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jrc
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Re: last frames

UDbmas wrote:

I will freely admit to being directionally challenged...

UDbmas wrote:

Should we make anything of Crothers being upside down? (or has that been covered and I missed it Coffee

)

I have no idea what you mean. Crothers is never upside down! Nope, there he is, through the whole episode, right side up. You must be seeing things. Very Happy

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:37 pm

Morse
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is there a code in the jagged cuts on the letters/numbers?
particularly where a different number appears

Has anyone considered the jagged cuts on the letters. Am I right that they are identical for identical words and letters? Assuming that is true, there still is a question whether there is variation given the different numbers used.

And so my question is: Might information be encoded in a "1" / "2" type code? Or for example Morse code where, for example, one notch is dot and two notches constitutes a dash.

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"Not that knowing this helps any."

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:41 pm

SpyGuySailor
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28 furlongs
widths?

28 furlongs, 15,780 feet aproximately. I wonder if it is the perimeter of ellis island? I have not seen todays vif yet, just thought I would throw that out.

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:30 pm

bronxgirl
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IsCrother's speaking Japanese??

In the beginning of episode 4 I believe Crother's is speaking Japanese backwards, can anyone look into that and decode the message?

I would appreciate it!

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:37 pm

Magic8ball
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Re: IsCrother's speaking Japanese??

bronxgirl wrote:

In the beginning of episode 4 I believe Crother's is speaking Japanese backwards, can anyone look into that and decode the message?

I would appreciate it!

he says "seek and ye shall find, search is your friend"

Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:58 pm

jrc
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Re: IsCrother's speaking Japanese??

bronxgirl wrote:

In the beginning of episode 4 I believe Crother's is speaking Japanese backwards, can anyone look into that and decode the message?

Uh... You mean Tom?
A) Crothers is not on in the beginning, unless you consider the whole thing backward...
B) The sound has been reversed for your listening pleasure, linked on the transcripts thread.
C) It is English, backwards, that Tom is speaking.
D) Look back a page in this thread for discussion of it.

In some other episodes, some of Tom's speech sounds like English (forwards), particularly when there is a lot else going on. I have just heard a few words that sounded kind of like the general theme of things in the scene. But my ears are unreliable. Has anyone else noticed this?

While Tom did not seem to be speaking English backwards mostly, maybe there are some cases?

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:03 am

jrc
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Re: is there a code in the jagged cuts on the letters/numbers?
particularly where a different number appears

Morse wrote:

I was thinking about that too. The notches in the word CLUE and the digit 4 are the same each time they appear. I haven't come up with any meaning from it yet.

Oh, and the digit 2 is the same in the two places it appears.

Also, the E and the U look the same in the opening title and in the CLUE appearances.

The letters in the WELOSTOURGOLD.COM at the end are a little too low resolution for me to be sure, but it looks like the E, L, and U are the same, and maybe the C is different.

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:10 am

SpyGuySailor
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Re: IsCrother's speaking Japanese??
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jrc wrote:

bronxgirl wrote:

In the beginning of episode 4 I believe Crother's is speaking Japanese backwards, can anyone look into that and decode the message?

My hearing is not what it used to be either,but I agree with you that it may have occured before. I noticed that it was backwards as soon as I heard it. I thank those that posted info on this, you saved me a hassle for sure, I am running on dial-up.
(new subject)
I am currious about something here in relation to Russel Crow.Since I have not seen the movie Master and Commander, but defenitely think that the diamonds are a very important clue on the merchant flag relating to his flag, I wonder if anyone knows what the flag looked like. I have been following the Lehigh Railroad leads since early on and think that the Lehigh Valley flag and its diamond may add to the cluster of clues. The old name of the railroad even sounds like 'skull'.
Does anyone know where I would find a FLAG CODE key...a naval code key maybe? one that can decipher an arrangement of flags to figure out what they say?

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:14 am

czg22
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Counting Clues, Reversing our path, 8

I've been thinking/dreaming about this episode. Does it mean that we've got to number all our other clues, find clue #28, and reverse the path? Also are they being symmetrical with their clues? I feel like a big Clue 44 was missing at the end which means they'll give us 88 clues by the time we're done. I know octagonal houses was mentioned before so for the record chess and checkers was octagonal.

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:34 am

The Spaniard
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Master and Commander
the flag definitely had one diamond on it; and I think it was the same colors

SpyGuy Sailor asks about the flag raised by "Surprise" in MASTER AND COMMANDER. I am 100% that it was a single diamond and positioned similarly (horizontally) as in the pirate video. I am less confident that the colors were the same but I think so. I think I recall yellow on green. But I came away thinking it was definitely corroborative of the suggestion that it pointed to MERCHANTS GATE and I liked the idea about the baseball diamonds (though was not confident). I have never been successful at grabbing screen images from a DVD and have now returned the DVD to the libary.

I would add that the boy with the red coat whose arm was amputated was put in command of the ship upon the encounter with the enemy -- that proved successful due to the "Surprise" being disguised as a merchant whaling ship (complete with a different name painted on the bow).

Finally, in case it later proves relevant, I would note that the other enemy ship is called ACHERON. Also, upon setting the new course, what they did was turn around (they were chasing after the ACHERON even though it was a superior ship). That is why after FellowTraveler got us to Columbus Circle I headed back into the park rather than get on the train (see HARDY BOYS) -- and I was headed toward the Met where the Mount Rushmore sculptor did the MARES OF DIOMEDES, the first sculpture bought by the met. I thought the puppeteers might be drawing a ship -- analogous to the ship model of the ACHERON that guided the Captain's thinking. The learning was that it was vulnerable in the rear of the ship -- between wind and water. I believe the portion that is exposed as it rises from the water.

But then I also was thinking of the plot element where a second false crow's nest was deployed. They set up a crow's nest in a small boat and launched it in the dark. Lit by a lamp by a young lad sent on the mission who climbed the Crow's Nest, the ACHERON mistook the small boat and light in the Crow's Nest for the real one ("Surprise").

And I have been looking for a key with a number on it rather than a chest -- with the key "buried underground" only in the sense of being in an underground vault or storage locker. See "Over The Rainbow", Season 2 of MOONLIGHTING (clued by MADDIE HAYES). So if at the end of the trail, if your travels in the subway got you to a location with storage lockers, I would view it was hugely important. Where are there underground storage lockers in New York City post-911?

Returning to Central Park, this decoy plot element made me intrigued that as the fireball passes the Crow's Nest, it looks exactly like the Gothic Bridge major features (down below). Note that Bridge and the other iron bridges around the reservoir use gothic architecture (French Style). There is an 8-digit number that appears prominently under the Gothic Bridge:

2246420

Are all bridges identified by such a number? If so, is there a map?

Finally, for the hexapus, check out the detail (it looks like an octopus to me) on the top. That appears on one other iron bridge in the reservoir area. Watch out for the octopus! Also note that if you interpret the things you tie a rope to as a dock, there are four docks you can see. (Two poles at start of bridge). The friend did not see a fifth hidden in the brush but she wasn't looking for one at the time.

rocketdocketSPLATrocketmail.com

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:39 am

mlssry
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Has anyone counted the clues from all episodes? I count (edit) 67 in episodes 1-4...? I'm not sure about counting some thing's as clues though?

edit to add: 67 does not include the colored backgounds, the flag, finger trap, octopus etc...
I also wanted to add that I think there are two sets of clues, one set are directions to somewhere and the 2nd set are clues about that place.

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:36 am

UDbmas
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:05 am
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:12 am
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mlssry
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Re: last frames

UDbmas wrote:

jrc wrote:

UDbmas wrote:

I will freely admit to being directionally challenged...

UDbmas wrote:

Should we make anything of Crothers being upside down? (or has that been covered and I missed it Coffee

)

I have no idea what you mean. Crothers is never upside down! Nope, there he is, through the whole episode, right side up. You must be seeing things. Very Happy

Oh my...and I wasn't even drinking when I watched it! Guess I need to get a new perspective?

I thought this was a hint for us to look at it upside down, so I did, but I didn't see anything Sad

Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:18 am

UDbmas
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Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:19 am
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