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Taladan · Boot Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Valdosta, GA

Puzzling

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:55 am

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Re: Puzzling

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:21 am

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Re: Puzzling

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:30 am

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Taladan · Boot Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Valdosta, GA

cat's eye

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:43 pm

MageSteff

Cyng and husband saw the word "happy" in the eye on the right - look near the bottom of the eye. All I can see is a letter that could be an 'a' or an 'o' and the letters 'py' - my vision isn't the best - I'll be needing to get a new prescription for glasses when my next yearly exam come up.

We have been told that the cat's name is "Sparky" by Nigel.

If there is information stegged in the photo, we can't get at it without the password (you can download the camoflage program from somewhere here on UF if you need a free tool for this).

As I said earlier, we still have a couple unsolved puzzles from within other puzzles.

Unfortunately, as we have been given words from Welsh, latin, french, spanish (or Portugese), we don't know if we should limit ourselves to one language or all of them, and the password could be a proper name and not just a word from one of those languages.

ETA: Someone mentioned nicknames that the cat was Ernest "Sparky" Hemingway...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_Ernest_Hemingway's_nicknames

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 5:55 pm

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**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:15 pm

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Taladan · Boot Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Valdosta, GA

**Posted:** Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:33 pm

cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

man....bummed out there was no solve on this yet Sad

yeah, me hubby and me agreed it could be happy...but we also argued that it might be hope, mp4, and a dozen more possible words....it's just frankly too pixelated

yeah, i feel your pain magesteff...i'm not a puzzle cracker either...and unfortunately no hardcore puzzle crackers have seemed to jump on board on this one... Sad

thanks for all your work taladan! it's always great to get a new fresh take

**Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:43 am

RAD24

Just got this from Shadow:

**Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:46 am

Taladan · Boot Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Valdosta, GA

The description of the video is:

**Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:30 am

Ofiuco

'Va a buscarlo ahora' = 'Going to look for it now?'

It's a little clunky, and the person/number is a little irregular, as it suggests a third person or object ('he is going etc') but I'm guessing that's probably what was meant.

I also took a look at the cat picture last night in le Photoshoppe but I really couldn't make anything out. As for steganography, maybe now PMs will take it seriously when they read about how steganography is becoming almost impossible to detect. I'll get back to you if/when I figure out how to install stegdetect.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:59 am

ndemeter

So Patrick died playing World of Warcraft? I am trying to determine COD but other than "too much raiding" I'm coming up empty. Smile

/ETA:

New clue about the whereabouts:

**Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:40 pm

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Taladan · Boot Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Valdosta, GA

729 243 183

doesn't look like a phone number, it's not a zip code. converting 729243183 to octal comes up with 05335657057 which if you drop the 0 on front it looks like a legit phone number, but when I attempted to call it, got a 'Can not connect this call' message. Not sure how this ties in with 'Look for the eagle'. Maybe coordinates of some kind?

ETA: I believe Tu deinde is a rough latin for 'You're next' or 'You next'. Obviously referring back to SMSF's statement that Nigel was #2 on the list. Apparently Logan is some sort of black widow maybe?

Tal

**Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:59 pm

Checkmite · Boot Joined: 20 Dec 2010 Posts: 56

Howdy folks. Longtime UF lurker here, emerging from the darkness. Primarily following the newly-revived MH ARG, but this one also caught my eye - mostly because of its trailhead. Some friends and I were talking not long ago about writing an ARG, and one of us had the idea, "wouldn't it be neat if we emailed a bunch of really good but long-time-inactive forumites to start things off?" So it seems our idea is not as original as we thought. It is still cool though - kudos to the PM, and double to you oldbies who willfully took the bait!

Anyway, nothing to add atm - he emailed you guys, not me - but I'll be watching with interest!

**Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:13 pm

Raevyn · Greenhorn Joined: 04 Dec 2010 Posts: 9

The types of numbers I see most often that have 9 total digits are US postal zip codes (with the extra 4 at the end xxxxx-xxxx) and US social security numbers (xxx-xx-xxxx). But neither of those ideas are seeming to lead anywhere so far in my hunt online. Maybe someone else will have more luck.

If it matters, all three of those numbers are multiples of 3 (729=3^6, 243=3^5, and 183=3x61)

**Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:31 am