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[am520dj]

[OmegaX]

[GWing_02]

Oh, Virtuquest makes lots and lots of games. Most of them are for corporate bonding, but there are a few open (public) ARGs/puzzles now and then. The last one was subcity, which it definitely doesn't relate to.

I don't get the first comment, but the second definitely sounds like it could be one of those corporate games. You never know.

[Holycowcow]

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[Holycowcow]

And now I'm a-thinking about that weird statement on the Virtuquest home page... The GREEN eyed man ( a reference to the Green Face of the cube?) delivering a PASSKEY (the very thing we might need?) What does that mean? Significant? Sigh... and how does that fit into the tenth phase letter thing?

[Holycowcow]

And now I'm a-thinking about that weird statement on the Virtuquest home page... The GREEN eyed man ( a reference to the Green Face of the cube?) delivering a PASSKEY (the very thing we might need?) What does that mean? Significant? Sigh... and how does that fit into the tenth phase letter thing?

[Varin]

[Daedalus-XIII]

This would fit, as i stated above, if the first two letters do not refer to the first two chars, but to the first two comments sent.

So we would go with a green eyed-man and the Lafcadio-Riddle.

I googled a bit and came up with a whole lot of stuff about Lafcadio Hearn, who deals with a lot of riddles in his books/stories.

Additionally there's the story: "Lafcadio:The Lion who shot back" by Shel Silverstein in which a green-eyed hunter is one of the main characters.
(And as I am concerned matches the forest-theme quite well )

Both would give a reasonable source for a passkey, but i'd favorize the second one, if the riddle should really be designed that way.

[JimmyImpossible]

Those statements on the Virtuquest homepage have been there FOREVER. Sorry to disappoint, IMHO they have nothing to do with the cube.

[Holycowcow]

And of course it could be read that the three comments are three of the Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, Jealousy and whatever that Lust one is...

I certainly flashed on jealousy with the green-eyed man.

But this may all just be reading a bunch of stuff into nothingness on my part. My Cheerios lined up funny this morning too and I was wondering if it was a binary code emerging between the whole Cheerios and the bits. LOL

I still think the 10th sequence is important and that it somehow relates to the passkey.

Food for thought anagrammatically... TRUST... LAST.... ALWAYS... TRY.... TREES... EYES... YOUR... TEST.... KEY(S) .... LETTERS.... TWO...(the only number I can get out of there...) OWL.... But that too may be the wrong avenue...

[PotVsKtl]

Sorry but I think anything relating to comments about past ARGs on the makers page is way off base.

Not that I have anything constructive to add. Those who have solved it are keeping it to themselves and we're stuck making useless anagrams.

[zaeil]

Yeah, I really think we're barking up the wrong tree with the anagrams. I think they chose ten cycles simply because there are several 5-letter words in the message, which would make two full rotations of those words. Makes the whole thing look a bit smoother than using nine cycles would.

I could be wrong, though.

* goes back to dealing cards *

[Holycowcow]

Perhaps so...

In that case, we probably need to revisit the idea of the Red Face as containing 64 characters. It would seem to make sense that the passkey for the green face would come from here, although that too is only a guess. Maybe the passkey comes from the darned tree image somehow. What is that Kilmer poem?

I'm grasping at straws here. I know...

Sigh...

Sorry if I misdirected.

[Ciaran_H]

[spec] Don't forget the moon image behind the grid. As far as I know, that hasn't been used in any of the solves so far.