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dashcat
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 		Thanks SpaceBass!



I destegged the other four photos and found these numbers:
0525946640

0679444815

0486227812

0938294008


Which translates to STOP

All four photos also included the quote "God does not play dice"

PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 4:59 pm
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sapagoo
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 		UPDATE - summary of latest development
dashcat decrypted the newest jpg files using jphide, no password.

all 4 jpg's had the phrase "God does not play dice."
and numbers above the phrase.

einstein 1892746026 1885928084 0938294008 0938294008

0486227812 - mountain
0938294008 - weblady
0679444815 - kennedy
0525946640 - hope
--------------------------------
convert to ISBN
einstein's were
1892746026 1885928084 0938294008 0938294008
Hysteria Alchemy Philadelphia Philadelphia

0486227812 - mountain - Osiris
0938294008 - weblady - Philadelphia
0525946640 - hope - Secret
0679444815 - kennedy - Timeline

since OPST doesn't make any sense, the SPEC is it should be STOP
and HAPP makes even less sense
-------------------------
Note, "God does not play dice." is a famous quote by Einstein.

Also note, now the mysterious number in Cortana's HEL?
(093829008 ) was obviously meant to be 0938294008 P.
Giving us HELP.

Leaving us with
"I_AM ?AKE IT_IS GOING TO NEED HELP IT CANNOT HAPP, STOP"
plus the single "I" from the LLL profile on Yahoo.
and possibly one or 2 more missing pieces.

---------------------------------------------------
Code:
0071357432 Lost                  0804115486 Enigma
0131014005 Nanotechnology        0814403948 Implementing
0195116445 CMOS                  0817642846 Kinetic
0393317552 Going                 0827371764 Masonry
0486227812 Osiris                1563893389 (nothing )
0525946640 Secret                1885928084 Alchemy
0679444815 Timeline              1892746026 Hysteria
0782129447 Dungeon            0938294008  Philadelphia


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jamesi
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 		Re: UPDATE - summary of latest development
sapagoo wrote:

Leaving us with
"I_AM ?AKE IT_IS GOING TO NEED HELP IT CANNOT HAPP, STOP"
plus the single "I" from the LLL profile on Yahoo.


actually, using the "J" from cemgate's find last night (Justice Leage: Midsummer Nightmare or something of that nature), we can also have these combos:

"Jake, I_am going to need help, I cannot stop, it_is happ(ening)"

"I_am Jake, I need to stop it. I cannot. It_is happ(ening)"

"Jake, it_is going to happ(en). I_am going to need help. Cannot stop."

etcetera, etcetera... you all can see where this might go with proper speculatory fuel.

I just didn't want cemgate's post to go unnoticed.

--j
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dashcat
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 		More spec


I am going to need help, I cannot stop jake, it is happ...

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jamesi
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 		oooooh i like that one even better than any of the drivel i put out there Smile
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dashcat
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 		I forgot that the Stephen Hawking photo needed destegging too. L3 gave me a little nudged in that direction. The info I found is:

0804115486 0131014005 0814403948 0131014005 0393317552

"Here endith the lesson"


The letters are:

E N I N G

the ending for H A P P

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dashcat
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 		The order of the word clues
I just received a list from L3 showing in which order the letters and photos were supposed to be sent out. This should give us the sentences we're looking for...with a little work on our part.

Base64
Picture Cryptography
Base64
Phone Spelling
Picture Cryptography
DTMF
Base64
DTMF
Letter Conversion
DTMF
Letter Conversion
Phone Spelling



I asked L3 if he could give us a clue as to how the words should be orderd and he sent me that list. He also said :

": When you or your colleagues have it. Email it. I just created a 2nd email addy you and your friends may use.
dashcat: Thanks L3 that is very helpful
landau_luckman_lake: The client instructions allowed for it.

I think I'm ready for a rest. I hope someone works on this last part of the puzzle.

