Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
 
The time now is Thu Nov 14, 2024 12:42 am
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)
View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » GAME: Vanishing Point
[PUZZLE] [Jan 20] Box 3 - Memories fade...
View previous topicView next topic
Page 5 of 6 [83 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
Author Message
rose
...and then Magic happens


Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Posts: 4117

Gee I don't know but it seems that we have at least three puzzles that we don't know why the answers worked.

Athena

Greece

Triton

At least one more that we are back engineering...


So what the heck? I have to say, this is a new one on me. I've never seen this before -which makes me think that maybe it means something Wink
_________________
I love this site for being free, in every sense of the word~Spacebass

Mankind was my business, the common good was my business.~ Dickens


PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:17 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
irulats
Kilroy

Joined: 08 Jan 2007
Posts: 2

CONTEST

Could CONTEST be referring to the OLYMPIC GAMES hence ATHENA (Greek for Athens)?

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:49 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
prosaxplayer
Greenhorn

Joined: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 8

Athena and Poseidon (god of the seas in greek mythology had a contest). Poseidon's picture is in the San Fransisco projection.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Answer: ATHENA


PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:52 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
.
Guest


rose wrote:
Gee I don't know but it seems that we have at least three puzzles that we don't know why the answers worked.

Athena

Greece

Triton


I'd have to say we don't have a good explanation for Los Angeles either.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:42 am
 Back to top 
aliendial
Unfictologist


Joined: 29 Sep 2002
Posts: 3438
Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.

But surely no greek gods were born in LA so we don't have to worry about that. I assume the answer will be some LA_born composer our musicians just hadn't gotten to yet. Because that was a HARD puzzle.

Peavey if you are right then there were NO clues for Number Grid in any of the projection events. Can't be. AND...reviewing the projection, peavey is clearly wrong. Mural has no icon. Number Grid does, and it's the icon under POSEIDON on the projection.

BUt - Triton for Mural? How odd.
_________________
aliendial

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:21 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
enaxor
I Have No Life

Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Posts: 2395

aliendial wrote:

Peavey if you are right then there were NO clues for Number Grid in any of the projection events. Can't be. AND...reviewing the projection, peavey is clearly wrong. Mural has no icon. Number Grid does, and it's the icon under POSEIDON on the projection.



The symbol under Poseidon has both the Mural "placeholder" and the "index symbol" for the Number Grid, which leads me to think it was a hint to use it on both puzzles.

aliendial wrote:
BUt - Triton for Mural? How odd


I agree.
_________________
10/05/2007, 04/23/2009, 07/02/2015
The world is a much dimmer place.


PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:21 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
aliendial
Unfictologist


Joined: 29 Sep 2002
Posts: 3438
Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.

I missed that enaxor - quite right. I just treated it as background design. And I really love what they've done with their pillars.

No explanation this morning from the solver at neowin. I wonder if he just started trying gods. The problem I have with this overlap is that we were supposed to get two different gods from different mythologies from the same image? And if we got the second one we didn't need anything from the Mural puzzle? Also, while we can't see them, were the icons under the inventions also the Number Grid icon? That would have been even more confusing, as it would have implied all of them applied to both. Or perhaps they meant "the clues to the last two puzzles are all in this one pile of images; you figure out which is which". Just to give us a challenge.
_________________
aliendial

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:20 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
EarlyWyrm
Veteran


Joined: 27 Nov 2006
Posts: 144
Location: Houston

aliendial wrote:
I assume the answer will be some LA_born composer our musicians just hadn't gotten to yet.


I'm almost positive the guys are correct with "Cage" - all that's left is to identify the remaining tunes, so no real mystery left, just a bit of musical work.

Triton, on the other hand - heh, good luck with that Wink
_________________
Blind Mice Sit On Us

PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:23 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
aliendial
Unfictologist


Joined: 29 Sep 2002
Posts: 3438
Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.

The only connection to Cage is Los Angeles. The rest is pure speculation and IMHO a real stretch. While I suppose it is not important now to figure out for sure who it was, I think we still mark this with question mark.
_________________
aliendial

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:28 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
doublecross
Unfettered


Joined: 25 Jul 2005
Posts: 588
Location: London, UK

I quite like the theory that removing the tunes of the eight composers will leave four notes behind, namely C, A, G and E.
_________________
xx

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:43 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
aliendial
Unfictologist


Joined: 29 Sep 2002
Posts: 3438
Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.

That is speculation. Nobody has done it.
_________________
aliendial

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:44 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
.
Guest


aliendial wrote:
The problem I have with this overlap is that we were supposed to get two different gods from different mythologies from the same image?


That image only needed to lead us to Poseidon. Triton (his son) is also part of Greek mythology, so no confusion there. I suspect that if we knew how to find it, the Mural puzzle would ask us something about "what's his son?" or something like that, which would lead to Triton. Number Grid + Contest + Poseidon sensibly leads to Athena, so I'm happy with that one.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:07 pm
 Back to top 
aliendial
Unfictologist


Joined: 29 Sep 2002
Posts: 3438
Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.

Yes, I agree that's likely the way it was supposed to work. Hmm. Were we supposed to get rays of the sun (son) from that image? But again that would leave nothing to be used from the Mural puzzle. Gah. I'll stop now..
_________________
aliendial

PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:52 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Wynn
Decorated

Joined: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 154
Location: Seattle, WA

Tomb [Full Solve]

Finally, I got it the way I think it was intended to be solved.

The squares in Tomb are the positions of the pyramids. You'll also notice a black dot in the top-left of the paper, which corresponds to the "vanishing point". Here's a good illustration that was posted in links earlier:
http://goodfelloweb.com/giza/fig3.html

I have attached an overlay of the diagram onto the Tomb puzzle, with the words filled in. After scaling the diagram up 5%, it fits perfectly onto the puzzle.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Look at the inside and the outside arc. They cross through the following letters:
TIFNIEOMSTRN

This anagrams to FIRST MENTION

The first hit of the search for first mention yo-yo says:
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=first+mention+yo-yo&mkt=en-us&FORM=LVSP
The first historical mention of the yo-yo, however, was from Greece in the year 500 B.C.

tomb-overlay.JPG
 Description   Tomb - Vanishing Point overlay
 Filesize   83.11KB
 Viewed   254 Time(s)

tomb-overlay.JPG


PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:26 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
thebruce
Dances With Wikis


Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 6899
Location: Kitchener, Ontario

Wow that's amazing sleuthing Wynn!
Props to whoever made this puzzle too... Cool

we're definitely seeing a lot of misdirection in the harder puzzles =)
_________________
@4DFiction/@Wikibruce/Contact
ARGFest 2013 - Seattle! ARGFest.com


PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:39 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 5 of 6 [83 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » GAME: Vanishing Point
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group