Puzzle Box 3

[TRON101276]

Where did that link come from?

[TRON101276]

nevermind, my bad. It was right in front of me. Glad it wasn't a snake.

[sp8ceman]

Hey theres an invitation to the Seattle Bonus Party. Whos attending?

http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/invite.htm

Oh theres also a new email address of [email protected]

Looks like the email address is updated: [email protected] I'll be there

[Interface7]

Damn...that sucks...I'm stuck in the East Coast.....:(

[Interface7]

OK i emailed [email protected] AND [email protected] with the word "yes" in the body and no email comes back to me....anyone get a confirmation??

[patrikhub]

If you check the WayBack pages the author is David O. Reed. The MIT professor is David P. Reed.

A really large coincidence, but another nail in the coffin.

"Presto Change-O?"

[phxmimms]

Same situation here. Last minute flight is $450.00 per person, so it would set me back a grand.

Tempted...but thinking... would it be one of those "once in a lifetime events" that I would say WOW, money well spent or would I be kicking myself all the way home.

Damn...that sucks...I'm stuck in the East Coast.....:(

[mauriziocorso77]

hey i live in australia and i replied :). It does say transportation will be provided, and doesnt say the location (seattle is only where the clue will be posted). I'm hoping for a free flight ticket lol.

EDIT: My Mistake...transportation from event coordinates....damn. Nothing ever happens in Australia. :(

Edited January 24, 2007 by mauriziocorso77

[ZuniTribal]

Where did that link come from?

its now on the 1/27 puzzle page.

These partys are usually a lot of fun. Years ago during the launch of win95 some s/w i wrote got passed out as a freebie to attendees....

Edited January 24, 2007 by ZuniTribal

[lautaylo]

If lorelei was a maiden that "misled" sailors and crashed them into a rocks, then maybe that's what Loki is trying to do to us as well. The stories she keeps telling about herself are obvious lies. For certain, there is no way she visited every single country in the world on her 21st birthday. It's either an out and out lie or your theory about her being an "it" is true.

I think the stories are there to mislead us, but the directions from the glasses or something else we missed are the true clues.

While I agree that the information is not true (after all, Loki is a character, not a real person), kindly remember that she said she had visited nearly every country by her 21st birthday. Big difference, and entirely possible.

Because we have established that Loki's background story is most likely a fabrication, we must assume that its details are entirely too relevant as clues in solving the game/Meta puzzle. Why else would they be included? We were not meant to take the stories as truth.

[SWAMMIE]

While I agree that the information is not true (after all, Loki is a character, not a real person), kindly remember that she said she had visited nearly every country by her 21st birthday. Big difference, and entirely possible.

Because we have established that Loki's background story is most likely a fabrication, we must assume that its details are entirely too relevant as clues in solving the game/Meta puzzle. Why else would they be included? We were not meant to take the stories as truth.

Actually.. that one has a simple solution.. if you take into consideration the laws of "National Airspace" where the boundaries for being "IN" a country can be justified by flying OVER it.. the only logical solution can be found by her flying over each one.. And since the speed would have to be great, it can also be assumed that she was in SPACE on her 21st B-Day... Which makes for a nice tie-in with the whole Rocketplane prize...

[ajd999]

Well, I spent all night working with the Tomb puzzle sheet following up on the discovery here that the blocks were the pyramids a Giza and the dot in the top left is the vanishing point if you draw circles intersecting the corners. Here is my overlay leading to the letters OTMISFNTIERN being intersected by those circles. This is an anagram for "FIRST MENTION". Wynn at unfiction.com forums found the correct letter sequence before me (I had poorly aligned some letters which led me astray). When Googled with "Yo-Yo" gives you a hit with this sentence "however the first mention of the yo-yo was in Greece in 500 BC." Leading logically to the solution. I'd consider that one cleared up now.

That actually makes sense. I was following that idea, but I connected the corners with the straight lines, which resulted in wrong characters so I abandoned that approach.

Good work.

[totalslacker]

Looks like we might be a test for Microsoft Research...

http://research.microsoft.com/uai2004/InvitedTalks.htm

[deffjeff]

Finally got my reply email to the party

[phxmimms]

No reply here yet. Hoping it comes with airline tickets. :-)

Finally got my reply email to the party

[deffjeff]

No reply here yet. Hoping it comes with airline tickets. :-)

Some how I ended up getting 4 email replies several hours apart

[mox6]

"Presto Change-O?"

O could mean the O-Theater in Las Vagas at the Billagio

[thsartori]

so do you think the people that will disappear at the final event will be those people that signed up to attend the event / party? .... after all the last box is named "People disappear..." and she said they will provide transportation.

[Hawx's]

Where does it say anything about the vip party i can't find it and i don't have time for the next few days to go back and look in previous pages. please help :)

[Tracer911]

What does the RSVP message say? Should I be concerned if i've not recieved a response and it's been over 12 hours?

[thsartori]

perhaps they are planning a mass slaughter of the people who show up.... MS is scared of our mighty brain power...... wa ha ha..

It's going to be one hell of a game of musical chair....they will use the sheet music from box 3 and when the music stops there will be a mad fight for the one empty chair next to Loki from the second box video. I'm convinced that this will be how they choose the winner.

