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mapmaker
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 		Best Apartment Evar
A New York Times article describes an apartment that was designed on 5th Avenue: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/garden/12puzzle.html. An excerpt:
The New York Times wrote:
THINGS are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue. At first blush the family that occupies it looks to be very much of a type. The father, Steven B. Klinsky, 52, runs a private equity company; the mother, Maureen Sherry, 44, left her job as a managing director for Bear Stearns to raise their four young children (two boys and two girls); and the dog, LuLu, is a soulful Lab mix rescued from a pound in Louisiana.

They are living in a typical habitat for the sort of New Yorkers they appear to be: an enormous '20s-era co-op with Central Park views (once part of a triplex built for the philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post), gutted to its steel beams and refitted with luxurious flourishes like 16th-century Belgian mantelpieces and custom furniture made from exotic woods with unpronounceable names.

But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino.


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Lunsford
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 		How very creative! Thank you for sharing that with us!!

I wish that someone would have done that for me as a kid...
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Omega
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 		Got this article through the IGDA ARG mailing list, and absolutely loved the idea! I came here to post it for everyone else, in fact, but you beat me to it, mapmaker.

I'm surprised the 11 year-old noticed the Caesarian Shift! I would never have picked up on a cipher at that age. Smart lad.
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danteIL
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 		Wow, JJ really *does* love all things ARG/puzzle, doesn't he?

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207478,00.html

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(FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) — J.J. Abrams will produce a feature adaptation of the recent New York Times article ''Mystery on Fifth Avenue.'' The story is about a fancy, 4,200-square-foot Manhattan apartment that has been outfitted with an elaborate treasure hunt, including secret cabinets and cryptic puzzles embedded in walls and floors. Paramount optioned the newspaper feature; screenwriters Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky are on board to adapt it.


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redct
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 		Imagine the viral for that!

It's an ARG for a movie that's basically a filming of a puzzle trail...

danteIL wrote:
Wow, JJ really *does* love all things ARG/puzzle, doesn't he?

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207478,00.html

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(FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) — J.J. Abrams will produce a feature adaptation of the recent New York Times article ''Mystery on Fifth Avenue.'' The story is about a fancy, 4,200-square-foot Manhattan apartment that has been outfitted with an elaborate treasure hunt, including secret cabinets and cryptic puzzles embedded in walls and floors. Paramount optioned the newspaper feature; screenwriters Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky are on board to adapt it.

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Jas0n
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 		wow - uh.. I don't see it working out, but dunno - lol. I'd love to have the apartment, but a movie about an apartment with weird clues hidden throughout it... he better get a good plot with it - and I would hope it's not another spiderwick type movie
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