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**Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2005 11:00 pm

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Fish · Kilroy Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 2

Awesome, questions though:

Where did we get the link for the newsletter and the password/username; and does the crossword give us anything?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:46 am

Machina Kyrios · Boot Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 45

I've tried to see if there's something hidden inside the crossword. I've tried ROTing the letters not used, ROTing the whole thing, looking for hidden words inside. Going to try doing a letter-by-letter analysis, trying to find any hidden message based on a "every X letter" code...

So far nothing, but I'm just the newbie. I'm guessing someone will find something hidden in there and make me look like an arse. Ah well, it's fun to look. ^_^

**Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:56 am

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Lol, this newsletter is hilarious... there's a "Lost, the receda cube" ad in there linking to perplexcity.com Laughing

Also, the remark about all the Name That Rock entries being cheesy is teh funny Smile

Fish, check out this thread to see how enaxor brought us here.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:40 am

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Animac · Greenhorn Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 8

Hi Guys, possibly not relevant, but I noticed the words PRAYSOON in the middle of the crossword. Do we think there could be more to this crossword than what we already know?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2005 11:08 am

Miss Mental Health · Boot Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Canada

Do you guys think that the crossword gives us a visual clue as opposed to a coded message? Free your mind, take some hallucinogens, and squint at the layout of the leftover letters. There's a definite circle-type shape in the middle, and four lines out of it on the diagonal.
So let's turn out the lights and commence the stabbing! Maybe this is a diagram of the station, with one base and four attached... uh... mini-bases? (I guess they're not "outposts" if they're attached... but one of you must know what I mean.)

*off to pursue ridiculous theory #23*

**Posted:** Fri Aug 19, 2005 4:06 pm

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Supersox · Veteran Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 137

Remaining letters

**Posted:** Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:05 pm

luke · Decorated Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Posts: 244 Location: Twa

I've tried decoding these letters in all ways possible - both vertically (going up to down from leftmost column to right) and horizontal (going left to right from topmost column to bottom) and have still found nothing. I really don't think that there is anything here. At least nothing I could find.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:46 pm

Mos · Mostly Harmless Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 117

The Index of Coincidence value is .0361. Plaintext is normally .0667, and random text is .0385. Some ciphers mask the index of coincidence by more evenly distributing letters, but there doesn't seem to be any indication of that in this puzzle. (If it is one.) It's not simple substitution, at least.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:17 am

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Supersox · Veteran Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 137

Today is August 25th...Elevator leaves today

**Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:49 am

Jonny10 · Boot Joined: 11 Jun 2005 Posts: 69 Location: West Michigan

Names

**Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:08 pm

Thunderwolf

Trane Sturon is also an anagram of Earn No Trust...

Dean Illia is an anagram of Dial Alien...

Apologies for the lack of any real direction here...

**Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 4:44 pm

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Jonny10 · Boot Joined: 11 Jun 2005 Posts: 69 Location: West Michigan

Good Jorb Thunderwolf!

I believe Dean Illia is actually:

**Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:11 pm

Arne · Boot Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 12 Location: New Jersey

Remaining letters - correction

**Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:12 pm

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You know... i dont think this one is a game!

Arne · Boot Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 12 Location: New Jersey

[Puzzle] Numbers in Classifieds a code?

**Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:29 pm

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You know... i dont think this one is a game!