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punxtr
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 		That says "-&--310" barring any spaces. Can't make much of that though.

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deshelbr
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 		310 is Los Angeles/West LA/Santa Monica Area Code. I think Bad Robot is in Santa Monica.

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 		is it binary? I mean not being able to see all 80 rows, maybe we go back to basics?
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 		i don't see a realistic way to convert the blocks into binary.

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multipsychoapopheniosis
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glyph wrote:
i don't see a realistic way to convert the blocks into binary.

Well you could flip it, then at least it's 8bit. Trouble is you get nonsense out. Punchcard logic is sound and pretty smart - Probably the way forward. Can join the growing list of clues we don't know what to do with Confused

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 		I'm sure we'll get more pieces with future clues.

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 		ok, so I downloaded HyperTerminal for Windows (windows 7 does not come with terminal software, who knew?) and attempted to connect to 866.222.8218, but with basic default settings could not connect.

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 		it seems to me this ARG has not been thought out and they are building the game as they go, giving clues that as yet do not lead anywhere.
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slinkydge wrote:
it seems to me this ARG has not been thought out and they are building the game as they go, giving clues that as yet do not lead anywhere.


Kind of like Lost........ Razz

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 		just for kicks I called 310.222.8218 and got a disconnected message.

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slinkydge wrote:
it seems to me this ARG has not been thought out and they are building the game as they go, giving clues that as yet do not lead anywhere.


I think the word is misdirection - And we know JJ is really just a frustrated magician forced into a highly successful directorial/writers role. Bear with him, a few issues to work through clearly Wink

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multipsychoapopheniosis wrote:
slinkydge wrote:
it seems to me this ARG has not been thought out and they are building the game as they go, giving clues that as yet do not lead anywhere.


I think the word is misdirection - And we know JJ is really just a frustrated magician forced into a highly successful directorial/writers role. Bear with him, a few issues to work through clearly Wink


Ha! I just published an article on SUPER 8 and the potential misdirection of the RP viral concept. That J.J. is a crafty devil, to be sure! Smile

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multipsychoapopheniosis
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 		Reconsidering the code
eolith wrote:
i don't see a realistic way to convert the blocks into binary.


So I've been looking again at the punch-cards. Though I think the first message is encouraging, the presence of nonsense gaps is suspicious. It may be this is yet more misdirection but I thought I'd have another play as nothing better is going on.

So breaking it down. We have 6x21 blocks of code (plus a smaller central row which I was assuming was closer to sprocket holes/null row for the purposes of reading these). Looking around, there aren't masses of ways to represent 6 bit characters. One tape-reader that did was the LPG 21. I've included one example but it also gives nonsense gaps in places so gave up on that. Also the International Telegraph Code-3 was 6 bit, but I've been unable to find a copy of it.

So I've converted the messages to 6bit binary, going from bottom to top and top to bottom since we don't actually know which direction to read them as. I've converted that to decimal and read off the corresponding characters as base 64 ASCII.

    Message 1:

    Binary (bottom to top) Dec LPG21.............Base64...................Punch-Code(12hole)
    1 ) 000000...................0..[START]............A
    2 ) 000000...................0..[START]............A
    3 ) 100001...................33..[space]...........h
    4 ) 001001...................9..4...................j
    5 ) 100010...................34..B...................i
    6 ) 100010...................34..B...................i
    7 ) 000000...................0..[START]...........A
    8 ) 000100...................4..[return]...........E
    9) 100001...................33..[space]...........h
    10 ) 100010...................34..B..................i
    11 ) 001001...................9..4....................j
    12 ) 010100...................20..?..................U
    13 ) 010100...................20..?..................U
    14 ) 000001...................1..0...................B
    15 ) 001001...................9..4...................j
    16 ) 001001...................9..4...................j
    17 ) 001001...................9..4...................j
    18 ) 100100...................36..Y...................k
    19 ) 010001...................17..8...................r
    20 ) 001000...................8..[return]............I
    21 ) 100100...................36..Y...................k

