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[Puzzle] NEW CHALLENGE! April 19 2005
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suroot
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So if we assume that the truth is, "it would suck to work in a cubicle like that" what would the revelation be? "There are outlets in games, movies, cartoons, etc...

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:35 pm
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Yardarm51
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neiana wrote:
Parkaboy wrote:
dirk wrote:
Sim1 wrote:
what about this link?
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/hen/external/outgoing/


...funny, the .mdb file with the same name as the the jpg turns out to be the jpg!! just download the file, change the ending from .mdb to .jpg and voilaŽ...u have the same picture!!! but why ist this picture on a gov-server?? and why camouflaged as a m$ acces-file???


What if the cubicle is that of a government employee?


Well, aside from the fact I'm pretty sure that's a Canada address, you could probably make a million tie-ins to Minnesota's Jesse Ventura.

- N


Sorry for the massive quotes. I'm not sure how this address got into the thread (just signed on about 2 min ago) but it is the address for an employee for the provincial government in British Columbia, Canada. However I fail to see how BC is connected to anything like baseball (very unpopular) or Chicago.

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Chimaera2005
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Yardarm51 wrote:
neiana wrote:
Parkaboy wrote:
dirk wrote:
Sim1 wrote:
what about this link?
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/hen/external/outgoing/


...funny, the .mdb file with the same name as the the jpg turns out to be the jpg!! just download the file, change the ending from .mdb to .jpg and voilaŽ...u have the same picture!!! but why ist this picture on a gov-server?? and why camouflaged as a m$ acces-file???


What if the cubicle is that of a government employee?


Well, aside from the fact I'm pretty sure that's a Canada address, you could probably make a million tie-ins to Minnesota's Jesse Ventura.

- N


Sorry for the massive quotes. I'm not sure how this address got into the thread (just signed on about 2 min ago) but it is the address for an employee for the provincial government in British Columbia, Canada. However I fail to see how BC is connected to anything like baseball (very unpopular) or Chicago.


This has nothing to do with the game. I don't know where it came from, but if you download it and rename it to .jpg, it is just our puzzle picture we've been working on... I think someone uploaded it for other people to figure it out. Weird.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:55 pm
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Sir_French_Fry
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Crazy theory: If the images that have been photoshopped in are false leads, perhaps what has been photoshopped out leads to truth? The bottom of the calendar should have some trivia question or something, apparently. Perhaps the answer to the question is the answer to the challenge?

Also the whole "truth brings revelation" clue might be saying that by solving this puzzle, we enter the next phase (to which the gamem8ker calls revelation on the front page)

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EelfinnTy
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Well we could always try brute force! lol

Only counting letters an spaces there are only 1.797x10^57 different combinations!

That's only a couple of million a piece. (We should prob. start soon!)

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coffeefilms
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Just regarding the calendar photoshopping; it's almost certainly to cover an advert, here's a shot of a similar calendar from Google;

http://mlans.dynip.com/blogpics/2002-04-20-sox-promo-calendar.htm

Or the answer is something to do with Miller Lite...
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Allen_the_Hott
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Then we should all take a letter Wink But on a serious note, has anyone found a pictue of the blacked out part of the calender yet?

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wryan
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HINT: To get a clearer picture

Notice the slight but obviously intended motion blur?

To "reveal" the "truth", look into deconvolution filters.

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coffeefilms
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is there any relevance in the colour of the word grid? You can tell from the photoshopped bit of the flowers it wasn't a black piece of paper to begin with, why not keep the original colour of the paper (so if it was white photoshop it white and put black writing on it); this would have been easier and would have blended in better.

Plus, chicago WHITE sox, white on black writing, desperately reaching...
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:25 pm
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wryan
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Forget about the blacked out part of the calendar.

It is just advertising that has been blacked out for legal reasons.

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Kristens Site

Kristens Site has been shut down... or is not working as of right now... Most likely due to all the calls...

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Allen_the_Hott
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This isn't even fun, forgive me for saying but i am more frustrated than anything. Why would they make such a ridiculously hard challenge? It just seems silly to me.

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Balail
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I really doubt Kristen is oblivious to whats going on here. Even website I have visited she has replied with the same e-mail. If I were her I'd be freaking out and not sending EVERYONE a nice little email about how she can't help you solve the problem. Thats an auto-response, and there are clues in that auto-response I know it!!! Not to mention the remarks on her site that have been there since this puzzle went up regarding contacting her about this. And her site is working fine for me right now by the way.

Oh, and that giants thing is a semi-popular marketing campain, it has no relation to the sports team. Thats actually a famous face if you look at it hard enough you might figure out who it is. I really don't think it has anything to do with puzzle.

There are so many relationships going on here that I don't know which on is fake, and which is the right path.

There is the government link, the Disney link, do we look else where, or focus on soley on the pic as was suggested earlier.

I feel like I've gone over this so many times and have so much information thats its really staring me right int he face at this point.

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Balail wrote:
I really doubt Kristen is oblivious to whats going on here. Even website I have visited she has replied with the same e-mail. If I were her I'd be freaking out and not sending EVERYONE a nice little email about how she can't help you solve the problem. Thats an auto-response, and there are clues in that auto-response I know it!!! Not to mention the remarks on her site that have been there since this puzzle went up regarding contacting her about this. And her site is working fine for me right now by the way.


She is seriously, truly, honestly, and without a doubt OUT OF GAME. Please leave the poor girl alone and stop looking for clues in a courtesy email saying that you're barking up the wrong tree and her website was taken advantage of by whoever is running OurColony.

OUT OF GAME! OUT OF GAME! MOVE. ON.

Please and thank you.
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okay, so lets just go with the fact that kristen is out of game and that her website was put there as a distraction. though it is a hard pill to swollow, i would rather leave her alone and have gamem8ker see how rediculous this puzzle is or how ignorant we are than harass her anymore.

but, oh inteligent moderators, do you have any leads that may help? i, and many others proably, am completely at the end of my rope and can't seem to make any heads or tails of this silly challenge.
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