Puzzle Box 4

[D-Cipher]

A few thougts/answers:

1) HARDEE anagrams to HEREDEN which is LATIN for IVY

2) If those are the names - we have to assign them to each sister - that is, they're not necessarily in L.O.K.I order in the video. MATH, STAGE ARTS, HISTORY, FOLKLORE is the order they're in

3) if we assign each sister a name based on her major they are History=Odessa, Folklore=Lorelei, Physics=?, Stage Arts=?

4) Is the answer their names in the order they're sitting in the video?

Probably yes. The order should stay that way. But that doesnt really matter. Im still hesitant about the LOrelei thing..but for this argument's sake, Loreley was discovered while we were doing the box w/ TIME...and so on.....i dont know man........my brain hurts from all this already :(

[confusio]

I see green people .... :alien: :x ... help !!!!

[diggletd]

can anyone make out what the notebook has written on it in the challenge video

the pictures dont resemble any puzzles, there are intersecting lines and formulas

this could provide a clue

I THINK IM ON TO SOMETHING

[metallithrax]

A few thougts/answers:

1) HARDEE anagrams to HEREDEN which is LATIN for IVY

2) If those are the names - we have to assign them to each sister - that is, they're not necessarily in L.O.K.I order in the video. MATH, STAGE ARTS, HISTORY, FOLKLORE is the order they're in

3) if we assign each sister a name based on her major they are History=Odessa, Folklore=Lorelei, Physics=?, Stage Arts=?

4) Is the answer their names in the order they're sitting in the video?

HARDEE does not anagram to HEREDEN

[dickey500]

Just tallied up the number of prizes = 491 total prizes

Do you think there are other people who have gotten all the answers besides here and at unfiction? I think these two forums have the greatest chance of winning prizes...I'd take a new copy of vista - no desire to be shot into space.

[bsb001]

How about this? Anyone able to extract the wording on the dresser from

http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/vidLoki_vanishing4783.htm ? I've tried, but I can't get enough

detail. It is at the start - 0:05 in.

[dickey500]

HARDEE does not anagram to HEREDEN

Typed wrong - it's HEDERA (the genus for the ivy plant)

[SWAMMIE]

OK.. first off... I went back and looked at all the complete puzzle hidden links.. and came up with a theory.

I think we are all on the wrong track. The answer is NOT 4 WORDS... It's ONE WORD!

Look at the very first link from PUZZLE #1's hidden link:

http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/ontherun/

"If you are the first person in the world to help me find my own vanishing point, I will print your name on the actual casing of every AMD Athlon 64 FX computer chip manufactured between now and March 31, 2007.

When the time is right, I?ll ask you a question. For now, follow this trail to get the WORD it leads to."

The key comment in there is "WORD"... not "WORDS"!

[Ices_Eyes]

HARDEE does not anagram to HEREDEN

HARDEE --> HEDERA, that in italian is EDERA, and in english is Ivy :)

[JMilton]

Just tallied up the number of prizes = 491 total prizes

Do you think there are other people who have gotten all the answers besides here and at unfiction? I think these two forums have the greatest chance of winning prizes...I'd take a new copy of vista - no desire to be shot into space.

i agree, full version of vista and i would be happy

[fishhead]

if you cant get all the pieces of the meta will you not be entered for the draw or are you entered if you have 1300 points how many did u get

[JMilton]

i agree, full version of vista and i would be happy

have to add, it would be nice to get a full copy of office 2007 as well

[metallithrax]

if you cant get all the pieces of the meta will you not be entered for the draw or are you entered if you have 1300 points how many did u get

The meta is only to get your name etched on the CPU's

[diggletd]

How about this? Anyone able to extract the wording on the dresser from

http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/vidLoki_vanishing4783.htm ? I've tried, but I can't get enough

detail. It is at the start - 0:05 in.

i think the first video ihas something to do with all of this

[SWAMMIE]

If you notice.. she even HINTS to the fact that she has sisters in that video.. she says "If my sisters hadn't found me.." referring to her hiding in the washing machine...

