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vapor
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Ok I think I got the shoe. It may refer to Bhagat Singh who apparently gave a Pocket watch and his shoes to Shri Jaidev just before he threw a bomb into India's Central Legislative Assembly in 1929.

That would give us the SONGEM, which is an anagram of GNOMES.

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shrtyscott3
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I think Gnomeatic is trying to point us to another direction. We might be on the wrong path according to his new tweets:

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Hey everybody! Sorry about my absence. I needed a little break from all this. Anything new with the code? We've got a little longer [1/2]


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[2/2] but I don't really want to go to plan B, which is a bit more destructive. Check Gnomer.


His Gnomer indicates they might have the passcode. But it doesn't provide anything useful:
Quote:

Vick (of all people) and I seem to have caught onto something with the puzzle. Going to confirm it with research, but we might be closer to getting back in the office.

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vapor
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Very Happy I was wondering after his last update if I had posted the wrong passphrase. If GNOMES is not the correct code, what do you think the chances are that I could so randomly have come across it. It seemed so...right.

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snorkle256
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maybe we are looking for the numbers that the letters would correspond to on a keypad and also in the order that would be found on the puzzle.

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vapor
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Update on Gnomer

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Good work, people! Thanks to the IFILR members that sent me their possible solutions.

The one possible solution that's the most similar to mine is the one that specifies

Leon Trotsky – axe
Giuseppe Garibaldi – Candle
Che Guevara – Motorcycle
Subcomandante Marcos – balaclava w/ pipe
Salvador Allende – Shoe

Now, Vick and I are pretty sure that that Marcos guy is correct; we couldn't find anyone else that remotely fits that description. Che Guevara is a good guess (Vick came up with that, too). However, I'm unsure about Garibaldi and Allende. The sock's name is Garibaldi after all, but something doesn't seem quite right about that.


So if not a candle then maybe a cigar like someone mentioned before. Maybe Fidel Castro. As far as a shoe, Bhagat Singh is still the only one that jumps at me.

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amandel
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These pics have stymied me since day one so plse accept my comments as coming straight from Dufosville.

The candle looks just like a "cigarillo" in THIS Advert. Agree with snorkle that these letters or nbrs are likely to be transcribed onto a keypad. MY "baret" quess is Hugo Rafael Chávez who began his political career with a coup attempt in Venezuela.

Bottom line (finally) Laughing : Props to Vapor, MasterSpike and all the others who got us this far.
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vapor
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Yeah it's a tough one for sure, even with all the hints we've received. The beret is donned by many revolutionaries unfortunately (Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Thomas Sankara, Bobby Seale). Perhaps because it is literally a symbol of revolution. I suppose that's going to have to be a wild card.

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amandel wrote:
The candle looks just like a "cigarillo" in THIS Advert.


When I first saw that, and there was the possible link to dictators and other leaders, I immediately thought that to be a cigar and relating to Fidel Castro.

Hey, I'm in Miami... Everything is somehow related to Fidel Castro down here!
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another_pilot_dwn
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I know this is a bit off topic, but I went painting today and they had gnomes at the shop! I wonder if I could ship our little traveler a girlfriend Smile

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amandel
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Update:The lil guys may be going in tonight. Would like to say Gnome Worries Laughing but am too antsy for them.

IFILR_Gnomeatic wrote:
It's been long enough and we think the lock is switching passwords tomorrow. So, if there's no other guesses and they fail, door goes BOOM!

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MasterSpike
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Tomorrow is Fidel Castro's birthday, perhaps just coincidence?

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amandel
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Gnomeatic at Gnomer wrote:
We have broken through the door thanks to some explosives that I got off this nice fellow in a trench coat down the street, and I have ousted the socks from our base. We are currently working on fixing the site, they have locked us out of it.


How come Richard is so strangely silent about all that's gnoming on? Rolling Eyes
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vapor
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Well at least they got in and nobody went BOOM!

I wonder what the answer was. It had me seriously stumped.

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amandel
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Ditto, Vapor, and it's scary quiet with the lil guys. OT-while chking the sites have noticed I won the 2nd round fanart thingy.

Am over the moon happy as all the submissions were toppers, inc. yours. Smile
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Where is Choamsky these days? The last post about his trip looks like it was 2 weeks ago.
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