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[Fi]

Well, I've tried very hard not to post a reply demanding more information, but after feeling distracted at work for the best part of the day, I've changed my mind

Jonas - this is a very cool find. I'm going to assume, for now, it's in-game. Not sure quite why I feel so sure about this when I instantly dismissed the ebay incident, but it seems more, umm, fitting.

There is some information which would be a great help to us.

1. The full text that was on the post card
2. Anything you can make out from the blacked out address - was something written underneath, or is it just black pen?
3. Any other text on the back or front of the card - be they a copyright notice or the name of the printers - we'll have it all thankyouverymuch
4. An accurate description of the picture on the front, along with any notable features (a window count would also be grooovy)
5. Was it written by hand or printed?
6. What is the print quality of the postcard itself? Does it look like someone has bought a postcard and written it by hand, or do you think that the card has been published entirely for the purpose of writing and leaving somewhere (i.e. a piece of marketing literature).
7. A very thorough description of the stamp (if there is one) and the 2210 (was it printed or stamped on?). If it is a Semacode (which in a blurry way it could well be), perhaps you could get a closer picture of it, and we can use their site to try and decode it...

Hannah feel free to e-mail this to Jonas since you have his address and he's not registered on here (yet!)

Right, perhaps now I can get on with some work!

Fi

[thebruce]

I too was taking a look at the light patterns, and looking closer, there are smaller breaks between the lights... it looks like every row starts with *3* lights, followed by likely 7 other columns - either a morse code routine or a binary routine... (I was looking for 8 columns, and found it interesting that there seem to be 7 individual columns on the right, and a group of 3 columns all with lights on on the left, which could be considered 1 column?)

from what I could tell, the pattern following each 3 on's goes something like this (but it's hard to tell which lights are on or off because of the blurring)

(grouped and separated the 3 columns on the left)
111 011
111 1001011
111 0111 *
111 0111 *
111 0111111 +
111 1101011
111 0111111 +
111 110011
111 0111 *
111 0011

draw note that the *'d lines seem the same and the +'d lines seem the same... but other on/off counts may be wrong... we need a clearer picture to be sure. here's the image:

[darkblaze]

well being the optomistic soul that i am i ran it through binary decode and got jibberish this is getten fun

[hannah]

[Olorin]

[Olorin]

[thebruce]

well don't take my binary results as the final word, I'm about 99% confident that if it is binary, some of the numbers may be wrong, in which case it just might jibberish, right now... but hopefully we're on the right track at least... *shrug*

[Olorin]

Re: Postcard?

[jonathan]

How can we be certain that this isn't just a trailhead, or a method of publicity?

Although I really want to be in-game! But still, I would hate to think we are wasting our time.

[tanner]

[Wishi-san]

[Enigmaster]

If it is a publicity stunt, chances are it might be something like the perplexcity.com letter, if not though, its time to get excited!

Ps: This is so cool - my first puzzle!

[Jay]

[oneliiivewire]

Got a stack of cards with me

[Wishi-san]

Hiya, and welcome again!

If you could please scan or take a high resolution photo of the postcard on both sides, that would be brilliant.

And whereabouts exactly did you find the card?