[confusio]

If you notice.. she even HINTS to the fact that she has sisters in that video.. she says "If my sisters hadn't found me.." referring to her hiding in the washing machine...

I don't remember now where but while searching I found that one of the infantry tactics of

Lt.Gen. William Hardee was to dissapear ...

[D-Cipher]

Look what i found under www.dictionary.com and searched for Hardee in the (encyclopedia) section:

Hardee is a name. It may refer to a person, place or thing.

[fishhead]

so i presume u get entered with the 1300 points

[dickey500]

Bear with me...

Recall the scene from American Pie with the redhead yelling "what's my name, b#$^h!?"

That's the effect I get with the commas inserted into "what, is, my, name"...if only she were grabbing my hair and asking this question through clenched teeth - it might not be so irritating

so i presume u get entered with the 1300 points

Every point earned is a single entry. I have 1310 entries into the drawing....when you sign up you get entries as well. The more you answer, the better your odds.

[bsb001]

That's strange, when I go there (www.dictionary.com) and try it I get:

1 result for: Hardee

View results from: Dictionary | Thesaurus | Encyclopedia | All Reference | the Web

U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source

Hardee County, FL (county, FIPS 49) Location: 27.49363 N, 81.80928 W

Population (1990): 19499 (7941 housing units)

Area: 1650.8 sq km (land), 2.7 sq km (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

[vidiot]

Last try ...

Can noone else see that the lines around the "Step up ... ... step right up!", taken as a whole picture, exactly

match the shape of and overlays exactly the eastern end of the trail when both are zoomed to the same size,

and that the ends of the thicker parts of the lines correspond to cities on the trail? This Is Not accidental.

[fishhead]

oki doki any tips on getting the last pieces from puzzle4 as seems to be locked for me when logged in in any browser

[cousinIT]

Ahh, I sense desperation...time to feed :devil: ....

Actually, time for my brain gas to pass, so here's my thoughts:

1. NO WAY are we looking for four answers--it's just too straightforward, like posting a picture of the answer to the roamingroaming puzzle (what gives? can we say "spoilage"?).

2. From looking at the 4th week clues video, it almost seems like 42 is changing the Meta Puzzle to fit what we think is significant. This fits with the fact that their main people (the ones on the 42entertainment.com site) often mention building "interactive" or "dynamic" game content--stuff that changes over time. So MAYBE THERE IS NO ANSWER TO THE META PUZZLE--YET. They're just watching the posts, looking for the most clever answer posted. Now THAT'S evil! And lazy, too, because then they don't have to make a puzzle with an answer.

3. L.O.K.I. and 'what,is,my,name' definately means they are looking for four things (clues) and/or are giving more clues to work with. So maybe we should LITERALLY be working with the words WHAT, IS, MY, NAME after all.--But not as a single anagram.

4. It seems pretty silly to carefully interlace Lorelei and Odessa into the bulk of the game, then slap on Kara and Ivy/Inari at the end with two extra puzzles. Not in character for the game at all, I think. They must be merely clues to something more....

5. I recall some puzzles had us picking a single letter out from a word and using that to make another word.

6. Maybe the clues Lorelei, Odessa, Kara, and Hardee mean to pick out the 12th, 15th, 11th, and 8th letters from the set WHAT, IS, MY, NAME. That gets you T+I+M+E=TIME. "Time" fits rather well, I think, with the whole Vanishing Point theme as it was, after all, no only the 1st puzzle box theme, but also a big clue during the pre-game.

7. If it isn't TIME, then probably someone else has already gotten a better answer, so why not shoot my chance off on a long shot?

8. Another playing with letters gives sums for Lorelei, Odessa, Kara, and Ivy as 76,63,31,56. In Hex that comes to "vc1V". No dice there. "Hardee" comes to 41, and makes it "vc1A" which also means nothing to me.

9. Using the 76th,63rd,31st, and 56th letters from WHAT, IS, MY, NAME gives W+I+M+N, kind of dissapointing. 'Hardee' makes that WIMA, which is also wierd. Do a Google search for that one for a few oddball laughs...

