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Pierre Moineau
Boot

Joined: 28 Sep 2010
Posts: 12

TUTTY
Where is tutty?

Tutty can be the BLUE E line. It small just like him.
It has 3 RED lines crossing through it, (but A & C were already taken by other characters).
if you look at map of NY (not subway but a real street map) right at this crossing is an intersection with 6 exits.
Turn it so the 3 red lines are horizontal. if Tutty is the BLUE E line then his body should be the blue line which is Greenwich ave, this is his head and tail. the main throughfare is 7th Ave and this corresponds with his peg arm and peg leg. W 11th is is normal arm and leg.

The captain passes right through here on his search for Tutty.

This is my TUTTY.

I dont suggest you jackhammer his chest, but look in that park between his head and arm.

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Brooklyn,+NY,+USA&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=40.257673,86.220703&ie=UTF8&cd=1&hq=&hnear=Brooklyn,+Kings,+New+York,+United+States&ll=40.73682,-74.000854&spn=0.002093,0.005262&t=h&z=18&lci=transit_comp

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:55 am

Spaniard
Veteran

Joined: 25 Sep 2010
Posts: 109

Mario and FaFa
rock

Mario and FaFa sing "Hold Me Now"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--rWZTfWRkE&a=GxdCwVVULXfkzNgdjUxZJ8uFDWMadpQw&list=ML&playnext=1

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:26 am

Spaniard
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Joined: 25 Sep 2010
Posts: 109

Mario and Fafa
life story

The debut single off The Polyphonic Spree's album is an inspirational song for troubled times. Glove and Boots won a challenge for independent filmmakers to create a video that would ultimately represent the song.

Mario and Fafa the Groundhog began performing on the New York City subways in the summer of 2004. Discouraged by the pressures of street performance, the team packed their bags and moved to a new home on the Internet.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:55 am

gttx
Boot

Joined: 06 Sep 2010
Posts: 17

Re: TUTTY
Where is tutty?

Pierre Moineau wrote:

Your approach to this hunt is quite unique - and you have given us a lot to think about, certainly. Thanks for the hard work.

My one concern with this solution (and others that try to fit every detail into some sort of story) is that it leaves the puzzle-makers almost no freedom in how they tell the story. If every hilarious outburst the Captain makes, for example, has to be a clue to their path/destination, it becomes very difficult to actually write a script. While I'm sure they chose words and phrases very carefully, there had to be some flexibility - and plenty of room left over after the clues to show off their talents as puppeteers, artists, writers, producers, etc.

That said, maybe we are trying to hard. If you remember the first 2 videos, there were plenty of things said or done that had no bearing on what most agree is the correct path. Why are we then nit-picking everything in the other videos?

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:00 pm

UDbmas
Unfettered

Joined: 04 Aug 2010
Posts: 365

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 12:19 pm
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Pierre Moineau
Boot

Joined: 28 Sep 2010
Posts: 12

Overabundance of clues
Dig baby, dig!

I agree the complexity of these puzzles can be astounding, but certainly not unique. Its a common procedure for this type of game.
1 easy layer of clues, which create the second layer, which in turn makes the third layer.

Layer 1:the chase.Creates the bird.
Layer 2:the bird leads you to the first meta puzzle. the characters as Subway lines.
Layer 3:By using the clues/what you did in the previous layer you must use more lateral thinking for the final puzzle. In this case you were shown a comparison between Crothers Bird and Tutty. And now know to find tutty the same way you shown Crothers Bird.

1.GOOSE. 2.CROTHERS-BIRD.3.TUTTY.

Almost all point n'click puzzles games follow this exact same pattern. Which is why i knew what to look for.

>>>>That said, maybe we are trying to hard. If you remember the first 2 videos, there were plenty of things said or done that had no bearing on what most agree is the correct path. Why are we then nit-picking everything in the other videos?

Dont be so sure that there are any useless parts in the clips. The chinese finger trap that caugh Mulligan, and was cut by Black Tom. Seemd pointless at first, but now is a clue telling you which lines Mulligan and Black Tom are.Mulligan is a Line which gets tangled in the Green/Yelloe/Blue lines in Chinatown. Black Toms Line(RED 2 or 3) CUTS through a GREEN/YELLOW/BLUE line in Chinatown.

