The REAL game starts... (Puzzle Box 1)

[Sir_billy_wizz]

is it a coincidence that one can get "VISTA" from "Vanishing Point"?

What about the remaining letters....don't know...just pulling from space here...haha space.

phoning in

[towtol]

Traced www.vanishingpointgame to somewhere outside San Francisco. Assuming San Jose. Will narrow down in a few.

[king_duck]

I bet guys from microsoft are looking at us gobsmacked as to how deeply we can read into things...:D so this is just for you microsoft..I'm going to type Lorelei ad everything related in every type of wingding I can find...

[towtol]

Name: www.vanishingpointgame.com

IP Address: 207.97.210.188

Location: 43.494N 72.039W

[towtol]

Registrant

42 Entertainment

5900 Hollis St., Suite G

Emeryville, CA 94608

US

[TalonSilverclaw]

Just a little comment about the javascript and the flash files and such that people have been tinkering with.

I mentioned a few days ago I was tinkering around with the code for a while. I took apart and decompiled the flash completely but nuthing in the script gives away ANYTHING at all, and I have a feeling that its linked to an encrypted file. I'm not willing to do anything more because that would get into illeagal stuf...and really we are dealing with microsoft here, i'm sure they are smart enough to realise that if someone is smart enough to figure out the metagame, they are smart enough to hack. I doubt I'll find anything more without being disqualified so yeah, that's where I stop heh.

I suggest that others do the same.

edit: I also dont know what finding out about the server will help either, that's just the medium on which the game is being delivered, not the game itself, its like.....looking at the canvas of a paiting to try to understand the meaning of the picture.

[akitakoi]

Anyone know what time the second box will be unlocked?

[towtol]

Just a little comment about the javascript and the flash files and such that people have been tinkering with.

I mentioned a few days ago I was tinkering around with the code for a while. I took apart and decompiled the flash completely but nuthing in the script gives away ANYTHING at all, and I have a feeling that its linked to an encrypted file. I'm not willing to do anything more because that would get into illeagal stuf...and really we are dealing with microsoft here, i'm sure they are smart enough to realise that if someone is smart enough to figure out the metagame, they are smart enough to hack. I doubt I'll find anything more without being disqualified so yeah, that's where I stop heh.

I suggest that others do the same.

edit: I also dont know what finding out about the server will help either, that's just the medium on which the game is being delivered, not the game itself, its like.....looking at the canvas of a paiting to try to understand the meaning of the picture.

Keep the creative flow going - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming

[TalonSilverclaw]

Keep the creative flow going - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming

heh I have nothing wrong with creative flow...I'm just saying that looking at the server specs and the code, (for now) Is uhhm, "flowing" in the wrong direction ;)

[Destiny_Await]

Hi guys... You all are really great. Not sure how i can help with so many great minds around here... I try to provide as much help as possible within my means. The following is one of the link I find it to be interesting when I search at microsoft website for vanishing point. Not sure is it helpful for you all.

http://research.microsoft.com/~antcrim/pap...si_dagm2002.pdf

Edited January 13, 2007 by FallenShadow

[DMHolt57]

The Austin event is now listed as Cancelled on the second box page, probably weather related, unless they planned it all along, would explain late arrival of loki in Austin?

[Netweb]

Also decied to go anagram playing... at http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html

Apologies for the Caps and I reshuffled some words and added comma's ;)

Anagrams for "Vanishing Point"

VISTA PHONING IN

VISTA HOPING INN

A SHINNING PIVOT

Anagrams for "Lorelei Kitsune" (Containing Loki)

I RELENT, SUE LOKI

UNREEL SITE, LOKI

UNREEL TIES LOKI

LOKI STEEL URINE

ENSURE I LET LOKI

LOKI SENILE TRUE

NET LEISURE LOKI

EDIT: Added anagrams NOT containing Loki

NOT LIKE LEISURE

ENTIRE SOUL LIKE

ONE KILLER SUITE

Edited January 13, 2007 by Netweb

[konamouse]

I believe that she is no more then an elaborate C.G.I / supercomputer from Bill's wet dream. Most videos of her are very methodical in the way she moves maybe hinting at the truth she inst a person (also obviously heavily edited if you know a thing about film). And always referring to herself that she will "vanish" after the game is over....

