[poozle]

I don't know if anyone saw http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=32499&in_page_id=34 but it seems slightly similar to what we are doing (hunting for a random man) maybe the metro would take our story? They ran this one (and it worked!)

[jaikaiman]

Yes, the six degrees of seperation theory is a problem. Sending out any form of communication unsolicited is considered as spam these days. The six degrees may well mean us to personally ask people that we know and show them the photo...people who live in areas that might possibly be his home location. I personally think he lives in London. He probably runs a chinese restaurant (No offence is meant to be taken) down the road from Mind Candy offices. I do believe that the only way we will find this man is either by accident, or by involving the media. Has anyone approached a radio or magazine with this puzzle? (Puts on list of things to do)

[sirichj]

Surely MC must have known how difficult this would be, if we all email 5 people what's the likelihood they will, what is their incentive?

What do you usually do when you receive an email that says, "pass this on to 5 of your friends etc", well I normally delete it lol so if we are going to use the SDOS approach then basically we're screwed lol.

The people we email will probably have no idea about what we're trying to do and will not get anything out of it, so why do it ? That's the problem

[ixalon]

We've done something similar to the email idea:
http://www.billion2one.org/?lang=en&o=email

However the trick is getting people to forward it (even the promise of money doesn't seem to be working)... So far the fall-off is dreadful...

Level Percent Total Unique
1 24.96% 178 100%
2 66.2% 472 97.25%
3 8.84% 63 100%

Let's hope someone who finds the cube and claims the $100,000 is keen on finding Satoshi

[x]

Really if they intended Kayserberg to never be revealed as the pic location, It may be that 6 degrees is the only approach they intend on us using.

I wouldnt discount other methods, but lets follow that line of thinking.

I would say in the information age we just need to push out his face to every corner of the earth.

TV is a good option. Public TV, or even popular TV stations, for instance Tech TV.(ZDTV) ... this the bigger the viewing audience the better, of course. Of course getting something on TV usually takes cash. But it wouldnt hurt to offer the concept to the techie shows, they like this kind of stuff. I know each country has its own station system. We would need to hit many of them to get a real result.

Next is the Internet. We are already working on this. But perhaps another mailing is in order? Despite its lack of legality... the B2O-Virus was an idea. A Bad one... but an idea. a little window that popped up with Satoshi
and asked "do you know me?" and a link to the page. Of course we could do the same in a pop-up ad. Course spyware or virus, its still forcing people to look at something they arent interested in. Which isnt really very cool.

Making the chain letter easier to forward might be a good idea. I had an idea. Put a link in the email, that forwards you to a page that allows you to send out an email from that page. Some chain letters use that method. No forwarding, you just go to a page put in your email, the email of the person you want to send it to, and off it goes. And in that email is a link for that person to do the same thing. It makes the whole process idiot proof.
The problem... you end up having to run your own email server. Of course you could allow people to host mirrors, put them all over the place and then split the processing load up to several servers owned by us players.

That way its all automated, no one pays a ton of server bandwidth costs, and we can really start to pump out the emails to the world. It would also give us the opportunity to tally the email addresses weve sent out. Once we start to approach 1 million emails and up to 10 mil emails, we would really start to see how far we have spread Satoshi's image around. Hell you could even watch the IP's and get a general map of how far weve spread the Satoshi Sickness ... It would also give us holes in our search and show us where we still need to infect.

Myspace has a nice world wide IP tracker, you just slip a small piece of code into the page you want to track and it gives you IP listings and a map of hits on the earth. Very easy to use. No link right off hand. Sry.

Just a few ideas. ... back to work.

[sirichj]

Where are you satoshi?

[jaikaiman]

That could take a while Bakers_12...probably no longer than searching the world for 1 bloke named satoshi...

I like your thinkin though

[Bakers_12]

I don't remember this being brought up before... so here goes

I has been stated that our man does not have a link to any members of MC and that he also knows about the challenge that has been set for us.
If you wanted a picture of someone who would be fully aware of what will be asked of us and not be linked to your self where would you go?
I think it might be possible that they could have hired Satoshi from a model agency? If so we could e mail some London or near Kaysersberg modelling agencies?

[aliendial]

Looks like that's Laura Hall's version of the website approach. There's a livejournal account set up too. She's a PXC mod here.

[Si]

Here is the link to the page where the passage came from :

http://www.findsatoshi.com/theplan.html

Hope this helps, although on the page itself it also says the creators of Perplex City want us to use the six degrees of separation approach.

I have probably spent about 50 hours searching Satoshi's and looking at pictures and after reading this I am thinking that we aren't going to find Satoshi by googling him or by any other search engine, unless anyone else thinks otherwise ?

[AtionSong]

Si wrote:

I have resorted to downloading japanese text onto my laptop and am now searching using googles japanese version - Interestingly I found this : The official word: "Satoshi has agreed to appear on this card and, of course, knows you're looking for him. He isn't hiding, but he isn't looking for you either. If you track him down, he will happily provide you with the information required to solve this card, and will also be able to prove his identity as The Real Satoshi - you don't need to coerce or harass him into co-operating, you just need to find him. Satoshi has no connection with any employee of Mind Candy or Mind Candy's business partners - pursuing them for information will be of no use. Finally, Satoshi possesses no information regarding the location of Perplex City's $200,000 Cube, so you needn't interrogate him about that either! As always with Perplex City, you needn't (and mustn't) break the law - or be mean! - in the course of your adventures. With all that said. good hunting, one and all...." Interesting but not much help but it might clear up a few questions people may have !

Where did you find this? Can you link it?

[Si]

I have resorted to downloading japanese text onto my laptop and am now searching using googles japanese version - Interestingly I found this :

The official word:

"Satoshi has agreed to appear on this card and, of course, knows you're looking for him. He isn't hiding, but he isn't looking for you either. If you track him down, he will happily provide you with the information required to solve this card, and will also be able to prove his identity as The Real Satoshi - you don't need to coerce or harass him into co-operating, you just need to find him. Satoshi has no connection with any employee of Mind Candy or Mind Candy's business partners - pursuing them for information will be of no use. Finally, Satoshi possesses no information regarding the location of Perplex City's $200,000 Cube, so you needn't interrogate him about that either! As always with Perplex City, you needn't (and mustn't) break the law - or be mean! - in the course of your adventures. With all that said. good hunting, one and all...."

Interesting but not much help but it might clear up a few questions people may have !

[Afgncaap5]

Okay, I'd become really intrigued by the signatures on the cards, so I looked into a few patterns. Didn't see anything. On a whim, I emailed them about cards lacking signatures and cards that list both a signature, and a guest artist. It doesn't reveal anything, but I'll put it here in case anyone's interested.

Quote:

Hi Affy, Thanks for your email. Also, congratulations on your excellent name! Just thought I'd mention it. The slightly underwhelming answer to your questions is that there isn't a particularly meaningful reason why some cards don't have puzzle scribes. I'm told that, in some cases, "they just didn't warrant one... either it didn't make sense, or it just didn't fit." So there you have it! As for card #218, the opposite mysteriously applied. So, in conclusion, truly our puzzle department doth operate in mysterious ways. All part of the enigma of Perplex City... maybe. Best regards and happy puzzling - I'll try to find a more satisfying to your future questions! Guy @ Perplex City Customer Services

So unless Guy is just outright lying (and I doubt that), then there isn't a pattern to the signatures. Unless that's what was meant by the "didn't fit" reference.[/quote]

[Si]

Re: We don't want to limit unnecessarily

[frog51]

We don't want to limit unnecessarily