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wells · Boot Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 15

I'll have to wait until tomorrow to give it a shot and see what's going on with it when i have access to computers that can run photoshop at a respectable speed.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:02 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Tried going at it, 'old school' and used various sizes of chrome sockets to view the border. No joy. Crying or Very sad

**Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:54 pm

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cb_vicious · Boot Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 54

Just a stupid thought.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:14 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Anything's possible. Especially after such a long wait and given the "Tom" puzzle, we had before. It could be Colorado Rockies or a host of other things.

I played around with the spiral and did a version where the primes are white, twin primes are green and Mersenne primes are red.

How do I get a report out of GIMP with all the colors in an image, if I want to run it on the original?

**Posted:** Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:18 pm

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*Bump* due to the result of the solve.

I generated a "pure green" version of the spiral and ran a difference on it, finding a few pixels that weren't pure green.
Two of them stood out as they were the same color (252/00FC00) AND kinda far out on the spiral and the same color value, so counting out from the middle using the corners (squares) and then individually, the numbers were 13075 and 53014.
ETA: One is left 58 pixels, so you go up and left on a diagonal for 58 pixels or pixel # 12,996 (114 ² ) then count down 79 to the changed pixel for a total of 13,075.
The other is left by 116 pixels or 230 ² = 52,900, then down 114 pixels for a total of 53,014.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:07 pm

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cb_vicious · Boot Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 54

Well... bummer. Sad

**Posted:** Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:51 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Actually, I'm kinda looking forward to whatever our mysterious treasure seeker has in store for us.
As I can't find a single shred of R/L info to support any of the story from the last page, I'm assuming it is a purely fictionalized experience.
And the quality of puzzles has been very good, overall, as has their keeping with the theme of the story.
I do wish there had been a better explanation of how we helped him/her figure out the bits they were having trouble with, to this point.
Whatever this is, it won't appeal to the folks who like to interact with characters, but to me, it does feel like we can (and have) affect the story through our guesses in the stats page.
Not so much 'alternate' reality with this, but there is that "This could actually be real." aspect.

**Posted:** Sun Sep 23, 2007 5:51 pm

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cb_vicious · Boot Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 54

Well hopefully it'll kick back up.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:36 am

aznKira · Kilroy Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

Someone w/ the msn thewhisperersSPLATohhai.com msged me and a friend... knowing our names and shit... gave us the link to this very site... and thanks to you guys we went through the puzzle w/ ease... but... there is mroe for us to figure out... shortly after we visited teh site and such... my friend msged him asking who he was... he replied w/

**Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:23 pm

aznKira · Kilroy Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

nvm i'm just bumping an old thread... but something is queer... about the guy.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:30 pm