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jorge.orge@netcabo.pt · Guest

Number on Napkin

**Posted:** Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:40 am

SpaceBass

Thread moved and bumped, since (oddly enough) it got no bites in the Online Tools section. Wink

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:02 am

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Delusional · Entrenched Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 839

I don't know much(anything) about other country's phone systems but since you said it's not a Portuguese number is there another country that you know that fits? If so, you could possibly narrow down the missing numbers to 2 or three if the first 2/3 are a country/area/etc code.
If you can get that far there wouldn't be to many different combinations with the numbers left and you could just go through them until you get the right one. Just be polite and unobtrusive to all the wrong numbers. Smile

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:15 am

social moth · Boot Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 16

It has a "+" in front of it. Doesn't seem like a phone number to me...

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:45 am

setters393

in the uk sometimes mobile numbers have a plus on the front when you save them to your phone...

could it be a mobile number?

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 6:20 am

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poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

+ is usually to signify a country code, eg. +44 = UK so the two digits AFTER the + could be a country code.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:19 am

Palm

Number on Napkin

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:30 pm

Palm

Photo

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:47 pm

jorge.orge@netcabo.pt · Guest

hi everyone!
i'm really surprised, i never thought anyone would try so hard.

1st. it's not a portuguese number by one digit, it fits any other country that has 2 digits for the country code

2nd. we all believe its a phone number because of the + in front, that represents the 00 that has to be dialed before the country code

3rd by the image enhancement i can see that the last number may be a 0?

4th there's a theory going on here that this may not be a 2 but may be a Z like you said, Z stands for a number in the alphabet, can be the 23rd or the 26th

5th that clue was released almost 7 days ago and still nothing's up new, i personally believe more clues are on the way and that we are not supposed to find the number yet, but others think that we need to crack this to move on to the next clue... Confused

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:30 pm

jorge.orge@netcabo.pt · Guest

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:35 pm

Palm

117236

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:33 pm

Chronus_Valtiel

Hello. My name is Chronus Valtiel and I'm completely new to ARGs. If I may, I'd like to jump on this here bandwagon Smile

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I also went to phonespell and found that adding the alleged "zero" before the one made two interesting 8-letter mnemonics for 0117236: 011-scene and 011-scent.
Hope that helps Smile

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EDIT: Food for thought: How strong is the possibility that the + is actually a 4?

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:11 am

Reznik · Guest

Hi there!
I'm from portugal and also trying to solve this ARG, just to say that there is another theory coming up, in the light of recent clues. We have a word that suposedly the kidnaped always used as a password, but we think its incomplete...

The incomplete password is "sara", so i think that maybe that number (or number+letters) is the next part of the password, and that would explain the plus sign before the blured message...
So it being a phone number might be a phone number.. Who knows... But keep in mind that it still might be a phone number. Just to give you some update on our new discoveries...

Any help would be appreciated! Laughing

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:06 pm

belzek · Boot Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 10

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:09 pm

Chronus_Valtiel

lol easy mistake to make Smile

And I think the plus sign could very well be a 4. Look closely and you'll see a faint diagonal line moving up from the left point to the top point. I could be wrong, but then again, who knows?

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:51 pm