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Looking at the next group of locations for "real world" events, the times and a hunch, you can bet that the clues will be revealed in fireworks.

Why?

The 4 Classic Elements

Water - The first set of clues revealed at the Bellagio

Air - The Second set revealed through skywriting

Fire - (Fireworks) I'm certain this will be the method used to reveal the third set of clues.

Earth- That is the one to figure out.

And...The five gross elements are: space, air, fire, water, and earth.

I have a strong feeling this plays a role in solving the game.

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Earth.. Murmuring Rocks?... Hmmmm that sounds interesting?

Taking a clue from an earlier post, I did a quick search on the Aurora Borealis.

I found this:

http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/English/aurora_borealis.html

I then searched on the Finnish word "revontulet" from paragraph 2 and found this:

http://www.arcticacademy.fi/revontulet.php?kieli=fi

Paragraph 4 seems interesting.

Will continue my searching, but thought I'd throw it out the forum.

Any ideas?

It will be quite interesting to come back to all this in a few weeks and see what clues were "real" and which ones were waaaay out there. :D

Definitely agree :)

You have to wonder how many people are spending a huge amount of time chasing non-existent clues, and on the flip side how many obvious clues have been passed over because were over-complicating the whole thing!?

Earth.. Murmuring Rocks?... Hmmmm that sounds interesting?

We have to remember that today is the 18 acording to the information posted on here today seens to be that something is going to happen that may give us more clues we need to pay attention in AUSTIN TX today.

We have to remember that today is the 18 acording to the information posted on here today seens to be that something is going to happen that may give us more clues we need to pay attention in AUSTIN TX today.

I wonder if it is during that time period (1:45PM - 6:40PM) that you are supposed to call that place in Austin?

Just Thinking Out Loud.

Edited by GibsonC
I wonder if it is during that time period (9:15AM - 1:07PM) that you are supposed to call that place in Austin?

Just Thinking Out Loud.

I Have Called AMD in Austin Texas to see if I could get a different message but it was the same message from the california AMD. The phone number to Loki's voice mail in the Austin AMD is 1-512-602-5654

FOUND IT FOUND IT FOUND IT!!!!! I THINK I FOUND THE VANISHING POINT...ITS IN PUZZLE BOX TWO! LOOK AT THE QUOTE...ON THE MAIN PAGE OF PUZZLE 2...THEN FIND THE "STAIRS".....Print screen.....start zooming in....you'll see it!

Im busy at work now. so cant really play w/ it...but perhaps someone will??? :)

Going back to the videos, there is something troubling me. Please let me know if this is just something I don't understand about Windows Movie Maker though.

If you open Windows Movie Maker and do File->Import Into Collections for each video, the collection automatically splits at various places. There is no obvious reason for the splits, other than that some tie to clues we've already seen/used. Some hint at things we've been chasing, but this may be confirmation that there is something there.

hearthechallenge:

0:00.00-0:17.00 Ends with shot of doorhandle

0:17.00-0:18.47 Ends with her zipping stilleto boot

0:18.47-0:32.50 Ends with shot of room service cart (flowers, 2 candies, one placesetting, silver tray)

0:32.50-0:37.57 Ends with picture of Belagio fountain

0:37.57-0:39.73 Ends with her looking down, saying "rediculously hard"

0:39.73-1:13.63 Ends with four empty wrappers on nightstand

1:13.63-1:19.37 Ends with open book, family tree? visible on left page

1:19.37-1:38.10 End

time_0108_720:

0:00.00-0:04.97 Opening splashes of fountain

0:04.97-0:08.57 Single chime of fountain

0:08.57-0:16.57 Two chimes / "It's Time"

0:16.57-0:24.57 "Listen Carefully, I don't have very long. And it is my nature to disappear. My name is Loki"

0:24.57-0:45.50 "My job is to find the smartest people..." ends "it's all about time."

0:45.50-0:48.53 "to challenge the cleverest people in the world" <- Why chop this up??

0:48.53-0:56.53 "i have devised..."

0:56.53-1:56.83 whole series of clues... ending with cuckoo clock

1:56.83-2:04.83 ??? the rest of the cuckoo clue. <--- Very interesting, why cut this clue in pieces???

2:04.83-2:12.83 Departures clue

2:12.83-2:14.10 more of departures clue <--again, why is this one split up?

2:14.10-2:26.50 more of departures clue, ends with H.G. Wells

2:26.50-2:44.83 upside-down TIME clue

2:44.83-2:52.83 start of waves clue

2:52.83-3:00.07 the real waves clue (hand waves)

3:00.07-3:08.83 interlude? ends with "ok, I have time for one more"

3:08.83-3:31.63 sundial clue, end

loki_time:

0:00.00-0:40.90 "you are my hourglass" ends with "but my grades weren't that good."

0:40.90-0:45.77 "I got alot of calls from recruiters, but only one noticed that my GPA was exactly"

0:45.77-0:50.63 "3.1416. That's harder to arrange than you might think."

0:50.63-0:58.33 ends with "we'll talk again"

0:58.33-1:02.83 end, showing "/on_the_run"

loki_640_magicweb_011107:

0:00.00-0:29.60 ends with "chemistry professor's office"

0:29.60-0:39.13 ends with "billboards", showing cane/wand in hand

0:39.13-0:51.33 ends with "laughing"

0:51.33-1:06.40 ends with "if I hire you"

1:06.40-1:12.33 "and I say 'hey, give me the job and I'll even give you your watch back.'"

