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Quoted from greatwichjohn:I said Jpop is living in pinball land.
Assuming it's something like this.
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Screen Shot 2022-07-11 at 5.53.33 AM (resized).pngQuoted from blueberryjohnson:Assuming it's something like this.
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Not enough purple
Halifax, NS
Oh. Chicago.
I kind of liked pinball land better when I thought it was some kind of existential fantasy plane.
Quoted from greatwichjohn:I said Jpop is living in pinball land. Have no idea if the new players hired him or not. Time will tell his lawsuit against him is winding down.
Quoted from Smack:Have we given up on trying to decipher what the heck is going on with the website? I know there are no recent updates but that seemed slightly more productive than the conversation of late
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Unless another new clue pops up, it's just too cryptic with too many missing pieces.
Quoted from ForceFlow:Unless another new clue pops up, it's just too cryptic with too many missing pieces.
I agree…need another clue. I keep heading back over to The Nihilist cipher decoder, and other grid based ciphers, over on dcode without any luck.
If you want to try your luck on different keywords to use on a Nihilist cipher decoder…put this in as the ciphertext
“32 73 48 89 95 27 92 19 45 43 39 52 34 99 57 96 74 24 86 61”
And start plugging away aimlessly 
. Maybe you’ll get lucky
I just came here to say this is the funniest shit ever. Pinball land LOL. Is that like New Jersey minus Paterson and Elizabeth
Quoted from ForceFlow:Unless another new clue pops up, it's just too cryptic with too many missing pieces.
Have you not considered that GWJ is an unrecognized genius, and this cipher was just his ploy to keep the thread going until he could hijack it for good ?
Quoted from Thizben:Nihilist ciphe? I thought it was an Atbash cipher given the "biblical cipher" clue. regardless I do think another clue is needed on how to take the hex codes and translate them into some sort of alphabet.
I tried quite a few different 2character numeric pair to text based ciphers (e.g. atbash, polybius square, Caesar, keyboard key based locators, periodic table of elements based, etc…dcode has tons of decoders to try) and I keep coming back to thinking it’s the Nihilist one…something about figuring out a keyword string from the word puzzle as well as the range of numeric pairs we are dealing with. That and what’s the point of the word search? The hex codes just came from getting error code values from the bank of 20 words.
More clues would be better at this point.
v9 of the puzzle dropped. Next clue is "The key to this puzzle is that the puzzle is the key."
So...yea, they are going for the slow burn approach here.
Quoted from WindRaidor:v9 of the puzzle dropped. Next clue is "The key to this puzzle is that the puzzle is the key."
So...yea, they are going for the slow burn approach here.
In other news: water, wet.
Dude. Puzzle Person. You've got like three people playing along here. We're going to lose interest if the clues don't get more substantive.
I like not participating in this. It probably annoys whomever is doing the puzzles, because you know they're having fun watching people try to decode it while also thinking they're smart for making a simple puzzle that hasn't been solved yet.
Finally got it. I was almost there a couple of weeks ago, but some of the clues from round 1 were throwing me off during round 2.
When I first started looking at the error codes, I couldn't believe that they were actual hex numbers. There were no zero digits, and there were no a through f digits. This seemed to me like it should be a set of indices into a table. And, lo and behold, we had a table in front of us: The word search. I tried indexing into the word search from the top left corner with no luck, though. I gave up after that, because one of the clues from round 1 said "The word search is a red herring."
Like everyone else, the "cipher is Biblical" clue had me looking for some variation of the Atbash cipher. That really didn't seem to fit, though. I returned to a few different variations off and on, but nothing ever felt right.
I actually had considered that the "Biblical" here may reference "Fire and Brimstone," but I wasn't sure how that would fit in. Today's clue sent me back to the word search puzzle, though: "The puzzle is the key." "Fire and Brimstone" began in the lower left corner, so maybe the indexing should start from there? Sure enough: Using the 0x32 error from attackned, count over 3 from the bottom and up 2: 'G'. Then 0x73, the error code from the URL ending in deeproot: 'O'. Etc., etc., until you end up with GOTOSECRETMESSAGEURL. Put https://deeprootpinball.com/gotosecretmessageurl/ in your browser, et voila!