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Caterpillar
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 		I think the solve for the ISBNs is:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
IT IS HAPPENING. I CANNOT STOP IT. I AM GOING TO NEED HELP. -JAKE


~cem

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 		I tried to send an email to Landau_Luckman_LakeSPLATyahoo.com....but it bounced.

~cem

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dashcat
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 		L3
First I want to say L3 was a fun game to play.

Next I'd like to say that I just recently realised that I was actually a shill
for the game. Unfortunately I didn't know I was a shill. My bad. I'm gullible. My
one true original thought in this game was realizing that the book titles I looked
at formed the word "Going"...from then on out I was being nudged. I thought I was
protecting someone from ridicule and accusations. My very bad. This whole thing
wouldn't be so bad (to me) if I had just been recruited to shill for the game but
I wasn't. My trust and honesty were manipulated and I'm a little angry about that.
I'm angry that I fell for it. So I've learned a good lesson, painful as it is. Be
careful.

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 		Even though I wasn't able to do any of the "tough stuff", I had a lot of fun with this game. I learned more about the formulas involved in an ISBN than anyone has a right to know, and I'll carry that info forth as I get involved in increasingly complicated (from my viewpoint) games.

Thanks to all!

~cemgate

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Cortana
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 		Re: L3
dashcat wrote:
First I want to say L3 was a fun game to play.

Next I'd like to say that I just recently realised that I was actually a shill
for the game. Unfortunately I didn't know I was a shill. My bad. I'm gullible. My
one true original thought in this game was realizing that the book titles I looked
at formed the word "Going"...from then on out I was being nudged. I thought I was
protecting someone from ridicule and accusations. My very bad. This whole thing
wouldn't be so bad (to me) if I had just been recruited to shill for the game but
I wasn't. My trust and honesty were manipulated and I'm a little angry about that.
I'm angry that I fell for it. So I've learned a good lesson, painful as it is. Be
careful.


I know we had a long conversation about this over on irc.CD the other day, many folks were unhappy with the grand-scale people-manipulation that these puppet masters and mistresses were capable of. They tried to cajole people into playing, and left others out.

While I'm not necessarily degrading their effort, their puzzles were indeed a bit unique, I'm not happy with the hands-on nature of this effort. Much of this was dependent upon far-reaching community members, some of whom, while regulars, don't post a whole lot on the boards.

One good thing has come out of this, though, I think it's safe to say we're two communities a little closer after the fact.

Cortana.

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Cortana
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 		Re: L3
imbri wrote:

One request though. Does anyone have the email address that Dashcat got (or DC, if you are still checking in, do you have it???)? I know that when Cem solved it last night she stopped in chat looking to find someone with it. It's not posted here and the only known email address bounced. So, anyone? anyone?


the email published on the LLL profile became briefly public. lll_pllcSPLATyahoo.com

Dashcat also let us know that the LLL entity had prodded him to let him know that there would be a prize, or rather "the person who comes up with the solution will account to something" or a similar line that inferred reward.

zoeckler of CD was the first to decode the phrase and pass it on, afterwards, the LLL profile went back to hiding its email address. No word from Zoe what the story is.

Cortana

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 		Just as a learning experience, did we have that other addy? The only one I ever saw was the one I sent to that bounced. So we were to keep looking at the profile to see it show up there, or was it there all the time and just not active but for a moment. I never noticed another other than the bouncing one.

Still learning how to "keep checking on things".

~cem

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zoeckler
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 		sorry for not posting here last night...
as of 5PM PST yesterday,

Using all the information I could get from previous posts, and the order sent to
dashcat from L3, I was able to sequence the words:

It is happening. I cannot stop it. I am going to need help. Jake.

I e-mailed it to lll_pllcSPLATyahoo.com, so we'll see what comes next...
Thanks for everyone who did the hard work of decoding the e-mails!

Zoeckler

-this is the e-mail that was shown briefly on the yahoo profiles page.

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