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TremereBear
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 		deadfriends ?
Have you guys seen this Reddit?

http://www.reddit.com/r/deadfriends

I'm not really sure what to think - it may be nothing, but there's a lot of posts with just random numbers in sets.

Go at it? Smile

ETA - I did a search in the forums but didn't find anything about this....

PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 2:19 am
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bambusar
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 		reminds me on ongoing UMBRA in UMBRA thread
not sure if connected

no message was decihered yet?

PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:04 am
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TremereBear
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 		Nothing yet - and i'm at a loss. The messages are only about a month old, so I don't even know if anyone's caught it yet...

PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:39 am
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DeformedUncleLouie
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 		So this could be the hardest ARG ever played in that this can be game jacked so easily. As a matter of fact i think it might be already. No way to tell if the newest post is in game or not. In any case, any one crack the codes yet?

EDIT: Figured out a little something. The first post contains a comment from the author that looks like this: http://imgur.com/D1EjH

That is created by John Dee. He was a mathematician who spent his life trying to created a universal language so he could talk to angels. Defiantly on to something here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee
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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:06 am
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FuzzyGoodle
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 		Alright, after a quick glance at these, many (if not all) of them seem to follow simple mathematical patterns.

For example, here's how "How to stop them?" works:
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Start with the first block of 9 numbers (124816326) (I'm assuming that space is a typo). The numbers in it follow the pattern of powers of 2 (1 times 2 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4, then 8, then 16, 32, and 64, but only the 6). To get the next group of 9 numbers, remove the first number (1) and add the next part of the sequence to the end of the string (in this case, the 4 from 64). So 248163264. Then repeat.

So, for the next group, take away the 2, and add a 1 (from 128). 481632641. Hooray.

The trail of numbers is just that last group, 819216384, but each line removes the first number in the line above it.


This pattern seems to hold consistently. Of course, I have no idea what it means. I'll take a look at the others and report back here.

EDIT: "contaminated" is really simple. Of course, I wasted time figuring it out myself before realizing that Gimche had already gotten it on reddit. As he/she stated:
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the numbers are the squares of 1-10 then 11-15 then 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-32.


Also, I don't have a reddit, so if someone could post the solution to the first one (if that's what we are supposed to do here, which I'm not sure about), that would be cool.

EDIT2: Annnnnnnnd...now I'm totally stumped.

PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:24 pm
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