da13ro Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I dont see space here :( "Getting to this page means you're paying attention. Keep it up when the countdown hits zero and you could win high-end laptops, gaming computers, media centers, software, gaming consoles, media players, and games" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maygaess Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 high-end laptops, gaming computers, media centers, software, gaming consoles, media players, and games and fortunately or not.. most of these are/could be made by microsoft Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adis Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Yeah man, the grand prize is Vista and the others just get high end pc-s and laptops and everything :p . Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emale_tart Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 What i find interesting is the Ante-penultimate is offering high-end laptops, gaming computers, media centers, software, gaming consoles, media players, and games. And yet Zenith is offering Destiny and the "Ultimate Vista" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I think a high end pc / laptop would be a much better grandprize than Vista... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
da13ro Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/antepenultimate/ "The adjective antepenultimate has one meaning: Meaning #1: third from last" Does that mean there are 3 to go? Sorry if this has already been posted but its hard to keep up! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emale_tart Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/antepenultimate/ "The adjective antepenultimate has one meaning: Meaning #1: third from last" Does that mean there are 3 to go? Sorry if this has already been posted but its hard to keep up! Well i was thinking more like 3rd prize ? or third from last in three is 1 so maybe its first prize lol Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adis Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Hey perhaps Destiny is a new codename for a product from Microsoft. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnTimOnY Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I think a high end pc / laptop would be a much better grandprize than Vista... Now, _together_, they would be even better lol I dont remember if anything on this was posted, but: http://www.microsoft.com/canada/casestudies/LokiSystems.mspx Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
novastar Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 A few commnents: 1. I think all of this is practice for the "real" competition, like the annual Microsoft College Puzzle Challenge (...very similar) 2. We need some kind of place, maybe a dedicated forum with seperate threads (...please Neowin gods :) ) to work on this thing in a more organized way...we'll all have to take breaks etc... and can't be around all the time Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adis Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 It's 2 AM here so I'm of to bed. Save me a prize will ya. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevahaha Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Anyone else see this? http://vanishingpointgame.com/zenith/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Veteran Posted December 24, 2006 Author Veteran Share Posted December 24, 2006 Anyone else see this? http://vanishingpointgame.com/zenith/ Aye, read a few posts up, and I've put it on the first post of this thread too. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162503 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emale_tart Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Anyone else see this? http://vanishingpointgame.com/zenith/ wow whats that ? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy_tho Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Keep it up when the countdown hits zero 3...2...1....We have lift off! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emale_tart Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 heres the ip for the site- lets see what we can find :D http://207.97.210.188/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 vpg.com/zenith - first prize vpg.com/antepenultimate - thirdish prize whats a big fancy word for second? and its not /penultimate Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
novastar Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 ...the answer to the other puzzle I bet Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rootwiler Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Those links aren't online..... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emale_tart Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 guys i posted this earlier - the letters that were not repeated in the two puzzles (the unsolved one) are as follows "Rght after studying the animation there - there are 10 letters that do not appear in the next picture ZENPH and CJMRO" Zenph = Zenith ? CJMRO = ???? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Cool Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 heres the ip for the site- lets see what we can find :D http://207.97.210.188/ The domain is registered to Go Daddy, and I know that Microsoft doesn't use them as their domain registrar. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
episode Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Those links aren't online..... He abbreviated vanishingpointgame.com Duh. zenith - derived from Arabic samt ar-ras 'the way or road above one's head'; zenith technically is the point directly above the observer and nadir is the point directly below Now for the suduko lookin puzzle we have to solve. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
novastar Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 rootwiler... he is jsut using shorthand to avoid typing the whole thing emale_tart... the puzzle should have been solvable from the start, even before the changes, so I am not sure about your theory...keep trying though Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Veteran Posted December 24, 2006 Author Veteran Share Posted December 24, 2006 The domain is registered to Go Daddy, and I know that Microsoft doesn't use them as their domain registrar. Perhaps so, but the clues point to this being a viral marketing campaign run by a third-party company on behalf of Microsoft, so the registrar isn't really relevant. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emale_tart Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 Seem's Microsoft arent just being cryptic with this http://windowsconnected.com/photos/blog_pi...0/original.aspx Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/523893-the-pre-game-fun/page/16/#findComment-588162595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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