    Or
    Binary (top to bottom)
    1 ) 000000...................0..[START].............A...................[space]
    2 ) 000000...................0..[START].............A...................[space]
    3 ) 100001...................33..[space].............h...................C
    4 ) 100100...................36..Y.....................k...................A
    5 ) 010001...................17..8.....................r...................L
    6 ) 010001...................17..8 ....................r...................L
    7 ) 000000...................0..[START].............A...................[space]
    8 ) 001000...................8..[return]..............I...................-
    9 ) 100001...................33..[space].............h...................C
    10 ) 010001...................17..8......................r....................L
    11 ) 100100...................36..Y......................k...................A
    12 ) 001010...................10..[back]..............K...................S
    13 ) 001010...................10..[back].............,K...................S
    14 ) 100000...................32..Z.....................g...................&
    15 ) 100100...................36..Y.....................k...................A
    16 ) 100100...................36..Y.....................k...................A
    17 ) 100100...................36..Y.....................k...................A
    18 ) 001001...................9..4......................J...................T
    19 ) 100010...................3..4......................B...................2
    20 ) 000100...................4..[upper].............E...................1
    21 ) 001001...................9..4......................J...................T

    Message 2:
    Binary (bottom to top).Dec...................Base64.....Punch-Code(12hole)
    1 ) 000000...................0 ...................A...................-
    2 ) 100101...................37...................l...................-
    3 ) 001000...................8 ...................I....................-
    4 ) 000001...................1 ...................B...................-
    5 ) 000100...................4 ...................E...................-
    6 ) 000010...................2 ...................C...................-
    7 ) 010001...................17...................R...................-
    8 ) 110001...................49...................x...................-
    9 ) 000000...................0 ...................A...................-
    10 ) 000000...................0 ...................A...................-
    11 ) 000010...................2 ...................C...................-
    12 ) 101000...................40...................o...................-
    13 ) 100011...................35...................j...................-
    14 ) 010000...................16...................Q...................-
    15 ) 000111...................7 ...................H...................-
    16 ) 010110...................22...................W..................-
    17 ) 000001...................1...................B...................-
    18 ) 100001...................33...................h...................-
    19 ) 000000...................0 ...................A...................-
    20 ) 001000...................8 ...................I...................-
    21 ) 000100...................4 ...................E...................-

    Binary (top to bottom)
    1 ) 000000...................0 ...................A...................[space]
    2 ) 101001...................41...................p...................c
    3 ) 000100...................4 ...................E...................1
    4 ) 100000...................32...................g...................&
    5 ) 001000...................8 ...................I...................0
    6 ) 010000...................16...................Q...................-
    7 ) 100010...................34...................i...................B
    8 ) 100011...................35...................j...................?
    9 ) 000000...................0 ...................A...................[space]
    10 ) 000000...................0 ...................A...................[space]
    11 ) 010000...................16...................Q...................-
    12 ) 000101...................5 ...................F...................?
    13 ) 110001...................49...................x...................?
    14 ) 000010...................2 ...................C...................2
    15 ) 111000...................56...................4...................?
    16 ) 011010...................26...................a...................s
    17 ) 100000...................32...................g...................&
    18 ) 100001...................33...................h...................c
    19 ) 000000...................0 ...................A...................[space]
    20 ) 000100...................4 ...................E...................1
    21 ) 001000...................8 ...................I...................0

The upshot - Well clearly not very helpful. But it has got me wondering whether we can convert the dec values to a more meaningful alphanumeric code. A simple Ceaser translation won't work as the difference between the smallest and largest is 55. Equally we have prime numbers which excludes a few other ciphers. We have got 21 characters which is the 8th fib. No and Josh's most recent post was 112, again the first 3. That plus phi audio are massive clues that's the way we should potentially be thinking, but how exactly is the question. The presence of 3 identical characters either indicates a number, acronym or possibly a shifting cipher as there aren't any words with triplicates in them.

Thoughts?

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Kraten
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 		Lots of work
Wow.. Great work
I Still feel strongly the CALL CLASS&AAAT21T still is a Phone Number 2228218 and Class will some how reveal it self as an area code

Look at all the work we have put into this NOTHING at all Even Come close to anything but Gibberish yet We have with one translation on Our Form only w/ 2 Clear Words and & with another grouping that easily tranlastes to a (most likley Cell 222) # with 7 digits. When Class is understood I belive we Will have a number to call

Sorry I went off on a Rant Here.... (no I am not) Smile Just Feeling Stuck I realize we have a long game ahead But at this point we have lots of dead ends going in diffrent directions alot of them we have no clue what they mean. Great Game .... Bang Head Cursing

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Can they be coordinates? GPS, lat/long?

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