10. Dividing sums by Pi makes pretty much no difference. I think I got nonsense both ways.

10. I agree that we're running down to the wire, that they're getting pressured to make the answer more obvious and/or make the puzzle answerable, and that they're pretty much gonna PICK SOMEONE if a satisfying answer isn't found by the 9pm deadline or soon thereafter, 'cause their contract may be up after that. Who wants to work after a deadline?

My brain could play with this stuff forever and not get anywhere but silly. Too many possiblilities....that's why I sucked at contributing to the puzzle solving. "Can't see past any decision" like the Oracle said of the Architect. Oh well, if I get it, they'll be stamping NEOWIN.NET on there instead of my name. I would have "stood on the shoulders of giants" to touch the sky. Play on, dudes! :yes:

[deeter]

Hey. I don?t belong in your forum. I know little about codes and such. But I?ve been playing for fun and thought I?d throw this out as a final answer: Vista. Seems too simple, right? But in the absence of a consensus here, I?ll explain my reasoning: (1) in an earlier video, Loki suggested that the one who gets his name on the chips is the one who finds the ?word,? not ?words,? that leads her to her vanishing point. (ii) I don?t think Vista has been mentioned in the game yet, and it?s the whole point of having the game! (iii) Loki seems to like the number 5, and Vista has 5 letters. (iv) The book Seven Chinese Brothers was redone as Five (5) Chinese Brothers, but is generally the same story. (v) Vista is a synonym for Horizon. (vi) Things vanish into the horizon. (vii) They didn?t name the OS Horizon, but instead, vista. Someone worked hard to come up with that name. (viii) Loki disappears at the point when Vista is released. (ix) The astronomical horizon is exactly midway in the sky between the zenith and the nadir. This would be what the coordinates and directions given could be hinting toward. (x) It?s unlikely that the answer is her name, because in the puzzles, the question right above the answer box was not the question to be answered, but merely a clue. The names (probably Lorelei, Odessa, Kara, and ??(Ivy?)) suggest cities, bodies of water (Rhine, Caspian Sea, Black Sea), coordinates, lines on a map, ergo, ?horizon.? ?Vista.? I?m probably wrong, but it?s the only answer that?s met my comfort level. Best of luck.

[bsb001]

Last try ...

Can noone else see that the lines around the "Step up ... ... step right up!", taken as a whole picture, exactly

match the shape of and overlays exactly the eastern end of the trail when both are zoomed to the same size,

and that the ends of the thicker parts of the lines correspond to cities on the trail? This Is Not accidental.

Could be there as a backup set of clues in case we didn't use the miles chart she gave us?

Hey. I don?t belong in your forum. I know little about codes and such. But I?ve been playing for fun and thought I?d throw this out as a final answer: Vista. Seems too simple, right? But in the absence of a consensus here, I?ll explain my reasoning: (1) in an earlier video, Loki suggested that the one who gets his name on the chips is the one who finds the ?word,? not ?words,? that leads her to her vanishing point. (ii) I don?t think Vista has been mentioned in the game yet, and it?s the whole point of having the game! (iii) Loki seems to like the number 5, and Vista has 5 letters. (iv) The book Seven Chinese Brothers was redone as Five (5) Chinese Brothers, but is generally the same story. (v) Vista is a synonym for Horizon. (vi) Things vanish into the horizon. (vii) They didn?t name the OS Horizon, but instead, vista. Someone worked hard to come up with that name. (viii) Loki disappears at the point when Vista is released. (ix) The astronomical horizon is exactly midway in the sky between the zenith and the nadir. This would be what the coordinates and directions given could be hinting toward. (x) It?s unlikely that the answer is her name, because in the puzzles, the question right above the answer box was not the question to be answered, but merely a clue. The names (probably Lorelei, Odessa, Kara, and ??(Ivy?)) suggest cities, bodies of water (Rhine, Caspian Sea, Black Sea), coordinates, lines on a map, ergo, ?horizon.? ?Vista.? I?m probably wrong, but it?s the only answer that?s met my comfort level. Best of luck.

You may be righ:whistle: not, but you may be right) :whistle: