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[Austin]

I just checked this link,

[locqust]

[BBuck]

Been thinking about the numbers. I'm very inclined to go with the Risk game theory. 42 territories, 42 numbers, divided 11 to "1" and "2" and 10 to "3" and "4" seems too perfect otherwise. I reckon the numbers indicate control of the territory at the end of the round, and the "-.5"'s indicate that control of the territory went to someone else during the round, ie multiple attacks.

I've not tried to plot them out yet, and not sure how to reduce the number of possibilities. But I suspect that the end result will indicate the country where the cube is buried, possibly with the control of the territories forming arrows towards one location. Whilst I think most of us assume the Cube is buried in the UK, from a game perspective, there needs to be some indication of which country: the numbers are from the mysterious Combed Thunderclap or accomplices in Perplex City.

[Geist]

Likely this is going to be the hardest puzzle to solve and will need a joint effort to find the answer.

I have played a few ARGs and for some reason seem to feel there are less active posts for this game even though there are a lot more people playing this. All of the ARGs I have played, there has been no money prizes so got to expect people are going to hold back incase they help someone else. Imagine you are playing for the money and post your spec and do most of the working out only for someone to work out the last bit.

In the end whoever finds the cube decides what happens and we have no control over this. An agreement on here to give some of the money to uf is not going to work as anyone is free to read this and so does not have to agree. You could make a fourm up just for people who agree to how to split the money but then it defeats the purpose. Personally I hope it if found by a team from here working together and not going to be a race of different people all trying to get there first. I m please that a commenity so far as that was a worry I had at the start of the game but its the end game now. I am interested to see what happens as could show the future of ARGs.

I did not mean to write so much and perhaps a new thread is requried but will leave this here for the moment.


As for my thoughts on the puzzle:
The infantry, cavalryman dice all are from risk. there are different versions but not seen one with a map of the uk

I am struggling to picture all the pieces to make the uk. I even photocopied them at work but they did not have left hand scissor so not able to cut them out neatly. They did not seem to come together that well. Also if it is going to be a large risk map then how do you work out the 42 areas? I can understand why it could be the UK as I dont think MC was sure how big the game would be so its the mostly likely option if it what hiddenat the very start.

Not too sure about the numbers but directions seem to the best idea so far.

Also If I was MC I would try to make sure you needed the cards and have a knowledge of the game therefore the winner should be someone who has been playing an active part in the game. Perhaps working out who took it will help (ie If i was them and wanted to hide the cube where would I put it) Also I think the clues on these cards are from this same person. Perhaps contactng them may help. So with the risk clue I would guess it could be Garnet Reed. Hes not been seen much and also part of the Perplex City defence forces. Perhaps they removed it as new the ube was going to be used against the city? Anyway thinks thats more than enough for now.

[Asa]

Just something that i noticed yesterday which may or may not be of value... The reprint of #206Mexid Massege contains a quite different background image than that of the original. The main difference being what seems to be an old outline of the south of England, i guess they must have done this for a reason and as it seems to bear no relevance to the card i thought it might be relevant to this thread, any ideas?

[arnezami]

[c1023]

If the numbers represent paths, is it possible that some of them are at different scales. Supposing they are directions, you would use a street map to get out of one town, then larger scale map to navigate the motorways and A roads, and then another street map to get to your destination.

[arnezami]

[mac_monkey]

Wow great work so far guys.

I think its important not to get hung up on the "these are kloos and as it's about time the cube was found, so they must be directions to it" route.

Although I don't think you are going down that route, I'm just saying keep in mind that the clues might not necessarily be what your subconscious is making them appear as.

But yeh..great stuff so far.

I'm still lost as to how they are directions..

/me slaps himself.

"wake up mac"

[arnezami]

[poozle]

I don't now enough about either but if you are saying directions for a code could it be used with the crypto backend system (when it is back online) to get messages by imitating the paths. I would try but I'm not sure how it works, anyone who does feel free to try (please ).

[UKver2.0]

[jonc]

To expand on the post above, the number of each number at the end of the strings could co-incide with continents held by each of the players.

[arnezami]

[UKver2.0]

It could be just that... A complicated way of saying 1 = South, 2 = West, ...(translation = rotate the paths you created in the ppt file 180 degrees)...

Or to take the idea too far... If each code represents a country and we know which continent each country comes from (for three continents anyway) and what countries each player ends up with, we should be able to find out which countries each started out with - providing that the "path" strings give us the paths of conquest. Perhaps the starting position of the game forms a pattern that spells something out or makes a symbol that would be recognizable as a location.