I followed the instructions there and, yeah, I used my real name & e-mail. Probably a bad idea, but whatever. If this gets me on Greatwichjohn's whale list, he'll be sorely disappointed at my lack of fundage. 
pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from Seraph:Finally got it. I was almost there a couple of weeks ago, but some of the clues from round 1 were throwing me off during round 2.
When I first started looking at the error codes, I couldn't believe that they were actual hex numbers. There were no zero digits, and there were no a through f digits. This seemed to me like it should be a set of indices into a table. And, lo and behold, we had a table in front of us: The word search. I tried indexing into the word search from the top left corner with no luck, though. I gave up after that, because one of the clues from round 1 said "The word search is a red herring."
Like everyone else, the "cipher is Biblical" clue had me looking for some variation of the Atbash cipher. That really didn't seem to fit, though. I returned to a few different variations off and on, but nothing ever felt right.
I actually had considered that the "Biblical" here may reference "Fire and Brimstone," but I wasn't sure how that would fit in. Today's clue sent me back to the word search puzzle, though: "The puzzle is the key." "Fire and Brimstone" began in the lower left corner, so maybe the indexing should start from there? Sure enough: Using the 0x32 error from attackned, count over 3 from the bottom and up 2: 'G'. Then 0x73, the error code from the URL ending in deeproot: 'O'. Etc., etc., until you end up with GOTOSECRETMESSAGEURL. Put https://deeprootpinball.com/gotosecretmessageurl/ in your browser, et voila!
I followed the instructions there and, yeah, I used my real name & e-mail. Probably a bad idea, but whatever. If this gets me on Greatwichjohn's whale list, he'll be sorely disappointed at my lack of fundage. [quoted image]
Can't wait for the link to default to this:
Quoted from Seraph:Finally got it. I was almost there a couple of weeks ago, but some of the clues from round 1 were throwing me off during round 2.
When I first started looking at the error codes, I couldn't believe that they were actual hex numbers. There were no zero digits, and there were no a through f digits. This seemed to me like it should be a set of indices into a table. And, lo and behold, we had a table in front of us: The word search. I tried indexing into the word search from the top left corner with no luck, though. I gave up after that, because one of the clues from round 1 said "The word search is a red herring."
Like everyone else, the "cipher is Biblical" clue had me looking for some variation of the Atbash cipher. That really didn't seem to fit, though. I returned to a few different variations off and on, but nothing ever felt right.
I actually had considered that the "Biblical" here may reference "Fire and Brimstone," but I wasn't sure how that would fit in. Today's clue sent me back to the word search puzzle, though: "The puzzle is the key." "Fire and Brimstone" began in the lower left corner, so maybe the indexing should start from there? Sure enough: Using the 0x32 error from attackned, count over 3 from the bottom and up 2: 'G'. Then 0x73, the error code from the URL ending in deeproot: 'O'. Etc., etc., until you end up with GOTOSECRETMESSAGEURL. Put https://deeprootpinball.com/gotosecretmessageurl/ in your browser, et voila!
I followed the instructions there and, yeah, I used my real name & e-mail. Probably a bad idea, but whatever. If this gets me on Greatwichjohn's whale list, he'll be sorely disappointed at my lack of fundage. [quoted image]
Nice job! That's what I had been doing, but I hadn't started from the bottom corner. 
Quoted from greatwichjohn:Word puzzles are too hard on my brain, & it is not me.
Just having a bit a of fun with you!
Quoted from EternitytoM83:Nice job! That's what I had been doing, but I hadn't started from the bottom corner.
Thanks! After it originally didn't happen from the top left, I think I did try upper right at the time. Or maybe I did try the lower left, but used the first digit as y axis and second as x? Or something. I gave up pretty quickly because of the "red herring" clue. Today's clue finally gave me what I needed to look at it again.
While I was only doing it for the jollies, I wouldn't turn down a pallet of deeproot water bottles. Or a prototype Raza, though I guess those are spoken for.
