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[wonkothesane]

yeah lol . i see your point - we are the right hand that points to the place to add in . we are the 'five fingers point' . i was thinking along the lines of a circle needing a start - there is the' laissez' part of CT's passport that could indicate a french twist - french canadian ?? ive found some documents related to travel expenses on a temporary 'laissez' passport , one of these includes 'terminal' costs. with any diplomatic passport , the travel documents and receipts have to be audited , so if CT is on this basis - there would be a trail somewhere. Certainly , there is a distinct 'air' of diplomacy regarding the arrangements that have been made for him. Which has got me thinking about alternate universes- perhaps he looks exactly like a famous diplomat in the UK/US, perhaps he looks like SANTA?? im really unsure about the time/timezone for his arrival - has the cube taken him to the past ? is the cube ipso facto a cube at all as we know it or a metal we know- perhaps perplexians have never known plastic.

anyway rambling off - in the library of babel some of the leaves that cover the text look like maple leaves , we have the 'arboreal' clue , we know about the yellow taxis - so perhaps the start of the circle is in Canada?

[flicb]

Could be Canada, but I don't think that the French necessarily points to that.

Some countries (and the UN) have passports printed in two languages.

For example, my UK passport is English/French.

[M. Johansson]

[jonc]

Just a quick note, I think the phone on the back of the cards is one of a Nokia communicator series, possibly a Nokia 9300. When opened up it has a full keyboard, and the little thing in the bottom right.

It also folds and has numbers on the front (which fits the libraryofbabel description).

[AtionSong]

[jonc]

I've just had a quick read of the entire thread, and I don't want people to get bogged down in what nationality the passport was, and it sounds french etc.

From what I've been reading it's simply a type of passport, and could have been issued from anywhere. What's important is that it's usually issued for one-way travel to the country of issue.

[GasparLewis]

Returning from the dead for a moment:

The numbers, in absolute value, anyway, never exceed 8, and never fall below 2.

Checkerboard?
+ and - on outside as opposing players?
+ and - on inside with respect to direction? (But whose perspective?)

Also, I think we can establish that CT was in New York; United Nations, yellow cabs, cold November. But, it seems we can also begin to operate under the assumption that, where ever in New York City CT was, he is no longer, having very likely left the country.

[ramsfan]

grids

[isca]

wonkothesane said:

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[wonkothesane]

 

[drinkmonsters]

Re: grids

[isca]

Does anyone see the melting shapes resemble some of the lakes seen on the perplex city plan map? See map below.

Or is it just my aching eyes? Sleep beautiful sleep!

Another thing looking at the shape of the grid on this map - if we place one card on one complete rectangle, are all the 256 cards needed? Is there any reason why some rectangles of the grid are disected with diagonal roads?


EDIT - I chose a rectangle based upon it not being disected by a road and not being entirely green in colour. A road should also surround it. See picture of gridmap with card numbers below - significant or not, it was fun doing it!

[AtionSong]

Currently, in the Ticks puzzle thread, a brilliant discovery has been made by ilikepucks.

SUMMARY: On the Perplex City site, if you go to the "My Cards" page, the grid that shows up can be divided into four equal quadrants, like a graph. If you then take the cards corresponding to the given coordinates, you get a string of card numbers and +/-:

[drinkmonsters]

so now that we have all the numbers in an order... what does this mean for us... i wish i had something to contribute, but i'm at a wall. and how were we supposed to get this order before TICKS?