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[SPEC] General Backing Contains Clues?
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AtionSong
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 		[SPEC] General Backing Contains Clues?
I was looking at the generic card back yesterday:



And I noticed some possible clues/points of interest:



1. The Keyboard
Looks like a normal laptop, but the blue symbols could be hinting at something else...?

2. The Foil
Is it just a pack of Perplex City cards, or another object?

3. The Passport
This is the most interesting thing. Could this perhaps give us information to use in Billion to One? At the top, it says "Immigration Inspector", then is followed by what appears to be Japanese writing. Also:
- Passport number contains the code: R 9332 (possible code?)
- tiple. Does anybody know what this signifies?

4. The ?
- 77% Recycled Paper fibers
Is this just about the cards themselves, or is it about what it is written on? What is it written on?

Does anybody have thoughts on any of this?

PS. Sorry the pictures are so large!

Edit - Yeah, um, about that: Please refer to the Perplex City Card Catalog FAQ regarding Mind Candy's rules (which you can also see in official form) for high resolutions scans of cards, even the generic card back. 60 dpi is the maximum permissable resolution, so I have downsized your images to comply with that standard. While this makes the details you are pointing out illegible on these images, since this is a generic card back, chances are that people who are interested in taking a closer look will have a generic card back somewhere at hand to examine. -xnbomb

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myf
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 		I know at least some of these items have been discussed before. Having looked back, there seems to have been a couple of threads about the generic card backs: here about the changes for Season 1 and here about the keyboard and passport. I haven't looked too hard, so there may have been other discussions prior to those ones.

Oh, and the bit about "77% Recycled Paper fibers" - this is an envelope, which the other stuff in the picture is on top of. Sealed Air (the line above the recycled fibres bit) is the company that makes Mail Lite padded envelopes.
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 		The stamp on the passport there is the same as the one I got on mine when I left Japan after a holiday in winter '03.

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ozziog
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 		the other clue that you have missed on the passport is the "TIPLE" which in my mind could only mean one thing that the guy who owns this passport is a multi national.

btw the keyboard is off of a Nokia 9300, which credit goes to myf for guessing correctly.

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 		I said to myself - ooh! - that's my phone! - Only I see that myf correctly identified the phone months ago. Not a laptop. And the blue stuff is the alt key functions. Not something added.
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 		Ticks = back of card?
I'm VERY new to Perplex City and it's mystery, so forgive me if this is way off base.

But, as I was catching up, I happened to listen to/watch the "ticks" episode from CT and noticed that the description of what came out of the "travel documents" envelope seemed to match that generic card back awfully closely...

The "recycled paper fibers" is preceded by the phrase "by sealed air"- it's the flap of a padded manila envelope, I think.

The cell phone at the top of the pic would be the item the size of a deck of cards with a keypad.

And then the passport would be the small turquoise book with the picture of him in the back... but this is where it doesn't quite work- because the book mentioned by CT is a United Nations Laissez-passer, and the passport on the back is a visa from the country of India...

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bit1313
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 		Linky from previous discussion here from the "ticks" talk:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17530&start=45

No trout though... Happy Holidays

bit1313

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AtionSong
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 		Also check out this thread - http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17780 comparing the pre-release and normal backings.

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