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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~

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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

Can you be more specific ?

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