Puzzle Box 3

[lindendragon]

A story about an MIT student (*hint hint!*) who has amazing memory and can memorize just about any number (or sequence of numbers) for up to 20 years.

Strangely enough, he can't memorize phone books, because words mess up his system of memorization.

http://stepanov.lk.net/mnemo/mahadee.html

[Apogee]

OK, update after this last video with again the glasses gesture the updated directioins clue is:

RIGHT - UP - RIGHT - DOWN - LEFT

Enjoy ...

Video!

Try http://www.bcimultimedia.com/images/glasses.wmv

glasses.wmv

Edited January 21, 2007 by Apogee

[phxmimms]

Loki - 22 years Old

Microsoft - 22 Years Old

Loki - Visited nearly every country by 21st Brithday

Microsoft Windows - In nearly every country

Loki - MIT Connection

Microsoft - Started with it's first customer in Albuquerque, MIT Systems

Loki - Never called in sick

Windows - Always working somewhere

Loki - Memorized The phonebook photographic memory

Windows Based PC - Virtual photographic memory

Loki - Vanishes with launch of Vista

Windows - Vanishes with launch of Vista

[redsquareblack]

Loki - 22 years Old

Microsoft - 22 Years Old

Loki - Visited nearly every country by 21st Brithday

Microsoft Windows - In nearly every country

Loki - MIT Connection

Microsoft - Started with it's first customer in ABQ MIT Systems

Loki - Never called in sick

Wimdows - Always working somewhere

Loki - Memorized The phonebook photographic memory

Windows Based PC - Virtual photographic memory

Damn! You JUST beat me to it!

[Apogee]

Hrm video dl from the forum is being retarded! Here is a new link.

http://www.bcimultimedia.com/images/glasses.wmv

[mox6]

Wow... amazing connection between Microsoft and Loki..

[randy_tho]

I went back and watched the first video at the hotel to try to see what the next them might be. The only other object I can see focus on is the candy wrappers.

So it may just be space or something.

[confusio]

Some minor corrections to some posts: Triton is the name of the largest of Neptune and the name of Poseidon's son. Neptune is the Roman name for Poseidon (Greek). Incidently, one person referred to the "trident" not to be confused with the name "Triton".

It is kind of fitting with the puzzle name "Mural" and the Greek theme, but Loki did mention she has a "quad" major with a GPA equal to PI.

Take your time and read some of the previous topics and what leads we were

folowing, we all believe that the quadruple major is related to the theme

of the puzzles, next week will be related to "folklore".

Now that the excitment of the puzzles is over, and heck I'll have to spend a whole week

watching videos of Loki and trying to convince my wife that I don't have an asian lover !!!,

let me add some comments.

While interesting and challenging, this week puzzles were plagged with missdirections and

more questionable clues, and few snafus like the pictures on the mural, but I've a

feeling that it was more like guess the answer than solve the puzzle, do you agree ?

And as I said before I don't believe that it makes sense to put a lot of effort to analyze

the flash files, images, there are still a lot of clues in the videos that we need to piece

together, such as the MIT-like office hack, the camera focusing on particular objects,

I don't know if there is another gesture like the glasses, I was not able to catch

anything new from the previous videos, and now the photographic memory, address

(why she didn't say names?) and phone numbers, etc.

I think it will help if we start a new topic to summarize all the non-puzzle non-meta-plates

clues, the early biography from the pregame, etc, to see where this is going.

Just an idea.

Cheers

[Tech Star]

I am totaly confused.....why do I have 36?

nvm...I got it...

Edited January 21, 2007 by Tech Star

[Feebarn]

not to insult or anything... but are you logged in?

[confusio]

Loki - 22 years Old

Microsoft - 22 Years Old

Loki - Visited nearly every country by 21st Brithday

Microsoft Windows - In nearly every country

Loki - MIT Connection

Microsoft - Started with it's first customer in Albuquerque, MIT Systems

Loki - Never called in sick

Windows - Always working somewhere

Loki - Memorized The phonebook photographic memory

Windows Based PC - Virtual photographic memory

Loki - Vanishes with launch of Vista

Windows - Vanishes with launch of Vista

Wow this is great !!! I'll give some credit to msft about "Never called in sick" but to be

frank in the past 22 years (for the ones like me that may have much less and clearer

hair than Loki) msft made us sick many many times ...

Great summary and correlation phxmimms !!!