Uhm, I'll get all META here for a moment: That's an ACTRESS playing the role of "Loki" for the movies and the recordings. She is using a script created by the folks who are making the puzzles and the game (42Entertainment). So of course she will disappear after the game is over.

[confusio]

heh I have nothing wrong with creative flow...I'm just saying that looking at the server specs and the code, (for now) Is uhhm, "flowing" in the wrong direction ;)

You may be right, it's like looking at the back of the stamps ... remember that this game is targeted to "very smart people" and smart

people, particulary computer geeks will dig and look for every piece of information that flows related to the game, it may provide

clues or not, but for a geek like me is part of the game to find who did it ?, how ?, who is in it ?, etc.

BTW, I'm not trying to hack into the servers or anything like that, if so it will particulary violate paragraph "7" of the official rules

and if intentionally somebody does it, she/he will violate civil and criminal laws and msft is reserving the right to seek damages and

other remedies, and as you know they have plenty of dough to pay for attorneys.

towtool what is registered to "42 Entertainment" ? (hmm, the javascript stuff is in the "js42" directory...)

I also digged around the IP addresses, I'm not sure if tracing them will provide any consistent info since I believe they expected

a huge number of hits, probably all or many pieces of the game are being delivered over content distribution networks,

such is the case for assets.vanishingpointgame.com, which is actually an edgesuite setup with akamai.

The ip address of www.vanishingpointgame.com belongs to a block "owned" by Rackspace.com, a hosting company based

in San Antonio, Texas, and the particular range of 207.97.210.184-207.97.210.191 says "Individual" in Sprinfield, NH.

Well while we wait for the second box to open I'll keep browsing around, meanwhile you can keep looking at the stamps ...

Cheers

[confusio]

Uhm, I'll get all META here for a moment: That's an ACTRESS playing the role of "Loki" for the movies and the recordings. She is using a script created by the folks who are making the puzzles and the game (42Entertainment). So of course she will disappear after the game is over.

I tend to agree with you, she is a "fictional character" ...

Does the latest video provide any clues for the next step ? why they show her shoes ? if the videos are done by a professional

company why there is a green reflection on her glasses ? what is it ?

Cheers

[Sir_billy_wizz]

I wonder if the sydney event will get caught on the local webcam ?

http://www.coastalwatch.com/camera/cameras...s&state=NSW

[Destiny_Await]

Btw, anybody have any ideas regarding the different countdown timer for the second box? The timer for Los Angeles will be reaching 0 soon. Will the puzzle be revealed or do we have to wait for the remaining 3 to reach 0 too?

[Netweb]

Thinking aloud .....

The first box was opened with the single Las Vegas Event

Not long now we have...

1hr10m - Los Angeles, CA

5hr10m - Sydney, Australia

5hr10m - Miami, FL

7hr10m - Phoenix, AZ

Do you think we will have different clues from each show or the same clues at each show and just distributed over geographic regions for people to actually physically attend the shows?

[AnthonyP]

I'm thinking the box may not unlock until all the counters have hit 0. We'll probably have clues spread out among all the locations... Should be intersting to see how the Austin thing plays out.

[Destiny_Await]

Will it be possible that misleading clue will be given? We have to figure out which event is the real thing to get the answer? Just my though. And the ending puzzle also end with a single event.

[confusio]

Hmm, interesing 42entertainment.com = 207.97.210.187 ...

[Netweb]

I'm thinking the box may not unlock until all the counters have hit 0. We'll probably have clues spread out among all the locations... Should be intersting to see how the Austin thing plays out.

Quick, Uplink the Austin hotfix to each of the other 4 locations for immediate deployment then shutdown LA, Sydney, Miami & Phoenix and REBOOT :o

[Hawx's]

ok so who is all going to be here in 4 hours

[akitakoi]

Here is a sat photo of the cordinates in LA. Today is 1.13 It should be unlocked as soon as the LA timer reaches 0. Anyone nearby?

[morficus]

has anyone else noticed that all of todays locations are all parks?

The Arizona location was a parking lot though....

I wonder how they are going to pull this one off :)

just a few more minutes!!