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[DESCRY] [Item/Mail] Envelope with photograph inside
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Macavity
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[DESCRY] [Item/Mail] Envelope with photograph inside
It's apparently from Kevin . . .

Well, I just checked the mail a few minutes ago, and amongst the (very few) items, there was an envelope addressed not to me, but to the house where I live (i.e., there was no name on the envelope, just a street address).

The return address was:

Kevin
PO Box 312
Clear Creek, IN 47426

Inside, I found a photograph of the four jacks from a pack of cards. From closest to furthest away, they were:

Jack of Spades
Jack of Clubs
Jack of Hearts
Jack of Diamonds


On the back is the following:

LIZ
Blamed for

and what looks like some Braille.

I've uploaded a couple pictures I took of the photograph and its back. I don't have so I'm afraid the supposed Braille doesn't show up too well (if it shows up at all!)

I've also emailed Kevin about this mysterious picture. Hopefully he'll get back to me on what it's all about (provided he knows anything about it . . . )

I'm going to print out the Braille alphabet and see if I can decode the pattern on the back.
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ALISDAIRPARK
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at a guess the four jacks represent the four that were released. Liz is someone new, although we've had a couple of female characters referenced. Can't see the braille so will wait for your translation. I'm a UK player so don't get any physical stuff days after the US.
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I got one too, but mine is a picture of Tower (?) Bridge
Back is the same, mailing addy the same, posting front & back
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Here's mine. ETA: No braille on mine by the way...




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Olly
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ALISDAIRPARK wrote:
I'm a UK player so don't get any physical stuff days after the US.


Same here Sad

Hopefully, it won't be long though!

If you're unable to translate the braile, perhaps you should go to a place for blind people, and ask them to translate it?

That's what I'm going to do Razz

ilikepucks wrote:
Here's mine. ETA: No braille on mine by the way...


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RedHatty
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I don't think it's braille, there are WAY too many dots for braille lettering
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Olly
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RedHatty wrote:
I don't think it's braille, there are WAY too many dots for braille lettering


Well, if you're right, maybe it's morse code?

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gandalf112
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I also received one. It's the same picture as ilikepucks', but mine has the "LIZ Blamed for" along with the dots around the words.

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wraith64
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I too received the picture of Tower Bridge however, on the back it reads;
The men That.
My scanner isn't hooked up at the moment so I can't submit a photo of it.

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RedHatty
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Olly, maybe, but I cannot see a clear dot dash pattern in it.

As for braille, here is a good pic of the alphabet as well as special codes for different letter combinations
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Macavity
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I just took a closer look at the back, and I don't think the dots are Braille after all - or if it is Braille, it's not standard braille.

My main reason for reassessing the dot code is that some of the characters (if characters they are) use an eight-dot cell, whereas standard Braille uses a six-dot cell.

Code:


Standard Braille:

 + ++ +  ++ +
+   +    +     
      +         

I  D  K  F  A

A fragment from the back of the photograph (just above the L in LIZ):

      ++   
+  +  ++ + 
++ ++    ++
         ++



It might be a more esoteric form of Braille - there are forms of Braille that use eight-dot cells, but the only ones I've read about are DotsPlus (which is mainly used for mathematical stuff) and Cyrillic braille - but I doubt it.
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RedHatty
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I can't read the newspaper without glasses - i don't even want to think about this little dot stuff! But if anyone is braving this challenge, 8 Dot Braille has the pics
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goancrow
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I recieved the same photograph of the four playing cards Jacks as Macavity however my message reads

The men
That

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Olly
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Just received mine.
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i got a picture in the post today. On the front is Tower Bridge but on the back its says:
ANNIE
Will be

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