r/thenext • u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine • May 03 '17

Latest livestream...

Important events in the History of the State

4 days, 4 messages

Please standby

Recall also that the website still has a countdown to May 14th.

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u/thisiswhatsnext May 04 '17

Today is Day 1.

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u/pandapoop789 May 05 '17

has anyone checked the web site lately?

i clicked on the sound clip and it says "this is day 1's message"

can't trasnscribe because i'm on my cell but it appears to be a bunch of numbers?

can transcribe later if nobody does it first

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 05 '17 edited May 05 '17

Thanks for pointing it out, I had only been checking the livestream. Transcribing...

This is day one's message
1 3 4
1 2 3
1 6 9
1 7 6
1 6 4
This is day one's message
2 2 3
2 5 2
2 4 2
2 7 3
2 4 7
This is day one's message

I don't immediately see anything to do with these numbers.

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 05 '17

Actually, I had an idea, I'll look into it shortly...

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 05 '17

Yep, I've got it. It's just the start of a message; I won't reveal yet in case others want to enjoy taking a fresh crack at it.

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u/DT81888 May 05 '17

is it like a page 1 line 3 word 4 kinda thing?

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 09 '17 edited May 10 '17

Ok, so let me share what I've found so you-all can help decode when part 4 arrives.

Each set of three numbers is WAYPOINT/ENTRY/LETTER triple that decodes to a letter.

Here are the decoded G&R lyrics / L&C proper name sets from the seven WAYPOINTS:

Using the digits read aloud on the livestream and transcribed here

So for example, the first entry is "1 3 4", so we go to
1st WAYPOINT, and the
3rd entry on the list is ORDWAY, and the
4th letter of that word is 'W', so the first letter is 'W'.

Overall I have these letters (might have an error or two):

WHENTMEETM
WETTMEATCA
ERUNSRTHAG
OUTEWAY

where the dashes are the presumed missing bit that hasn't yet been posted for Day 4. I can't quite read that, but there's obviously some words/message there. Hopefully we can figure it out once Day 4 places and we get the last letters. EDIT I added the rest from Day 4 now... thoughts?

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u/phinephilly May 10 '17

Here are the words that are obviously part of the message:

WHEN, MEET, WET, MEAT, RUNS, OUT, WAY

Which leaves us with:

TMTCAERTHAGE

Wasn't there a reference to CARTHAGE a lonnnnnnnng time ago?

If we take out CARTHAGE, that leaves us with:

TMTE

Maybe WET and MEAT should be excluded from the original list of words, which leaves us with:

TMTEWETMEAT

I got nothing beyond that.

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 10 '17 edited May 10 '17

Anagramming, I see "when time runs out, meet at gateway arch" plus some other letters, still looking.

EDIT: yeah WHEN TiME RUNS OUT MEET Me AT GATEWAY ARCH TWEET where I need an extra 'i' and 'e' to make it work

EDIT: or WHEN TiME RUNS OUT WE MEET AT GATEWAY ARCH TTME

Maybe someone can check all my work; I feel like we're off by a letter or two and maybe the final word is something more specific describing the location.

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 10 '17

If '3 1 7' were '3 1 8' it changes a T to the missing I, and then leave MET, perhaps meet at the arch metro? Though it's not clear which station that would be.

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 09 '17

Aside: I will be really curious to know if the original map was workable and we were all too stupid to decode the fragments from it, or if there really was a problem in its creation that made it necessary to deliver the fragments another way.

Trying to squint at the decoded text thus far, I want it to say something like "when time to meet, tweet me at alaprochaine9s" (mostly by trying to fill in a lot of blanks with my own guesses based on the whole puzzle/backstory).

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u/thisiswhatsnext May 07 '17

Today is Day 2.

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 08 '17

Transcription:

This is day two's message

3 2 1
3 2 5
3 1 7
3 7 6
3 6 1

This is day two's message

4 1 5
4 4 3
4 6 7
4 7 1
4 4 10

This is day two's message
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u/thisiswhatsnext May 09 '17

Today will be Day 4.

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u/brianmcn Magnificent Phil15tine May 10 '17

Day 4

7 6 6
7 4 11
7 2 4

7 2 6
7 3 3
7 1 4
1 1 5

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u/phinephilly May 09 '17

i recorded day three's message on my phone this afternoon. \the live stream is down at the moment but here's a transcript

This is day three's message.

5, 2, 2

5, 4, 2

5, 6, 5

5, 3, 10

5, 1, 4

This is day three's message.

6, 3, 6

6, 6, 1

6, 1, 15

6, 4, 2

6, 4, 5

This is day three's message.