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FacianeA
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Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 98 Location: Los Angeles, CA
The problem with this phone number thing for me is that the list has seven items. American phone numbers all have seven digits, not including area codes. Therefore, any numbers we might get from the lines will always become phone numbers. This will probably result in many people getting very upset from phone calls in the night. (Which I assume is the time that most people, myself included, get most desperate.)
For this reason, I believe that what we are looking for is probably not a phone number, or, if it is, that we should focus on pulling numbers out of the whole message rather than just the list.
Array's gotta mean something. So does 30 per set. Probably. Again, didn't create the puzzle. I'm leaning more towards maybe getting a textual message out of this.
Or maybe we're just supposed to wait till the 14th when we will be handed the answer on a plate! I wish all the puzzles in this thing were more difficult so that I wasn't always second guessing the fact that we're meant to be doing more than just following a story that plays out itself.
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:25 am
Colt
Unfettered
Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 400 Location: Piney Flats
maybe they mean 30 sets of 6x6 arrays either using the whole post and the grid set or only the list and since the list contains 69 characters (including the spaces) theres never gonna be the same set of letters in each grid for a while
we could be looking for a code word or nothing and we're over-thinking this a little too much, think of those work papers they have online and they gave at school sometimes, the ones that have the picture and some words in an odd way and you have to figure out what it says like
Bridge
Troubled Water
or simply, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Edit.....I just had a brain melt.....
if you put the list in a 6x6 array, including the spaces and Quotes, you get exactly 6 arrays...well almost exact, theres a line missing at the bottem of array 6...
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:54 am
Plebius20
Boot
Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 25
Numbers anything in quotes is important, the only reason I look for a number, is that either call Randy on his green mobile, or give who ever makes the kits up to call them as well. I still wonder if the code or quote will be given the 14th!
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:50 pm
Roztox
Decorated
Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 207 Location: Flip-Side
More numbers to play with...
Quote:
Hey...just let me reach over and grab (clutch) that straw, waaaay way over there...
Allow me to add this to the mix...
The amount of blog posts to Tidowave seems to have (at this point in time)
ceased...These numbers have been static for quite a while...The amount of hits for each post are 78 34 8 33 19 14=186...
Great,more #'s to crunch...
Perhaps the key to the cell (green)mobile, is in Tidos page and not in
our 'supposed' clues !!!
Im sure this is nothing, but im gonna play with it awhile. perhaps?
I posted this on Tidoblog thread...thought it relevent to this topic also...
Plz excuse this double post
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:56 pm
Jobu
Greenhorn
Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 3
"Survival Kit" I did not see anything in this thread about using "survival kit" as a key, just survival. It is listed twice, both times with quotes. Everyone seems obsessed with swiss army knife and "warm towel".
And $30? for a warm towel, flare gun and swiss army knife....sign me up!
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:01 pm
Euchre
uF Game Warden
Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3342
I don't buy this as being some special puzzle to work out.
We've really not had such a conventional puzzle from this viral campaign yet.
Another funny thought crossed my mind though...
With the exception of the flare gun, how many might bring these items with them to the premiere?
Imagine if people waiting to see the premiere staged a mock protest of Tagruato.
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:04 pm
Lee Grant
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Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 35 Location: Western Washington
I know I speculated a lot on random stuff, but of everything, one thing that bothers me more than anything else was the phrase "trapped outside". How many of you have ever been trapped outside and couldn't go anywhere???
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:05 pm
airteff
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Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 156
Euchre wrote:
I don't buy this as being some special puzzle to work out.
We've really not had such a conventional puzzle from this viral campaign yet.
Another funny thought crossed my mind though...
With the exception of the flare gun, how many might bring these items with them to the premiere?
Imagine if people waiting to see the premiere staged a mock protest of Tagruato.
I agree that this isn't a puzzle because we haven't had anything like this before. I have a feeling it's a code that we don't have the cypher for yet...
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:08 pm
Leyton Stone
I Have No Life
Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 2302 Location: London (NOT Ontario!)
