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Stormalong
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 		Interestingly, Uppsala, Sweden had a fire in 1702, which was during the rein of King Charles XII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppsala
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grumpyboy
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'Forty-three if eager hate' is an anagram of 'the year of the great fire'

the great fire of London was in 1666, searching in flickr, finds user Max 1666 here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8568530@N04/

in the comments of the great fire pic is:
Quote:
sppe bwo nexr dhkletvrd wpcy tkrch wz zizg uvqhm qa xeb nluq euaqo ggm vuiv ecrp dr yrcl tizg mlamosp yoqlit sp rautm iswet uwuj xjrrh qm g fctgdoy yxqeajm suy yvlo vykh c peubuor fbcxuytx vuiv kut fg soxvx ur vue dcwzmqa whjmoxg bf hjue jkad pm nnitr aql mketph hjue jqe tkm quvf vhddylswadwpyqia ghhv oyi vue bmux cqh frchj enbnj eczl vue nms gw c pogmquvf fo l ecrp drllmpk cqh frchj xjr khg ausf yufs


and in the comments of the portrait of vigenere is:
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the location of my hidden key can only be found if you start your quest in the wrong places.


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no idea what "the location of my hidden key can only be found if you start your quest in the wrong places." means but the key ended up to be ecnadiug (that's guidance backwards) and the coded text decrypts to:

once you have decrypted this piece of text using my key from chang mai this will be your next mission london on earls court road there is a baggage storage you will need a certain document this can be found on the auction website of ebay find me there and search ebay for the word ihavefoundthekey then use the year you found along with the key as a codeword so i will believe you found the key good luck


PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:21 pm
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Lovecraft2514
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 		How did you know the key was guidance backwards if you didn't find it somewhere?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:59 pm
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Because grumpyboy is the puzzle solving equivalent of Chuck Norris.
I'd almost bet he did it the hard way, but there are tools online that automate much of the analysis and provide guesses, such as Kender's Vigenere Guesser
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Transtar
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Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Because grumpyboy is the puzzle solving equivalent of Chuck Norris.


LOL

Is anyone else hitting themselves for not thinking of
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london
as the capital in the riddle..... ah well ...hindsight....


So it looks as if we have to find out what
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changmai
is all about.

And.... Anyone from London??

Edit: reading comprehension for the win!

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bellymonster
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 		I got the right capital, but unfortunately was searching Flickr for
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the Great Fire of London
and got nothing. So close!

Also unfortunately, am not in London.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:43 pm
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grumpyboy
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Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Because grumpyboy is the puzzle solving equivalent of Chuck Norris.


hahahaha! that's a good one Laughing

Quote:
I'd almost bet he did it the hard way, but there are tools online that automate much of the analysis and provide guesses, such as Kender's Vigenere Guesser


a little bit of both actually. since Max was so nice to give word breaks, it was easy to guess words (eg. a 3 letter word is likely to be 'the' or 'you') and use the probably word method to work out the key...

PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:06 am
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Perko
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 		BTW, Kender's Vigenere Guesser cracked the cipher immediately with default settings...

Has anyone found this Ebay auction? I've tried
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ihavefoundthekey and ecnadiug

with and without the year and haven't found anything. Could it be expired? The Flickr comments are 2 & 3 weeks old. The database message is 19 days old. If the auction was posted around then it's probably over. I don't think that the maximum duration is that long. PM might have to repost the auction now that we've caught up.

These puzzles are pretty tough. Even if I'd somehow tried IMDB and found that movie title I would probably have missed Max's message, and I use that site all the time. I know he wanted an obscure movie but the title should have been something more eye-catching.
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Perko
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 		max1666, maxprescott, and ttocserpxam are all registered E-bay users (!). None of them have any outstanding auctions. The first and last are the suspicious ones. Max1666 has been registered since 2004 but has no feedback. Unless PM is adopting his existing unused accounts, probably not it.

ttocserpxam is very suspicious, as it was created on June 4th, and it seems unlikely anybody else would use that name. However, it shows up as being "no longer a registered user". Hmm. He's supposedly in the Netherlands.
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Vid
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 		I found the baggage storage the message is talking about. Excess Baggage

Quote:
Earls Court Office

London Earls Court Road
168 Earls Court Road,
London SW5 9QQ
E-mail salesSPLATexcess-baggage.com

National Freephone 0800 783 9625
Tel: +44 (0)20 7373 1977
Fax: +44 (0)20 7370 5968


Underground: Earls Court (District & Piccadilly lines) - 100m left of the station, Earls Court Rd exit
Opening Hours: Mon-Thur 0800-1800, Fri 0800-1800, Sat 0900-1300
Map at www.multimap.com


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Stormalong
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 		Any suggestions for a name for this game? I think we could do better than "Vjails".
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:02 am
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dashcat
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 		Free Max Prescott ?
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lyrix191
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 		don't know if this is anything
i googled 438 (forty three if eager hate) and came up with this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_438


I'm not making the connection yet, though.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:17 pm
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lyrix191
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 		...another interesting thought
i went to the Excess Baggage website. Nothing really strange (well, except to an American) but I did see this....

the site design is provided by www.clockworx.com. I clicked and went to http://www.auctioning4u.co.uk/, which is an
eBay service for Britian.

May be nothing...just thought it was quirky.

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Lovecraft2514
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Quote:
once you have decrypted this piece of text using my key from chang mai this will be your next mission london on earls court road there is a baggage storage you will need a certain document this can be found on the auction website of ebay find me there and search ebay for the word ihavefoundthekey then use the year you found along with the key as a codeword so i will believe you found the key good luck


I don't know about the rest of you but the way that last clue is worded sounds very awkward to me. In the introduction mp3 file Max spoke relatively normal, not like that. I think it is encrypted somehow.

Also i think we need to fine the key in order to move on. I know it is supposed to be used to decrypt that message, which we already did without it, but I still think we need to find it. And I think "wrong places" is the clue.

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