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Will
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Look what I found on Twitter...

http://twitter.com/BVigenere

I think the first one is just "Anakaretor". What about the others?

PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:33 pm
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L4MENT
Greenhorn


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Go to the countdown page, and change your computer's time and date settings to 10/27 11:59; watch what happens

PostPosted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:12 pm
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Daikah
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When the countdown goes to zero, it starts counting up. This is normal and doesn't appear to have any significance. For example:

1 minute is displayed as 01. The flash file just separates the tens and the single digits. So, -1 would be 0 and -1 which will give you the 0-1 display. Looks odd, but that's just how the flash file was made.

Still, the twitter looks interesting. The numbers on the right side of the screen are the exact same as the numbers on the www.anakaretor.com, just read up to down, instead of left to right. The same rules apply for deciphering the second half of the numbers on the right side, to produce the exact same message as decoded from anakaretor.com

The tweets on the page, however ... I don't know Smile

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:22 am
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Molnar
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@Daikah: Yes you do; face the truth. Razz You just must be tired after all those sleepless nights.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:38 am
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Greenhorn


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I'm gonna call out Will for either being a troll, or Blaise himself.
The tweet codes are all deciphered using the keyword "vigenere" just like those at the beginning. If you knew what the first one was, then you knew what the rest were.

GWUOHTFRH GLEPIKSFVUA GLRXDISXEYV;
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
look upon my face to know I am true


VAR IRT CIN ATM TLK ERI OXF;
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
a sleepless night awaits
[/spoiler]

EDIT: There is a facebook page for Blaise Vigenere, though. Face was the clue that lead me to it. My bad

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:50 am
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Daikah wrote:
When the countdown goes to zero, it starts counting up. This is normal and doesn't appear to have any significance.


So, what do you think will happen when the time comes that it reaches zero when it's supposed to? This reveals that it's supposed to end at midnight of the 28th for everyone, and not just at one precise moment in time.
It makes me think that the date actually has some significance.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:06 am
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Will
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I'm not the second, and I hope not the first.

But I did that method and I think you're wrong l4ment...

its

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
look upon my FACE to know i am true


PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:09 am
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Daikah
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Ironically, after I saw the tweets, I went out to dinner, came back, loaded up a vigenere shift and viola, what you see above is what I found as well =)

EDIT:

There were two ideas for what the "look upon my face" meant. One person mentioned that it could mean facebook, so I went that route originally and found a facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000455499181

It has a picture of the original Blaise Vigenere, as found at wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_de_Vigen%C3%A8re

So, I sent him a message... to see if he responds. I don't know if he will, or whatever ... but it's a fun message =)

It's been almost 13 hours and he hasn't responded, so it could be the wrong direction... which brings me to my next post.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:20 am
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Daikah
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It's all good Will. I also saw what you saw, but the other idea mentioned for what it could mean did lead to where I am now, but it could be a false hope. Now, following the clue that you mentioned, Will, the only thing we can do is grab his twitter picture and see if anything is special on/in it?

So that's what I'm doing now Very Happy

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:24 am
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Daikah
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Making more progress. I decided to move onto my second idea. So, I clicked on the twitter image, went to his profile, looked at the GIANT picture of him, saved it, loaded it up in photoshop, changed the brightness around, and saw at the very bottom, this piece of information:

http://www.lunaraddons.com/images/11bbvv11_enlarged.png

Knowing this piece of info, we can conclude that the tennis ball discovered earlier, which had the message inside, is related to this twitter and the website because the little notches found at the bottom of this image are the same ones found as dots and lines on the crumbled up piece of paper, on the second part that we haven't figured out yet.

So, um ... yay?

EDIT: Removed the spoiler tags to make some stuff easier to follow, and keeping spoiler tags on actual spoilers.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:44 am
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Yeah, I actually found them while looking at the picture zoomed in 3600%
I couldn't tell what they were.
Damnit, though this is what got me stuck on the stupid tennis ball. I have no idea what this code is.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:49 am
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Daikah
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I feel like an idiot. Previously, it was mentioned that the language on the paper was from Star Wars, specifically, Aurek-besh.

However, upon looking up that language, I came up with a totally different representation for the number system. I did the search again and found this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Aurek-besh_alphabet.png

Which gives a better number system, which actually represents the data found on the paper and in the picture. Thus, we have the data found on the image, as decoded...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
01170111018201818

Which could be

01 17 01 11 01 8 20 18 18

Which could be

aqakahtrr ... ?


I am double checking things, but that's as far as I got...

EDIT:

Yeah, so the stuff I found was a little off (and was fixed in an edit). Next up, the series at the bottom of the tennis ball paper. Since the twitter picture data used Aurek-besh for the numbers, the tennis ball paper does as well, and the series of dots/lines at the bottom could be either:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

0114011101805201518

or

0117011101805201518


Since this seems like a spelling mistake or two ways to judge the length of a dash found on the message (short or long), we can convert the numbers to the following text:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
anakahetor

or

aqakahetor


It's not QUITE "anakaretor" but close enough in my book ... and people are prone to spelling mistakes

With that info, and the info on the twitter, I think it's safe to say that the message in the tennis ball is fair game and part of this puzzle.

Catch ya in the morning...

EDIT: I reformatted this post to make it easier to follow ... with less spoiler tags in areas that don't need 'em.

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:22 am
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Will
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Wow, Daikah. Excellent!!!

But something's nagging.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
If this were really just a spelling mistake by Blaise on that paper, why is the exact same mistake repeated in the code on the image on twitter?

I tried anakaretor.com/anakahetor.html and got nothing.


Ideas, anyone?

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:10 am
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natas
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Will wrote:


Ideas, anyone?


Yes, I have a wonderful idea. Could you guys please stop putting spoiler tags around everything. Please only use them for actual spoilers such as puzzle solves. Thanks a million!

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:27 am
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Anakhimel45
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Hey kinda coming in late in the game but can someone help me with the screen with all the numbers http://www.anakaretor.com/ basically this one

PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:11 am
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