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Thunderwolf
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
[PUZZLE] [SOLVED] B. Wilson Password at SRI Bryan Wilson has ent Eva the following email:
Quote:
Dear Eva,
As you know, your parents and I were very close. When first your father died so suddenly when you were small and then your mother tragically succumed to her long illness, I promised I would take care of you. I have in one way or another been watching your progression all your life and I have seen you grow into a special person. You must know I would not want to cause you any distress. If you look at me more closely you will see the bigger picture; you will find out the truth from there.
Yours truly,
Bryan Wilson.
I'm thinking this is a clue pointing to his photo on the SRI website.
(See photo below. - drizjr )
EDIT:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
There are several messages in the background of Wilson's photo on the SRI website, including:
usr = Wilson
/BWpersonal
Delude=?
Guilt
Regret
which gives us
edit: Split the puzzle goodness off from this thread and added the photo for a visual.- drizjr
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_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:45 am
Raze50
Boot
Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 67
above guilt and regret there is another word...
eva..or maybe EYA....
stupid angle
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:54 am
Raze50
Boot
Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 67
Definitions of Delude:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/delude
Above delude on the chalkboard are 10 dashes...I looked for a 10-letter synonym for delude, but so far nothing...
I've tried eva, guilt, regret, and delude as possible PW but no joy...
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:07 am
jwiv
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Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 175 Location: Baltimore, MD
Raze50 wrote:
above guilt and regret there is another word...
eva..or maybe EYA....
stupid angle
I think it's EYA, but I'm not sure. There's also letters beneath those words.
I've attached a slightly modified crop to help make sense of it.
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_________________While the Law of Fives is never wrong, I often am.
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:36 am
Raze50
Boot
Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 67
I noticed that "formula" too...
to my eye it looks like: a + c + c = d
I have no math skills, but this doesn't look like any familiar formula...assuming it is important.
It doesn't match the color of eya, guilt, or regret...
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:48 am
Raze50
Boot
Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 67
I'm looking at file information for the photo and there's one thing I see that is curious. The caption or alt description is coming up as M3391M-1011.
Anyone know what this means? Could be no more significant than the fact the image was saved in Photoshop CS2, but I'm curious...
EDIT: Also, it looks as if the original picture was taken May 22, 2006...looks like they've been planning this for a looong time...
2nd Edit: That M3391M-1011 may not be significant, I think it is just some part of the file naming. I googled it and came up with lots of other photos with that code as the title, so I doubt it is anything of importance.
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:56 am
PlayNicely
Boot
Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 14
sorry to seem dumb, bit where are you finding this photo? do some people have access to other parts of the site that others don't? I can't find it anywhere...
EDIT: Ignore, Just a dumb day
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:52 am
RothkoWoofed
Veteran
Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 74 Location: Somerset, UK
erg... got all excited when I found www.bwpersonal.com ...but its very german... and seems to be very not related!
whois is also very german, so no luck here! ...I'm a fool
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:12 pm
Herb13
Guest
Why would you a lower case letter on EVa or EYa when all the rest off the letters are capital - So EVO - Acronyn = Evolution?
Just A thought
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:39 pm
tim7168
Veteran
Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 92 Location: Birmingham, UK
Quote:
Above delude on the chalkboard are 10 dashes...I looked for a 10-letter synonym for delude, but so far nothing...
The first six dashes look slightly separate from the second four cos they're slightly higher.
The word 'delude' reminds me of 'Deception Sites Online' on the Subject180287 site.
A + B + C could mean the three words above, D being the result of all three combined. Or alternatively, the D could be Delude and you have to turn the equation round to find the missing factor:
Delude = Guilt + Regret + ? (This would be assuming the first word is EVA, as a note for Eva)
Quote:
Why would you a lower case letter on EVa or EYa when all the rest off the letters are capital - So EVO - Acronyn = Evolution?
I agree about the lower case being odd, but I do not think that it is an O, I'm pretty sure it has a tail, but then it is pretty hard to see..
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:43 pm
typoartist22
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Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 106
Well, the 'i' in guilt is lowercase as well. Some people's printing comes out that way. Especially male teachers (My bio teacher writes like that all the time, switching between capitals, lowercase, and cursive)
It's pretty safe to call it Eva I think
Also, as I look at the picture..it becomes obvious that Wilson's mustache is fake, and the gray of his eyebrows and sideburns is stage makeup!!
Perhaps this is poor makeup work, or maybe it is intentional so that we become more suspicious of him?
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:53 pm
mgelles
Decorated
Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 210
finally a word puzzle unfortunately a 10 letter word for delude is not coming to me but couould he mean we add synonyms for the first two words to a synonym for delude to get the answer?
Michelle
Tried putting together the words eva guilt and regret together and then taking out the repititious letters but that would leave onnly 9 characters
v a u i l t e r g which as near as i can tell is still no help
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:35 pm
Sylvia
I Have No Life
Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062
We got a solve Thanks to Severn who once again made the connection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptarithm. We spent several hours this morning in chat trying to figure out what the number for each letter might be. Then RothkoWoofed found this http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/alphamet/alpha_solve.shtml
and presto:
Code:
The following alphametic puzzle:
EVA
GUILT
+REGRET
-------
DELUDE
has 1 solution in base 10.
It is:
862 A=2 D=5 E=8 G=9 I=7 L=1 R=4 T=3 U=0 V=6
90713
+489483
-------
581058
http://www.sri-uk.org/BWpersonal/
so the un = Wilson and the pw = 581058
to discuss this new info go here http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=298286#298286
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:24 pm
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
WOW! Well done everyone involved in cracking that one, it's an AWESOME solve
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:31 pm
ghostdog
Boot
Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 11
So once you log on it gives you a picture of ten year old eva wearing a white dress. Behind her is some sort of work table. Wilson's Maybe?
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:45 pm
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