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caraj
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Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Farnborough, Hampshire, UK
[Water Set] Silver #256 - Billion To One Wave 4 Silver
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:27 am
KingOfWrong
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Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 45
The text down the left side is written in
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Japanese
And it says
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私を見つけなさい = watashi o mitsukenasai = find me
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I guess that means the answer is the location of the photo. Billion-to-one is right!
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:11 am
obrienk
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Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 73
or, perhaps it's the dude's name?
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:17 pm
BBuck
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Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 184
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One confusing thing: if the aim is to find this guy, then "Billion to One" implies he's Chinese. But he definitely looks more likely to be Japanese, and the language is a strong hint.
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:22 pm
DarkHuman
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Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 627 Location: Tallahassee, FL
. (and it's the last card)
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i bet this guy has the frigging cube!
the houses don't look asian, more like european. and the hills might help too.
he's wearing a scarf and overcoat too, it's cold. I say Germany or Holland. yep, Reihn River
And he's chinese (billion to one)
wonder how many people you have randomly seen in your lifetime. There's billion to one chance you've allready randomly seen him.
i'm an american who has lived in Germany for 7 years, and i beat with my luck, i've allready met him. So i'll go ahead and be a biggot and call him "Chin".
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 12:29 pm
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ramsfan
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Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 232 Location: holmfirth, yorks
I do remember that mock tudor buildings are popular in japan, and I think near Tokyo's there's a whole resort. Googling, only found a ski resort in Nagano called happo one with a tudor street. Don't suppose happo means billion.
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:36 pm
KingOfWrong
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No, happo doesn't mean billion... Sino-Japanese numbers group in 10000s anyway (instead of 1000s), so it's be 10 oku (jyuuoku) for 10
9
or 1 choo for 10
12
(traditional English billion).
Wouldn't have classed the buildings as (mock) Tudor... all the ones I've ever seen are v.definitely black-and-white. Clearly it's somewhere with rivers (or canals, to my eye), and also hills (I'd have guessed Netherlands without that...). Would guess somewhere in Europe from the buildings, but so hard to tell.
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 2:41 pm
DarkHuman
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Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 627 Location: Tallahassee, FL
i read in a service guide somewhere that 1% of you coustomers will not return to your store because they will die. What are the odds of finding Chin before he kicks the bucket?
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 7:39 pm
BBuck
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Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 184
Am giving up on the spoilers, as this is pretty speculative at the moment.
Been thinking about this overnight. I reckon that we need to find the bloke. Either his name will be the answer, or he will be contactable and will give the answer. The background is a hint as to where he might be. But I suspect this is the 13th Labour equivalent in this Wave: Mind Candy want to see if the Perplex City Network has enough clout to find an individual somewhere in the world through the power of t'internet.
First thing is to agree what ethnicity he is. King of Wrong, do you agree he looks more Japanese than Han (notwithstanding the title)?
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:36 am
fretty
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Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 281 Location: South Yorkshire, England
What if this guy is the cube!!!!!
No-one said it wasn't moving around.
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:23 am
BBuck
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Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 184
fretty wrote:
What if this guy is the cube!!!!!
No-one said it wasn't moving around.
That would be fun: kidnapping someone to bring them to Mind Candy for the reward. Fits with Andrea Phillips' wish... (see here , discussed here ).
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:36 am
TopGun2
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Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 30 Location: Cambs, UK
That's not the Great Wall of China running accross the top of the hill is it?
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:47 pm
BZ
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"Find me."
could refer not only to
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the person himself
but also to
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his location when the picture was taken
or, even better,
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some sort of ad or promotional that he may have appeared in. The whole "waking a picture of yourself" thing reminds me of the commercials Sony did in america to promote to PSP. Maybe it's an ad for a camera company, or a tourist destination. Name the sponsor, and get the points!
... Just a thought.
My first guess is that is not
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prague
and it is not
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fivecows
BZ.
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:35 am
manleym
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The bloke on this card looks like one of the shop owners on the street i work, (Maybe I should go and ask him)
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:51 am
ChalcoDoror
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Now I understand why a couple of people were asking me if I was the "Billion to 1 guy".
I hadn't even seen the card so had no idea...
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:50 am
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