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[Kender]

Gah, foiled by the octal again.
I went the painful route of mono-alphabetic substitution and got Who said: "So What's Your big battle plan.".
Googling got me http://www.pokemopolis.net/episodes/indigo/003.htm which holds "So what's your big battle-plan?" mocks Jesse. Leading me to http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/jesse.html

[freshness]

http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/postcard8.bmp has the letters A/N-RJZF along the bottom. A/N-RJZF stands for AlphaNumeric field - Right Justified Zero Filled. So, filling in the grid and numbering the rows and columns like a chessboard:

[enaxor]

Postcard 28 uses wingdings 2, it translates to

tHEQui
CKbROW
nfoxj
UMpsov
ErTHE
lAzy

using the small letters as 0's and the caps as 1's the message is "spat" in binary.

http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/spat.html

[freshness]

http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/postcard13.bmp

The words Adriatic, Atlantic, Bicycle, etc. refer to types of trains that have classifications under Whyte notation. Whyte notation consists of three numbers in the form A-B-C. Summing the numbers gives each individual train a value. Doing the algebra and substituting A for 1, B for 2, C for 3, etc...it decodes to "WEDGED IN BASHER". "Wedged" is Basher speak for a very full train.

http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/full.html

[Varin]

[josiah]

http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/postcard14.bmp

The big indian and little indian are references to little endian and big endian processors I think, and it looks like it should be ascii text, because of the 01000000 lines, which are probably spaces, but the ascii for space is 00100000, and I'm a bit stuck there because I can't work out how to get the letters out.

I've also tried translating the binary, storing it in a file and running it as a program but that also doesn't seem to help.

Any help would be appreciated.

[josiah]

http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/postcard15.bmp

Solving the grid puzzle thing gives:

[Kender]

[Kender]

As for http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/postcard29
I calculated the resistance of all the resistors.
Then I calculated the resistances of the parallel resistors (1/(1/R1+1/R2+ .. 1/Rn) leading to each red thinghy.
I replaced each resulting number with the corresponding letter in the alhpabet (1=a - 26=z)

I probably made a lot of mistakes beacuse the result turned out "wgo claims t'at rdsistancd ij eutild" this should ofcourse read "who claims that resistance is futile" which leads to http://anothercontestworthentering.com/theborg.html

[Lucy]

postcard 25

[Myeerah]

I tried routes.html and I got this msg:

[freshness]

Nice, Lucy! I had been working on that one too, but I didn't put it together. So just to be thorough, your missing cities are GARRISH BURR = HARRISBURG, WILL RELEVANCE = LAWRENCEVILLE, and EYE SEAMS = YEMASSEE.

[Myeerah]

I was discussing a poster in California and Jack led me to this site which we have discovered before. http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/jesse.html
And then he said as a hint to save the picture, which gives us the title: somewouldsaythatitisPrimo

So, any ideas? Unforutatley California is really rather big so I'm not sure if this is gonna be anywhere near me..

[massive]

Postcard 10: The lines and dots at the top of the postcard, when converted to 1's and 0's, become binary for something close to "they issued a $400 fine to NASA for littering". Coupled with the picture of Skylab, this leads to (after much searching):

http://www.anothercontestworthentering.com/esperance.html

(Esperance was the city in Australia that fined NASA for the Skylab re-entry.)

Postcard 2: The color block in the bottom left hand corner of MS Paint is circled. I tried translating the binary to decimal, then to ascii, but it's just a string of letters, so I tried de-Vigenere-ing using GREY or GRAY or COLORBLOCK, but to no avail.

Postcard 27: All I can say about this one is that the bottom steel-wool-looking picture is one of those "stare-at-it-until-you-see-3D" pictures ... of a cube. Like the Q*bert cube. I couldn't make out anything on the faces of the cube, but it's gotta be pointing towards combining some of the triangles in the top part to make cube faces ...

(the coolness of the puzzles drew me back into this)

[smibbo]

I noticed that the name of the picture on postcard clue #8 (geronimo) is "strangefisheswhosaidthat"

Jewel wrote a song called "strange fishes"