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[carmenmiranda]

As far as "moving on" and figuring out what we're supposed to be focusing on, I think that the PMs are trying to give us hints here:

http://www.sentryoutpost.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Notice how one of the in-game players says that he's leaving a dream on the recording, to see if she answers back with a Craigslist post. He also hints that she's getting the city right via caller ID.

Which is clever of the PMs to have thought of.

[konamouse]

That is what I did the first week. Said my name was konamouse, from Las Vegas, and said that I kept having a dream that left me feeling very uneasy when I woke up, but I couldn't remember what it was. But I was waking up sweating and fearful alot. The eventual CL posting for Las Vegas seemed to point that out alot. Pretty much a no brainer.

[rose]

[konamouse]

Wild spec while in chat and posting in SO.

Circled word or words play out like crossword puzzle clues.

Discuss.

[Caterpillar]

[rose]

[thebruce]

[rose]

overlaying

[cissmiace]

Re: overlaying

[cissmiace]

Sorry for the double post, I'm having a really big problem with lining up these pages. Mainly because some people have taken pictures of the pages side on, and from other different angles.
This obviously means that the words wont line up. If I skew the images, I also run the risk of misaligning the words.
Any ideas? =\

[thebruce]

well i did some tweaking and came up with the image below... the text lines are 100% lined up, but very very close... checking to see if circles actually hilite words on other pages will take some time, since that does need accuracy... so this image is more to see if there was a pattern in the circles as they're overlaid

[rose]

Question: how do we know which pages to overlay each other page on?

[thebruce]

precisely... there are so many combinations, that there's either an indicator somewhere, a key, or it's not a one to one overlay... or it has something to do with the position of the circled words, or something... plus we've got fronts and backs of pages... remember we've got pages with no circled words on them as well

[danteIL]

[rose]

Is there a way to match up pages with no circled words on them? That seems like the best first step. I was thinking we should use the pages that came together in one package -it might seem silly to send them together, but it still isn't obvious to us that this is the right move.

I dunno, maybe she made the puzzle even more distributed ( meaning that it is already a distributed puzzle by virtue of being broken up and sent to different people) and required the people who got packages to collaborate in order to decode the circled words.