Do you know Satoshi? -

Do you know Satoshi?

Corbett | August 10, 2006 3:37 PM

This seems like an interesting game. Sort of an online story puzzle, real life treasure hunt. I got this letter out of the blue (below) asking for help in finding a guy named "Satoshi." Here's what he looks like:

If you know this guy or where this photo was taken, let these guys know so they can continue playing the game.

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Hi Corbett

I have been looking at your website and think you might have a place for this story in it...

I don't know if you have heard of PerplexCity but it is an online game, place, story and real-life treasure hunt (see Perplex City link).

In it the players have to solve puzzle cards and enter the answers onto the site. It's lots of fun and very mentally stimulating. (Add in the fact that the finder of a hidden cube wins lots of cash and you have a super way to pass the time. Though I am not particularly wanting to win the money, I do it for the love of solving puzzles).

Anyway, the latest batch of puzzle cards just came out on July 31st. The cards are colour coded from Red (Easy) to Silver (Really really hard and sometimes very annoying). One of the Silver cards that has just come out and remains unsolved is called "Billion to One". It just shows the picture of an Asian man (possibly Japanese, though we are remaining open-minded on this) and some Japanese text that (when translated to English) says "Find me". The background of the picture looks European and we know that the man's name is Satoshi. That's all we have got to go on!

We think that this card is meant to be solved through the "Six Degrees of Separation" idea. That is, you might not know the person, but someone you know might know someone who knows someone who knows someone (etc) who does know them.

We are currently exploring ways of publicising the picture and one of the ways is that one of the players has set up a web page http://www.billion2one.org/.

We were hoping that you might be willing to feature a link to this on your web page, which seems to deal with odd things. This definitely falls into that category, I would have thought and you never know, one of your readers might just know the guy (or know someone who knows someone who knows someone... you get the picture).

Hoping to hear from you soon

Paul Whitaker
Stockton-On-Tees
England

(Perplex City player name: Cabbage)

Category: Mr. Asia

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Cabbage

August 12, 2006 2:36 AM

Just to say thanks for putting this up on your site Corbett and a quick update - someone has identified the location in the picture. It is Kaysersberg in the Alsace region of France. This is now shown on the billion2one website underneath the picture. But we still need to find the guy!

This topic is being discussed at
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16148

Thanks for your help
Happy puzzling
Cabbage (Paul Whitaker)

Forexman

May 26, 2008 12:59 AM

Hi. This is really interesting post. Thank You! I have just subscribed to Your rss!

Best regards

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