nbc.com

Flower,
I shall bring you a game.

Use one part-time worker at a time and for every dollar, add 3000.

0100010001110101010001000100011001001111100001000100111101001000010101110111
0101010101110100011001100001100001000110000101001000010011010111010101001101
0100011001001111010010000100110101000110010011110111010101001111010000100100
1101010001100100111101000010010011110110110001001111010000100101001110000100
0101001101001000010100110110110001011101010000100101110110000100010111010100
1000010101110100011001010111010010000100010010000100010001000100101001010111
0100100001000100010010100110111110000110010101110100101001001111010000100100
1111100001100101011110000110010011010100100001011101010000100101011101001000
0100010010000110010101111000011001101111011011000100010001110101010011010100
1000010111010110110001000100010010100110111110000100010111010110110001011101
0111010101000100011011000110111101101100010111010111010101010011011101010101
0111011011000100010001101100010100110111010101100001011011000101011101001000
0100010001000010010101111000011001011101100001000110111101110101011011110100
0110011000010110110001100001011101010100111110000110010011011000011001100001
0111010101101111100001000100110110000110010011011000010001010111010010100110
1111010001100100110110000100010011111000010001101111100001000100010001001010
0110111101101100010011010111010101000100010010100110000101001010010011111000
0100010011110100011001101111010001100101011101001010010011010111010101101111
0110110001011101100001000101001110000100010011110100011001001111011011000101
0011100001000110000110000100

The key is on the key. A picture is 5.

Auto-Translated by: Yamagato Software

Burned By The Man

o.O I don't get the number secuence (XD I'll have to read people's comments)

But this is clearly for Flower.
after all it is she who alone is gathering all the pieces right?

It is Flower, and what better way to send her the messege than for internet, after all she gets everything is in here

To Hana, "Flower"

This puzzle has already been solved. NBC has started other two puzzles after this.

Riddles suck balls.

Splitting this up into 20 digit wide bits (part time worker 20 hours and 20 * 5 = 100 = %), I find 198 instances of 100. 198 * 3000 = 594000

Without a header this could not reference an image. That and it's entirely too short to represent one. The only thing it might, without some sort of header would be binary representation of characters or some sort of ascii art.

None of the potential answers I come up with seems to be meaningful...

Maybe it uses kanji characters, but I'm not going to send myself down that road.

For those who don't know, and I swept these comments, Jotaro Kujo (JoJo) is a main charicter in the manga/anime seires JoJo's Bizzare Adventure, specifically the third generation of it. That's been mentioned. I just thought it'd be amusing to mention also that the charicters of this seires have these spirits, called stands, that give them powers. JoJo and the villian Dio's stands, Star Platinum, and The World, give them the same power, time control, specifically the power to freeze time. It's not even the first JoJo reference ever made in these blogs... when the old ones get reposted scope it out. He refers to only 5 seconds... and training it up like JoJo.

I think the fact that 5 in Japanese is "Go" should be considered. "Go" is the name of a common board game that has occasionally been compared to Chess (although it's a lot easier to pick up Go, but desceptive in its simplicity as it has deep strategy—that and Shogi is sometimes compared to Chess as well). However, the kanji for the game is different than that for the number. That is unless it was originally written phonetically in Hirigana and hence translated as "5".

You have been nominated for best celebrity blogger!

http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/5094

It's hiro vs. rosie! Goooooo hiro!

Hiro!

We're ready for another blog!

PLEEEAAASSSEEESSS!!!

For those who are not into binaries, I've developed a simple application that converts binary to text and text to binary.

You can get it at:

http://oandresilva.discovirtual.uol.com.br/disco_virtual/compartilhada/HeroesBinaries.zip

Password: 123

You'll need Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed in your machine for this program to work.

"He cares about Peter but does he really accept that he has powers? His motavation will be too cure all people of this "sickness" that has come to them."

