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gazdemon
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Sorry, yeah I just read the whole thread. I'm up to date now! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:31 am
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plugs
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I need to run out but I looked briefly and THINK yours is unique, gazdemon.

It's an I not a 1, since the 1's are very obvious in the other pdfs I've looked at and there's no I's listed in the letter/number lists actionsong's been making. So, yeah, don't have time to check all but I think we might be up to 8.

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plugs wrote:
I need to run out but I looked briefly and THINK yours is unique, gazdemon.

It's an I not a 1, since the 1's are very obvious in the other pdfs I've looked at and there's no I's listed in the letter/number lists actionsong's been making. So, yeah, don't have time to check all but I think we might be up to 8.
We're still at 7. gazdemon has the same one as thebruce.

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sixsidedsquare
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I'm surprised that other than the first and fourth post there is next to no talk about the text in the email. The pdfs are called Distraction after all Razz
Splitting it up so it's easier to distinguish symbols and letters, as well as where the spaces are:
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*  % % !  !+ ^  * ! &   &! !   %  %! *    $  &   %  !!  ^`
 Th i s  i  s  w a y  mo  r e t ha  n  I c an  ha nd  le   
        X     X      X       X        X X     X         

Just some observation before I head off to bed:
* The letters/symbols always come as 1s or 2s.
* Only the number keys '145678' as well as ` and = are used.
* The ` only appears at the end and is the only one that is produced without using shift.

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AtionSong
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I'm pretty busy this morning, but maybe later tonight I'll figure out what the "origamis" for each of the seven we have would look like based on my previous diagrams.

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Uberg33k
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sixsidedsquare wrote:
I'm surprised that other than the first and fourth post there is next to no talk about the text in the email. The pdfs are called Distraction after all Razz
Splitting it up so it's easier to distinguish symbols and letters, as well as where the spaces are:
Code:

*  % % !  !+ ^  * ! &   &! !   %  %! *    $  &   %  !!  ^`
 Th i s  i  s  w a y  mo  r e t ha  n  I c an  ha nd  le   
        X     X      X       X        X X     X         

Just some observation before I head off to bed:
* The letters/symbols always come as 1s or 2s.
* Only the number keys '145678' as well as ` and = are used.
* The ` only appears at the end and is the only one that is produced without using shift.


I don't think that people are ignoring other angles, its just that there's more to talk about with the PDFs right now. I've been trying to carry on a conversation with the original sender and monitoring mmorri05 on AIM to see if anyone ever pops up. Most of my own person efforts with the email itself dead ended quickly, so I didn't bother mentioning them. Perhaps a little substitution is the answer. For instance, the first symbol is created by shift-8. Lets call it 8. The next letters that follow are TH. Perhaps in one of the locations (or all of them) in one of the PDFs (or all of them), we're supposed to substitute 8 for TH.

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plugs
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Ok, got a response about how many emails got sent out:

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Hard to tell for sure, but it looks like nine emails were sent in all with about 7 people BCC:'d on each.


So, it DOES look like we're after 9 different files...

PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:30 pm
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Uberg33k
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Ok, I've got another email from our mystery person.

When questioned about who mmorri05 is, I got the following response

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That's got me doing backspins!
It's MY LAN-ID at work.


I know it doesn't show in my c&p's, but backspins is in bold. One of the other emails I got had "up" and "down" in quotes.

We're being given a hint.

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GuyIncognito
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Hey guys.

Got the mail yesterday, replied to the sender, got nothing back, so I came here. (Haven't been involved in anything for quite a while...so I'd doubt any connection between this game and another one; could still be a re-launch, though.)

I haven't quite caught up yet, so I don't know if my .pdf's a dupe. Here it is:
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drizjr
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Yesterday, I received the same one as Esteed. My email information is not on that uF thread, but I have used it for other ARGs.

I don't have a working printer, so I can't play with the origami idea.
Could it be that the "up and down" "hint means to somehow fold it with a height dimension, rather than making it flat?

eta: [OFF TOPIC] heh. I just noticed the new designation over my avatar; "? ... !"
I don't know what it means (?) but I like it (!) Smile

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aliendial
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I have been ignoring this, but I got one too. No idea if it's a dupe.
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And... I don't know if this was already noted, but a couple people posted about what they received in the "Is that a trailhead?" thread:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8731&start=435
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plugs
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Anyone get any further with the origami? Wish I could help with this...sorry.

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plugs
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Had another email from Clue Less Smile

Someone is aware of my plight, it simply said "I hate not having a printer." Laughing with an attachment of the 1st fold.
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degravedi
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If it helps any, I transcribed everything into a spreadsheet for ease of reference. Its navigatable by the tabs at the bottom for anyone who is unfamiliar with the program.

basics: shows where each grid point on a non-folded sheet corresponds to it's folded part.

originals: all of the original pdf images

folded: what each folded square holds

sudoku: at least one way to "solve" the back folded parts ina sudoku manner.
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