jeffcaplan Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 can someone please detail as to how exactly they are going about moving 5874.61 mils to the right from their starting location, etc.? Is anyone taking into account the curvature of the earth? Are you isng some online mapping program? Google Earth, etc.? Thanks. ~jeff~ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Interface7, check your math. Your DOWN total doesn't match mine. Also, I don't think you can shortcut the problem by combining the distances. If you do so, you end up on a different spot than if you plotted out each section, because on the Earth you are dealing with circle distances, which don't combine so easily. I tried carefully plotting out the route from Mystery Spot CA got the following, but it still doesn't make sense to me. http://maps.live.com/?v=2&cid=845971D888DC1036!116 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notfit Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 I used http://maps.live.com/ I stopped after a few, because it's too difficult to track if you're going exactly West, South, etc. But here's what I got when I did it. 1. Mystery Spot, CA 2. 5874.61 miles - I ended up in some marshes near Seville Spain. 3. 1049.62 miles - The Harrow in Ireland 4. 1161.79 miles - Near Warsaw, but by this time, I am certain I wasn't heading in straight lines and there is no telling. 5. 153.48 miles 6. 543.55 miles 7. 652.2 miles 8. 4909.96 miles 9. 548.42 miles Everyone should post their results. I don't think it's a matter of just finding the last city on the list. I think you need to know all of the points in between as well. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallingOutOfClothes-Boyz Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Here's my guess based on previous anagrams, puzzle parts and ideas that all of you have supplied - Remembering the Rabbit puzzle was Presto, lead to someone saying Change-O change an "o" to an "d" in "Odessa Oblast" = last dos based I'm betting the answer is "Last Dos Based Windows", which is vanishing with the introduction of Vista. Comments? That is brilliant...... Good luck to win--and my computer or something is messed up--I have solved every puzzle and found every white box but all of the "_ out of 36/48 found" screens still say zero. So I can't really solve the puzzle. I can help, however. It's time for me to stop being a lurker on these forums once and for all! =D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272282 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 You can tell if you are going straight in a compass direction by swithing maps.live.com to 3D view. That gives you a lat/lon ticker in the lower left status bar, so you can match up the latitude or longitude from your starting point, and then just dial in the distance. It is very tedious, but it seems to work. The other thing I wonder is how the distances are calculated. Real airplanes don't fly right on latitude lines to go east/west, they fly great circle distance lines, which are shorter. I don't know which maps.live.com is using, or what the puzzle used. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korn1699 Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Did anyone else get all but one box? I went through every puzzle 3 or 4 times looking for them, and looked at the locations in the wiki, nothing... I think there was an error somewhere for me.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahecht Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Thought this site might help people: http://williams.best.vwh.net/gccalc.htm Allows you to calculate a new Lat/Long given a distance and heading. It uses Great Circle calculation, so it takes into account spherical geometry and the fact that going 10 miles east near the north pole (for example) changes your latitude a lot more than going 10 miles east at the equator. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdesignr Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 How long do you think we have to wait before assuming that our answer isn't right? I tried reading the rules, and it seems like the first person to get the answer right will get an email... but they don't say if that is automatic, within a few hours, or at some point in the next few days. I think I made a decent guess, so I don't want to wipe it out by trying other things, but it would be somewhat funny if nobody won... or worse, if somebody would have won, but they changed their answer before they were made the winners. I guess they don't want to just tell you immediately if you won, or people would be trying every single word in existance, but this not knowing is a little hard too. Maybe if every 12 hours or so they could post on the site that nobody has yet won, and to try again... (here's hoping someone from the game is reading this) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
troist Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 That is brilliant......Good luck to win--and my computer or something is messed up--I have solved every puzzle and found every white box but all of the "_ out of 36/48 found" screens still say zero. So I can't really solve the puzzle. I can help, however. It's time for me to stop being a lurker on these forums once and for all! =D if you don't login on the main screen before trying then it does that... otherwise then its just a dodgy game, try using IE... it works in there. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robjkay Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 How long do you think we have to wait before assuming that our answer isn't right? I tried reading the rules, and it seems like the first person to get the answer right will get an email... but they don't say if that is automatic, within a few hours, or at some point in the next few days. I think I made a decent guess, so I don't want to wipe it out by trying other things, but it would be somewhat funny if nobody won... or worse, if somebody would have won, but they changed their answer before they were made the winners. I guess they don't want to just tell you immediately if you won, or people would be trying every single word in existance, but this not knowing is a little hard too. Maybe if every 12 hours or so they could post on the site that nobody has yet won, and to try again... (here's hoping someone from the game is reading this) I have posted on the site and it tells you if you are right or wrong immediately Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeshua Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Did anyone else get all but one box? I went through every puzzle 3 or 4 times looking for them, and looked at the locations in the wiki, nothing... I think there was an error somewhere for me.. That happened to me. A couple people said that on IRC as well. I went straight down the wiki list and I'm quite sure I didn't miss any. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
no_mercy_lupus Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 the unfiction people are very unkind.... i've been down this road a few times. i lets try again here, maybe my help will be appreciated....it seems ya'll enlist the "positive" law of attraction rule, i like that. www.griffithobservatory.org www.yurisnight.net any coorelations? -NML Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalpirate Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 (edited) 4th name is isola :) http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...id_q31jyf7g3dt4 Thank you :) Edited January 29, 2007 by signalpirate Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.J. Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Your first distance is wrong. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalpirate Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Your first distance is wrong. ooookkk http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=58...earch&meta= Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamodefender Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 4th name is isola :) http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&...id_q31jyf7g3dt4 Thank you :) I ended up there as well. Though I changed Isola to Insula, which is the latin translation. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
confusio Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 the unfiction people are very unkind.... i've been down this road a few times. ilets try again here, maybe my help will be appreciated....it seems ya'll enlist the "positive" law of attraction rule, i like that. www.griffithobservatory.org www.yurisnight.net any coorelations? -NML Can you be more specific ? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robjkay Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 Everyone notice you can click on Smallest Places has name? It shows a map with an X marks the spot! Everyone notice you can click on Smallest Places has name? It shows a map with an X marks the spot! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588272944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj1856 Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Everyone notice you can click on Smallest Places has name? It shows a map with an X marks the spot! The X is on Hardee, Mississippi. Not Iola. Now what does Hardee mean in latin??? lol -Matt Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588273099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilsonww Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 The Soap Box video shows the location of loki's office. Building 50, Office 4436. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588273155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyphil25 Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Sorry if I missed something ... but why isn't it 'Issaquena' for the I.? idaknow .. too easy? I just want to know the answer!! Somebody please solve it!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588273177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robjkay Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 The X is on Hardee, Mississippi. Not Iola.Now what does Hardee mean in latin??? lol -Matt hardee harum : (fem. plur. gen.) The city wall had four OF THESE (gates). Heniis Harniis : Hames. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588273184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract4 Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 I think they put that into msn maps and its not really a place. It is in Issaquena county but given the exact nature of the directions and the clue image I doubt its that simple. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588273265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
confusio Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Everyone notice you can click on Smallest Places has name? It shows a map with an X marks the spot! Interesting, another change to the page today !!! I guess they are closely monitoring what's going on :-) Cheers Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588273268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nekid Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 It is in Google maps too...take a look at the aerial from live maps...there is nothing there. There is an approach into a field with a farm commune nearby...that's it. I fired off an e-mail to Hardee AT vanishingpointgame DOT com Nothing yet. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/531771-meta-puzzle-finale-bring-all-clues/page/10/#findComment-588273274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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