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matt_the_pale · Decorated Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 215

[PUZZLE] Chocolates Glyph and Mystery

**Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:10 am

QuinceTheCarpenter · Boot Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 40

One additional note on the trail: the poster on YouTube is CHARLABEELK, and anagram for RACHEL BLAKE.

I do not speak American Sign Language (ASL), but it appears that the guy in the Chocolates video is using a few signs and lots of individual letters - very fast and very low resolution. He also gestures several times to the glyph symbol on his T-Shirt.

I am have tried reading the letters one at a time using this reference http://www.lifeprint.com/ (click on F, then fingerspelling).

In the first 10 seconds of the video, I have :

1 sec : touches finger tips, alternating hands

2-4 sec : R A C H E L

5 sec : he gestures to glyph

6 sec : E _ L ...

7-9 sec : A P L E (C) N D Y ... (Apollo Candy ?)
... (then I thought a "J" but it looks like index finger rather than pinky,
so perhaps a number sign - who knows, maybe this is ASL for "dot COM")

10 sec : then sign hand in shape of "A" touches single finger on other hand

So, basically, after about an hour, I have
"Blah RACHEL Blah-L APOLLOCANDY Blah"
and I gave up there. It's just too fast and too blurry. I don't see how even someone fluent in ASL could see all the letters, but maybe someone with more patience can read enough and guess enough to figure out the message. Rumor has it on the Fuselage that someone's friend with 1 semester of ASL thought they saw the word "GLYPH" in there somewhere.

I really wonder if they mean for the video to be so small/blurry as it turns out to be on YouTube.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:47 am

matt_the_pale · Decorated Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 215

Here's a copy of the video with the sign language, slowed to half-speed. It was posted by Tapdawg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN5J67zFodk

Another one from Tapdawg at an even slower speed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAr8EC6_Kg

**Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:26 am

ixalon

You'd think that in my job of web design for charities, I'd know at least one person fluent in ASL! BSL wouldn't be a problem...

Nice puzzle though - best glyph yet.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:25 am

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My friend says that the pointing to mouth and alternating hand means mix.

**Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:46 am

matt_the_pale · Decorated Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 215

A group affiliated with http://thelostexperienceclues.blogspot.com has come up with this translation:

**Posted:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:29 pm

Lupus Argenteus · Boot Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

So, as a refresher, Mel is Mel0drama. And this subplot may actually be bearing fruit...or candy bars, at least. So does this make the EDC the competition, or Lewis King Laboratories, or what?

This does make the Apollo Candy giveaway even more interesting. I've asked a friend to go, now.

For reference, here's Lostpedia's info on Dr. Hackett:
http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Dr._Hackett

**Posted:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:00 pm