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[wrs_fat_sober]

I agree it looks oog, but I posted the other day about a more obvious (spec) clue in the indexb page (although my post has vanished?), whereby 'reading the pictures' might give us a clue i.e. picture 1 "view" 2 "Address" 3 "cirlcle (rings)?" 4 "london for" etc there are multiple interps and it is quite subjective. The only one I'm quite confident is the "london for". In "the mighty" Hon's interview he mentioned that living in the UK would be an advantage and a "backer/partner" so I think we are being sheparded towrds London, the circle/ring could be a ref to olympics (although it could be the cirlce line, or the M25 -that circles london). All this could of course be the result of sleepless nights and too much thinking on my part

[prufrock]

Jeebus, you'd think that for the awesome speculations people are STILL coming up with MONTHS after this puzzle showed up, THERE IS STILL NOTHING AND I AM FRUSTRATED.

hahaha, not *that* frustrated, but man, the last couple posts are really great ideas, it's a shame nothing seems to come from them...

[thebruce]

sorry, gotta say it...

[Hyperion]

[Rob_Riv]

wow that's a lot of posts even conpared to you nuduo... he's only been a member for a few months

[Atrophied]

heh, that's what happens when you become a leading player in an ARG. TheBruce was the brains behind many of the ilovebees developments.

[Marrec]

thebruce is 1337, this is page 42... I see an omen in these messages. Too bad we still don't have anything from the postcard. *twitch* Although, yeh, really great ideas from the fresh blood.

[Hyperion]

[Caterpillar]

About to post another longshot.

The number below the semacode had me thinking that maybe we have to convert it into a semacode and compare?layer?......I dunno.

Sometimes with these games just posting a different idea can spark something in someone else....

I also tried (after making the semacode) to do an on/off black/white binary type analysis....leaving out the edges all around. I tried both rows and columns with (not surprisingly) no luck.

Given it's on a POSTcard, near where the stamp normally would go - I also tried creating a POSTNET barcode (with no clear idea on what I was actually doing). I thought maybe the tall/short could equate to 1's and 0's.

[jbd]

I was poking around for real-world serial codes that have 24 digits, and found a mention of this:

http://www.postcom.org/archive/news2000/news12-00.htm

[Alex Smith]

THEORY:

I reckon 221545484848465100503215 actually decodes to "video," before the PMs got frustrated and just gave us the link.
However, that's only a theory, and I need someone with coding skills to prove it.

You take 221545484848465100503215 and reverse it.


"512305001564848484545122"

From the end, the first two digits are "22". 22=v in the alphabet.
The next three digits are 451. When you continue the alphabet past 26, like 27=a, 48=w, etc etc, 451=i.

5123050015648484845/451/22
22=v
451=i

There'll be a pattern, but basically I'm just solving this backwards, trying to find the method, not the solution.

Could someone write a program that converts extroadinarily large numbers into letters from the 26-letter alphabet? My Excel table is already 15.5 Mb big, and it only goes up to 500000.

[Sasuntsi Davit]

[StarryNight]

An interesting theory, but I don't think that it holds up. For 4845 I get "I", for 845 I get "M", and for 45 I get 'S'.

You don't need a program, just a calculator. Divide by 26 and take the remainder. If you don't have a calculator handy, enter "4845%26=" in google and it will calculate for you.

The problem I see with this is that when you divide by 26, you get an answer of 0 to 25. In that case, A must be 0 and not 1. You seem to be getting "V" by using A=0, but 451 would only be "I" if A is 1. Using base 0, 451 would be "J".

[Alex Smith]

[StarryNight]

I stand corrected.