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Posted by: Enormous Corgi
Posted by: Unanimate Objec
There's no way Nate Hawbaker's favorite hero is Alan Stuart


ALAN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN!

I feel like it wants us to decipher the words left to right, starting from >Start. Numbers don't equal letters, seeing as a 3 can be A and T.


This is utterly ridiculous.

  • 08.17.2012 4:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: Father Franklin
Very nice. I literally just started tracing the numbers thinking I found something, only to see that it's already been found. Congratulations, sir.

Go read all of page 2.

[Edited on 08.17.2012 4:49 PM PDT]

  • 08.17.2012 4:49 PM PDT

Ling-Ling

  • 08.17.2012 4:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Father Franklin
Very nice. I literally just started tracing the numbers thinking I found something, only to see that it's already been found. Congratulations, sir.

Sorry Skrillex, that's not true.

  • 08.17.2012 4:49 PM PDT

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

Posted by: ncsuDuncan
1
7
49
343
2,401
16,807
...and so on following the powers of seven until
33,232,930,569,601

Sorry for the caps lock in my last post. Heart was pounding as I finished, hoping I was first.

Hats off to David Johnson, it was an awesome puzzle and I had fun figuring it out. (Almost took a few wrong turns on duplicate numbers.)

Oh, I see. Well done.

I wish I had have picked up on that "power of seven" hint...

Wait, that's not it? It was Ling-Ling?

[Edited on 08.17.2012 4:51 PM PDT]

  • 08.17.2012 4:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: ncsuDuncan
Ling-Ling


Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

NOW you may celebrate. With my permission.

  • 08.17.2012 4:50 PM PDT


Posted by: TheMisssingLink

Posted by: ncsuDuncan
Ling-Ling


Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

NOW you may celebrate. With my permission.

*dances appropriately*

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For everyone else:
If you use the letters left over from the red-herring sentence (i.e. the ones you don't pass through when following the power of seven digits) you get the following:
WHAT IS THE NAME OF BUNGIE'S DOG HEAD?

  • 08.17.2012 4:52 PM PDT
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No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.--Teddy Roosevelt

Posted by: TheMisssingLink
Posted by: ncsuDuncan
Ling-Ling


Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

NOW you may celebrate. With my permission.

NOW I am confused.
edit: Ohhhhhhhhh...^

[Edited on 08.17.2012 4:53 PM PDT]

  • 08.17.2012 4:53 PM PDT

Apparently I am an idiot.

  • 08.17.2012 4:53 PM PDT
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Whoo.

The answer is "It won't be so easy".

  • 08.17.2012 4:53 PM PDT

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

Posted by: ncsuDuncan
For everyone else:
If you use the letters left over from the red-herring sentence (i.e. the ones you don't pass through when following the power of seven digits) you get the following:
WHAT IS THE NAME OF BUNGIE'S DOG HEAD?

Right, now I see. Clever.

  • 08.17.2012 4:54 PM PDT


Posted by: SonOfTheShire
I wish I had have picked up on that "power of seven" hint...
I did haha. I just didn't know what to do with it.
XP

  • 08.17.2012 4:54 PM PDT

Posted by: ncsuDuncan
*dances appropriately*


You have GOT to be kidding me.

(sulks in the corner)

I am so kicking your ass at PAX.

  • 08.17.2012 4:54 PM PDT
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Whoo.

I still don't understand how any of the answers made sense.

  • 08.17.2012 4:54 PM PDT

Posted by: Enormous Corgi
Posted by: Unanimate Objec
There's no way Nate Hawbaker's favorite hero is Alan Stuart


ALAN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN!

This puzzle made no sense.

  • 08.17.2012 4:56 PM PDT

@spawn031

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

Congrats Duncan! Also, for those of you that don't know, he is the same guy that put together all of this.

  • 08.17.2012 4:56 PM PDT

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I.... I don't get it.

  • 08.17.2012 4:56 PM PDT

Makes sense now...

**Chalks up another "fail" on his Bungie forum contest attempts**

Someday...

  • 08.17.2012 4:57 PM PDT

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Good stuff.

  • 08.17.2012 4:57 PM PDT

-Watertribe-

The hint was in plain sight. I'm an idiot.

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Clearly I have underestimated you all.

Or at least I have underestimated Duncan.

Next time, there will be no mercy.

  • 08.17.2012 4:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: spawn031
Congrats Duncan! Also, for those of you that don't know, he is the same guy that put together all of this.

I still visit that site every week hoping for something new that he may have discovered before everyone else.

  • 08.17.2012 4:59 PM PDT


Posted by: spawn031
Congrats Duncan! Also, for those of you that don't know, he is the same guy that put together all of this.


I knew the name sounded familiar. Great work on that site, bro. It's nice to have a warm place for some of us to huddle while we are in this frigid darkness.

  • 08.17.2012 4:59 PM PDT

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.

Posted by: TheMisssingLink
Clearly I have underestimated you all.

Or at least I have underestimated Duncan.

Next time, there will be no mercy.

Not even a little mercy?

  • 08.17.2012 5:01 PM PDT


Posted by: DeeJ
Posted by: ncsuDuncan
*dances appropriately*


You have GOT to be kidding me.

(sulks in the corner)

I am so kicking your ass at PAX.


Hey, I'm doing you a favor! Think of the shipping costs you'll save when you can just hand me the prize in person.

...unless the prize is an actual ass-kicking. If that's the case, I'm actually seven feet tall and my real name is Claude.

  • 08.17.2012 5:02 PM PDT