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I'd love to know how you figured that out too. I spent like 30 mins playing with those darn hourglasses, as much fun as I was having I couldn't figure it out. I came so close numerous times though.

Had been doing the same thing, trying to remember the water thing in the Bruce Willis movie. A 5 Litre container and a 3 Litre container of water make exactly 4 Litres from the two bottles etc etc :wacko:

the Calendar 1s driving me nuts...

im guessin the order of the months is the way she said them: june, jan, april, march, may, feb.

so thts prob the order they have to be marked in. but i just get weird markings...

she also said think outside the box

maybe u hav 2 do something with the outside

if this helps please tell

Airport

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You'll need this image to decode the times: http://www.flickr.com/photos/longzheng/351179088/

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

For instance, the first one is CASABLANCA 10:00. Look at the decoder image where 10:00 should be. There you find a 1. So, take the first character of this city -- "C".

Now do this for each of them. Leave out spaces when counting characters. You get:

10 = 1 = C

7 = 5 = A

9 = 7 = R

12 = 9 = T

5 = 12 = O

2 = 4 = G

3 = 11 = R

11 = 2 = A

4 = 8 = P

1 = 6 = H

8 = 10 = E

6 = 3 = R

And you get CARTOGRAPHER

I cannot get Cartographer to work for the life of me. I just get the "OTHER" to pop up at the top left. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: nm, suddenly it works on another PC. Very odd.

Edited by kanaloa
got a lead on the clocks too, each item refereces a number

101 dalmations

76 trombones

route 66

blackjack, a game also called 21

and so on

101 Dalmations

76 Trombones

3 Blind Mice

8 Ball

Route 66

21 (Blackjack)

9 (lives of a cat)

Don't know the significance yet.

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