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<spoiler>The answer is: HOUDINI</spoiler>
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<spoiler>The sky-writing clue is 263- [http://vanishingpointwiki.com/wiki/Image:SkyType_La3a.jpg], which suggests a phone number.
Rather than the numbers on the cards, one pip on each card is clickable and turns the card over.
If you index the pips:<br>
1 2 3<br>
4 5 6<br>
7 8 9<br>
 
... the clickable ones are in positions 8, 7, 7, 4, 7, 8, 6.
 
Calling (877) 263-4786 gives the following message:
 
<blockquote>OK, I am officially impressed! Good job finding me.  To solve this puzzle, listen carefully and tell me what disappeared on Halloween, 1926 at 1:26 p.m., Room 401, Detroit.</blockquote>
 
The answer is: HOUDINI (who died at that time and place)</spoiler>
 
To next puzzle: [[Postcards]].

Latest revision as of 18:49, 26 January 2007

Seven card monte.png

<spoiler>The sky-writing clue is 263- [1], which suggests a phone number. Rather than the numbers on the cards, one pip on each card is clickable and turns the card over. If you index the pips:
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

... the clickable ones are in positions 8, 7, 7, 4, 7, 8, 6.

Calling (877) 263-4786 gives the following message:

OK, I am officially impressed! Good job finding me. To solve this puzzle, listen carefully and tell me what disappeared on Halloween, 1926 at 1:26 p.m., Room 401, Detroit.

The answer is: HOUDINI (who died at that time and place)</spoiler>

To next puzzle: Postcards.