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Flidget Jerome · Unfettered Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 308

[Puzzle] #155 Blue - Sadako Sasaki

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Is it possible to get a higher-res scan of just the text area... they said we could do that of small areas on the cards, but this is basically the whole thing and... well... it really would be helpful to get a copy we could actually read so we don't have people begging you to transcribe the whole thing.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:29 pm

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cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

You mean Sadako of the Thousand Paper Cranes? I adored the book written about her when I was younger....

can we get a better text scan?

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:34 pm

Axys Denyed

Well, here it is rotated and flipped, but I can't make sense of it. Anyone else having any luck with this?

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:53 pm

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Small little observation here, but there is a scissor logo on the top right - indicating to me that perhaps this is a print out and fold - origami type puzzle. - Sadako Sasaki? sounds like we need to be looking for a folding pattern Very Happy

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:57 pm

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Daffy889

We really could do with a higher res scan of that text area. There's just too much detail there to make out from this one.

Apart from the Latin (?), it looks like there's some larger black writing that is half cut off around the edges of the square, and what appears to be a faded blue star or something behind the text.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:58 pm

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Axys Denyed

You can open it up in a picture editing program and zoom in on it. Looks like the text repeats at some point, but I haven't looked at it too extensively

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:03 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:06 pm

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Leeravitz

I'll give the Latin a closer look, if I can. It definitely *is* Latin by the way, but transcription won't be that easy. I'm wondering if it's actually an extract from something, although, frankly, I guess it's more likely that there's a coded clue in there somewhere.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:06 pm

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im looking at the text written around the outside, so far - after some rotating and flipping... I've pieced together two of the sections, and it quite clearly says 'maker' - but the rest doesnt line up fully.

Looking at one of the previous posts.... 'sadako of the thousand paper cranes' = brainstorm. Print that puzzle out, cut the inner square out, and fold it into a Crane.

... i would but my printer is out of ink Very Happy

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:08 pm

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cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

The Latin is the Lorem ipsum placeholder text. I don't think it needs to be translated (though if you're bored, go read Cicero...)

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:18 pm

Daffy889

/me prints out a ridiculously scaled-up version

/me tries to remember how to fold paper cranes

Yes, after folding this blurry image into a crane (with some help from this site) the larger black text definitely lines up along the 'wings' of the crane.

From what I can make out, it seems to say "CLOUD(some other letters)MAKER". The letters in the middle don't seem to line up properly, but might on a higher-res version with better folding.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:21 pm

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LMAO @ Cloudmaker Very Happy

... cracks his fingers... of course this has to be referring to EvanChans old boat in the A.I Trail, to which we bizarrely named our group ' The Cloudmakers ' Very Happy

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:24 pm

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Flidget Jerome · Unfettered Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 308

I love ARGs, for they make me humble.

There's instructions on the back of this card for folding a crane. I didn't even notice. Embarassed

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:00 pm

Leeravitz

Is this one of Aiko's cards? I can't make the signature out.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:06 pm

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