[mox6]

How does Windows disappear with Vista>?

[BLinGER]

Ok some more clues about loki,

She is an Enigma director

Never taken a sick day

on her 21st birthday she visited almost evry country

never owned a camera (photographic memory)

interesting peice on photgraphic memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

Interesting!? I just found out during my effort to solve the Mural puzzle that the answer: Triton - was also the Allied "code name" for a communication network using the Enigma machine. Also it is used by several companies for different products and systems like

• The code name of a popular Intel mainboard chipset in the mid-1990s
  
• The name of an internal project at eBay used to manage the company's Pay per click keyword portfolios
  

[KillerXtreme]

the site is totally messed up, it randomly logs you out. If you refresh your logged back in. Also be careful cause if you answer it correctly but have the first letter Upper Case or Lower Case sometimes it will tell you your wrong then you try the other way and it will say you already answered it correctly and never give you the points. I've had this happen to me at least twice now..

Also with the Number Grid puzzle, it could be a phone number you have to call. Tho there is no area code.. 4223424 leaving out the first 3 they give you..

[tsavo]

Ok some more clues about loki,

She is an Enigma director

Never taken a sick day

on her 21st birthday she visited almost evry country

never owned a camera (photographic memory)

interesting peice on photgraphic memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

Under "See Also", it links to Memory Sports. This entry also mentions a 1.2 million dollar contract between the winner of the American Memory Championships and Penguin Books. Penguin Books is the publisher of the Herodotus book Loki holds in the first video and has in her lap in the final video of Clue Box 3.

[Tech Star]

So now what do we do....is that it for this week?

Also I need 2 more white boxes for this week....know where they are?

[confusio]

Under "See Also", it links to Memory Sports. This entry also mentions a 1.2 million dollar contract between the winner of the American Memory Championships and Penguin Books. Penguin Books is the publisher of the Herodotus book Loki holds in the first video and has in her lap in the final video of Clue Box 3.

Guys no offense and I know that we posted many many pages with leads, clues, ideas, thoughts,

but ALL the puzzles are SOLVED so don't post anymore any possible solution to them,

about the books and other stuff we have been talking about it for three weeks and you will be

able to learn something if not reading at least searching the forum before posting.

Don't take me wrong, you are free to post whatever you want, but at this stage is just noise ...

My .02

[no.fear]

Just fun info, I found.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tour/vs2...DesignGoals.htm

Loki

Loki is a C++ library which combines generic programming and design patterns. The Loki library was written to accompany the book "Modern C++ Design." by Andrei Alexandrescu and is freely available for download. Loki makes heavy use of templates in its policy-base metaprogramming model. Loki is considered a powerful new way of expressing extensible designs in C++ and can enable developers to create expressive, reusable, and flexible code. The library includes classes such as smart pointers, functors, and threads, as well as implementations of design patterns such as Visitor, Singleton, and Abstract Factory.

[Karl Sheldon]

So I Guess we need a meta puzzle thread and a tidy summary of clues towards it and any clues we have not used up from pre-game and videos, like magicians cane, herudutus (? I'm Tired) book and stuff !

[ZuniTribal]

easy way to get the number grid white box

scroll down to the submit button area and you need the left side of the answer box visible.

enter some text in the answer box

zoom in one level

press the submit button

when the answer is wrong you can click on the white box (its hidden by the moving wrong answer control).

when you get the answer wrong, it appears from under it. thats when you click

I couldn't see what it was though.... it was obscured. all i could do was click.

i have 2 white boxes left.

[Orph]

I think we need to work out how the directions she is giving in the videos relate to the crest that we are piecing together, it seems logical that the two are related since they are both for the meta puzzle.

[thequestor]

So far:

Athena = Missile

poseidon = Missile

Triton = missile

3 launch vehicles :)

[ZuniTribal]

I wasn't involved in the pre-game but came across this post from dec 24

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...amp;p=588164882

In it it describes a note that Loki wrote and at the bottom of the page it had 'enigma director'

...

[criffin1]

i think all we will get to see of loki next week will be a zoom in of her face.

[amp_man]

Loki: Never owned a camera

Microsoft: Never made a camera (afaik)

Loki: Deals with smoke and magic

Microsoft: Makes your computer magically smoke

Awesome work on the connection! I was getting there, but put it all together yet. Anyone got any theorys on the quad major angle, if that relates to MS or not?