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Perplex City Forums

Friday, August 12th, 2005

Perplex City has added a new meta-site to its repertoire. The Perplex City Forums are for discussion of the Puzzle Cards. The forums are organized in categories by card color, and include separate forums for discussion of each of the currently released cards. There is also a separate forum for coordination of card trading, if [...]

100 Clues

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

On August 2nd, those who have signed up for updates on the Perplex City site received an email from Sente, alerting them that the Perplex City puzzle cards were now available for sale (previously available for pre-order only) on Firebox.com. Sente also indicated that the first 100 to respond by ordering cards would receive something [...]

The Right Way, The Kiteway

Friday, April 1st, 2005

Zzedar discovered an update to the Perplex City Sentinel Letters page, which included a letter written by one Miss Scarlett Kiteway, the 19 year-old daughter of our friend Sente. Of course Miss Kiteway defended her father against the recent claims of his ineffectiveness in the search for the Receda Cube, and she also invited feedback [...]

Extra! Extra!

Monday, March 28th, 2005

The Perplex City Sentinel released a new issue this morning, Monday EST/GMT, containing a slew of new articles, headlines, letters, and, of course, horoscopes. One article, entitled “Academy Plans Unravel,” is again critical of Sente Kiteway’s handling of the search for the Receda Cube. Another, “Djinn Jr. Reported,” gives us a little more information about [...]

Penpals

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

The Perplex City Sentinel was updated today to add contact email addresses in various locations. Better dust off that writing cap!

The Sentinel

Monday, March 21st, 2005

The latest in a string of newspaper advertisements hit the Guardian today, revealing a new website: the Perplex City Sentinel. The Sentinel may just be the Fox News of Perplex City, as its current lede totally kicks Sente Kiteway right in the bollocks.

Someone’s in the Kitchen with…

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

The game seems to have kicked off today with a live event at London’s Abbey Road. Players who attended located clues hidden around the scene and pieced them together in order to realize a codeword with which they later identified themselves when they met Dinah, who handed out packages to each, containing pages of code [...]

Syzygy Ends, Perplex City Begins

Friday, October 8th, 2004

The Perplex City site was updated today to include a letter written by Sente on Perplex City Academy letterhead. In related news, the invitation on Project Syzygy was replaced by an announcement that the project was complete, along with a link to the Perplex City site.

Project Syzygy Begins

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004

Adrian Hon kicked off Project Syzygy with an announcement on the Unforums. …And then the screaming started.