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i could be wrong but i believe they've been updating the blog every other day (or only on even numbered days to be a little more specific). I'm expecting something tomorrow....of course it could be contingent on us solving the puzzle...

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:00 am

wkelly42 · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 147

New letter at anna's site at Dyson. Project: Centurion, and it looks awfully familiar.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:39 am

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AndyTheGeeky · Boot Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 19 Location: The Internet

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:50 am

Rogi Ocnorb

I've tried all kinds of stuff to no avail.
If there are four locations, I can't seem to make anything come together as far as coordinates that would be limited to the U.S.

Working on it as a substitution cipher...

In groups of six:
ABCBD
EFGHH
IJKLH
MNMOH

In groups of three
ABACDEACFC
EGHIJKCCCC
LFMNOPQRCC
MGSTMGMUCC

In Groups of two:
ABCABDEBEABDFBD
DFCGDHBEGDDDDDD
IEFJKBLMNOEEDDD
JFCPQRJFCJBBDDD

Singles:
ABCDEDABCDDDDCCDDCABCDDDCCCDDD
DDCCEDBCDDDBCDDCBCDDDDDDDDDDDD
AADCCCADCECDAFGFHFACDCDCDDDDDD
ADCCEDHGFFIIADCCEDADCDCDDDDDDD

In case anyone else wants to try their favorite substitution tools on it.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:23 am

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Barnezilla · Kilroy Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Sydney

Hi Everybody,

I tried to post as a guest but it didn't go up so I thought I might as well join the forum.

Anyway, I'd just like to say that I made a mock up of the punch cards to see if the holes correspond over each other.
What I found is that when two cards, one is placed on top of the other, and the X's are aligned, usually one of the holes match up, but never more than four.

That is with the different combo's, the number of matching holes are 1, 2, 3 or four, there are however two instances of zero.

Anyway, it might be nothing but I will keep trying different combos.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:15 am

jlr1001 · Decorated Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 210

This Came to me Last Night...

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:33 am

Guest · Guest

I'm sure that if and when that happens, anna will just happen to be one step ahead of us and will probably pick them up for us. In any case, that's a ways off yet. We still don't even know what kind of data we're looking for with these.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:31 pm

squid808 · Veteran Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Posts: 91

Sorry, ^ was me, didn't realize I had been logged out. >.<

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:45 pm

jlr1001 · Decorated Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 210

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:50 pm

godofchicken · Boot Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 65

Shoot me down in flames if you will, but it's my first post in this topic and I guess it's worth a try.

When I saw those punchcards, the first thing I thought was 'guitar tabs' - anyone with a guitar feel like giving it a go? My one's at home, where I ain't right now. The 'X' generally means 'don't play this string' or 'rest your finger over this string' in tabs...

Of course, if you don't think that's right, don't worry about it, just ignore my ramblings.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:46 pm

jlr1001 · Decorated Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 210

godofchicken · Boot Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 65

Thanks for giving it a go - note that there are thirty lines on each of the cards, giving us five chords each. It's eleven across, which corresponds to the number of frets in an octave on the guitar...

A lot of them are '7' chords, including one reading of (I think) the second one, which goes

dmaj7
A7
c#m7
bm7
e7.

Like I say, worth a try?

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:35 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Looks like you're definitely on to something with the chords.
http://www.guitaralliance.com/images/openchords.gif
Here are the ones I could find.
Still looking for the ones with question marks.

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lergnag · Decorated Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 227

It would rule if this turned out to be a Hendrix song! Although I really don't think any of his had City names, but hey. 'Purple Haze' really wouldn't help us, but it would still be epic.

Also I have no idea how you could convert those into coordinates or anything of the like, but it was a valiant effort none less.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:17 pm

Ambrose Balin · Kilroy Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

This is my first ARG experience. I hope that this isn't just noise but...

Has anyone else noticed that the superposition of all the punch cards looks like a gaussian curve? Almost perfectly.

Without numerical data though, it isn't possible to determine what it might correspond to.

Also, this approach of interpreting the data groups it into a single set. This seems to be a step in the wrong direction since it's already given to us that the four sets should indicate four locations.

Just brainstorming. Smile

and P.S. really impressed by what you guys have figured out so far.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:23 pm