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[EvilGenius]

Well that answers that - thanks for looking it up. My question is the same: why would they print this marginalia on the card?

BTW - I've tried various bits of text from the Millenium prize site with no success.

[Bendover]

This may sound totally stupid, but what if you input the Marsenne number that the 2004 prime number is based on.The number is written M24036583 But it usually is a capitol M with the numbers written smaller and offset slightly downward ( don't know how to do this )Examples here http://primes.utm.edu/notes/by_year.html#table2

[Guin]

[hairysocks]

Assuming the solution to the card is a proofread version of the text then a problem we have is how to enter this in the answer box. I have found these two sites on proofreading markup languages which may help:

http://prml.sourceforge.net/index.shtml

http://www.nisus.se/proof/

The first link is to a full application that uses PRML (defined on the PRML site possibly?). The second link discusses the concept of proofreading markup language and gives a simple suggestion as to how it could be done. If either of these are used as the way to enter the proofread solution to this card then the perplex city solution page must have the ability to handle PRML.

[bertyb]

Perhaps it is worth sending an email asking that question....as if the answer comes back as a yes it may be the final block.

[EvilGenius]

In the interests of completeness I can now relate that prayer, the summoning of spirits, and various means of augury of have been disappointing in the extreme vis a vis this card. This raises two natural questions: 1) to which entity should one offer a sacrifice in return for a helpful nudge, and 2) what would be an appropriate sacrifice to solve a Silver Card (if I have no first born of my own can I subsitutute someone elses?). Barring this, I wonder if the card itself, maybe the foiled edge, could be used to slash at uncooperative Mind Candy execs until someone tells me just what the hell is going on here . . .

[locqust]

Could always bribe them with a share of the winnings upon solving the Riemann theorem....

[EkoeEkoe]

I'm too lazy to search through the 27 pages of posts, but just in case it hasn't been mentioned before (knowing full well that when someone says that it usually has already been mentioned), could the solution be related to the "message on the cards"

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11964

The parts of the message only show up on the prime cards.

[oliverkeers13]

[duckiemonster]

[x]

EkoeEkoe, good thinking, Bad execution.

Forum goes hate repetition. They also hate people who add to it. Yes you are lazy and people will complain.

That being said. Your idea will never hold merit for one reason, Mind Candy has said at some point, that all puzzle cards have a solution that requires no other cards to successfully solve.

So the forum will NOT step out of that box, They refuse to believe anything else as mind candy is their god in the puzzle department, and they will not believe anything that isnt from god's mouth.

So in the future, if you believe that a card might need something else from outside this card to solve, Just dont post it. No one will listen and no one cares.


Beyond that, Try starting out with something other than "Im Lazy", Yea i know its a *hit ton of posts to dredge thru most about people complaining about something somone else posted and even when using the "search" you find about 5 million posts about something you really dont want or need to know about, Just deal with the complaining. people complain, its what peopel do. ... Just get used to the smell of fish up side the head. And you will do fine. ...

And dont worry there are a few people who havent pulled out all their hair from reading these forums, and we might be willing to sum up the idea of a card or plotline, just show us you are willing to do some of the work, and we will be willing to help you do more.

Its a simple trade, effort for effort. ...

[ok13nli]

[donstobbart]

Guin, would it be possible for you to post a pic of what you see on the card. All I manage to see is what I found before (4383 file), and I can't see anything past it.

Thanks

Don

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[maevey]

I would like to refer anybody who's interested to today's update of the sentinel.
http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/letters/
Where they say the following: