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Is anyone working on this PDF?

http://mhstatic.com/missions/2/download.pdf

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Former Macheist team: "Green Monkeys™ "

The IRC lot are suggesting (!) that it might be a case of weaving the strips? (the text is cut into blocks, but the background into strips...). Or possibly printing double sided and then folding somehow!?

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As best I could understand, "Katie and Heino Clemons" voicemail picked up when I edited out everything but the tones from the audio file and played the results into my phone.  I didn't leave a message, but I really hope they are a part of this, because they're going to be getting all kinds of calls if they are not...

Turning GREEN waiting for the bundle!

WTF? LOL! OMG! ROFL!

Well, there goes my productivity for the rest of the day. Good thing it's slow at work!

Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead...

Can someone visit the place where the phone number came from?

The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they are not Bill.

printing now

the problem with weaving would be that every other block would be in a different direction so the text can't possibly read anything out...

IT might be a cell phone voice mal.

I think this heist will be online, not offline...

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Former Macheist team: "Green Monkeys™ "

(someone else's idea from IRC again but:) how about a cube somehow?? (with the paper)

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Yeah, I only see cutting the blocks out and putting them together to form something cohesive.

I like to pull heists.

lukebacon, are you on the IRC channel?  Can you keep the form updated with what's happening on IRC?

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Former Macheist team: "Green Monkeys™ "

Using the backgrounds to help piece them together.  Just like the puzzle for the backdoor address.

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Former Macheist team: "Green Monkeys™ "

Well, the PDF isn't even that straightfoward - it's cut into strips, and then the strips are cut into cubes at the top and bottom, with the middle bits cut in half.  It's giving me a headache just looking at it.  XD;;;

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The first tones could also be a country code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co … ling_codes

#include <unistd.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
void main(){int p=ntohl(0x6E696E65);int q[]={p,ntohl(0x7479),p,0xA};write(1,&q,0x10);}

I agree, a cube or anything else would also make the exact same multidirectional text.  The picture just needs to be cut out and put together...

Maybe its a picture of the jellyfish video that the site showed temporarily while the mission was being added.

Hmm. They do look like walking directions. I guess this another one for the people in Philly.

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AppShelf: MacHeist 3 Loot
AppShelf: nanoBundle 1
Check Reciept Page for nanoBundle 2 AppShelf Files.

Im almost done with the PDF in photoshop

I'll try my best for as long as I'm here, but it's pretty hectic!

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Cut up into 63 little squares and paste onto a Rubic's cube?

Anything is possible, very few things actually happen.

Mekanized: you haz mad skillz

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Good job Mekanized!

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Mekanized, let us know when you're done, please?  I'm all graphic-ed out for the day.  Stupid work.

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All I fear means nothing

I think this is the street.

Do you have stairs in your house?

There's actually 64 pieces

I watch you fast asleep
All I fear means nothing

I've been trying to cut these things in Photoshop, there'd be almost 100 layers... could take awhile...

I like to pull heists.

They're directions (as in a map)...  working on piecing it together...

By reading this, you have given me brief control of your mind.

There are two pages to the PDF, but the blocks seem to be repeated.  For example, on one page there's a block with:

Walk 2 b
sign on
South ar

on the top row, second block from the right.

On the second page that exact same block is the 5th block down all the way to the right and turned upside down.

In other words, they're not showing different text, only a different arrangement.

It could be that weaving them together somehow would work, but I'm not quite sure how it'd be managed.

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I think printing it out and using scissors is going to be faster!  I can't try it at the moment, but maybe someone wants to go the analog route in parallel with the photoshop work?

I started in photoshop, but it'll take like 30 minutes.

Close, not out of the question, just trying to eyeball how the text flows on a page of this pdf. I'm not sure which one you'd choose as the leftover - kind of like the screw that's sitting there after you put your Mac back together.

Anything is possible, very few things actually happen.

IRC latest: accordion folding but probably a no-go.
General consensus is, as here, cutting out the blocks and lining them up somehow (the backgrounds probably ought to match too).

Ah, jimsteph, good thinking though...

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the keys 1, 4, 7 and * has the same sound. the sound is equal for each column.
there are lots of combinations.

Any reason!? - does the area code match perchance?

How about a reverse directory lookup (You do have those in the States, right? - no such thing in the UK).

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doesn't look like cutting all these pieces will be fun...

It looks like within the strips on the PDF there are places where the text changes directions.  Folds maybe?

@ryptide

If anyone is going to print the PDF I would suggest him to invert the image to save some ink.

503-608 is Beaverton, OR.  I can't match the last four digits, but it's the only Stark St. that looks like its in the proper area code and prefix.

Do you have stairs in your house?

I'm already working in that direction...my photoshop skills are not at all up to par for that

The voice on the phone message said something about 'weave your way through this puzzle.' I think weaving may be on the right track.

EDIT: 'The next thing you'll have to do is weave your way through some obstacles on drivingmetothink.com.'

Blessed are the Thieves, for the Lord helps those who help themselves.

Printing out the PDF now.

@ryptide

I think that the pdf strips were woven to create the image - but I don't know that we can weave them to undo.  For what it's worth, I'm trying it in the real world.  I'll let you know how it goes.

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Well there you go. No more cube talk from me. Less cutting too

Anything is possible, very few things actually happen.

Looking at it further, and printed out, I think it is definitely going to need to be woven.

@ryptide

i'd reckon you'd weave page 1 with page 2...wish i had time to do this.

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good catch. thats v likely... just posted ur comment on IRC... seeing how that goes.

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they got it done on the irc....... waiting for link

Someone over on IRC has it. . .and is making scans of the solved puzzle.

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This is proving for labor intensive than i first thought.  Any one have insight on an way to speed this up.  is there a method to the madness

Wow I just got on the heist and you guys are well ahead of me

they are uploading the puzzle finished...