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Catherine · Boot Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Reading, UK

Superb work UKver2.0 - congrats on the solve.
*Marvals* Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:11 am

UKver2.0 · Decorated Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 270

**Posted:** Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:36 pm

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GinGenie · Boot Joined: 12 Aug 2005 Posts: 16

Fantastic stuff! Congratulations! And thank you for giving me back a small part of my life! ;-)

**Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:39 am

wonkothesane · Boot Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 27 Location: Newcastle

**Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:25 pm

aliendial

Congrats wonko! Yeah me too. Well the phrase and the question. But not the actual answer. Gotta do some story research. The clues have gotten so thick on the ground over at perplexorum as of today, it was hard NOT to figure it out.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 8:13 am

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DarkHuman

amazing solve Shocked

Congrads again to UK2.0, and a special thanks to smartyman for the solver, and personal help! now that we know what we know from this answer, DAMN IT MC WHY DID YOU GO AND GET RID OF EVERYONE. Crying or Very sad

i mean, we got this quote how long ago?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:50 pm

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poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

**Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:33 pm

DarkHuman

that RULES!

**Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:45 am

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baf · Boot Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 46

Now that I know the answer, I think I see what made this so much harder than was intended. The sticking point was, obviously, getting the keyphrase; everything else about the card was guessed ages ago. The only way to get the keyphrase was by interpreting the phrase "outward looks should leave you cold". The big problem is that we didn't know that this was the clue. The designer clearly wanted to draw our attention to those six words, but instead wound up drawing our attention to the nine-word sentence starting with "If entropy wins...", greatly confusing matters.

To see what I mean, just look at the page for Shuffled on the Perplex City Wiki, http://perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/Shuffled. Nowhere does it treat of the phrase "outward looks should leave you cold" as a unit. The phrase appears appears four times on that page, and all four times, it's preceded by "If entropy wins". It just didn't occur to us that the phrases were separable. It probably didn't occur to the designer that we would see it this way.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:19 pm

Thanar · Greenhorn Joined: 29 Jun 2007 Posts: 5

Had the designers of the card just omitted the words "if entropy wins", I personally think it would have been a better puzzle.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:01 pm

GuyIncognito · Decorated Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 295

... whoa.

Shuffled got solved?

After more than a hundred pages of build-up, I would have expected a litte more buzz about this ... but I guess that makes the solve an even more impressive display of persistence.

Congratulations, UKver2.0!

**Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:40 pm

misty · Kilroy Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 1 Location: wales

is there a chance of a little more of a hint please as i am really struggling with this now!!!
thanks

**Posted:** Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:49 pm

Joe_the_OOF1 · Guest

hints

**Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:21 pm

jimtouu · Guest

Is there anywhere that still has a shuffled decoder? I have tried all the links but they seem to be removed.

**Posted:** Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:01 pm

aliendial

jimtouu - you might want to PM the various folks who posted about their decoders - most likely aren't watching the forums any more, but a PM may get their attention.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:29 pm

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