Werewolf CXXXII: THE CUBE (Game Over: Construction Workers win!)

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

Abe - where are you getting that 2% figure from?

There are 900 possible 3 digit area codes (area codes starting with 0 or 1 are not valid) and there are about 400 in use (although less for US residential as that includes all of North America and non-residential use)

Google found this when I did a search for one of the area codes:

The 527 Area Code (or Area Code 527) is located in the state of Michigan. Area Code 527 is one of the 269 3-digit telephone area codes in the USA. It covers 0 near the city of Hillsdale.

Here:

527 Area Code | Spokeo (527) Phone Numbers

[Abe Sargent]

Originally Posted by Narcizo

You didn't just call a bunch of numbers from a werewolf game? Actually, I'm fascinated. What did you say? Did you ask her if she was Mrs Jackal? Or if her door leads to horrible torture and death?

I just asked if this was Steve's Diner, on Warren Avenue. She said no, this was her house, and I thanked her for the info.

[MrBug708]

haha

[Narcizo]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

I just asked if this was Steve's Diner, on Warren Avenue. She said no, this was her house, and I thanked her for the info.

I think I prefered my questions. Call back and ask her those.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

I just asked if this was Steve's Diner, on Warren Avenue. She said no, this was her house, and I thanked her for the info.

You should have asked, "Is this the Orange door?"

[hoopsguy]

I will not be voting Abe today, by virtue of him placing those phone calls

[mauchow]

hahah that shit just cracked me up!

[mauchow]

Originally Posted by hoopsguy

I will not be voting Abe today, by virtue of him placing those phone calls

I was going to vote him for editing a post.. but yeah, he won me over with that, for sure.

Although, to be sure he's being truthful, we need someone else to call the numbers now.

[Tyrith]

This whole thing is hilarious - Abe is always pretty terrific - but seems to be pretty clearly barking up the wrong tree. I would imagine it's something like what someone said about the movie, where there will be some common mathematic characteristic between numbers that lead to safe doors. Seems that this will mean we will need a few sets of numbers to compare/contrast before we know the best choices are.

I'm somewhat against publicizing our door votes until we can discern what the pattern is, because there's always a chance the wolves figure it out privately first and use our voting patterns to mess with us. It seems pretty unlikely that 2-3 people working in private could beat the entire village, but there are a few players here who I wouldn't put it past, especially if they have useful co-conspirators.

[MrBug708]

It seems like a phone number would be logical but too obvious, no?

[Danny]

catching up

[Telle]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

It seems like a phone number would be logical but too obvious, no?

Could be a diversion. He might have purposely picked numbers that work as phone numbers, but their real meaning lies elsewhere.

[Danny]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

Anyone else notice these are 9 digit numbers? Like phone numbers?
Hold on, some quick google fu.

381 area code is Texas. It includes Fort Worth and Abilene.

527 is upper Michigan, Grand Rapids and such, on up.

845 is New York State. Just above NYC

There are about, what, 275 areas codes in use? What are the chances that all three random 9 digit numbers would be area codes? It can't be that good.

None of the 10 digit numbers are coming up in google though. If it was meaningful I would expect the whole number to be meaningful. I mean what is significant about those three areas?

My first instinct was it's some kind of map. There are a lot of repeating numbers (8's, 3's 7's) I wonder if those aren't a certain type of room or represent a physical feature of some kind.[/quote]

Seems like a good starting place, except they are 10 digit numbers

[Danny]

Yeah reading more, the phone number thing doesn't seem to really reveal anything.

[Narcizo]

Right then. I'll leave all you maths boffins to carry on looking at the digits and whatnot while I go to sleep. Have fun.

[Schmidty]

Pretty hilarious with the phone calls, Abe.

[Darth Vilus]

Sounds like this will be a pretty fun game. Kind of reminds be a bit of Xcrawl. just the room thing

[Darth Vilus]

I did my own math stuff with the rooms and came up with zilch. I'm going to be voting orange though. No real reason. it's a bogus color, has the largest sum, and is the only room that comes out to a real number when divided by the number of letters in the color.

[Darth Vilus]

Anyone find it strange that there are 3 doors and 3 teams? 2 wolf teams and the village? Going into one door might give that team a chance to night kill. just speculating.

[Darth Vilus]

Most likely it's just guesswork from here

[The Jackal]

Call me once,
trick's on you..

call me twice,
trick's still on you!