1:12.33-1:19.47 end video, showing "/collectionplate" Interesting that there is extra black space at end?

A lot there.... Please give thoughts.

FOUND IT FOUND IT FOUND IT!!!!! I THINK I FOUND THE VANISHING POINT...ITS IN PUZZLE BOX TWO! LOOK AT THE QUOTE...ON THE MAIN PAGE OF PUZZLE 2...THEN FIND THE "STAIRS".....Print screen.....start zooming in....you'll see it!

Im busy at work now. so cant really play w/ it...but perhaps someone will??? :)

There is defintely something in the "crystal ball" to the left of her head, it's a square object

I also noticed the qoute is "step up and see the vanishing point.... step RIGHT up"

There is absolutely no reason i can find why they would need a square in the picture, it's not like it is required to create the image or flash file... so it has be be delibrate.

re the X's on the floor.

There are a lot of people that ascribe to the alternate universe theory. A fair number of people who claim to experience this phenomena will have instances where things vanish and then sometimes reappear at a later date.

It's possible that the X's on the floor for her chair where she is sitting is a reference to this to clue in people that she will vanish at some point.

People mark the area with X's where the phenomena occurs.

Possibly thats why her chair sits on the X's.

Looking at the next group of locations for "real world" events, the times and a hunch, you can bet that the clues will be revealed in fireworks.

Why?

The 4 Classic Elements

Water - The first set of clues revealed at the Bellagio

Air - The Second set revealed through skywriting

Fire - (Fireworks) I'm certain this will be the method used to reveal the third set of clues.

Earth- That is the one to figure out.

And...The five gross elements are: space, air, fire, water, and earth.

I have a strong feeling this plays a role in solving the game.

[/b]

I'm sure it's already been said, but the locations for the third set of puzzles isn't exactly conducive to a firework display, however, the Seattle location is perfect. In fact, Gasworks Park is a popular place from which people view the Fourth of July fireworks. Given that there's also a concert happening there, I'm pretty sure that this is where the firework display will happen.

I'm more interested in the notebook on the desk at 00:59 of the challenge video. If you look at it, there are some formulas and diagrams. The piece that interests me the most is the circle in the lower left corner. it appears to be three dimensional (perspective lines drawn) with colored lines through it...I made a post in the thoughts thread about the coordinates on the map earlier. Any thoughts?

Going back to the videos, there is something troubling me. Please let me know if this is just something I don't understand about Windows Movie Maker though.

If you open Windows Movie Maker and do File->Import Into Collections for each video, the collection automatically splits at various places. There is no obvious reason for the splits, other than that some tie to clues we've already seen/used. Some hint at things we've been chasing, but this may be confirmation that there is something there.

hearthechallenge:

0:00.00-0:17.00 Ends with shot of doorhandle

0:17.00-0:18.47 Ends with her zipping stilleto boot

0:18.47-0:32.50 Ends with shot of room service cart (flowers, 2 candies, one placesetting, silver tray)

0:32.50-0:37.57 Ends with picture of Belagio fountain

0:37.57-0:39.73 Ends with her looking down, saying "rediculously hard"

0:39.73-1:13.63 Ends with four empty wrappers on nightstand

1:13.63-1:19.37 Ends with open book, family tree? visible on left page

1:19.37-1:38.10 End

....................

A lot there.... Please give thoughts.

Windows Movie Maker automatically splits a video into scenes to enable basic video editing, it normally cuts the file where the camera shot changes or at a random point within a time range which can be changed in the options

There is defintely something in the "crystal ball" to the left of her head, it's a square object

I also noticed the qoute is "step up and see the vanishing point.... step RIGHT up"

There is absolutely no reason i can find why they would need a square in the picture, it's not like it is required to create the image or flash file... so it has be be delibrate.

ORPH...the quote says "stairs...step right UP"....that square is not a FULL SQUARE...just half of it...meaning its a STAIR!!!.....allllllllllll the way in the very very upper left hand corner...there is something CLICKABLE....just nothing seen there!!...

Someone please try it.....!!! i saved the pic trying to zoom in....dont see much..except some rectangular outline....perhaps like a "platform" to vanish.............

LETS WORK ON THIS TOGETHER>>> :)

I'm more interested in the notebook on the desk at 00:59 of the challenge video. If you look at it, there are some formulas and diagrams. The piece that interests me the most is the circle in the lower left corner. it appears to be three dimensional (perspective lines drawn) with colored lines through it...I made a post in the thoughts thread about the coordinates on the map earlier. Any thoughts?

the circle could be related to her GPA which is 3.14 or whateva pi is hehe

ORPH...the quote says "stairs...step right UP"....that square is not a FULL SQUARE...just half of it...meaning its a STAIR!!!.....allllllllllll the way in the very very upper left hand corner...there is something CLICKABLE....just nothing seen there!!...

Someone please try it.....!!! i saved the pic trying to zoom in....dont see much..except some rectangular outline....perhaps like a "platform" to vanish.............

LETS WORK ON THIS TOGETHER>>> :)

or it could be a the image of a door....

which might tie to the door in the other video with the exit sign above it...

ORPH...the quote says "stairs...step right UP"....that square is not a FULL SQUARE...just half of it...meaning its a STAIR!!!.....allllllllllll the way in the very very upper left hand corner...there is something CLICKABLE....just nothing seen there!!...

Someone please try it.....!!! i saved the pic trying to zoom in....dont see much..except some rectangular outline....perhaps like a "platform" to vanish.............

LETS WORK ON THIS TOGETHER>>> :)

Where do you see the word "stairs"?

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