So, part of the viral part of this game was that MS sent out a bunch of free stuff to frequent bloggers that were small puzzles, which you can read about elsewhere. I don't think they will have much of anything to do with the game from now on. Anyway, once solved, the puzzles gave a location (The Bellagio in Vegas) and a time. There, in the fountains, a video of Loki was shown to kick-off the real part of the game. There are some you-tube videos of it as well as a video of it at the vanishing point game website itself. Pretty elaborate and cool. The only problem is that the resolution of it was not very good, what with being projected onto streams of water and whatnot.
Many clues were in the video for the puzzles. The video is summarized here (let me know what I left out):
(note, Loki is the only speaker)
(church bell rings 3 times)
"It's time."
(church bell rings once more)
"Listen carefully, I don't have very long, and it is my nature to disappear. My name is Loki. My job is to find the smartest people on the planet. My employer is rewarding them with astonishing prizes, including a trip up to the edge of space to see the ultimate Vista. And being immortalized on a computer chip around the world. "
(a bunch of white clocks with spinning hands fly from the center of the screen out)
"Pay attention, its all about time. To challenge the cleverest people in the world, I have devised a series of intricate puzzles. Think you've got what it takes?"
(screen fades to an hourglass with 20 @ symbols around it)
(screen fades to a side of a cube - a picture of a dalmation, next side - trombone, next - a mouse with sunglasses and a walking stick, next - a magic 8 ball, next - an interstate sign, next - the Jack of Spades, and lastly - a cat. The screen fades to some sort of blend of these images quickly and then to black)
"Calendars. Lets think outside of the box. First there's June, then January, April, March, May, and February."
(A white star appears with the time 3:15 written in it)
(The traditional Las Vegas sign then appears, but the Vegas turns into (866))
"Everyone knows the color of money."
(A green poker chip with the $ symbol appears, turns into two clocks with no hands, then cukoos appear and cukoo (is that a verb?) 3 times - one clock falls on the first bird, then the second cukoo cukoos 4 times before being covered by the other clock.)
(A new clock appears, with no hands, but the numbers are messed up, reading from the normal 12 position to the 11 clockwise: 9-6-4-11-8-12-3-5-10-7-1-2 Also, the word DEPARTURES appears numerous times behind the clock in yellow text)
(Next, a spinning gear, with a picture of H.G. Wells in the center, whose ID is aided by his birth year - 1866 on the left and year of death on the right - 1946)
(Loki appears with arms outstretched, with the word SOLVE upside-down and backwards below her. The equation 694+42 is on the viewer's left and the equation 114+224 is on the right)
"The use of calculators is allowed. (Pause) All done? Now lets make some waves."
(five waves of water from the fountain and she waves goodbye)
"Okay, I have time for one more."
(A sun, with the times: 2:30, 5:00, 12:00, 1:30, 8:00, 7:00)
"Now you should have everything you need. You'll see me again before too long. But act fast, things in my world tend to...disappear."
(vanishingpointgame.com)
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