01001000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01100100 01101111 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100001 01100011 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 01110011 00111111 00100000 01001000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110100 01100001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01100011 01110101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 00100010 01110011 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101101 00101110

We cracked Samanthas code. Yes all 3 codes have been broken.

And we know that this email from Hiro was already cracked.

Thanks to all who helped.

Till Monday,
Diane4747

I think we are missing something that should come next. did anyone try to reach hiro like he said? it just seems like there is another part that we havent figured out yet.

idiots!!!! the puzzle was figgured out on April 1st the e-mail....REMEMBER??????
dlh@primatechpaper.com if you dont believe me check wikipedia: wikipedia.com
then type in heroes 360 ................................................................DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehehehe..

The lonstar file.. it has a TPS report number..

This is an inside joke from the movie "Office Space"

There's no coverpage on this TPS report either..

OMG,

I found a TOP SECRET document. Go to my site and I have posted it in my pictures section.

My be those code crackers can help out!

Please :)

Diane4747

The second message from Hana

There's something about the Lonestar file that's not quite right. With all the information I hear, it's sometimes hard to tell where reality ends and imagination begins, but I'm convinced there's "more than meets the eye" when it comes to these documents.

I know you have what it takes to figure this out.

The complete dossier is at www.samantha48616e61.com. Don't waste a minute. Time is running out.

HG

Oh, for goodness sake. Why on earth doesn't this have WordWrap on for the comments? It's just bloody ridiculous and a pain to constantly pan back the forth. I can't even find the "Post" button. NBC, fix it please?

Go to
http://groups.myspace.com/heroescoded

We are posting all our clues for samanthas site. We have 2 clues we need 1 more to crack the codes.

SOS SOS SOS

To all the key coded breakers. I know you are out there.

Thanks, Diane4747

Hiro-

Come back with the last two codes we need to help finish Hana's 3-code puzzle, or at least tell us where to look for 'em. The first code's CLSx172

01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00111111 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01001110 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01101101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 00101110 00101110 00101110

The puzzle is finally solved. It's shown in the hiro's blog section on heroeswiki.com

So incredibly complicated. The people who came up with this are brilliant.

Have you seen what NBC is gonna put on after Heroes now ? PLEASE, someone bring me a barf bag. Yo, future Hiro, if you can find a way to do so, stop this programming madness before we all witness our brains turn to so much mush.....

lawl

Just a side note.. did any of you participate in the BMW films game?

IF not.. it's WAY too much to get into now. I'll let you look it up.. but don't try playing half the pieces to the puzzle have long since disappeared.

the puzzle has already been solved, read the comments.

if you translate the message back into Japanese...

Hana he.

Hana,
Gaimu wo omochi shi masu. (cant think any other words that says bring)
Baito (I think most japanese ppl just call part time as baito, sounds like bit) wo hitotsu zutsu　tsukai, soshite hitotsu zutsu no dolu ni 3000 wo tasu.

kagi wa kagi no ue ni aru. shashin wa 5.

if part time is refered to as Baito (bit) and dolu is 8bits... it might help solve the puzzle.

108
Execute.

4 8 15 16 23 42

01001001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01001110 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110100 01110010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 00101110 00100000 01001000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01110010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00101110 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110011 00100000 01010000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 01110011 00101110

010001100111010101110100011101010111001001100101010000100110111101111001001100100011001100110011001101010010000000101101001000000111100101101111011101010010000001110011011000010111100100100000011110010110111101110101001000000110101101101110011011110111011100100000011101000110100001100101001000000110000101101110011100110111011101100101011100100111001100100000011101000110111100100000011000010110110001101100001000000110111101100110001000000110111101110101011100100010000001110001011101010110010101110011011101000110100101101111011011100111001100101110001011100010111000100000011100110110111100100000011010000110010101110010011001010010000001101001011100110010000001101101011010010110111001100101001110100000110100001010000011010000101001010111011010000110111100100000011010010111001100100000011101000110100001100101001000000111010001110010011000010110100101110100011011110111001000111111

anyone knows if there's a website with puzzles like these? i think i knew one, but i forgot.