I was just thinking... Seven on list. Seven digits NOT Inc' area code but... $30?
On my keyboard [in the UK @ least] the $ symbol is made by holding down the shift and 4 keys... But Warm Towel is quoted so leave it out and you have
(430) 419-106-193
Edit: Nvm doesn't work.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:14 pm
Leyton Stone
I Have No Life
Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 2302 Location: London (NOT Ontario!)
Lee Grant wrote:
I know I speculated a lot on random stuff, but of everything, one thing that bothers me more than anything else was the phrase "trapped outside". How many of you have ever been trapped outside and couldn't go anywhere???
Typically only the characters in "LOST" to be honest
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:15 pm
airteff
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Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 156
Leyton Stone wrote:
Lee Grant wrote:
I know I speculated a lot on random stuff, but of everything, one thing that bothers me more than anything else was the phrase "trapped outside". How many of you have ever been trapped outside and couldn't go anywhere???
Typically only the characters in "LOST" to be honest
Or if your surrounded, say you've got a lot of angry tagruato guards with guns who chase you into the woods?
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:20 pm
Lee Grant
Boot
Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 35 Location: Western Washington
airteff wrote:
Leyton Stone wrote:
Lee Grant wrote:
I know I speculated a lot on random stuff, but of everything, one thing that bothers me more than anything else was the phrase "trapped outside". How many of you have ever been trapped outside and couldn't go anywhere???
Typically only the characters in "LOST" to be honest
Or if your surrounded, say you've got a lot of angry tagruato guards with guns who chase you into the woods?
See, that's my point. What kind of demosntration would lead to something like that???
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:22 pm
Euchre
uF Game Warden
Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3342
Leyton Stone wrote:
I was just thinking... Seven on list. Seven digits NOT Inc' area code but... $30?
On my keyboard [in the UK @ least] the $ symbol is made by holding down the shift and 4 keys... But Warm Towel is quoted so leave it out and you have
(430) 419-106-193
Edit: Nvm doesn't work.
OK, here's a simple way to decide if a phone number is supposed to be called in an IG sense:
1. The number is clearly posted on an IG site.
2. The number is part of said site's Contact page, or is listed in the whois for said same site.
3. The phone number when searched using reverse phone lookup doesn't come back with someone's home or a business that has a real address and location, and especially a real website that falls under the clearly OOG conditions ( as explained here ).
Please note that we've only had valid phone numbers from the IG sites that were in plain view, listed as contact information.
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:32 pm
Leyton Stone
I Have No Life
Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 2302 Location: London (NOT Ontario!)
Euchre wrote:
Leyton Stone wrote:
I was just thinking... Seven on list. Seven digits NOT Inc' area code but... $30?
On my keyboard [in the UK @ least] the $ symbol is made by holding down the shift and 4 keys... But Warm Towel is quoted so leave it out and you have
(430) 419-106-193
Edit: Nvm doesn't work.
OK, here's a simple way to decide if a phone number is supposed to be called in an IG sense:
1. The number is clearly posted on an IG site.
2. The number is part of said site's Contact page, or is listed in the whois for said same site.
3. The phone number when searched using reverse phone lookup doesn't come back with someone's home or a business that has a real address and location, and especially a real website that falls under the clearly OOG conditions ( as explained here ).
Please note that we've only had valid phone numbers from the IG sites that were in plain view, listed as contact information.
I've already seen that and agree, was just throwing an idea out the sec' it came to me... But the "Nvm doesn't work" didn't mean I'd tried it; it just doesn't work as a phone number; period.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:44 pm
vonh
Boot
Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 21
Phone number I've actually started to swing further and further away from the thought of the phone number idea for that reason. I you look at the previous examples, any time there have been number (not phone) posted it has referred to first letters i.e. the Tidoo website example. I'm not sure this is a lot different, My hangup is putting (the first letters given)
W
D
S
J
F
S A K
C
into something legiable. I'm starting to think like others in this thread, maybe we do wait till the Friday/Monday continuation of the "event".
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:53 pm
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