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[freshness]

Brains still a little fried? This may help...even though I'm not sure what to do with it.

Sent:

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Wow! Great work freshness!! I would have never thought of that.

[freshness]

Ok...more fun correspondence. And by the way, is anyone alive in the chat rooms?

[Kender]

What have we got so far?

picture called 0009300019557000 (16 digits)
text: king me
text: ltwaimmesyhtansa (16 letters)
5x4 checkerboard (with 16 triangles)

Hint: "One word: Count"
Hint: "If black jumps over red, then Black would call "King Me". However, this "next move" has nothing to do with what you see in front of you.
Tell me what you see and I will tell you what you know. Tell me what you don't see, and I will tell you what you are missing. "
Hint: "Count what you see, but not what you are looking at. You see squares. I see something else."
Hint: "You see what he did not.Some were looking at squares, but not seeing the triangles.You get the next clue: left to right, top to bottom. "
Hint: "My last name is Trevor, but that is not the name that you are looking for. Follow your instincts... they usually point you in the right direction. "
Hint: "((8+3) x 2) - 3 + 7 - (23+7) x 2 +12 = w"
Hint: "w + 32 = y, what is y?"
Hint: "w + 31 = y, what is y?"

*note: some of these hints were posted in #acwe, from emails people got

[freshness]

Ok...a long correspondence...forgive me if its overkill...but it may become useful. The correspondence continues from the end of my last post. (There has to be a better way of doing this...)

[Kender]

0595310907 is the ISBN number for a book called "King Murray's Royal Tail: The True Story of An Easter Bunny"

so on to http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/murray

I mailed this to LAX and got a reply stating that that page will be used to post those classified ads when he finds one.

EDIT: I figured out how to solve it the right way too..

Fill the triangles with the letters, starting with the leftmost column going top to bottom. Then the second column, etc.
Then read the text row by row. Top triangles first, bottom triangles second.
This will spell WHATISMYLASTNAME.
Then do the same with the number in the filename. It will read 0595310907000000. The 1st 10 digits looked like an ISBN to me..
Example attached.

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Whew...glad I wasn't here while this was being solved...my brain hurts Great job!!!

[josiah]

Thanks for breaking down the solve for us Kender... I was beating my head against a brick wall a tad, but what did the "KING ME" part of the puzzle represent? Or did I miss something?

[Kender]

It is both a reference to checkers (where you say 'king me' when you reach the opponents side of the board apparantly) and the title of the book we found, "King Murray's Royal Tail"

[xI1dr]

Good solve Kender

[Chewy]

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Hmmm...do we know where Jack Trevor is located out of?? I mean, if he's out of Michigan then he would probably mean Canada...but if he's from California, it's probably northern U.S.

[enaxor]

I sent an emailing asking where Jack lived:

[pushECX]

Wow, I still cant help very much but I live in Louisville, thats pretty cool...

[Chewy]