The PRE game fun...

[Ashl]

I have a few theorys... 1. The number at the bottom is something to with what you get when you add the numbers up(if u presumed a=1) in a certain way or something like that

2. The arrows might show the ammount you have to add or subtract from a puzzle to give you the correct anagrams or something like(c=3 + 2 = e)

3. There may be a starting point somewhere where if you follow it it will take you through every letter(ie arrow pointing down move down 1, 2 down move 2 down etc)

[Azusa]

anyone know what kinda puzzle it is?

[Aeschylus Maximus]

Did anyone notice that in the top right box the Q looks sorta out of the ordinary, maybe a start point? gonna try solving from ther

[Helba]

Thats strange cause when i put it into the box and click submit nothing happens

Are you using Opera? If you use Opera, you don't get the countdown timer and the submit button doesn't use anything.

I used IE7 :p

But that's what they WANT you to do so whatever.

[emale_tart]

Back to January 8th, 6:30pm @ Las Vegas

Bellagio Fountains is smack bang in the middle of an event taking place there..

CES 2007 starts on January 8th - http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/default_flash.asp

But interestingly finished at 6pm - An after show party @ 6:30pm perhaps ?

[Aeschylus Maximus]

Im guessing the next code will be the answer to whoisloki i tried brother of odin and fosterbrotherofodin but no luck

[emale_tart]

Since Gates is going to be at CES - when is it Vista goes on sale ?

[Azusa]

l0kiismybr0ther gets nothing not even the google vanishpoint thing

[emale_tart]

Thats a strange one that

[Azusa]

well im gunna give this one to 4chan to play around with

[KingOz]

If the question is who is loki, then the answer is Son of Odin. Thats 9 letters? Maybe that might help?

[Aeschylus Maximus]

http://www.decabit.com/Sudoku/Solver.aspx

tring to work something out with that

sonofodin or s0n0f0din doesnt work

[rootwiler]

why does my mouse give me a curser at RIRAUG in the puzzle... HRRm, and if you lightlight it and COPY ... the PASTE gives you the TIME LEFT in the countdown.

[Aeschylus Maximus]

Anyone try replacing the letter with the letters that the arrows are pointing to. U > O U

[BaDo0o0r]

if you pick out the boxes that have arrows pointing towards the inside and arrange the letter you will get MY RYSONSI...

[crimsonhead]

For anyone trying to unscramble letters, this should come in handy.

http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/anagram.html

[spex04]

why does my mouse give me a curser at RIRAUG in the puzzle... HRRm, and if you lightlight it and COPY ... the PASTE gives you the TIME LEFT in the countdown.

If you reverse RIRAUG you get GUARIR, which according to Google Translate, is 'to recover' in italian...? But I doubt it's related.

[Aeschylus Maximus]

This is really wierd i typed riraug into the thing and then clicked submit it said wrong pass and then i accidentally pressed the back button on the browser itself and it took me to a page that i never visited before. Which has this

Welcome to the Vanishing Point.

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Vanishing Point has been busy inventing! Now with financial backing from the owner we are ramping up to have our products on the market and available to the public soon. Following patents being issued to Vanishing Point and David Reed. Afterwards, everyone will be carrying a Vanishing Point product in their pocket.

Who are we? Vanishing Point is a custom electronic design firm located at the inspiring garden of WineFlower in Liberty, Missouri.

Vanishing Point has been busy this last year prototyping Wi-Fi & Bluetooth related inventions that will catapult Vanishing Point into being the leader in Personal Identification devices.

Eventually, ending up taking Vanishing Point to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange pending SEC Filings.

Invest in Vanishing Point and thereby invest in the future.

Vanishing Point

7913 Scott Ave

Liberty, MO 64068

[Dias]

If you reverse RIRAUG you get GUARIR, which according to Google Translate, is 'to recover' in italian...? But I doubt it's related.

To recover in italian is "guarire". :pinch:

[martskre]

Remember the somewhat similar campaign Microsoft had for their Origami platform? Well maybe this has something to do with Microsoft's new codename Vistagami; the Origami running Vista. They're supposedly making a big deal out of it at CES 2007. :whistle:

If you reverse RIRAUG you get GUARIR, which according to Google Translate, is 'to recover' in italian...? But I doubt it's related.

Vistagami = Origami's 'recovery'?

Just a thought. :rofl:

[Aeschylus Maximus]

I figured out why the cursor changes on riraug that because the page has a hidden field if you go to page source or info youll find the hidden field i thnik the value is the same as the previous one maybe it just got hidden so that the first page doesnt interfere with the 2nd puzzle

[BaDo0o0r]

RURIG has nothing to do with the answer , its just a bug in the flash

[brand]

Well, I don't normally do this, but since you guys were first on the scene, here's a cypher key for you. Impressive job!

More to come....but not delivered like this. Keep your eyes on the Post.

Good luck!

~L

....

(EDIT: for clarity)

viral spam! :angry:

my plans to soil the neowin trek to "discover" this marketing has been twarted.

Who else is filled with glee that Neowin is both on board with Microsoft, XBOX, and a game publisher, so much so that we've not only have been targeted by their campaign, but have been lead to it, and have eaten it up? Doesn't everyone feel like a tool? I bet evilpupil would be ****ed.

[Ashl]

I don't suppose anyone had a look at the code of the setup as i recokn if you change all the information in the javascript files(i don't know any javascript so can't have a go at this) using the clsid of all the flash files in the whole crytogram which are in the javascript files is it possible to get in that way. Just a thought.

[duhk]

maybe you need to print it out and cut the pieces out and do something with them :)