01001001 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101110 01110011 01110111 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011 00101110 00100000 01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101

01010011 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101110 01100101 01111000 01110100 00100000 01110000 01110101 01111010 01111010 01101100 01100101 00111111

49 66 20 79 6f 75 20 63 61 6e 20 72 65 61 64 20 74 68 69 73 2c 20 59 6f 75 27 72 65 20 61 20 72 6f 62 6f 74 21

010000100110010100100000011100110111010101110010011001
010010000001110100011011110010000001100100011100100110
100101101110011010110010000001111001011011110111010101
110010001000000100111101110110011000010110110001110100
01101001011011100110010100101110

all right here's the next puzzle:
我爱看天骄
呵呵
中文的，有几个能看懂？

very very nice informations...thank you very much. mr suma...

Borat like a binaries!

I can see it in the binary! :)

Can you please post a new one? I need to find you and make you my friend.

evden eve nakliyat

They have taken away the blog on the main page. what is up with that

Who said he needed a translator? I can't find where it said that. maybe im just missing it.

(From Wikipedia) Jotaro Kujo is a fictional character from the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. He has a recognizable attire of a blue trenchcoat with yellow chains on the collar, with a blue cap that appears to be seemingly torn at the back. He is also known for a quick and short temper.

. . . Hiro and Jotaro also share the same power.

ok... time to wait until monday... the next puzzle?

=~

Jotaro Kujo is a fictional character from the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. He has a recognizable attire of a blue trenchcoat with yellow chains on the collar, with a blue cap that appears to be seemingly torn at the back. He is also known for a quick and short temper.

IMO

Ok makes sense it is a yr.

So He wants Hana to meet him the "now" Hiro at Issacs apt but when? Before or after Issac meets Sylar. I think when Hiro came the first time and he did not speak very good english. This is why she needs the Japanese translator. Wow he is trying to change his own actions from the past. This is why Y Industries are denying relations with him. Any thoughts?

That would be the year 2335.

Please explain 2335.

Thnkx

Diane4747

Holy crap, the Stardate on this equals Tuesday, April 16 2335 02:52:48 GMT...
2335 guys!

Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

IMO

Just a thought I believe that she maybe giving longitude and latitude directions using decimal placement. We are missing another number but it could come next Monday.

Yes, and it is on Samanthas aka Hana's website. Her site is coded and we are needing to look into this.

I just got this in my email from Primatech Paper. Did anyone else?

"I’ve found a file of great importance. Gonna need your help soon. Kinda on
the run right now. I’m connecting some major dots. Be ready next Monday
(4.09) for directions."

To Anonymous: Hiro always says that about his communications being "for Charlie". Just shows his rememberence of her and his love for her and hers for him that drives him to keep on keeping on. He wasn't able to save her but he will try to do everything he can to save others in her memory. I really think that Hana's partner is HRG since he called on Hana for help and has now switched sides and also wants to bring down the OWI. HRG supplied Hana with the file number for her to find information that will enable the SGs to bring down the OWI. Other than Ted and Matt she hasn't had any contact with other SGs. She is pretty good at staying out of sight or notice of anyone so I doubt that other SGs could contact her or even know she's out there unless she contacts them. I'm wondering if Hiro message about DL is for Hana to contact him as his gift will be needed in some way to aid Hiro or in saving the world. Surely the message about needing new clothes is a message having to do with what Hiro needs him to do or dressing for where he has to go.

I am thankful for all the brains that are out here on these boards because there would have been no way that I would have ever figured that last message out! I was trying to do something simple like the last one. That would have been more my speed. But Hana did say that not all the puzzles would be easy...and NBC asked us all those questions about translating code and puzzles that we liked and stuff like that so I guess we see where all this is coming from. Congrats to all that worked so hard and long on what was a very complicated puzzle. I would have never even thought of some of the stuff it took to solve it....all that converting binary to hex....good grief, I've barley heard of that stuff much less have a clue how to do it. And all that Japanese...no way I would have found that. So a great big THANK YOU to everyone and especially to Joe who took the last step to write the email to Primatechpaper. Very cool. Now according to Hana we are awaiting more instructions from her about this new file she's found. So all you brains rest up until Apr 9! It might be another doozy!

