I haven’t posted much up about this event since CES, where the video on the Bellagio fountain and mention in the keynote was very cool. Well I finally completed the last of the puzzles with the help of the folks on the internet and wiki, if I was stuck this site gave me the answers and I just needed to figure which went where. This set was in my opinion a lot more difficult with many of them requiring several views, pauses of the firework display from the Seattle event to get some of the puzzles.
(fax number given as part of a series of clues)
It kind of burned me out counting flashes and squinting to see shapes in fireworks, from a very impressive fireworks display that must have cost a few bucks to put on. It was pretty cool, much like the sky writing events, videos (some even found on YouTube ), and projections from the dates given from the puzzle box and on the vanishingpointgame.com website.
Here are some of the pictures that may help solve some of the puzzles. Like I said before most are solved on the Wiki site. The above image is from Puzzle1, called Current Events.
Repair Table from Puzzle 1
Hourglasses from Puzzle1
Some help for the Rabbit Trail from Puzzle 2.
Headliner from Puzzle 2.
Disco Inferno from Puzzle 3
At the end of completing each of the puzzles a reward video was given that flashed a hidden site.
Puzzle 1 video flashed this site at the end of the video.
Puzzle 2 video flashed this site at the end of the video.
Puzzle 3 video flashed this site at the end of the video. This was a big help and had some of the answers to several of the puzzles and yes for some of the ones I couldn’t figure out I just plugged in some of the words.
For Puzzle 4 the final video at the end of the video she said to check out this site. Also flashed at the end of the video was link to here.
Which displayed this page above. Notice she is holding her glasses in the photo above. In all the videos she would give a direction while holding, folding her glasses in the sequence of RIGHT – UP – RIGHT – DOWN – LEFT - DOWN - LEFT – DOWN, which coincides with the number of miles and which direction to take from the Mystery Spot which the most well known one is in Santa Cruz, California. I am assuming it is the one in California, but there are many in the US or could be the location of Odessa.
Is TANLI a Chinese translator, location in China, or Jumble of the word LATIN?
The actress who plays Loki, I have seen before and a quick IMDB lookup after watching Memoirs with a Geisha on Vongo last week(I had downloaded it to watch during CES, but just recently viewed on a short business trip) I put 2 and 2 together after a quick IMDB search and she is Minae Noji and is currently on General Hospital and she even has a MySpace Page.
In the Videos it looks like it could be 4 sisters since each time a puzzle box is given the video seems to be in the same place but there are empty seats. So it could be that the last page is signed L.O.K.I
Lorelei - Folklore (German Folklore) solved from the biography page and solved keys before the site launched the interweb found one name to be Lorelei Kitsune.
Odessa Oblast- History (Ukrainian colony founded by Greece) from the solved crest from the meta puzzle here is the crest and info.
Kara - Stage Arts (Asian Comic, South Korea) Solved from the Crossword that gave a hex code 6B617251 where 6B=K 61=A 72=R 51=A
Irene - Physics (Physicist daughter of Marie Curie, also a town in South Africa) or Inari from the tale of 7 Brothers that hail from Tanli.
My brain is cooked and I have no more free time to dedicate to this, Good Luck to All!
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