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SteveC
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[SOLVED] #25 Red - Read Between The Lines This is the second card underneath the A K 7 2 card in the firebox advert... Being a clever sod I've found another image of it (below) which happens to be at the right angle to pick up a hidden message?!
Anyway, it says:
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Blondie Album?
And my amazing knowledge of 70s and 80s pop trivia suggests an answer of:
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Parallel Lines
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 6:40 am
kelsey_requiem
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Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 106 Location: .hu
you
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 6:42 am
firefox
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Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 333
dance dance dance
good job on the solve
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 6:51 am
Leeravitz
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Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 450 Location: Stevenage, England
Sounds to me like we've just found one of Caine's cards - and discovered something about how music can be utilised within the confines of the puzzles...
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 9:22 am
Violet
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Re: [SOLVED] Card #25
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And my amazing knowledge of 70s and 80s pop trivia suggests an answer of:
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Parallel Lines
sorry SteveC, am dense, why does it have to be that?
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 11:33 am
SteveC
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Explanation:
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If you look at the firebox picture of the cards they are basically parallel vertical lines with the "Blondie Album?" message hidden through an optical effect (which was ruined by the angle the photo was taken at). There's a blondie album called "Parallel Lines".
It just fits.
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 11:41 am
Leeravitz
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It would also be an apt enough answer for those puzzling folks of Ol' Perplex City to come up with, I guess...the first thing it put me in mind of was the discovery of non - Euclidean geometry through variant applications of Euclid's fifth postulate in the 19th century...
but then, I am kind of strange!!!
The simplest explanation is Steve's, clearly: another visual/coded pun.
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 5:12 pm
Violet
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hey, good call, thanks for clarifying!
Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 5:36 pm
smile
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Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 129 Location: Manchester, England
Aww... can I get a better scan of the card, just that its what inspired my avatar
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 7:27 am
NovacaineX
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here you go smile
[EDIT: embedded url. yanka.]
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 2:53 pm
nynxer
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Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 24
steve from that picture you can see that it is from a book, did u take that, do u work for mind candy, that book looks to hold every card, and parelle lines? theres a road in perplex called paralle road? i think
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 3:45 pm
HitsHerMark
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I was given one copy of this card at E3. (Sorry, I'm keeping it. )
The title is "Read between the lines" and is the top left of the Red Pixil set.
here is the back which gives a phone number to send a text message of a number of the card you want a hint for. ((Amusing if you think about it.)) Getting a hint costs money.
The card is worth 7 points and the set is worth 28 points.
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Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 10:41 pm
napier
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nynxer wrote:
my avatar is waaaay to large
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:59 am
frankieroberto
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Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 69 Location: London, UK
I solved this one without too much trouble, but I didn't ever discover an easy way to view the text clearly. You get glimpses at it from various angles, and you can get a pretty good view by waving it slowly from left to right in front of your eyes whilst staring forwards, but none of these methods is ideal.
Anyone discover any better way of seeing the image? I'm curious...
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Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:27 am
Rob_Riv
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frankieroberto wrote:
I solved this one without too much trouble, but I didn't ever discover an easy way to view the text clearly. You get glimpses at it from various angles, and you can get a pretty good view by waving it slowly from left to right in front of your eyes whilst staring forwards, but none of these methods is ideal.
Anyone discover any better way of seeing the image? I'm curious...
People at my school were doing that when I was handing out cards, it was quite funny looking on
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:51 am
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