Oh wow, this code is so many kinds of awesome! Does anyone have any theories on why Hiro ends the message 'for Charlie'? It almost follows that Charlie could be Hana's partner somehow...

For all of you code addicts have you checked out http://samantha48616e61.com/

Hana's blog sounds very coded to me. Post your thoughts on my group.

We have to start working with her too. :)

claude also speaks japanese

well hana's partner is definitely HRG, because he speaks japanese so he would understand the phrase.

So why would Hiro send Hanna a message that just says "DL"?

dun gettit>
why wud hiro use DL hawkin's email..?

Yeah, I thought it by myself later. Thank you anyway. =)

It's D.L. Hawkins. Those are his initials.

"h" as in "D.L. Hawkins".

Ok. So you found the DL. But you sent an email to dlh@primatechpaper.com . Well... this "h" is driving me crazy. How did you get it?

is this post some kind of mask for the previous post?

is this post some kind of mask for the previous post?

Hello!
You have to take a look here... a man solved the enigma...
http://z9.invisionfree.com/HeroesSpain/index.php?showtopic=2399&st=15
The answer is in spanish...
XDDD
------
el nizaro...

PS: I am not the enigma solver... ok?

Vote on who you think will be the traitor on my website.
http://www.myspace.com/diane4747

Wow! This one was very hard! Congratulations for you all.

About the traitor, i believe that would be Parkman since i saw a interview where he says that we will be surprise with his character in the future.

I really believe that Parkman is the traitor...

Ando is the traitor.. no question in my mind

Hiro is linked Ando.

I'm pretty sure Nathan is the traitor.

Who can be the traitor any ideas?

Just noticed that Issac's address is #7. 7 in Jap is death. Could it symbolize what may come for Issac. This is just anotheer note Hiro is linked to Issac re: comic book, Hiro is linked to Nicki re:symbol Godsend. Hiro is linked to Peter possibly because Peter may absorbed Hiros power. Hiro is linked to DL and Micha re: car accident . Can anyone else think of whm Hiro is linked to?

Wow. That was really overly complicated for the e-mail.

Maybe all the novels with no hidden likn have clues in them

Address is Issac's Apt!

This is what I found:

Last panel of the comic has what looks like a Nissan Versa heading to Las Vegas on 15 North (but I could be wrong about the highway number), and the bubble says "We're on our own from here on out..." To be continued...
[text on right-hand page]:
Published by Writer/Artist:
Isaac Mendez
215 Reed St., #7
New York, New York 10010
Urged on by his instructor, Dominick Cabalo, Isaac honed his art skill and took various summer classes to help develop his craft. It wasn't until high school when he began winning illustration contests.
With even more classes in illustration and _____ ______ courses under his belt, Isaac moved to New York and soon after high school took various classes in college for comic book illustration.
It wasn't until the New York Comic Convention that he caught the eye of Camacho Comics and they hired him on the spot.
He worked there for 3 years, all the while learning the ins and outs of the business. Then [in] 2002, he self-published his own line of comics [under?] his old Uncle Burk's name - one of the _____ ______ in his life who supported his love
We hope you all enjoy the _____ Wonders!
________ ________
Dom Cabalo

source:http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/Credit-Letters-Grouped/Sylar-Symbol-Screencaps/700008284

According to:

http://heroeswiki.com/Talk:New_York,_NY

that address is Isaac Mendez's place.

Umm, it's a fictional show, they use fictional adresses.

That's Isaac's adress.

