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[filmguy1013]

[bit1313]

Funny. When I posted that, I didn't realize that I was bringing you back the begining of the game. (I wasn't here then)

I actually woke up at 3am and sat staight up in bed and said "New York Library" and my wife thought I was crazy.

/happy emotion on
Anyway... I agree about the team work thing. I expect that some one is sitting on "secret research" (not that anyone in this game has sat on secret research... ummm... SENTE!!). I thought about just sitting back and waiting for more theories, clues and puzzles to be solved and then secretly hightailing it to the NYPL to see what I could see (or Central Park for that matter). Then I thought about it... what fun is that? I know that *I* will not find the cube. But if I can help someone or a team of people.. that is reward enough. I can't do all the puzzles and logic for some of the cards... but, like everyone else, I can dream and think and SHARE.

/happy emoition off

(BTW - the Borges book "Libarary of Babel" is housed in a special collection in the NYPL. You have to have a special card from the research that I have done. Just thought I would mention it. I can see the poor librarians around the water cooler now - "I've had 15 people ask me for access to the Borges collection. ME TOO! There is a line at the "Special Collections" door. WTF is going on???????")

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[Juxta]

[aliendial]

" Guest " Juxta, you left out the rest of drinkmonsters' observations about sticking together. Oh, oops, that's right, you left.

[dkplewis]

And now for some bad, flimsy speculation. I think "tenuous" would be a compliment for this

Combed Thunderclap wrote:

[Mima]

I posted a couple of hours ago, saying that I had been unaware of the initial problems that had occured, but that I had been posting on both forums as I had not known that this was not good "form". I also objected to the flaming as it made me feel uncomfortable. The post and several others that were here have been removed. That makes me feel even more uncomfortable. If you are going to remove my posts, I would appreciate at least being told why this is necessary, as all I had said was that from what I believed ARG's were supposed to be played with a spirit of co-operation, and had said nothing critical of anybody.

[cassandra]

I don't believe any posts were deleted: the off-topic parts were split and moved to the Meta forum (albeit without referencing links, now added).

[Teravius]

I've been lurking for a while here, and I had a quick thought. The first clue we have is "half the world," right? And the two joker cards are Persian and Secret Location. We know the relevance of Secret Location to this puzzle already, and we've never found a connection between the card Persian and its title. Here's the thing: there's an ancient Persian saying that "Isfahan is half the world." I know it's a bit tenuous, but given that 1) Persian and Secret Location are related, and 2) the title "Persian" has significance at all, this combination of clues might be pointing toward Isfahan. Maybe the Uqbar clue ties into this as well.

This does leave a few questions unanswered, most importantly what do "region" and "realm" have anything to do with Isfahan?

[Joe]

excuse me for being pessamistic, but isn't Central Park too obvious?

granted we've been told the cube was buried, and to dig up all of central park would be a pain (unless we had some exact coordintes..)

I'm not usually a pessamist, but it just seems too easy..

anyways, I'm about 102 minutes away from there by train, so if anyone does trek out there (and it's not a day I'm working) I'd be happy to tag along.

Joe

[Caz]

[jonc]

I hate to say this too, but the cube was buried at the beginning, at which point they would not be sure that they would have many US players.

So it's much more likely to be in the UK.


PS I am also in the UK, and in no way biased.

[Mikeyj]

Meta

[ampetrizzo]

This is the sculpture out front of the New York Library for the Performing Arts. Looks like 5 fingers to me.

http://michaelminn.net/newyork/lincoln_center/2001-09-01-15.jpg

::edit::
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/images/lpabuilding.jpg

better view, smaller pic.

[ampetrizzo]

you know, I'll answer my own question. From what I can tell, that five fingered hand points down 65th street towards Central Park.

And one of the statues in the park along that line? William Shakespeare.
http://www.centralparknyc.org/virtualpark/photogalleries/sculpturetour

[bit1313]

I almost went down that path of thought on Central Park.

I have a list of notes on the statues and the area.. in short it goes like this:

There is a Shakespeare Theatre and statue in Central Park near the Great Lawn

The Great Lawn has a track around it (1/8 mile walking track) - hence "going around in circles" and "where does the circle begin" from CTs clues.

In the Northeast corner of the Great Lawn is a group of trees. They are LONDON PLAIN TREES (I almost peed myself when I read that)

Borges was in Central Park for a photo opp back in 1962 (I think it was)

Thurber was in Central Park was well. His museum in Ohio also has three Central Park benches.

On a side note - there are some Alice in Wonderland statues in Central Park as well.

Someone (name escapes me know) was once quoted as saying "Central Park is the Crystal Cube in the center of the Big Apple (New York City)" Just mentioning that.. as I found it whilst searching.

At the same time, I have thought "Gee.. is that right that MC would put a UK games solution in the US." I would think that it would kinda piss off about 99.9% of our British brothers and sisters that would never make the trip to the US only on spec that something might be there and that they might very well get here, walk right by it and still not find it.

You do know that once the cube is found, we will all just shake our heads because someone will have posted the answer and we just didn't react.

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