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[SPEC] Possible Puzzle on Card Corners?
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echidna
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 		[SPEC] Possible Puzzle on Card Corners?
Has anyone else noticed a series of discrepancies in the borders of some of the cards? (I've done a quick search and I can't find any other mentions of this but apologies if I missed anything.)

In the coloured borders (red maze, orange circles, etc) of some cards there's a little triangle on one of the corners (the middle corner of the border) that's out of sync with the rest of the pattern.
(Sorry if that description doesn't make a lot of sense but I don't have a scanner to show you what I mean - it's most obvious on the black cards 206 and 210 if anyone else wants to take a look.)

I've got every card in Wave 1 and 2 and have had duplicates of most of them so I can confirm it's on every copy of the cards in question and isn't just a random printing error. The cards which have the triangles on are:

Red 014, 018, 022
Orange 046, 050, 054
Yellow 078, 082, 086
Green 110, 114, 115, 118
Blue 142, 144, 146, 150
Purple 174, 178, 182
Black 206, 210, 214
Silver 238, 242, 246

There seems to be a definite pattern going on here, apart from the anachronistic 115 and 146, which is what leads me to believe that this might be another meta-puzzle like the playing card symbols. My current thinking is that it could be an acrostic based on the card titles or that it could be related to Shuffled (that's probably just wishful thinking because I'm tired of trying to work out Solitaire ciphers!).

Anyway - just thought I'd throw the idea out there to see if it means anything to anyone else. I suspect we'll have to wait for Waves 3 and 4 though to find out if this goes anywhere.

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 		I see what you mean, there is some definite marking on some of them. I'm going to play around with them, see if anything comes up.
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Fuseunderground
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 		I can confirm they are all there on all of mine too,
you've got good eyes!!!
I thought I had looked at every micrometre of Riemann...

How would the 'acrostic' work?

Are those corners with the rotated pattern all touching?
Could the pattern change mean some kind of rotation?
or could they be a code similar in style to 'Ciphers of History?'

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I'm off to the opticians after all that straining....

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 		In case anybody was confused at to what echidna meant Ive done a scan of #210 with the offending top right corner
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 		I always thought that was caused by the border being printed as a curved strip (following the contour of the curve in the corner), with the remaining corner piece then filled in with the same texture ... so just an artefact of the way the cards are printed.

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echidna
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buzman wrote:
I always thought that was caused by the border being printed as a curved strip (following the contour of the curve in the corner), with the remaining corner piece then filled in with the same texture ... so just an artefact of the way the cards are printed.

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You could well be right buzman - I'm only speculating really. I just thought it was interesting that only these cards have the mark on (it's definitely a staight-edged section, by the way, not a curve). If it's possible to create perfect borders, like all the other cards have, then why produce some that are wonky?

Fuseunderground wrote:
How would the 'acrostic' work?


If you take the 1st letter of each card title to give a message; at the moment you get:

CNC SE9 ESA FTTC PMYA JST MNT RCH

if you put them in numerical order. Not very promising I admit, unless they're either in cipher or need to be shuffled, but I'm working under the assumption that the next waves of cards will have more marks like these.

PS Thanks for the scan locqust:)

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 		Can you highlight what you're talking about? I'm confused.
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 		To be honest if I was making these cards I would have template backgrounds of each set, like star or maze. Then change the colour and put the puzzle on top using another template in something like Quark or photoshop. If they have done it this way, which seems the most logical, then why only some cards out of various sets have this abnormality? Why not all cards or none?

I think it is probably best to wait until the next wave comes out and see if we get them then. Cos if I remember this new wave will not be limited edition and therefore "brand new" printing. If it is a printing error on the limited edition then they shouldnt be on the new ones. If they are then maybe this is something....

Np with the scan btw, happy to help fuel more Spec and conspiracy! Smile
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 		Looks to be every top right except hex sets, not having a top right in pixel but looking at the pattern on the others, I would think that it will not have this problem either.

(dunnowhyipostthisbut)Re: thirteenth labour

topright, righttop, hexpixel and pixelhex in all variations gives nothing.

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dps05
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Looks to be every top right except hex sets, not having a top right in pixel


It doesn't seem to be a regular error either - each suit's corner section is similar but where they join is different - which may or may not just be due to the way they're printed...
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 		Hey, I see what you mean but my #182 doesn't have this, all the others do though Confused

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