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[Fishjp]

History Channels Decoded

[catherwood]

heh, we mentioned it in chat a few weeks ago. (irc.chat-solutions.org #ctu) I've been playing along every week, and the clues are more elegant than I might have expected, very well hidden, but ultimately quite solveable once you find them. Logging into the contest website gives you condensed video exerpts from the show which point you at just the segments containing clues. I know it's just a sweepstakes drawing in the end, but what the heck.

As for the show content itself, it's your average conspiracy theory detective search for "The Truth", with just enough rational skepticism to keep it from being a run-away train. Last week's episode ended with them wishing they could do a DNA test, and this week CNN reported that the family may finally be allowed to exhume the body needed to do just that, so they're rather current with their topics.

[catherwood]

bump to say the show aired its final episode this week, but you still have time to enter the answers, even for previous weeks. Overall, I was impressed that they had real puzzles all along the way, not simple hand-outs. Even the final puzzle has multiple stages, and makes you pay attention to detail. Overall, the show and the contest has made me want to go read this guy's novels -- good marketing!