Deeproot 2.0 Pinball, maybe this is what is being hinted at. Like the 2 new pinball companies opening soon as per Dave Fix talk. Not with me!
Quoted from benheck:John is right there are 2 more companies spooling up. Just in time for recession!
As Gary said re Jack "Come on in, the waters cold!"
The recession is looming!
LOOMING I TELL YA!
Quoted from benheck:It's not looming. It's here.
How can be it both looming and here?
I'm getting a lot of mixed messages!
But pinball is hot. More players want to jump into the pool. Not just USA, but worldwide. Higher prices for games is likely leading the way.
Quoted from Seraph:So, now I guess we get to look forward to the "something interesting" that's happening on July 25. Any guesses?
UL certification has finally been obtained
Quoted from greatwichjohn:But pinball is hot. More players want to jump into the pool. Not just USA, but worldwide. Higher prices for games is likely leading the way.
pinball is also pricing people out. Now that pinball has hit the $15k mark (more than a brand new chevy spark base model with far more complexity and parts), and too many companies producing games with subpar quality... see arcade crash of 1984, its coming.
Quoted from Seraph:Finally got it. I was almost there a couple of weeks ago, but some of the clues from round 1 were throwing me off during round 2.
When I first started looking at the error codes, I couldn't believe that they were actual hex numbers. There were no zero digits, and there were no a through f digits. This seemed to me like it should be a set of indices into a table. And, lo and behold, we had a table in front of us: The word search. I tried indexing into the word search from the top left corner with no luck, though. I gave up after that, because one of the clues from round 1 said "The word search is a red herring."
Like everyone else, the "cipher is Biblical" clue had me looking for some variation of the Atbash cipher. That really didn't seem to fit, though. I returned to a few different variations off and on, but nothing ever felt right.
I actually had considered that the "Biblical" here may reference "Fire and Brimstone," but I wasn't sure how that would fit in. Today's clue sent me back to the word search puzzle, though: "The puzzle is the key." "Fire and Brimstone" began in the lower left corner, so maybe the indexing should start from there? Sure enough: Using the 0x32 error from attackned, count over 3 from the bottom and up 2: 'G'. Then 0x73, the error code from the URL ending in deeproot: 'O'. Etc., etc., until you end up with GOTOSECRETMESSAGEURL. Put https://deeprootpinball.com/gotosecretmessageurl/ in your browser, et voila!
I followed the instructions there and, yeah, I used my real name & e-mail. Probably a bad idea, but whatever. If this gets me on Greatwichjohn's whale list, he'll be sorely disappointed at my lack of fundage. [quoted image]
Well done / congrats! It will be interesting to see what's next.
This puzzle has been run far more competently than anything associated with deeproot. So if those involved actually intend to do anything deeproot 2.0 related, they'd stand a better chance of success than did 1.0 (even if that chance ends up .01%).
Quoted from greatwichjohn:But pinball is hot. More players want to jump into the pool. Not just USA, but worldwide. Higher prices for games is likely leading the way.
Quoted from Riefepeters:So…has anyone reverse phone looked up the 575 number to see who owns it?
Knapp Arcade called it, but I don't know of anyone that has looked it up yet.
Quoted from Seraph:Knapp Arcade called it, but I don't know of anyone that has looked it up yet.
It's a Twilio virtual number (like google voice)
Screen Shot 2022-07-15 at 12.50.16 PM (resized).pngQuoted from greatwichjohn:But pinball is hot. More players want to jump into the pool. Not just USA, but worldwide. Higher prices for games is likely leading the way.
Newsflash. Prices have come down in the last month.
Yes the looming and current and future past recessions have popped the bubble and pinball prices are back to 2011 levels.
Just like happens every month.
Quoted from Riefepeters:So…has anyone reverse phone looked up the 575 number to see who owns it?
I ran a reverse decipher recipher on the 1st and 3rd digits. Both calaculations point to the New Mexico area code. Val Kilmer?
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Honestly, I completely forgot about this. Been busy with actual pinball stuff.
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Looking forward to announcement - pinball machines for everyone!
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