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[mongo]

Have been looking at the two dates we've been given.

[duncan]

On the 1155020400 number I was thinking more in the line of unix timestamps

that would give :
Tuesday, August 8th 2006, 7:00:00 (GMT)
as next update .


Edit : oooops I'm soooo "fast" writing !! :p

[Mudbrother]

Wow, very nice catch guys. Now we just need to solve the riddle and the maze, and we'll be ready for the update

[mongo]

Been busy looking at the star Vega, then found a town in Texas called Vega. This town would be at 10 0 clock from Austin, near to which is Falkenstein castle and Longhorn Cavern (a den?).
Just a thought. Got no further yet.

[Jiroe]

My first thoughts about the riddle is that it's got something to do with space and rotations. That's the only way I can think of explaining the last line about being home in time for tea. I spent a lot of last night looking up Vega the star. I found a page that mentioned a courtyard where Vega was visible at Ten o'clock. I'll look for it again, but it didn't seem too relavant, especially when throwing in the den and the castle parts. Although Vega is part of a thing called the Summer Triangle. It's one of 3 of the brightest stars visible in the summer night sky that form a triangle. It's also part of the Lyrae constallation.

And interesting to note, Abilene TX is directly in line between Austin and Vega at about the halfway point.

[Russell]

OK well looking at the grid again I think one word was missed - GLBC - Not having much luck to be honest, but things i have noticed:

Each word has only one coloured letter in it:

SAVVIS
NIPPON
LEVEL3 - Blue
GLBC
QWEST

ATT
ATDN - White
SPRINT
VERIZON

Im also speccing with rance that the P and the $ may be the beginning and end of the maze, but nothing yet.

[Putty]

Agh... I'm very new to ARGs, but I've noticed some things.

[Russell]

Ok I have been looking at the ISP puzzle again and have some fresh ideas:

All the nnumbers that appear in the puzzle are 1-9 with no repeats, which led me to believe we may be looking for a 9 letter link. If you shade in all the letters used as ISP names, you are left with the pic below. Then if you look at each number and look at the letter next to it you get:

1 T
2 R
3 A
4 T/N
5 E/D
6 B
7 S/I/C
8 N/T
9 E

I cant make anything as yet but throwing it out there in case someone can run with it...

[Kaiser1245]

Hey guys... My first ever ARG (alice in wonderland) just died an early death, so if you don't mind, I'd like to jump onboard.

[Russell]

Ok just had a further idea with this puzzle:

Previously I had assumed we ignore the $ next to number 1. If we dont though we get with some spacing:

1 $

2 R
3 A
4 N
5 D

6 B
7 I
8 T
9 E

Now the first two are both forms of currency, i looked into how Bite could fit this pattern but not seeing anything yet. Anyway throwing it out there in case someone stumbles across anything with this.

[Omnie]

The title of the maze puzzle has changed to say "Wei-Hwa's Maze."

[Russell]

having a look now, in retrospect without this prod im not quite sure how we could find that page though on google, have tried the date and various keywords but nothing...Hey ho moving on...

[Omnie]

Yeah, it's a bit stretchy. It seems the "google?" [oh, ha - it's a google puzzle] was important - searching for "maze Friday June 23, 2006 google" gives Mei-Hwa's puzzle on the first page of results.

[cvk_0]

ok got it

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Great solve CVK_0 and good work team!! Glad this is moving forward again!