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isca
I've taken a screen cap of the first JP film at the point where 'Life... err...find's a way' is said. As you can see the time for this DVD is at a different time to that on the card, unless 1 was supposed to mean the 1st film of the trilogy, at 0.29.56

What a great film!
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:22 am
sirichj
1.56.29
There have been lots of guesses and conversation about the 1.56.29 on the card, it doesn't seem to fit in with anything and neither does the otpaaworld part, it is generally assumed to be part of one of the meta puzzles but everyone seems to be struggling.

The only thing I came up with was :

Quote:
1.56-29 Perl module for reading configuration files
perl-AppConfig rpm build for : SuSE 9.X. For other distributions click here.

Name : perl-AppConfig
Version : 1.56 Vendor : SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 29 Date : 2004-10-02 05:02:10
Group : Development/Libraries/Perl Source RPM : perl-AppConfig-1.56-29.src.rpm
Size : 204342
Packager : http://www_suse_de/feedback
Summary : Perl module for reading configuration files and parsing command line arguments
Description :
AppConfig is a Perl module for managing application configuration
information. It maintains the state of any number of variables and
provides methods for parsing configuration files and command line
arguments.



Don't know if that means anything to anyone ? I also thought of a race with a time of above but couldn't find one !

PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:50 am
aliendial
Short for a sailing race (since this is a sailing card). But perhaps someone knows of a famous two hour sailing race?

Also too short to be a marathon time (the records all seem to be just over two hours).

What other races take about that long? And do their names anagram from the teeny tiny letters?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:07 am
rose
time
I'm pretty sure that 1.56.29 is a time of 1 hour, 56 minutes and 29 seconds (which I know also can convert into longitude, I read that book.)

This may be a record or a time from a race. And I think the abbreviatio/letters stand for the race or possibly the starting point of the race.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:59 am
Rand0m
/me Worshippy teh card designer!

I just sat down to have a look at it properly for the first time, saw from Dom that there was useful info on the solve page, and *ping* it falls into place in one guess.

And so good to see one of my greatest living heroes recognised with a card!

PostPosted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:00 pm
BBuck
thereverendeg wrote:
maybe that bolded stuff should be spoilerized??


I agree. Not got the card, but read the thread for the small writing thing, and it's very hard not to see the answer for this from the emboldened hints. On the other hand, feel free to do the same in the Shuffled thread.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:59 pm
domroberts
The complete explanation for this card is very simple really :

(Spoilered in case people would rather not know the answer)

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
1) A world-record circumnavigation, and another subsequent attempt beating the previous one
2) Two world record transatlantic solo efforts
3) A tickertape celebration on return to the UK for at least one of the attempts (the small floaty lines)
4) Roaming Identity refers to an Identity (ie the person's name) who rather likes Roaming the world.

See this page for the full details - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_MacArthur#Records


Lovely card really Smile

PostPosted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:12 am
manleym
my views to this card and its clues are

1) Some of the Lines do actually have some reference to the navigation
2) The Clouds portray the event and tie in with the card very well (as clouds roam all over the world)
3) The Small purple lines indicate some form of celebration or success

Im sure there can be a better explination for this maybe we should email the card designer Question

PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:53 pm
GuyIncognito
I'm with doublecross on this one...

On the card it says "as of March 2006" and then we have the red line suggesting the
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
circumnavigation.

Is that really all there is to the answer? Or is there another hint I'm just not getting? What about the short line?

Maybe someone can enlighten us?

PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:11 pm
doublecross
Thanks guys, I have the answer - but I still don't understand why.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 4:57 am
thereverendeg
wow. yeah I would never have had a chance of solving this one on my own.

maybe that bolded stuff should be spoilerized??

thanks guys

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:36 pm
friggly
grrrrrrrrr

Thought I'd sussed it after the initial sailing reference - convinced now I have it after the bold hint Smile

Locked out til later tonight though - ho-hum.


EDIT: But thank you everyone for the help!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:16 pm
obrienk
friggly wrote:
ne0x wrote:
friggly wrote:
I must be totally thick - I'm not getting this at all!


What have you got so far?


Am going with:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
a world record holder as of March 2006, something to do with flight or the like...

Only keep coming up with Steve Fossett Rolling Eyes


what's the opposite of sky?

i was on the right lines, but was looking at the first people to achieve this (despite the march 2006 clue Embarassed )

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:16 pm
Cinana
Well, if that is not a literal shove...lol

I hope to come home from work tonight and see that at least 50 people have solved this card.

Good luck everyone.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:12 pm
domroberts
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Manleym wrote:
I am sailing, I am sailing,
home again 'cross the sea.
I am sailing, stormy waters,
to be near you, to be free.

I am flying, I am flying,
like a bird 'cross the sky.
I am flying, passing high clouds,
to be with you, to be free.

Dom : I wonder what manleym is trying to tell everybody now...

Cool


EDIT - Spoilered due to request later in this thread. Spoiler contains the answer so beware. Sorry if anyone didnt want to read this and accidentally did. Dom.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:04 pm
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