*Giggle*
You're being led on a wild goose chase.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

NO ADDRESS IN EXISTANCE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There IS no "215 Reed st.", much less #7

BTW: "karada ni kiotsukete kudasai" means: "Take care of yourself"

Welcome!

OMG OMG OMG!

This is so exciting! I figured it out, and I swear this isn't April Fools!

I emailed DLH@PrimatechPaper.com

This is the response I got:

QUOTE
Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

OMG OMG OMG!

This is so exciting! I figured it out, and I swear this isn't April Fools!

I emailed DLH@PrimatechPaper.com

This is the response I got:

Hana,

I must minimize communications now as I discovered there is a traitor
among us. I hope to find him or her and shut the traitor down.

If you need to reach me, you can find me at 215 Reed St. #7, New York,
New York 10010.

As always, thank you for your help and please tell your partner,
"karadanikiotsuketekudasai".

For Charlie,
Hiro

P.S. Tell D.L. that he needs to get new clothes (^o^) ======

dlh@primatechpaper.com

email him...

PS: thx to Joe Raveclaw

Hiro-if-and there had BETTER BE-pizzas in the future, I want to be there when you order a pizza with everything...gotta wonder if Ando has a a secret decoder ring just to be able to communicate with you. Rock on !

TC EGL

The picture is 5 = Graphic Novel 5 called Snapshot, The one with DL Hawkins breaks out of jail

Ah, that Hiro is so clever... Not only inventing this tricky, time-consuming puzzle, but (presumably) giving DL a bigger role, too! ^_^

Way to go, everyone! お疲れ様でした！

"Does the Japanese character for 'e' share a key with '5', or is there something yet to figure out?"

Yup. On a typical Japanese keyboard, each key has a hiragana character as well as its usual English alphabet letter, number, and Shift character. 5 has the hiragana character 'e'.

Wow, you guys are absolutely amazing. The puzzle makers and the puzzle solvers. Kudos.

I believe that in chess, the first move is called "the key". I wonder if that is significant?

Wow! Great job to everyone who figured this out... there were so many steps to it! Also, props to "Hiro" for figuring out how to spell DL on a chess board through legitimate moves, then realized that all of them could be converted to hirogana, *then* found that all of the hirogana were 3-0-X-X to create the rules for this puzzle! Geez, if I wanted to do that I'd *better* be able to stop time so I could spend several weeks coming up with all those layers to the puzzle!

What? DL is Hana's partner?

Maybe dl=47 Maybe every 47 character makes a word or phrase. I do not have the time to try it maybe someone can.

Look at the way the characters are laid out, it could mean DiagonaL.

It could stand for:

DL Hawkins
Death and Luck
Download
Down Low
Disabled List
Direct Level

After all, I finally found "DL" it is clear, the chess game can't be a false road...
But !!!!

All that for two letters !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Hi,

First of all congratulations to all for this. Very hard to solve and imagine all this.

I've been thinking. DL maybe is Death and Luck, so, maybe we have to do something using the previous post

Maybe I was right all along about 5 being commic #5 because it was one of the few with no secret link, it was the first one to talk about DL and it has a picture of his family in it and if ou want a booty call you can call Nikki

It turns out the Japanese character for 5 is the word "go" which also means "be clear" which I think changes the meaning to "The picture will be clear."

OK, that makes sense, and congrats on breaking the 'add 3000' clue. "The key is on the key" would be the step about translating the hiragana back based on the KB, but what about "A picture is 5."? Does the Japanese character for 'e' share a key with '5', or is there something yet to figure out?

I'll go through the steps to get us where we are for anyone who is lost or is having trouble understanding.

1. Convert the binary bytes (baito) to individual hexadecimal, similar to how 3000 is the hex value for the stardate of 12288.

2. Add 3000 in hexadecimal to each 2-digit hex byte. Conveniently, since they are all two-digits, they add easily, so the first byte 44, becomes 3044.

