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[Shellshock612]

Hope you guys dont mind me jumping in, but a figure 8 (if eager hate) on its side is the sign for infinity. I have no idea where Im going with this but its just another possibility lol

[Stormalong]

We love people jumping in!

However, we've already discovered that "Forty-three if eager hate" is an anagram for "the year of the great fire". See grumpyboy's post on the previous page for details.

[Shellshock612]

Ah ok, sorry about that.

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clue search

[Vid]

I don't believe the 2 result have to do with this since it's supposed to be a document of some kind. Probably to get a package from the baggage storage on Earls Court Road in London.

[Big_Larry]

So, at this point...

Does anyone have any idea where next to go, as "ihavefoundthekey" is not on any of the multiple eBay sites?

I distinctly get the feeling that the ball got dropped somewhere.

[Stormalong]

I *think* that by grumpyboy bruteforcing the vigenere cipher (no complaints, I would have done the same) we actually skipped a step and are now missing something important. Maybe the PM's though that by using a key backwards ("ecnadiug") we would be unable to bruteforce the cipher. Or, and now I'm thinking this is more likely, they knew that if we DID bruteforce the cipher we'd be unable to move on to the next step (finding the thing on ebay) without first completing the previous step ("the location of my hidden key can only be found if you start your quest in the wrong places"), which is exactly what has happened.

So, I'm thinking that once we find the "key", all we have to is search ebay for "ihavefoundthekey" ("search ebay for the word ihavefoundthekey") + 1666 ("then use the year you found") + key ("along with the key") and we'll find what we need. ie if we discover that the key is "petfood" we'd search ebay for "ihavefoundthekey1666petfood".

As for finding what we've missed, we have "the location of my hidden key can only be found if you start your quest in the wrong places" and a reference to "chang mai". Oh, and the clue was attached to a portrait of Blaise Vigenere. And presumably this will be found on some reasonably popular internet site (as the last ones were, on IMDB and flickr). The use of the words "location" and "quest", plus the fact that "chang mai" is a place in Thailand makes me think maybe we are looking for some kind of travel site. It did make me think of MapQuest, but MapQuest doesn't seem to have the ability to leave comments or anything so I don't see how that could be used.

[dashcat]

Storm, I think we have the "key". Its ecnadiug. The only clue we had to find the key was "the location of my hidden key can only be found if you start your quest in the wrong places",

The Chang Mai reference came after the vigenere was solved by brute forcing which makes me think the pm suspected the vigenere would be solved that way and has given us another clue so we can backtrack to find the page the key was hidden on.

[Katrinasrvivr504]

I believe someone said this before, but I wonder if "chang mai" is a clue seeing as though the actual place is spelled "Chiang Mai" Or was this just a typo? I don't know

[Stormalong]

Not sure who the clever person is, but I found this by googling for "ecnadiug".

http://wantitnow.ebay.com/ihavefoundthekey_W0QQadidZ140130826357

Dunno if that will work, but if it does kudos to them!

[thetownbike]

[dashcat]

Thetownbike I am really impressed by your ingenuity and tenacity. I hope we hear something soon.

[RandomJaz]

going back, I think we are going to have to solve the

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