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[jonc]

Has anyone noticed the tab order of the letters on the last page?

I would expect them to be in order, but they are not in a strict order (left to right/top to bottom).

[Platinumflux]

I used to live in Greenwich, unfortunately its a Royal Park and as such there's NO WAY you'd be allowed to dig there!! I don't think mind candy would have buried it somewhere you'd get arrested digging it up!!

[flicb]

I'm a little concerned about the frozen aspect at the moment (although that might just be my part of the UK ).

[hobyrne]

"Words within words" sounds an awful lot like steganography to me...

[TheDragonArmy]

Also remember a few things about the cube itself. MC has categorically stated that it WILL NOT BE FOUND with a metal detector. It is not made of a metal that is reactive to metal detectors, or is inside a box that masks it. So, no bothering with metal detectors or some other method. We're going to have details as to its location once we crack the puzzles. We just need to get cracking.

[bit1313]

Just gonna say it...

[Cabbage]

[wonkothesane]

Ive been looking at the metapuzzle over the last few days - i like the connection with argentina , but is that TOO obvious ? my candidate to start the search would be the forest bordering argentina chile :

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/latamer/argentin/map_arch.htm

shown here on this map . it sports some nice monkey puzzle trees 'monkey tree' = arboreal ?

ive been looking again also at the language in the clues from the library of babel - some of the language seems so gramatically unusual that im wandering there is a clue there - "even here.not usual" 'here not' is an anagam of 'erenhot' - a place in china where there is a dinosaur museum 'start with the simple questions' puzzle card number 1 is a dinosaur puzzle ???
'even usual' allmost gives an anagram of venezuala .

i dont know if anyone has pointed this out yet , but most of the fictional books quoted in library of babel are mentioned in one borges book : tlon,uqbar,orbis tertius - wikipedia on it here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius

regards

[Macavity]

Re: Just gonna say it...

[AtionSong]

I checked out a book by Borgues at the library today. One of his stories, Uqbar, as previously discussed, may have some connection to PXC. I noticed that one element of the story discussed is duodecimal code, or, in other words Base 12.

Basically, this means that in America, we use base 10: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

Base 12 reads: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,10. So 12 in Base 12 = 10 in Base 10.

It occured to me that we may need to reinterpret the numbers we were given with Base 12 instead of Base 10.

(on an interesting side note, the fascination D'ni numbering system uses Bas 25 numbering. Read about it here)

Alright, in duodecimal (Base 12) code, the numbers the code is for become (in base 10):

[regentswift]

[AtionSong]

Trying to replug.

For the first set of numbers I got:

[theoneskee]

Haven't seen this mentioned, The ivy leaves in Realise are variegated, which is most common with the species Hedera helix, also known as "English Ivy" in the States, and that seems to me like

2. Realise = Realm = UK

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedera_helix

[notso]

Someone mentioned New York Central Library.

Wasn't there something hidden in that library as part of the pre-game? I'm thinking postcards in a copy of Alice in Wonderland.

Just thinking out loud.

[drinkmonsters]

thats right nosto...

thinking out loud:

1. I don't see many of the same people who used to post in the boards. is that because people think they may be close and don't want to share their speculation? I think this is a time when we need to stick together to find the cube... I don't think splitting up at this point is going to be good for the "team"

2. to add some more spec... the library of babel was the largest library at the time... the library of congress is the worlds largest library today... just throwin it out there.