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 		SPEC: Theory of the StB pages and the GW login
I have mentioned this in chat but never posted my theory. So here goes.

I think the last page of each StB puzzle is giving us the letters we need for the login. I think the window pages of each StB puzzle are telling us in which order the letters of the login should be placed. :

The order of the windows and the letters:

StB1 window2 Cumaean

StB2 window7 Lightcone

StB3 window3 Oneill

StB4 window4 Sixty

StB5 window5 ??

Which gives us: _ C O S _ _ L _

I've also thought that the subject of or the name of the jpg of the last page might be the letters we're looking for. So far I have as alternate letters AZBL

_ A Z B _ _ L _ . ( Apollo, Zipes, Booker and Lightcone)

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

The last page of StB5 could possibly prove this theory or blow it out of the water or even just make enough sense to string me along for awhile longer.

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 		Wow. I looked at that and thought CLOS...
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 		I like your theory dash. I just thought of anagramming the last pages too. I agree, the last page is our clue. But how to use it....


*Edit-Anagramming doesn't work. Duh! Not with the 60.html page. Very Happy
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 		Re: SPEC: Theory of the StB pages and the GW login
dashcat wrote:
I have mentioned this in chat but never posted my theory. So here goes.

I think the last page of each StB puzzle is giving us the letters we need for the login. I think the window pages of each StB puzzle are telling us in which order the letters of the login should be placed. :

The order of the windows and the letters:

StB1 window2 Cumaean

StB2 window7 Lightcone

StB3 window3 Oneill

StB4 window4 Sixty

StB5 window5 ??

Which gives us: _ C O S _ _ L _

I've also thought that the subject of or the name of the jpg of the last page might be the letters we're looking for. So far I have as alternate letters AZBL

_ A Z B _ _ L _ . ( Apollo, Zipes, Booker and Lightcone)

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

The last page of StB5 could possibly prove this theory or blow it out of the water or even just make enough sense to string me along for awhile longer.


For SB5, window5 and the last page is fifteen.html, which when we add to your theory becomes...

_ COSF_L_

So keep stringing along Smile

But for your .jpg theory, that might not work. I only say that because the lightcone jpg is actually lc.jpg and not lightcone.jpg. And with only 2 letters, and the window being 7....

I'm still thinking that the .jpg names are supposed to help us too. Esp. when the cumaeansibyl.html page .jpg is named Apollo. The painting has both of them in it. So maybe we are to use cumaeansibylapollo somehow? Then for the lightcone one, it could be lightconelc.

I wonder too if we even found all the pages for the first SB set. The source code doesn't list anything about it being the end.

I don't know. Just throwing out ideas.
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Myssfitz wrote:
I like your theory dash. I just thought of anagramming the last pages too. I agree, the last page is our clue. But how to use it....


*Edit-Anagramming doesn't work. Duh! Not with the 60.html page. Very Happy


True, and just to confuse matters, "sixty.html" was the other way to get to a valid page.
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 		No no no no no Smile

You see, I am a person who loves the obvious and simple approach. The only puzzle solves I get are the simple ones...when everyone else is thinking too hard I try the thing that's simple.

First Myssfitz.....we aren't sure that fifteen.html is the last page of StB5, since the source code says " no more...for now" I suspect the StB5 trail will continue.

Second, I'm only using the FIRST letter of each end page and jpg so lc.jpg still gives us 'L' .

Third, Dmax, I'm going to use the 's' in sixty because it's my theory and I don't allow numbers Laughing

Thanks for reading this and adding your spec.

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dashcat wrote:
No no no no no Smile

You see, I am a person who loves the obvious and simple approach. The only puzzle solves I get are the simple ones...when everyone else is thinking too hard I try the thing that's simple.

First Myssfitz.....we aren't sure that fifteen.html is the last page of StB5, since the source code says " no more...for now" I suspect the StB5 trail will continue.
I believe this, too. It implies continuation, which was NOT a factor on any other pages that we've seen. It's the PM stepping from behind the curtain, obliquely, to throw cold water on our (grumpy's) hot streak.
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Second, I'm only using the FIRST letter of each end page so lc.jpg still gives us 'L'

Third, Dmax, I'm going to use the 's' in sixty because it's my theory and I don't allow numbers Laughing

Thanks for reading this though and adding your spec.


