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beat me to the punch nighthawk...

yeah, that wasn't the first file that was attached (at least not the one posted here to the forum, which was the one assumedly referred to as incorrect in the recent email).

Symbol hunting! yay

**Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:46 pm

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It's not a symbol font; it looks like upper ASCII.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:14 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:34 pm

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Could it be the international phonetic alphabet? I'm looking, but most of the characters have some modification if that's the case. The majuscule U with the circumflex (second character in the first image) isn't used to represent sounds in English from what I can tell.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:48 pm

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I thought the characters looked like something out of the Greek alphabet, but they don't seem to correspond completely... maybe it's partly the Greek alphabet and partly something else?

**Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:55 pm

posse

Don't know if I'm on the right track or not, but wanted to find out what the characters were as labeled in Unicode. Had to reference a Unicode chart for the symbols, please let me know if I messed up a character or two.

From Nighthawk's image post, each character (from left to right):

Image 24
1. U+0462 = Cyrillic capital letter yat
2. U+00db = Latin capital letter U w/circumflex
3. U+03f1 = Greek rho symbol

Image 28
1. U+01b1 = Latin capital letter upsilon
2. U+015e = Latin capital letter S w/cedilla
3. U+019b = Latin small letter lamba w/stroke

Image 32
1. U+038c = Greek capital letter omicron w/tonos
2. U+00db = Latin capital letter U w/circumflex
3. U+03b1 = Greek small letter alpha
4. U+01a0 = Latin capital letter O w/horn
5. U+0187 = Latin capital letter C w/hook
6. U+038c = Greek capital letter omicron w/tonos
7. U+0388 = Greek capital letter episolon w/tonos
8. U+002e = period (aka "full stop")

Image 36
1. U+00db = Latin capital letter U w/circumflex
2. U+00ca = Latin capital letter E w/circumflex
3. U+019b = Latin small letter lambda w/stroke
4. U+0462 = Cyrillic capital letter yat
5. U+002e = period/full stop

I don't know if this helps or not.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:57 pm

amandel

THX to Posse for explaining the letters. Last nite was seeing not only some Greek cursives but also that Cyrillic letter "yat".

Yat is called a vanishing vowel by etamologists as its sound is no longer used in any Slavic language. So remain puzzled how these letters, even used phonetically, can form words or even acronyms 'tho the two "periods" would indicate a msg Dunno

Am finding this thread super interesting and fun so many thanks for all the posts and those attachments.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:54 am

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Just read up on this one, looks interesting, so definitely keeping my eye on it!

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 4:34 pm

comadarkvale

so far we have recieved just 3 emails correct?

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:20 pm

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Ohh oh I like the look of this one! Can I play too? Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:03 pm

Maven

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 7:03 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:32 pm

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Image 28 kind of looks like it says USA.
Do you think it's too late to send an email? I would like to play this one.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:23 pm

comadarkvale

**Posted:** Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:24 pm

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I've been chatting with ninjaPhilanthropist and we may have cracked the code. Over in the Page 129 thread, ninja has been chatting with Chell who has been using her MOM (supercomputer?) to crack the code. Sounds weird I know. Chell thinks she's got word 1 and 2, and ninja got word 4, and through their work I think I got word 3.

We seem to think the message is:

**Posted:** Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:16 pm