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gazdemon
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Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 132 Location: Norway
Sorry, yeah I just read the whole thread. I'm up to date now!
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:31 am
plugs
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Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 430 Location: Behind you.
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:44 am
Uberg33k
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Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 905 Location: Atlanta
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:05 am
sixsidedsquare
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Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E
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
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:22 am
AtionSong
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Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 352
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:59 am
Uberg33k
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Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 905 Location: Atlanta
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
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:06 am
plugs
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Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 430 Location: Behind you.
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...
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:30 pm
Uberg33k
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Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 905 Location: Atlanta
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.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:08 pm
GuyIncognito
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Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 295
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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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:41 pm
drizjr
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Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 1700
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 (!)
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:43 pm
aliendial
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Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
I have been ignoring this, but I got one too. No idea if it's a dupe.
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:34 am
aliendial
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Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
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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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:35 pm
plugs
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Anyone get any further with the origami? Wish I could help with this...sorry.
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 6:43 am
plugs
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Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 430 Location: Behind you.
Had another email from Clue Less
Someone is aware of my plight, it simply said "I hate not having a printer." with an attachment of the 1st fold.
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:01 pm
degravedi
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: New Orleans
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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Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:02 am
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