Hmmm. Sixty can also be spelled LX! Just trying to confuse matters more. My job here is done....
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dashcat wrote:
No no no no no Smile

You see, I am a person who loves the obvious and simple approach. The only puzzle solves I get are the simple ones...when everyone else is thinking too hard I try the thing that's simple.

First Myssfitz.....we aren't sure that fifteen.html is the last page of StB5, since the source code says " no more...for now" I suspect the StB5 trail will continue.

Second, I'm only using the FIRST letter of each end page and jpg so lc.jpg still gives us 'L' .

Third, Dmax, I'm going to use the 's' in sixty because it's my theory and I don't allow numbers Laughing

Thanks for reading this and adding your spec.


Dash,

I was taking the 7th letter in lightcone (but then not using it) to be used in the 7th slot. It was late and I was thinking one way, but following your way at the same time. Ifffff that makes sense. I mean, look who it's coming from? Laughing So, on my way of thinking.....

StB1 window2 Cumaean

StB2 window7 Lightcone

StB3 window3 Oneill

StB4 window4 Sixty

StB5 window5 Fifteen (I'm still going to use it. Only because it was such a long string of pages and I think Dave was telling us that there was no more. How much do you want to bet we'll see a new SB page in the next day or two? Razz )

_UETE_N_
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dmax wrote:
dashcat wrote:

First Myssfitz.....we aren't sure that fifteen.html is the last page of StB5, since the source code says " no more...for now"


Hmmm. Sixty can also be spelled LX! Just trying to confuse matters more. My job here is done....



Dmax? So then fifteen can also be spelled XV hmmmmm? Shocked
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Myssfitz wrote:
dmax wrote:
dashcat wrote:

First Myssfitz.....we aren't sure that fifteen.html is the last page of StB5, since the source code says " no more...for now"


Hmmm. Sixty can also be spelled LX! Just trying to confuse matters more. My job here is done....



Dmax? So then fifteen can also be spelled XV hmmmmm? Shocked


which gives us.. LXXV... Seventy five?
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 		Ooohhh, now I see what you're saying Myssfitz. That's a great theory. I almost like you're theory better than mine. Laughing

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dmax wrote:
... It's the PM stepping from behind the curtain, obliquely, to throw cold water on our (grumpy's) hot streak...


I notice the file format has changed as well, this time it wasn't gw.net/window5 like the others, perhaps becaus we bypassed it on window four (by accident of course, but now we have a known shortcut method), this time it was in the file gw/sb5/window5... so we couln't just skip the solve to StB5 to get there.

And the PM is only stepping out from behind the screen because we pulled back a corner of the curtain (by looking at the source code). Wink Very Happy
Not against the rules for this... in fact he's used that in some of the puzzies to keep us moving.
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Magesteff wrote:
And the PM is only stepping out from behind the screen because we pulled back a corner of the curtain (by looking at the source code).


Now I'm confused. Anyone out there consider looking at the source code "going behind the curtain"?
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dmax wrote:
Magesteff wrote:
And the PM is only stepping out from behind the screen because we pulled back a corner of the curtain (by looking at the source code).


Now I'm confused. Anyone out there consider looking at the source code "going behind the curtain"?


Not me, but then I happen to think that hardballing an obnoxious password problem is perfectly acceptable as well.. If ARGs are supposed to be like real life, then you're going to use every trick in the book and even some that aren't. None of those: it's unsporting, comments need apply then. *wry chuckle*

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 		Wrong choice of words...
dmax wrote:
Magesteff wrote:
And the PM is only stepping out from behind the screen because we pulled back a corner of the curtain (by looking at the source code).


Now I'm confused. Anyone out there consider looking at the source code "going behind the curtain"?


Sorry, I made the wrong choice of words I think.
I didn't mean in the sense of exposing all the inner workings, or even exposing Dave...
I'm a biologist by training so I don't quite have the proper way to express this as computer stuff, just as I see it from the outside...

When I look at an HTML page, I see the page as the programer wants it to be seen, the fonts, colors and pictures, and all the window dressing added. I do not see in terms of programming language, which is what the source code is. Simpilton that I am, I explain source code as "behind the curtain" of the HTML page as seen by me... I don't normally look at the source code of every page I visit - it is invisible, not thought about, but there, always there, hidding, not intended to be exposed in the black and white page of text that definds what I see....

Does that make what I was attempting to say any clearer?
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