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InsaneFox
Boot
Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 46
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Assuming the countdown up top actually is going at a rate of a number per second (and for the hour and fifteen minutes I checked b/c I didn't bother viewing the source, it is), that places the zero hour in a little over three years.
If thats true, I did my math wrong. Heres what I got.
60sec*60min=3600sec/hour
3600*24=86400
18371000(sec till 0)/86400=212.63 days
Does that make sense to anyone else, or did I make a mistake?
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:01 am
Catriona
Greenhorn
Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 3
I got Buddhist professionals from Indonesia and China, and the letters at the bottom were
"wfzetg ih tpugimihw foqfz bva bggn esjsl.
yhi lszb idfwgp hkh njl uwksm crw."
Haven't been able to do anything with them just yet.
Also, something about
"Then I remembered half-heartedly swigging that glass of brandy three years ago, and envisioning the world-changing manifesto that I'd write someday. "Fu**," I said. "That's it!""
struck me as a little odd. Normally, people either use replace the vowel of a swearword with an asterisk, all of the word, or all except the first letter. Censoring just the last two letters is something I haven't seen anywhere. Considering that one person's name is represented as ****, does anyone think it could be significant?
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:17 am
suzy.street
Kilroy
Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 2
How about White Young Adults from Oklahoma?
I long for exotic people in foreign lands and I get 20-somethings from the heartland? It is so bad I am humming OOOOOOOOOOOOk-lahoma and cursing Rogers & Hammerstein.
Also got the code:
wfzetg ih tpugimihw foqfz bva bggn esjsl.
yhi lszb idfwgp hkh njl uwksm crw.
Anyone notice the periods at the end of each line? Still working on it.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:48 am
myf
Entrenched
Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 917 Location: Hiding from squirrels
I've updated the Google maps/earth files, although I don't think that mapping them will help any (especially since that Indonesia and China one). KML viewable on maps is here and the updated KMZ file should be here .
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:27 am
subflea
Greenhorn
Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 8
Native American men from Kuwait.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:56 am
notgordian
Unfictologist
Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 1383 Location: Philly
Heh...my bad--dunno how I screwed that one up, but a second run-through Google's awesome calculator function supports the 200+ days assumption. I added an extra zero while doing the conversion.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:02 pm
fictional_girl
Boot
Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 12 Location: North Carolina
Hindu College Students from Indiana
I was unable to see the code in IE, so I pulled up the source && got this:
Quote:
wfzetg ih tpugimihw foqfz bva bggn esjsl.
yhi lszb idfwgp hkh njl uwksm crw.
[/quote]
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:55 pm
Visitor
Guest
Re: [TRAIL/PUZZLE] Choose Your Revolution It's a simple puzzle, might be a trail for a bigger game
Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Visitor wrote:
It gives clues when you sign up. I got "Homeless Asian Women".
Just to clarify...
Was it as you state, above, or was it possibly more like "Homeless Women from Asia"?
Not that it will be a big issue.
These are probably just what they say: Unique "keys" generated pseudo-randomly from a three element array.
It was Homeless Women from Asia sorry.
As for the cipher at the bottom...I'm wondering if the previous clue,
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"iowa couch potatoes exist".
has something to do with the current one.
It seemed random but maybe(probably) it's not.
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:11 pm
myf
Entrenched
Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 917 Location: Hiding from squirrels
Got it!
"wfzetg ih tpugimihw foqfz bva bggn esjsl.
yhi lszb idfwgp hkh njl uwksm crw."
is a Vigenere Cipher. Using yesterday's result of "iowa couch potatoes exist." gives us
Quote:
orders of magnitude bring the best clues.
you have almost hit the first one.
I suck at codes, so I'm doing a little happy dance for getting this
EDIT - Visitor, you posted your message while I was writing my post!
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:15 pm
Twee
Decorated
Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 157 Location: sweden
myf wrote:
Got it!
"wfzetg ih tpugimihw foqfz bva bggn esjsl.
yhi lszb idfwgp hkh njl uwksm crw."
is a Vigenere Cipher. Using yesterday's result of "iowa couch potatoes exist." gives us orders of magnitude bring the best clues.
you have almost hit the first one.
Good job! I was trying out every cipher I know with the keyword revolution. Never thought to use yesterdays clue..
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:24 pm
Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 4266 Location: Where the cheese is free.
Good job!
So, on the "Orders of magnitude" part...
I'm assuming that means that we'll get a new clue when the sign-up counter hits... 1,000?
It's currently at 963
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:42 pm
Twee
Decorated
Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 157 Location: sweden
InsaneFox wrote:
Quote:
Assuming the countdown up top actually is going at a rate of a number per second (and for the hour and fifteen minutes I checked b/c I didn't bother viewing the source, it is), that places the zero hour in a little over three years.
If thats true, I did my math wrong. Heres what I got.
60sec*60min=3600sec/hour
3600*24=86400
18371000(sec till 0)/86400=212.63 days
Does that make sense to anyone else, or did I make a mistake?
I get the same result.
Using a converter to make sure, I get this:
18349700 seconds = 5097.1388889 hours = 212.38078704 days.
Now, 212 days from today (june 7) is January 5 2008. What happens on Jan 5?
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:57 pm
Farlad
Guest
Mine says
wfzetg ih tpugimihw foqfz bva bggn esjsl.
yhi lszb idfwgp hkh njl uwksm crw.
and the key is Upper-Class Executives from New Jersey
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:05 pm
LatentMoths
Unfettered
Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas
Alright...I got nothing else going on right now. My key is Native American Teenagers from Grenada.
Also the counter is now up to 980...
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:14 pm
perplexes
Kilroy
Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Native American Women from Albania
http://chooseyourrevolution.com/revolve.js
Describes a counter (the one that's currently at 18M or so), that is counting down the number of seconds to this Unix timestamp: 1199592000
That date is Sunday, January 6th 2008, 4:00:00 (GMT)
All their XHR/Ajax stuff goes through http://chooseyourrevolution.com/revolve.php, which will give you 'notok:go away' if you go to it directly
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:15 pm
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