Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Say Goodbye to Perplex City???

The last wave of cards have been released and already nearly all cards are solved! The Receda Cube is still missing somewhere on Earth however, so it is anyone's game. A couple of the cards are giving problems to people however.
The Thirteenth Labour is a RC5 encrypted message that requires decrypting by either guessing the key word, or using brute force to crack the message. In order to accomplish the brute force method, someone created a program that will allow multiple computers through the Internet to work together to find the key to unlock the message.
Billion to One has a picture of a Japanese man in some unknown location with a Japanese phrase on the side of the card. After someone purchased a hint, we discovered the man's name is Satoshi. Also, the Japanese text has been translated to the phrase, "Find Me." Other than that, that is about all that we know. Perplex City players have made a website to aid in the search for this person.

On the 12th of August (right around the corner), an event is taking place to add a new link to Perplex City through the Internet in San Francisco, CA. To advertise, the company who made the game, Mind Candy, posted this animated image below on BoingBoing (seen at PerplexWiki). However, for a split second, near the end of the animation is a braille message, shown below. We have translated the braille to read: "Say Goodbye to Perplex City." Will Perplex City be destroyed? Will the current link and the new link in San Francisco be severed? I imagine that the events in SF will help to wrap up this opening season of one of the greatest Alternate Reality Games ever!

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