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SpiceCowboy
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 		Re: Who's got something?
merelyviral wrote:
Cap'n Slim wrote:
Here's mine.

We are still at Columbus Circle.

It's got five lines that run through it. The A, B, C, D and the 1.



from what I can tell from maps, there are two stations at Columbus Circle, one has the A,B,C,D lines, the other has 1,2 lines. A total of 6 docks split between two stations


It's one... there are multiple platforms -- two for ABCD that cover 4 tracks, and two for the 1 (which serve 2 tracks) uptown and downtown being on opposite sides of the platform -- visible, but accessible only above ground or by going underneath via the ABCD platform.

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Cap'n Slim
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 		UDbmas :)
Step by step... inch by inch. How do we make FOREST HILLS work FORWARD? Can we?

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CatsMeow
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 		Re: Yup.
Cap'n Slim wrote:
adamantium wrote:
i know myself and captain slim both made arguments supporting that this treasure hunt should be able to be solved completely online.. But has anyone actually been to the colombus circle main entrance (by silver globe) subway station? Wondering if it would help


It didn't quite "help", but it made me think it was "The Port" because of the missing 1 train.

So.... thoughts on Forest Hills? The google map trip to Pittsburgh is kinda huge, dontchathink?


Maybe there are multiple places of note in queens (and brooklyn even, if they do, in fact, split up) that could be different stops on the path..

Trace the steps..

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SoloJoe
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 		How did you calculate ports for Dekalb and West 4th?
Projectyl wrote:
I thiiink (with a bit of a stretch) I can see how to view the subway in such a way as to make the four/five docks thing true and reveal the identity of the Port of Cortland.

I'm a non-local, but from what I can tell from Wikipedia's lists, with very specific definitions what Mulligan says is eerily true. Define "port" as "station on a line" and "dock" as "numbered or lettered service" - so for example, Columbus Circle has two "ports", the IND one with the A, B, C, and D "docks" and the IRT one with the 1 and 2 "docks".

Now if you check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subway_stations, and click through to the four individual borough lists, there's many docks with four ports, but only two with more. One is Manhattan's West Fourth Street – Washington Square, with seven ports on multiple levels, and the other is Brooklyn's DeKalb Avenue, which has five ports, but as one only runs during the day two others only run at night, you can't see all five at the same time.

The splitting of stations into multiple "docks" is weird, and I don't know if physical reality reflects that split, but it seemed like a good enough fit to share. Why they'd call DeKalb "the port of Cortland" is another question I haven't resolved.

So if there's four in the crew, and one of the Columbus Circle "ports" has four "docks"... that suggests a natural way to split them, albeit a way that disregards the colors used. (But maybe that's intended? That there pitcher of Crothers's fine blue hat did be in black 'n white, after all...)



Just curious what are the "ports" according to your equation for both of these stops. I'm not sure I follow the extension of your logic, but I'd like to.

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Cap'n Slim
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 		Forest Hills? Subway? Anyone?
Who can make it click to the next step?

I'm not trying to ring-lead, but I think it helps to keep focused.

We've ALL been at this for weeks. Throwing out ideas, bouncing from episode to episode, leaving HUGE clues behind.... let's SOLVE something tonight. Together.

We can all race to the finish line later, but I, for one, am tired of walking around at work and home with all this nonsense and scatter running through my head.

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DPNJ12
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 		kinda a large leap
so saying that we have 2 viable stops here, and each one is on the same line, we could say that one set of pirates are at one and the other set is at the other?
This would line up with our episode 6 (it would mean ep 4 and 5 still need to be figured out)

I dont want to be fitting clues to the path, but IFF these stations work (im beginning to think they do) then it seems like a reasonable sanity check

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david718
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 		Port of Courtland
I don't know if it's a confirmation, but it has always been high on my list...I have also mentioned before that the tallest of the three observatories in Flushing Meadow Park is 250 feet.

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DPNJ12
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 		hold on a sec...
I think its waaay too early to use the 250 feet clue. We are trying to establish a path with the clues given, not jump around

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Cap'n Slim
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 		What comes after the "Port of Courtland" reference?
I mean.... I'm kinda pissed that the puppeteers would bring us to QUEENS on a line that doesn't really GO DIRECTLY to Queens.... but whatever.

They take us from Balto to Columbus Circle? Why not to the lower SOUTHEAST corner of Central Park? 5th Ave. and 59th? or even Seventh???

Getting to Queens from Columbus Circle requires a switch. Do they EVER represent that you switch? Clue? Hint?

Or is that it? Give a destination and just get there?

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david718
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 		The Captian
I thought the captian was on the 7 line because he said that Lady luck (lucky 7) reached the end of the line (Flushing Queens) The Captain's Poker hand was flushing, plus he said he hated queens...

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Cap'n Slim
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 		Okay.
"I'm up to my neck in turds"

If you were "up to your neck in turds"... would you be "flushing"????

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Projectyl
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 		SoloJoe: For DeKalb, it'd be B, D, N, Q, and R. R is the day-only service, and D and N are the night-only ones. I'm not saying we'd actually go there; I'm saying (and this is speculation) that they're defining a system and using DeKalb as an example. The seven-dock port is shakier; I think the station is split up between two levels, with no more than four docks per level, which would make it a non-exception, but I'm not sure. The four borough lists linked from that Wikipedia article are what I'm going by; the split is their invention.

Re: Forest Hills, PA: I'm not so sure I buy it. I think the ability to take a PM's word for it when he says "this is not a clue" is pretty central to this sort of game, and they say that about as explicitly as possible about the entirety of the news crawl. I'd be pretty disappointed if any of it, from the Arthurian legends to the Pennsylvania runaround to the homages, served as an intentional clue. (Indirectly, that'd rule out Admiral Nelson, the "one-eyed sailor man", as an irrelevant homage, which kind of kills everything Spaniard's said about Belvedere Castle for the past couple of weeks. And really, the gorilla in the cabin shouldn't indicate an obvious-but-unmentioned thing, or a zoo, or anything like that. They just had a gorilla puppet, and like they say, why not use a gorilla puppet if you have a gorilla puppet?)

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Cap'n Slim
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 		Re: UDbmas :)
UDbmas wrote:
Cap'n Slim wrote:
Step by step... inch by inch. How do we make FOREST HILLS work FORWARD? Can we?

Sorry. I'll wait outside.


Stop Wink You know what I mean. We've been BLASTED by talk of BINARY CODE, and HIDDEN BRAILLE and other nonsense. It's time we banded and solved. Don't wait outside. Jump in.

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Cap'n Slim
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 		They didn't say that.
The PM's didn't say that it wasn;t a clue.

They merely said "you MISSED the clues" in the video

The ticker is most definitely chock full of clues. The fact that the mall says "SUBWAY" is evident.

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