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[TRAILHEAD] Chain Factor (Numb3rs S04E07: Primacy)
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imbri
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rowan wrote:
Maybe we're looking for billboards or other ads.


You can see billboards on the corner of Geary & 25th in the google street view I just linked. They've certainly changed since the pics were taken, but leads to billboards being a distinct possibility.

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Quote:
Error 000
Level 0 / CODE XXX

*powerless


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We've created a chatroom for the game - #numb3rs
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We also have a Despoiler wiki up with the error codes listed: http://chainfactor.despoiler.org/
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According to the text in Error Code 005, we'll need to watch *something* on Friday the 16th and the 23rd - one would tend to believe that *something* would be "Numb3rs", but possibly any other Viacom/CBS product as well.

Any ideas?
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numbers episode kloo

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pNki1ZdyK3G8dlU_YLDUzXw&hl=en

attached is a google spreadsheet of a possible code and keyword from the Numb3rs episode.

9 digit code from a chalk drawn chainfactor board

and a string of numbers on a flyer
note flyer looks like it might have a pair of scissors on it.
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I didn't notice this last night, but in Error Code 001, "s" mentions that they're "going to put Primacy to shame". Primacy was the name of the Numb3ers episode (and probably potentially more; I haven't seen the show).
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Also, in Error Code 005, "s" says "Good little media drones are trained not to question when a new promo shows up in their broadcast schedule, as long as it looks official." I don't tend to see promos IN a show (save for regular product placement, but that's a lot harder for a media drone to "insert"). I'd spec this to mean that we'll see something in a /commercial/ during the airing of Numb3rs.
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morbus wrote:
I didn't notice this last night, but in Error Code 001, "s" mentions that they're "going to put Primacy to shame". Primacy was the name of the Numb3ers episode (and probably potentially more; I haven't seen the show).


It was the name of the MMORPG in the show. More on it and the show in spoiler box -- including plot elements so if you don't wanna know don't look.
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The MMORPG had an "AR element" that a small fraction of the playerbase participated in (a couple thousand, mostly local). It was in searching for something on top of a building that the guy in the show died - he was pushed off by Spectre. Spectre was a former employee of Primacy and a bit bitter. He created a fake guild (made up of bogus accounts and dead people, though he had at least one partner that he killed or died or something) in order to win the million dollar prize which he planned to use to create chainfactor. In order to do that, he physically and electronically intimidated all the guilds that were currently winning the ARG in order to get them to back off and/or give him their clues.


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Codes? Codes in commercials? a TV show that I like? Weren't we here like a year ago?

Stupid TLE..
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New York billboards have attracted attention. Not necessarily good attention....but

http://agencyspy.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/advertising-in-the-nyc-subways/

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An interesting quote from the end of the episode by Spectre:

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Consider, emerging game economy built around an abstract combinatorial system. Played across worldwide media, embedded virally into websites, tv, text messages, billboards - even radio. Beyond the control of corporations...

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I watched the Numb3rs episode again on demand, and found a bunch of numbers scattered througout the episode. Codes?

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

208525138 - At the beginning, reading on the electronic device when pointed at building across the way (note: 9 digits)


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

34015400 and 110276170 - location codes on a scanner


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

010 555 0172 - phone number of one of the Shadow Hounds


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

0038274 - Amita's Primacy score. Appears several times in the episode, and never changes.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

15491649 - Amita's ID number


EDIT: Also, check out this: http://www.chainfactor.com/images/slice.gif

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Got another one from the IG forum hints

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Codeword: SECRETS Code: 386210446

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We're compiling everything at http://chainfactor.despoiler.org/.
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