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Rogi Ocnorb

grumpy does it, again!
Can't believe I didn't recognize Vigenere!
IIRC, Six even used the same pic.

**Posted:** Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:32 am

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Perko

Nicely done, grumpy!

I'm happy that my analysis was pretty much on the right track, at least. If I'd gotten around to trying other typical crypto methods on that text I would have stumbled across Vigenere's picture while researching them!

These have been fun, too bad the game appears to be almost over.

**Posted:** Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:52 am

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It appears as though our friendly neighbourhood puppetmaster may have been captured by the forces of darkness before completing his final mission and revealing his story...
/cry

Perhaps there will be a ransom demand forthcoming soon? Wink

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:45 pm

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I hope that the ransom demand won't be crypted,
if it is, he will be free "in one or two days", or a cuple of weeks ...

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:27 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

I've been waiting patiently, as well. But the wording of the last screen keeps trying to get me to look at it like it's a puzzle in itself.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:33 pm

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fwiffo · Kilroy Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

A goony idea perhaps, but...

**Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:28 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Because it was more effort to go through the steps to get to the stats page. I would just let it sit for days on end and hit refresh(and "resend"), periodically. Never any change. Did the same for a while on the last (1 or 2 days) page also. Same result.
I'd much prefer to think there's a puzzle there we're just not seeing than think the PM has abandoned us. But there haven't been any indications that the former is a possibility.

**Posted:** Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:25 am

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fwiffo · Kilroy Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

Possible tie-in with this book?

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:11 am

aninterloper · Decorated Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 182

I'm gonna auto-trout myself here: what was the significance of the Enigma 9 clue ("477330-033688")?

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:03 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:40 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:25 pm

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he's back !!

**Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:58 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

The figure in the center is a recreational mathematics construct called a Prime Spiral. Here's an applet that generates one in realtime.

I feel stupid for taking so long to figure out who the picture is of, given it's based on the same image as his Los Alamos ID badge.

Stanislaw Ulam was a Polish mathematician on the Manhattan Project who helped work out the integrals in nuclear chain reactions among many other things, like the H-bomb and nuclear propulsion. I mention the chain reactions due to the naming of the pics on the page (All begin with "cr").

The location doesn't look much like Los Alamos, so maybe it's in Poland?
Or possibly a location based on the primes?
I thought "Monte Carlo" would have been a good location, but, alas, No.

ETA: Thought there were errors in the spiral and got all excited, but then I figured out that it just starts with zero. I checked it out to 200 and there were no errors.

Unless one of you Photoshop gurus can make this

look more like this

and something shows up in the border of the un "un-fish-eyed" version, I can't think of anything else to try.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:12 am

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If you put a metal cylinder in the middle of the image, the stuff on the outside will reflect un-modified on it. I saw it on that Treasure Hunters show, they had a clue that was just like that picture, except there was an image on the outside ring.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:29 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

I tried running a negative bulge effect on it in Paint.net, but don't really know what I'm doing. Never got it to look like text or anything.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:22 pm

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