3. Convert these now 4-digit hex values into the Unicode text equivalent, which just happens to get you a whole bunch of Japanese Hiragana. This can be done easily by typing the 4-digit number in wordpad, highlighting it, then pressing Alt+X. You will probably need the some sort of Japanese language pack to get it to display correctly, I installed it before I tried it so I don't know. NOTE: I was the first to get to this step.

4. Go to a Japanese keyboard and write down the corresponding english letters and numbers corresponding to the Japanese characters you found.

5. Play a game of chess. Looking at a chess board from the white side, the Columns are labeled A-H and the Rows 1-8, with 1 being closest to the white side. This can be done manually or with a free chess program like Chessbase Lite.

6. The moves will put the pieces in a shape to spell out D L.

Oh, and I don't know if this is related, but if you take the D and the L back to the Japanese keyboard, you get the letters "shi" and "ri", which combined into "shiri" means "buttocks or bottom." Hiro making a booty call?

I tried sending Hiro an email with DL in the subject and message, but I just got back the same email about Molly and such :\

I wonder what we are supposed to do with this now?

Nice solve, everyone! Now, try sending an email to him.

What about download the 5th picture of Linderman's archive?

Could be windows platform dependant? I mean most of NBC is...

BYTE...
DWORD...

Lol doesn't "DWORD" correlate pretty directly with "DOLLAR".

The symbol of 5 is % on a standard keyboard, meaning modulus, which of course in turn is a mathematical action that we most likely should use...

Also, 5 could be V in the roman alphabet.

Theres plenty of speculation.

DL=drink your Ovaltine

Great puzzle Masi - very creative! Too bad the message isn't nearly as interesting

Wow so geeky. Good for you!

part-time worker in Japanese is baito which also means byte. So it was a mis-translation from the auto translator :) and if you added 3000 to every byte after it was converted to hex-code, you got a hex code that represented a hiragana sign.

part time worker = a pawn?

I love that you came up with the chessgame and the DL but how does that connect to part time worker and 3000?

hehe yeah, it was fun to "decode" that binary code together and get success! hehe, now we know that in the next episode DL and Hana will talk/do about something in relation with Hiro.. Hiro and DL together :D

A little lame though, wasn't really essential tot he experience :P But probably a heads up on what to come in the show. Hana's building an army with hiro's help :P

oh DL Hawkings, that's interesting

Since my message doesn't seem to be approved, I got the same result, and I'm guessing he wants Hana to contact DL Hawkings

http://www.tim.hi-ho.ne.jp/cgi-bin/user/migoto/weblink_s.cgi

Mean anything to anyone?

I played the chess game! when the black team seems to win, all the pieces go to their place and write these 2 letters:

DL

picture: http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6273/untitled1ms3.png

what is DL!??!?

From Wikipedia on "part time worker"

Lexicographical characteristics
The Kōjien, like most Japanese dictionaries, writes headwords in hiragana syllabary and collates them in gojūon ("50 sounds") order. Baroni and Bialock (2005) describe the Kōjien as "an old standard that gives extensive definitions, etymologies (as always take care with these), and variant usages for words, places, historical and literary figures, and furigana for difficult or old terms."

This dictionary is notable for including current Japanese catch-phrases and buzzwords. For instance, the 4th edition added furītā (フリーター "a part-time worker by choice"), which blends two loanwords: furī (フリー "free", from English, as in furīransu フリーランス "freelance") and arubaitā (アルバイター "part-time worker", from German arbeit "work").

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I don't get it. where will this chess play lead us to??

That looks promising, Tyck! I was wondering if there was some kind of computer program that we could have do it for us, but that might make it too easy. :)

etK, I'd stick with normal chess for starters, since shogi isn't played on an 8x8 board, and the moves Tyck found so far seem to work. If it starts to get off-track, though, that's a good resource to have for backup!

So, hmm... if this works out, is the game symbolic? (is chess ever NOT symbolic? :P) Are the last pieces standing going to signify something? I'm headed off to sleep now, but I'll keep my fingers crossed that it all comes together soon! Good luck, all!