In episode IV Black Tom, Crothers appears in 3 of the clues. Its saying 14 st on the Crothers Line(BLUE C).

By the way im not jsut taking a stab in the dark this time, it really is "buried" in the park at Greenwich/7th Ave.
But i think there will be an electronic door requiring the codeword HAPPY(numerical or phone keypad equivalent) to enter the chest spot. This should tell the creators exactly when the chest is found.

Why dont you just go there to amuse me, it really cant hurt. Its not like im sending you to one of New Yorks worst neighbourhoods.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:31 pm

UDbmas
Unfettered

Joined: 04 Aug 2010
Posts: 365

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:55 pm
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Pierre Moineau
Boot

Joined: 28 Sep 2010
Posts: 12

Blue Stop
not neede

It doesnt need to have a stop, Tutty is the entire line NOT the station. X marks the spot.

As Mario would say "Were on the right track!" He was. It was a huge clue, that was unuseable at the time. But we needed the red line for pinpointing.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:03 pm

srk
Guest

The park at 7th and Greenwich isn't a park, it's mostly cement with a few trees in planters. No room for any sort of electronic door, and police constantly patrol it for homeless people-- which would make it hard to bury a chest without noticing.

I would start looking at Manhattan Mini-Storage locations......

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:45 pm

Pierre Moineau
Boot

Joined: 28 Sep 2010
Posts: 12

Its not an amateur production
asdf

I hope people arnt still thinking this is 2 guys in their garage setting this up. Its a major organisation. Else it would have been shut down immediately upon annoucement of digging parks up in NYC. Its probably sponsored by the relevant NYC tourism board. They have full permission to set th chest up, and the relevant authorities will be fully aware of what has been done.

I challenge anyone to go to MSNBC tell them you buried $10000 in NYC, refuse to show proof. And then insist you will only do the interview to a live national audience, as MUPPETS!!!!

I bet they will say YES everytime!!!

The cost of this game is in the hundreds of thousands, the prize the graphics, at least 1 years work of production crew. Manga artists, comic artists, musicians, puppeteers, puppet makers, script writers, voice actors, puzzle designers. testers.

It aint a two-bit operation.

Its also unlikely to be "Buried", possibly just has that yellow foam piled on top, that was in the end of the finale..

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:59 pm

UDbmas
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Joined: 04 Aug 2010
Posts: 365

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:14 pm
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UDbmas
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:21 pm
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Pierre Moineau
Boot

Joined: 28 Sep 2010
Posts: 12

Creators
asdf

My theory is its one of those "Tell us your dream idea, if we like it, we'll give you the cash!!" promotions and some puppeteers put this together. But they had funding from a major benefactor. I still reckon Google.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:26 pm

BornTalent
Greenhorn

Joined: 24 Aug 2010
Posts: 8
Location: (914) NY

Re: Its not an amateur production
asdf

UDbmas wrote:

Pierre Moineau wrote:

I am 100% agreed with you there. I am pretty sure the parks dept and the landmarks commission are fully aware. Maybe they are the the source of the money. It certainly isn't a bad marketing idea to get folks learning about NYC history and the importance of landmarks in an era of smash & pave-it development, and the over-use of "eminent domain" to grab land.

My one and only post before going back into the bat cave....
Not a chance. If this was sponsored by the city or anyone else, it would require "rules and regulations" to be on the front page of the site. Explicit DETAILED rules and regulations. These "official" treausre hunts require so much detailed rules, its not even funny.
I will stay on the end of "these are 2 puppeteers running this by themselves, with maybe some backing by a small production company". I would HIGHLY doubt any NYC involvement.

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:28 pm

sickshot
Guest

Totty
disappear

Sorry if this was asked before, but any thoughts as to why the picture of Totty disappears from the table in the Final Episode just as the Captain says "...Totty were the treasure I were truly missin..."

Alternate cuts that they decided to use together? Were we originally meant to only get one of those thoughts or the other (the other being that "...that treasure was with us the whole...")?

Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:30 pm

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