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**Posted:** Sat Oct 12, 2002 4:16 am

FrankenPaula · Boot Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 15

Happy re-30th Imri!!!!!!!

**Posted:** Sat Oct 12, 2002 10:54 am

fireball

The Story So Far

**Posted:** Sat Oct 12, 2002 4:00 pm

krystyn

I ain't the Gentel Janitor, that's for sure, but I did a clean-up on Aisle 13, there.

Sorry for the ruckus.

I may not exactly wish I were 19, but having the math skills I had then would sure help!

Twisted Evil

**Posted:** Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:31 am

Guest · Guest

I am new to these types of "things" but I am finding an ever increasing need to understand what it is you're talking about in order to have a better appreciation of the "games" I'm involved in. (Not to mention being able to "play" them correctly). Does anyone have any advice on where I could learn the types of things you're doing here?

Thanks,
Lynn

**Posted:** Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:11 pm

Guest · Guest

P.S.
Because I love some of the games I've "wandered" into, but get very frustrated when I really don't understand what it is being asked of me or how to get to the answer. I think I am a fairly intelligent person and a "puzzle" freak, and I think that's why I get so darned frustrated when I don't "get" something. Even if it takes some time, I'm used to always arriving at an answer (usually the right one...but not always...lol)
Help! Is there an ARGs For Dummies?

Lynn

**Posted:** Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:17 pm

SpaceBass

**Posted:** Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:23 pm

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http://www.unfiction.com/

Ozy_y2k

Also, Lynn, I fear that you may have inadvertetnly wandered into a less-than-ideal puzzle, for purposes of an introduction to the ARG universe, by mistake. Not that we aren't usually a pretty inclusive, friendly, cooperative community vis a vis introducing newbies to "the ropes" (I hope), but the particular puzzle referenced and discussed in THIS particular thread is a birthday puzzle specifically designed for one of our long-term members, imbri, and thus it sorta has more than it's fair share of "in-jokeiness" about it. Most of our ARGs are not that way at all, since they're aimed at a wide audience.

As far as puzzle solving skillz go, most of the time you're as stumped as the rest of us. That's why we try to solve these sorts of things COOPERATIVELY, since some of us are better at certain things than others.

Ozy

**Posted:** Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:41 pm

Guest · Guest

Thank you so much for the advice. I did understand the birthday present concept in this thread, but I have been around a few sites (including the now defunct ARGN) and recognized some of the posters in this thread as some of the smartest, well spoken and helpful around....hence the reason for my posting here...lol, to be sure of getting the "right" answer to my query.

Thanks again.
Lynn

**Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2002 1:39 pm

Guest · Guest

WOW! The Gamer's Handbook is sooo well put together, very easy to understand! Thanks again! And I hope to work together with all of you in the near future!

Lynn

**Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2002 1:51 pm

Ozy_y2k

In that case, in addition to the resources that SpaceBass has pointed out, I might also recommend paying a visit to Cloudmakers, at http://www.cloudmakers.org, to see exactly how some of these solving techniques have been used in practice. Cloudmakers is the archive site for the first and, to date, the most complex ARG we've seen, the Beast (aka the AI game), and a careful perusal of the Trail and Guide prepared for that game (which has ended, but which can still be followed-along-with thanks to the fact that virtually all of the game's sites are themselves archived) will give you an excellent practical seminar in the applied science of puzzle solving.

Other sites, such as the for-pay Collective Detective site at http://www.collectivedetective.org and the free Dead-Drop bulletin board site operated by our own "wb" at http://www.deaddrop.us, might also fill in some of the gaps regarding general knowledge of the ARG universe. Also worth checking out is the Guide and Trail maintained by Beth DeGeer aka "dayzieb" at http://www.sobiak.com for the (currently active) SecondState game; the complete Guide and Trail for the (ended) Lockjaw game; and the archived sites for the Exocog game, the trailhead of which is at http://www.exocog.com. You might need to do a little forensic spadework to find anything of practical use, but then again that's how we all learn how to play these things...by following along.

Welcome to the fold.

O

**Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2002 1:57 pm

fireball

**Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:08 pm

Tien_Le

**Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2002 2:19 pm

Guest · Guest

Uh oh....I'm getting the warm fuzzies...lol

Thanks again for all your help and I will indeed take a look at all the info that's been posted.

And to imbri, I apologize for taking up room in your Birthday Thread...and Happy B-Day from me as well! You have a great bunch of wonderfully helpful buds!

TC
Lynn

**Posted:** Mon Oct 14, 2002 7:13 pm

krystyn

So ... Brooke ... did you, um, finish all the puzzles?

**Posted:** Sun Oct 20, 2002 10:14 pm