The PRE game fun...

[Zyphrax]

I wonder why when i change my time, the counter changes.. shouldn't it be server-sided clock?

It is server-side blocked. Your counter will freeze between the 20 and 30sec.

I think they use the /now.asmx webservice to verify the time.

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

It might be Microsoft related, whois from VanishingPointGame.com has an address which has the same info for mozillasucks.com.

Whois for VanishingPointGame.com

Microsoft fires back at IEsucks.com - Source Digg

I'm sorry if someone mentioned this already, i'm not going thru 50 pages+ :) lol

[Ambroos]

I don't think this is a puzzle thing yet... It just seems to reveal more about something that will happen when the countdown hits zero... We'll just need to wait... (I hate Microsoft, why don't they give us free flight tickets, i want to be there (Bellagio Fountains))

[Zyphrax]

Too bad that the video didn't give us any usefull clues yet, besides the Bellagio...

[Stetson]

It might be Microsoft related, whois from VanishingPointGame.com has an address which has the same info for mozillasucks.com.

The puzzle box that inzenity received was from "1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA", so I would say that this is definitely Microsoft ;)

[Zyphrax]

I'll checkout the high quality video.

The red thing she puts into the box is a red dart (not a screwdriver, clearly visible in the hq version)...

Screenshots of the sketches on the paper:

Original from video

Rotated in photoshop

ok, erm... now read it :)

Edited December 25, 2006 by Zyphrax

[Aeschylus Maximus]

The person that got the grid for immortalize me, did he have anything else? And he must be one of the people who got boxes. I think the letter from inzenity said that there is 4 people total that got the boxes. So that means that there must be 2 more codes for sure out there somewhere. And then theres the Riddle in the file directory so we still got 3 things to work out for sure before the timer runs out ; also im thinking there should be definetly more puzzles down the way to give us a clue to what happens on the 8th.

[Zyphrax]

WOW! There is someone in the room with her.

Check out 00:00:32 (look at the far right).

Slip-up?

=======

- The spot on the map is indeed the center sidewalk in front of the Bellagio fountains

- The 4 unknown objects on the table, are the wrappings of the hotel chocolates

Edited December 25, 2006 by Zyphrax

[simsie]

Screenshot of the supposed person at 00:00:32 (For Reference)

[LAWLESS]

WOW! There is someone in the room with her.

Check out 00:00:32 (look at the far right).

Slip-up?

=======

- The spot on the map is indeed the center sidewalk in front of the Bellagio fountains

- The 4 unknown objects on the table, are the wrappings of the hotel chocolates

I think that's the cameraman

You are right, there is someone other than the camera man

[Kraftman]

Damnit simsie, way to beat me!

[Zyphrax]

I'll post a highres one, just a sec.

There is also a red rope...

Edit:

Here is the highres screenshot

He has two legs ;)

Edited December 25, 2006 by Zyphrax

[simsie]

Is it just me or is the guy missing a leg in mine/bobp screenshot? or does he have it leaned up against the wall or something?

Edit: yeah, stupid question, i see it now

Edited December 25, 2006 by simsie

[Stetson]

Looks like just a camera /light guy, and the orange rope is an extension cord.

[Ashl]

This infinity thing that has now come up.. has lot to do with vanishing points as don't they kind of go into a kind of infinity(an infinately small point or something)... just a stupid thought.

[Zyphrax]

It's probably a slip-up...

Anyone, got a clue on these?

They seem to contain some formula's. They've got to contain a clue...

Original from video

Rotated in photoshop

[signalpirate]

It's probably a slip-up...

Anyone, got a clue on these?

They seem to contain some formula's. They've got to contain a clue...

the rotated pic... the line in black writen on the bottom... its the same formula as on one of the pages on the vanishing point site..... my guess would be .... getting a high quality pic of that sheet of paper from a video would lead to all clues associated with the whole game

[Adis]

As for the images, two of them resemble watches (the red one looks like a side view and the round one looks like a top view).

And as for the formulas, the top one reads:

dy^3 = ds^3 - dt^3

That remindes me of Laplace transformations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace

And also a note, the transformations were discovered by Euler.

[neoxphuse]

Whatever this is, it has grabbed many attention.

Sounds interesting.

[Not Cool]

Seeing as four people got keys, then why is there only one video, shouldn't there be four?

[Zyphrax]

the rotated pic... the line in black writen on the bottom... its the same formula as on one of the pages on the vanishing point site..... my guess would be .... getting a high quality pic of that sheet of paper from a video would lead to all clues associated with the whole game

Sorry that's the best I can do.

Perhaps Inzenity can upload the real video from the USB stick, in it's true WMV format.

[mad_onion]

As for the images, two of them resemble watches (the red one looks like a side view and the round one looks like a top view).

And as for the formulas, the top one reads:

dy^3 = ds^3 - dt^3

That remindes me of Laplace transformations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace_transform

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace

And also a note, the transformations were discovered by Euler.

i dont know it appears to be differentiation but ive never seen anything like that before, im guessing you know a whole lot more about calculus than me :)

[simsie]

When watchign teh video i noticed a part of the backing music. It occurs at 00:00:11, 00:00:31, 00:00:52, 00:01:12, 00:01:33. Could there be some sort of pattern to this as each is followed by a short pause.

Its probably nothing, just something i noticed.

[Adis]

Well it is a differential equation, but the s and t remind me of laplace. Also someone mentioned an infinitely small number, here's an article about that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal

[Zyphrax]

*sigh*

Herodotus and Euler are also two craters on the moon :s

http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Lunar-Crater-Kepler.htm