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[S2] #234 Happy New Year

**Posted:** Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:43 am

poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

Ermmm, I've never heard of it, and I don't think anyone else has, my guess would be you saw a Wave 2 card for season 2, its not been released yet AFAIK, where in the pub did you see it? Was it someone elses, on a wall, etc. I'm all intrigued now, shame you couldn't get a picture or anything but seems very weird.

**Posted:** Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:25 pm

Mikeyj

Re: [S2] #234 Happy New Year

**Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:33 am

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kie_yeo

Well, i gotta say i'm glad i'm not missing the obvious lol. It was on the table in front of her on a HUGE pile of what i assume was other perplex city cards. She was on her own but sat facing the bar and me being me didn't have the nerve to approach her.

I've stacked up all the perplex city cards i own (which is all of them (including the warm up cards) minus the season 2 silvers and about 15 silvers from season 1 and the hamleys cards and 257 lol) so about 30 roughly and i'm sure the pile she had was still taller.

Damn those nerves "Hi, you're into perplex city too, thats an interesting card...................................................." grrrrrr. I shall be frequenting that pub even more than normal in the next few days

**Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:08 am

GasparLewis

Hm... very curious.

My guess is that they are a Mind Candy employee, or someone very closely connected to one to get cards that, technically, don't exist yet. We might get lucky and have it be someone recognizable, and maybe pry a wee bit further.

So, what other things about this girl did you notice? Wink

**Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:19 am

kie_yeo

Other things, hmmmmm, she was dressed smartly, i kinda assumed she was on a lunch break, was drinking a small drink, i guess it was a spirit and lemonade/soda. Looked very respectable and totally unapproachable to me lol.

Sorry i ain't replied sooner - been away from the comp for a few days, works been manic, currently on my laptop in somerset returning to essex tonight where i'm gonna have a mooch round the pub (the sun on london road, romford) if anyones interested.

After seeing the card and posting on here i did a thorough search on ebay and found the card amongst a full set of season 2 silvers which i meant to bid on and then like i say work got the better of me. Gutted because it went for �50 which i would have doubled. Ebay item number 290126169478. You can see from the pic basically what i've already mentioned on here. Wish i'd told you guys now, then at least we might have a scan.

I don't think it was a mind candy employee because i think they would either do it in london city or go far enough away to stop people moaning that perplex city is so london orientated. I could be totally wrong though, maybe like you say someone closely connected. Heres hoping wave 2 is imminent

**Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:20 am

aliendial

Quite right - the picture on that auction includes a card none of us have (the middle one in the bottom row). And which you can't even solve on the Mind Candy site because it isn't listed at all. Very odd. Something slipped out from wave 2?

**Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:59 am

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Mikeyj

Well...I e-mailed the seller to see where they got it, do you think that given MC have put some gold cards and other signed cards in general packs that they're throwing in a few teasers for season two? Easter egg cards? All this should probably be in card meta Rolling Eyes

but I'll move it across and start a new one once we actually get our mitts on something that can be solved Smile

**Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:07 am

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smartyman · Boot Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 22

Well, I'm happy to report that I'm the lucky guy who won the bid, and I'm even happier to report that the cards arrived today! There are a couple of notable things about this card:
1) It states "Season 2 Wave 1" although it isn't listed on Mind Candy's site (as aliendial noted)
2) The guest puzzle architect is Oliver Keers who I assume must be our very own oliverkeers13!

The card is #234 and part of the Noughts and Crosses set worth 920 points. Front transcription:

**Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:43 pm

Mikeyj

Ilja and Anja have a truly miserable time don't they? I hope a "happy ever after" card back appears at some point.

Does your code work to access the solve page smartyman? Curious that it's not listed and yet still wave 1.

**Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:31 am

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kie_yeo

Streak of light / line of numbers lol close.

First thoughts, 30 numbers plus the 2 gaps gives 32. Do you think we're looking for 2 numbers as the answers or two locations? 2 numbers based on the spread given seems too guessable, so i'm hoping its two locations.

It looks like the numbers are written in different colours, and possibly different fonts. This could be highly important and is hard to see from the scan.

Finally, journey not possible until 1999 - perhaps some new technology discovered/implemented in 1999 made this journey possible, the card draws me towards spacetravel...........(not sure why!)

A new card to think about yay!!

**Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:38 am

smartyman · Boot Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 22

I don't want to scratch the silver panel yet so I haven't tried the card code. Despite the fact that the card states "wave 1" I think it must be part of a set of samples that have been printed for wave 2, and therefore I don't expect the card code to work yet. But it might, who knows.

The background appears to be fireworks, but it also appears to be covered in water spots (printed, not actual Wink

). The height of the white boxes which the numbers are printed in vary, but I think the font is the same for every number. Some numbers such as 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 are taller than the others (0, 1 and 2). There are no 5's or 9's. Below is the number line again with color added in parenthesis; they used lots of colors and not all are easily distinguishable from the others, but I think I got it right so here goes:

GreenWindmill

Very unlikely to lead to anything but it never hurts to post just in case - my first thought was 1999 referring to the Prince song.

Numbers and colours relating to albums/tracks and spelling out a sentence/question?!

Probably nonsense - the fireworks and title of the card strongly indicate it's to do with years/dates/time somehow but I thought I'd throw an oddly-shaped spanner in the works of people's thought processes early on!

**Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:40 am

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DarkHuman

a Journey, huh? well, first of all i would like to say :
"THANK YOU" to all that found this card. (saw, found, and bought).

so, with that out of the way, (and no hints from OK13) i'd like to put in my 2cents.
1. A journey, i think of Km or miles. like it's a long path with each intersection's numbers. (my first thought was of some random bike path from OK13 to his school, MC, and back....what? it's a flipping silver, i could be right, lol)

2. 1999, and happy new year. I looked up 1999 (i keep going to 2k, bad darkhuman) and Jan 1st was the day the Euro went into use.

oh, also:
HAS ANYONE ASKED VON FOR THE TEXT HINT????????????

Oh that and i thought english chunnel. i was wayyyyy off.

**Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:53 pm

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Tomby

My guess is that it refers to a trip on the London Underground. The colours will correspond to the different lines, and the numbers to the number of stations travelled along that line. Probably involves travel on the Jubilee line extension (gray) which opened in December 1999.

I don't have time to work it out exactly though Sad

**Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:38 pm