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Thunderwolf

Password was blindingly ovbious when you block out the smokescreens - Bill, Archie and his spoon. I searched wikipedia for William archibald. One of the listings was William Archibald Spooner - a man who often got his letters mixed up as Wallace had with the hidden phrase in the document. I tried

**Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:13 pm

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."

enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

**Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:46 pm

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amandel

Will maybe look at it again tomorrow as Leamas mailed about yesterday's crypto msg & Lewis has a PW giving friend.

**Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:03 pm

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ModalRealism · Veteran Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 138

More from Bob

**Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:50 pm

amandel

The "Livsiw Gviexi Wxsvmiw Almgl Glerki Sziv Xmqi.txt" quote after it's decoded from Base64

**Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:02 pm

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"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."

JumboTron

"pump" is Welsh for five... so we're looking for a five-character password for the zip

not sure what "ankors jock kirdr.y" is. an anagram maybe?

**Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:00 pm

ModalRealism · Veteran Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 138

**Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:07 pm

Thunderwolf

Disjointed thoughts:

McGregor and Boorman travelled 19000 miles. They went from London to New York on motorcycles. They travelled eastwards through Europe and Asia, flew to Alaska and continued by road from there to New York.

Charles Fort's writing was the inspiration for The Fortean Times, which has featured prominently in a few of Bob's puzzles. "One measures a circle" could be a sideways glance at stone circle surveys, which is what Maad was doing before he disappeared.

ankors jock kirdr.y doesn't appear to ROT to anything useful as far as I can tell (tried ROT-47 also).

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:23 am

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."

amandel

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:40 am

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"I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."

Thunderwolf

in which case:

Prime<Zeret - I think this refers to a number maybe? A prime number less than "zeret"?

EH 259 PU - could be roslyn

path for many, - Street

4.52g silver - could be Gros
Venus Envy - this usually refers to competition between women (sly, underhanded, bitchy competition usually)
0,0 = 1, 0,1 = 0, 1,1 = 0 - still not sure of this one. All I can think of is "Origin"

6 points in space - Place

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:49 am

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."

amandel

Believed " Prime<Zeret=Abebe Argegai", the Ethiopian Prime Minister who escaped the Zeret massacre. Maybe "0,0 = 1, 0,1 = 0, 1,1 = 0" are Exponents in algebra? But am so nowhere with this.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:05 am

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"I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."

Thunderwolf

Well considering I have no idea what a "Zeret" is apart from a city in Egypt and an ancient hebrew measurement, I think your suggestion currently carries more weight.

Here's an off the wall thought for Venus Envy. When a woman wears an overtly ornate dress to some get together (and bear with me on this because I have NO idea what women think nor will I ever have), this is a covert attempt to show up her hostess in some sort of inconsequential competition that only she cares about, which is also referred to as "Venus Envy". Now, rings on fingers and bells on toes, riding a white horse, playing music where e'er she goes is pretty damn extravagant. Could the venus envy clue refer to Banbury?

EDIT: Leamas also told us to "backtrack from wallace's puzzle" - does that mean the password is somehow linked to all of these? - Street - S, Place - P.... do we need 2 O's an N an E and an R?

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:15 am

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Thunderwolf

OK just received this from Leamas:

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:53 am

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booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

"Heroes Create Stories Which Change Over Time" could be: MYTHS
which seems to fit for a clue. (Or maybe LEGEND as used before)??

"." removes a couple of letters. Could point to Skip??

Skip 8 = aorsikkyjdrknc. ro
Skip 7 = ajrkcrr y inodok.sk

Unscramble means??

Dang, this thing has more smoke than a Deadhead convention.

PS: Great work everyone Smile

I was kinda MIA for awhile.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:07 am

Thunderwolf

Good to have you back Booba. I was also thinking about the "myth" link. Also have got it into my head that circles and / or circumferences are involved somehow.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:35 am

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."