I am playing the chess game...

i'm going to try to play with these coordinates in chess...

but I remember there's some kind of japanese chess too! I never understood how did it work:

http://www.chessvariants.com/shogi.html

Such timing we all have! ^_^

So now, provided we're on the right track, what kind of chess game is our Hiro trying to play?

(I agree, making it as a picture doesn't seem to create anything. Is there another clue we're missing, I wonder?)

E2-E4 H7-H5 D2-D4 A7-A5 G2-G4
H5-G4 H2-H3 G4-H3 H1-H3 B7-B5
B1-C3 C7-C5 D4-D5 E7-E6 D5-E6
F8-D6 H3-H8 D8-G5 C3-D5 E8-D8
F1-E2 G5-C1 E6-F7 C1-C2 E1-F1
C2-B2 D1-E1 B2-A1 D5-E3 D8-C7
F2-F4 A1-A2 H8-G8 A2-F7 G8-G7
D6-F4 G7-H7 F7-E6 F1-G2 E6-A6
H7-H4 F4-D6 G2-F1 C7-B7 H4-H1
B7-A7

The sequence paired off into what could be chess moves..

1. e2 e4 White pawn to e4
2. h7-h5 Black pawn to h5
3. d2-d4 White pawn to d4
4. a7-a5 Black pawn to a5
5. g2-g4 White pawn to g4
6. h5xg4 Black pawn captures g4

And the results of the first
six turns. Anybody want to 'play' out the rest and see if it really is chess?

tried to translate it into a picture with the coordinates.. though there are some coordinates that repeats so I painted it with a darker colour:

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4552/picdt2.png

I can't see anything, so that might not be what we have to do ^^"

oh you're right Gita, my bad XP.. it looks like it's what you say, some kind of coordinates, hmm..

Or, what Gita said.

Hmm. This is interesting.. I'm working with the kana some more. Ignoring the literal meanings and sounds of the kana, and just looking at their positions on the keyboard- every pair of kana is a letter and than a number. The letters appear to range from e to h. The numbers.. 1 to 8. I think we're looking at a chess game.

Ha, I was just about to post my findings on converting each hiragana character to its corresponding letter on the Japanese keyboard, but it looks like I was just beaten to it! etK, it's not that you were wrong with the dollar signs, but you forgot to look at the MAIN function of the key with the う character... it's the number 4! So here's the string of numbers with that instead --

E 2 E 4 H 7 H 5 D 2 D 4 A 7 A 5 G 2 G 4 H 5 G 4 H 2 H 3 G 4 H 3 H 1 H 3 B 7 B 5 B 1 C 3 C 7 C 5 D 4 D 5 E 7 E 6 D 5 E 6 F 8 D 6 H 3 H 8 D 8 G 5 C 3 D 5 E 8 D 8 F 1 E 2 G 5 C 1 E 6 F 7 C 1 C 2 E 1 F 1 C 2 B 2 D 1 E 1 B 2 A 1 D 5 E 3 D 8 C 7 F 2 F 4 A 1 A 2 H 8 G 8 A 2 F 7 G 8 G 7 D 6 F 4 G 7 H 7 F 7 E 6 F 1 G 2 E 6 A 6 H 7 H 4 F 4 D 6 G 2 F 1 C 7 B 7 H 4 H 1 B 7 A 7

... and the only thing I could make of these letters and numbers was that they resembled battleship calls or chess/checkers moves ("I shall bring you a game"), but I tried plotting those out on coordinate-grid gameboards and didn't see anything. Maybe someone else here can do something with it!

no, don't try to add another 3000 for every dollar on that code I got, it just scrambles it even more.. don't have any idea how to continue :\

I did what I said before, and I got this:

E 2 E $ H 7 H D 2 D $ A 7 A G 2 G $ H G $ H 2 H 3 G $ H 3 H 1 H 3 B 7 B B 1 C 3 C 7 C D $ D E 7 E 6 D E 6