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[SOLVED] Next Puzzle: Flynn Lives Postcards
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krakmunky69
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Re: Red bar code on postcard
Clue, or USPS mail sorting?

mullet wrote:

WolfinPDX wrote:

mullet wrote:

has anyone else noticed the red bar codes on the front image? I have mine and my friend's (Vice Squad and Kraz Bot) and I noticed it on both of them.

Way to take a closer look for clues! Have you tried scanning it with a bar code reader?

I might be wrong, but the red bar code -might- just be printed on all mail as part of the way the USPS electro-mechanically sorts mail. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks!

I'm looking for various code scanners for my wife's iphone, though it's slow going. If I come up with anything I'll make notice of it Very Happy

it's not a barcode, i promise

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:59 pm

MOVIELORD101
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Re: Red bar code on postcard
Clue, or USPS mail sorting?

krakmunky69 wrote:

mullet wrote:

WolfinPDX wrote:

mullet wrote:

has anyone else noticed the red bar codes on the front image? I have mine and my friend's (Vice Squad and Kraz Bot) and I noticed it on both of them.

I'm looking for various code scanners for my wife's iphone, though it's slow going. If I come up with anything I'll make notice of it Very Happy

it's not a barcode, i promise

Then what is it? Confused

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:59 pm

WolfinPDX
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Re: Red bar code on postcard
Clue, or USPS mail sorting?

krakmunky69 wrote:

WolfinPDX wrote:

mullet wrote:

has anyone else noticed the red bar codes on the front image? I have mine and my friend's (Vice Squad and Kraz Bot) and I noticed it on both of them.

i thought that too at first but there is a mail barcode printed on the other side already

OK, cool, thanks for checking. Very Happy

Our mail carrier just finished up with our box, I'm about to go check and see if I got a postcard as well. Pretty stoked!

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:01 pm

WolfinPDX
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Re: Red bar code on postcard
Clue, or USPS mail sorting?

mullet wrote:

WolfinPDX wrote:

mullet wrote:

has anyone else noticed the red bar codes on the front image? I have mine and my friend's (Vice Squad and Kraz Bot) and I noticed it on both of them.

I'm looking for various code scanners for my wife's iphone, though it's slow going. If I come up with anything I'll make notice of it Very Happy

Nice! Good luck! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:02 pm

WolfinPDX
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Re: Red bar code on postcard
Clue, or USPS mail sorting?

MOVIELORD101 wrote:

krakmunky69 wrote:

mullet wrote:

WolfinPDX wrote:

mullet wrote:

has anyone else noticed the red bar codes on the front image? I have mine and my friend's (Vice Squad and Kraz Bot) and I noticed it on both of them.

I'm looking for various code scanners for my wife's iphone, though it's slow going. If I come up with anything I'll make notice of it Very Happy

it's not a barcode, i promise

Then what is it? Confused

Inquiring minds ... (I want to know too!)

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:03 pm

krakmunky69
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Re: Red bar code on postcard
Clue, or USPS mail sorting?

WolfinPDX wrote:

MOVIELORD101 wrote:

krakmunky69 wrote:

mullet wrote:

WolfinPDX wrote:

mullet wrote:

has anyone else noticed the red bar codes on the front image? I have mine and my friend's (Vice Squad and Kraz Bot) and I noticed it on both of them.

I'm looking for various code scanners for my wife's iphone, though it's slow going. If I come up with anything I'll make notice of it Very Happy

it's not a barcode, i promise

Then what is it? Confused

Inquiring minds ... (I want to know too!)

well it may be some sort of barcode for the post office (i dont think so though there is one on the back and this is a different style) but if so then it would be a very specialised one, it's very long and loosely spaced, on the black postcards it's almost invisible as well.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:12 pm

booba
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Posts: 1433

Looking at madopal's numbers:

6x105 = 630 squares
95 filled in the first 4 cards of 12 (very little over lapping)
if the next 8 cards fill in 190 more
that will be 285 of 630 filled.
Might look more like a ~~dot~~ data matrix than letters or numbers. Sad

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:14 pm
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MOVIELORD101
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booba wrote:

We'll see about that! Cool

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:16 pm

WolfinPDX
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Re: Red bar code on postcard
Clue, or USPS mail sorting?

WolfinPDX wrote:

Our mail carrier just finished up with our box, I'm about to go check and see if I got a postcard as well. Pretty stoked!

No postcard today. Sad

Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:17 pm

MOVIELORD101
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Re: Red bar code on postcard
Clue, or USPS mail sorting?

WolfinPDX wrote:

Our mail carrier just finished up with our box, I'm about to go check and see if I got a postcard as well. Pretty stoked!

No postcard today. Sad

Oh well, maybe tomorrow.

Same here... Laughing

Frak's SAKE, someone throw us a bone!

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:21 pm

WolfinPDX
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Clue to the order of the postcards
(if there is an order)

I'm looking at the images of the postcards again, and I noticed the dates of the game releases are on some of them, but not all of them. Could that be a clue (assuming they aren't overlayed; I'm not convinced they are yet) to some kind of order to put them in to find a message?

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:30 pm

WolfinPDX
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Something else the boxes remind me of ...

... are of rows of DIP switches, like on the back of an external analog modem.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:35 pm

WolfinPDX
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Frequency count?
Has anyone done one?

Has anyone done a frequency count on their postcard? Like how many times a square appears in a certain position on the strip. Say x (up and down) and y (over the length of the strip)?

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:38 pm

MOVIELORD101
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Re: Clue to the order of the postcards
(if there is an order)

WolfinPDX wrote:

Judging from this idea, I'd say ViceSquad should be first, then KrazBot, then either AstroGunner or ArcWars.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:40 pm

WolfinPDX
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Posts: 62
Location: PDX

"Now playing at your local arcade"
Can't get that phrase out of my head ...

... and now I'm curious.

Does anyone who has received a postcard have an arcade nearby? If so, care to stop by and see if any new games have arrived?

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:42 pm

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