[Modo100]

Where does it say anything about the vip party i can't find it and i don't have time for the next few days to go back and look in previous pages. please help :)

Just double click on box 4

[Modo100]

I'm going! Of course it's only a half an hour drive for me. Maybe we should try to all meet someplace....like the sundial at Gas Works Park. In the FAQ it says that there's going to be a celebration there on Sat. So it's not really a surprise.

[InsaneProdigy]

My attempt at explaining the Mural puzzle ...

The puzzle clearly indicates that dates are somehow significant "PEOPLE AND DATES WITH LASTING EFFECT". The complication I ran into were that dates attributed to the inventions shown are very sketchy in many cases. When I decided to take the first date associated with the invention or underlying principle behind each item I came up with this (quotes taken from web references found with Google):

Eli Whitney - cotton gin - 1793 - "Whitney produced the first crude model of his gin in 1793"

Humphrey Davy - electric lamp - 1801 - "In 1801 Sir Humphry Davy, an English chemist, made platinum strips glow by passing an electric current through them"

James Watt - steam engine - 1764 - "Watt?s work with the steam engine began in 1764, when he was requested to repair a Newcomen steam engine used at the university."

Benjamin Franklin - lightning rod - 1747 - "In 1747 Franklin began his experiments in electricity with a simple apparatus that he received from a friend in England."

George Louis Lesage - telegraph - 1774 - "The first telegraph was demonstrated in Geneva, Switzerland in 1774 by George Louis Lesage."

Louis Pasteur - pasteurized milk - 1856 - ".. in 1856 .. Pasteur?s experiments on bacteria began, resulting in the process that still bears his name (pasteurization)."

George Stephenson - locomotive - 1814 - "Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814"

Guglielmo Marconi - radio - 1895 - "late in the summer of 1895, Guglielmo Marconi made the first tentative wireless transmissions"

Alexander Graham Bell - telephone - 1876 - "until 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell placed the first phone call."

Cyrus McCormick - reaper - 1831 - "By the end of the same 1831 harvest, Cyrus had the first successful demonstration of his reaper."

Thomas Edison - phonograph - 1877 - "August 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph,"

I'll be the first to say that the date attributed to Benjamin Franklin seems to be a stretch given that the picture appears to be a lightning rod which he did not invent for many more years.

Now, taking the last digit of each year as an index into the inventors name we get:

I HEIR PRINCE

Triton could indeed be called the heir prince of Poseidon (depicted in the 3rd image with the matching key symbol from this puzzle).

[confusio]

My attempt at explaining the Mural puzzle ...

The puzzle clearly indicates that dates are somehow significant "PEOPLE AND DATES WITH LASTING EFFECT". The complication I ran into were that dates attributed to the inventions shown are very sketchy in many cases. When I decided to take the first date associated with the invention or underlying principle behind each item I came up with this (quotes taken from web references found with Google):

Eli Whitney - cotton gin - 1793 - "Whitney produced the first crude model of his gin in 1793"

Humphrey Davy - electric lamp - 1801 - "In 1801 Sir Humphry Davy, an English chemist, made platinum strips glow by passing an electric current through them"

James Watt - steam engine - 1764 - "Watt?s work with the steam engine began in 1764, when he was requested to repair a Newcomen steam engine used at the university."

Benjamin Franklin - lightning rod - 1747 - "In 1747 Franklin began his experiments in electricity with a simple apparatus that he received from a friend in England."

George Louis Lesage - telegraph - 1774 - "The first telegraph was demonstrated in Geneva, Switzerland in 1774 by George Louis Lesage."

Louis Pasteur - pasteurized milk - 1856 - ".. in 1856 .. Pasteur?s experiments on bacteria began, resulting in the process that still bears his name (pasteurization)."

George Stephenson - locomotive - 1814 - "Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814"

Guglielmo Marconi - radio - 1895 - "late in the summer of 1895, Guglielmo Marconi made the first tentative wireless transmissions"

Alexander Graham Bell - telephone - 1876 - "until 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell placed the first phone call."

Cyrus McCormick - reaper - 1831 - "By the end of the same 1831 harvest, Cyrus had the first successful demonstration of his reaper."

Thomas Edison - phonograph - 1877 - "August 12, 1877, is the date popularly given for Thomas Alva Edison's completion of the model for the first phonograph,"

I'll be the first to say that the date attributed to Benjamin Franklin seems to be a stretch given that the picture appears to be a lightning rod which he did not invent for many more years.

Now, taking the last digit of each year as an index into the inventors name we get:

I HEIR PRINCE

Triton could indeed be called the heir prince of Poseidon (depicted in the 3rd image with the matching key symbol from this puzzle).

Interesting. One thing that keeps bugging me is that two of the images shown in the mural are not quite consistent

with the name of the inventor even when the names seems to be correct.

The steam machine image doesn't look at all as far as I know to any of the designs James Watt put together, some folks

were able to find that the image looks closer to a Wachs Steam Engine.

Also the image for the telegraph looks more than one of the standard morse keys for Samuel Morse's telegraph,

the Lesage telegraph was quite different from the one created by Morse.

Cheers