etc. Although the ".5" numbers wouldn't make much sense in this context. Hmmm...

Cube: the movie



I've also been thinking about the movie "Cube" and its use of coordinates and permutations. There are three numbers on each exit. We have three sets of 5 dices. And we may have "permutations" in the form of a pair of digit strings. Just a thought.

Risk:



Could the digit strings still be country ownerships. Like I suggested earlier. But with 2 teams. Player 1 and 3 are a team and player 2 and 4 are a team too. Possibly sitting on opposite sides of the board/table. Since they wouldn't attack each other the ownership of a country will never change from 1 to 3 or 2 to 4 etc. This would be one of the few ways of explaining this lack of 13's and 24's without the use of direction/paths. And of course Earth is divided into 42 territories in the game Risk. And there are exactly 42 digit strings. Hmmm...

Regards,

arnezami

[manleym]

Arkai there is a number on #156 Going Dotty

it is going vertical and reads

2-111221111112-4 and just under it
(upside down)
2-2232-4

there is no strange image on the card

[Arkai]

[duckiemonster]

No answer from Kurt re: the existance of a Perplex City version of Risk.

But I guess he's a little pre-occupied.

[chimera245]

Just as an aside, the movie Cube and Combed Thunderclap have a lot of similarities.

[arnezami]

I've been trying to think in more meta terms lately. I think that there are several theories that are fairly good candidates for explaining the numbers in some sense or the other.

I do however believe that any theory will have to explain all these things:

1. The lack of 13s, 31s, 24s and 42s. This could be explained by some form of direction or by some other defined relation between 1/3 and 2/4. This characteristic of the digits strings greatly restricts the number of possible theories.
   
2. The existance of the .5 numbers and their scarcity. If numbers are not directions then what do these .5 numbers represent? And if the numbers are directions then why are these .5 numbers so rare? Why are straight directions "preferred" above diagonals?
   
3. The general "direction" that all the digit strings seem to have. Why do digit strings mostly only have 2 out of 4 types of digits in them. And why do deviations of this only seem to occur at the end or beginning of the digit strings? If the numbers are directions then why deviate from your general direction only at the very last moment?
   
4. The meaning of the outer digits: the digits at the very beginning and at the very end. They seem to be completely unrelated to the middle digits (eg. they do not adhere to points 1 and 3 above at all). Are they (a) the key to combine all middle digits (b) completely unrelated to the middle digits (c) dependend on the middle digits (that is: once the middle digits are "in place" the outer digits get their meaning).
   
5. The context to other findings. How does all this relate to Risk? And to the blobs and dices? How does it relate to the combed thunderclap message? How does this relate to the playing card symbols? In fact: how do you get any information out of these digits? And would be the nature of that information?
   
6. Ultimately: the cube. How does the combination of everything lead to the location of the cube?

A daunting challenge I would say.

Regards,

arnezami

PS. I just found out that the first digit string on #188 (when interpreted as a path) "collides" with itself. This could be significant. Could somebody double-check the digits on this card?

[Antony C]

Yup, it does collide with itself. I came to the same conclusion, but as my heads filled with trying to get my head around these theories, it's difficult to come up with any other ideas... I need a break!

[Mico]

[locqust]

Just to add, maybe this will help somebody, but remember all the 3P agents we had "sign on" when we cracked into their private email thingy in all the different locations on Earth? Maybe these locations (I believe they were all cities mentioned) can be used as starting points on these paths on a risk board?

[PerplexHero]

[PerplexHero]

Anyone else noted there are some cards with interesting "signs" placed on them.
#72 - Yippie Ka Ye has a "Food and Drinks" sign on it with arrows.
#94 - Prime Rhyme Crime has a "(Diamond) Casle Castle" sign on an arrowed sign.

Could these be instructions on how to assemble some cards?