(maniacal laughing)

[Darth Vilus]

*twiddling thumbs*

[Danny]

Anyone else just realize Jackal is located in new york? And that was the only number in service?

[Danny]

Anybody want to call that number again and ask for the jackal? lol

[Danny]

At this point pending someone figuring something else out, I'll likely vote orange going on that thought, even though its far from concrete.

[Zinto]

Originally Posted by Narcizo

You can pretty much make that argument about anything in the game. I don't see any reason for everyone not to state which door they're picking. Then, if it turns out we've picked a door different from that which you would expect from the stated votes we have something to look at. If not then nothing lost. Only works if no-one's coy about stating which door they pick though.

This doesn't preclude figuring out how to "crack" the door code (if there is one and it's possible) and will probably go hand-in-hand with it.

I just thought about what I really wanted to say was that keeping track of who is voting for what is fine but trying to figure out who is lying from it is going to be tough because of the vote being unknown unless we know the numbers of how many people voted for each door.

I am perfectly fine with that and I will also vote for the orange door.

[Darth Vilus]

well im going to get my vote in before i head out. i still have some time but i dont want to forget

Vote J23

[Abe Sargent]

I think I'm going for Orange because I put the work into it, and it's the only number that worked.

[Abe Sargent]

Hold up, I got a thought

[Abe Sargent]

NM, I thought that perhaps, the NY area code would extend to Syracuse, which would be the Orange Door, remember? Crazy connection right? It's not though. It's not far enough upstate. Ah well.

[Schmidty]

I'm going to throw a vote onto somebody who already has some votes to keep it interesting for now:

Vote Zinto

[bhlloy]

OK it's probably time to step up the voting so we can get some movement going

Eeny, meeny, miny...

vote CF

I would vote Zinto but he's ahead right now and I want to give the poor guy a break, I vote for him in every single game

[mckerney]

Not looking too far into things until tomorrow when we have another set of numbers to compare things against, but my only thought so far is that groups of numbers indicate different properties on the door like the 4 digit class codes in college. Hopefully the doors for tomorrow will share some groupings with doors for today, if not I'll probably leave this idea behind. For today the only grouping of numbers I saw repeated today were 381 and 78 in the green and blue doors.

Also wondering if we have to consider the letters on the doors too.

[MrBug708]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

NM, I thought that perhaps, the NY area code would extend to Syracuse, which would be the Orange Door, remember? Crazy connection right? It's not though. It's not far enough upstate. Ah well.

Going further on that thought, North Texas is the Mean Green, though 381 isn't quite in Denton, but a bit south in the DFW area. Not sure what the last could be though with blue. Grand Valley State is the Lakers, Michigan itself is known for it's blue,

[Abe Sargent]

Anyone have a vote count?

[mckerney]

Number frequency
Number - Times used (Per Set)
0 - 0 (0,0,0)
1 - 2 (1,1,0)
2 - 2 (1,1,0)
3 - 4 (2,2,0)
4 - 3 (1,0,2)
5 - 2 (0,1,1)
6 - 2 (0,0,2)
7 - 5 (1,3,1)
8 - 8 (4,2,2)
9 - 2 (0,0,2)

Let me know if I got anything wrong here.

[mckerney]

1, 2 and 3 appear the same number of times in sets 1 & 2, are not used in set 3
6 and 9 each appear twice in set 3 and are not used in sets 1 or 2

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

Going further on that thought, North Texas is the Mean Green, though 381 isn't quite in Denton, but a bit south in the DFW area. Not sure what the last could be though with blue. Grand Valley State is the Lakers, Michigan itself is known for it's blue,

Interesting, but I'm not seeing how it would indicate which door would benefit which side.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by mckerney

Number frequency
Number - Times used (Per Set)
0 - 0 (0,0,0)
1 - 2 (1,1,0)
2 - 2 (1,1,0)
3 - 4 (2,2,0)
4 - 3 (1,0,2)
5 - 2 (0,1,1)
6 - 2 (0,0,2)
7 - 5 (1,3,1)
8 - 8 (4,2,2)
9 - 2 (0,0,2)

Let me know if I got anything wrong here.

Probably none of this is useful today, but it will be worth doing a similar comparison to our options for tomorrow.

[J23]

Blue is the only primary color.

Think the prime numbers from the movie vs. prime colors is a bit of a stretch?

[bhlloy]

A lot of really good theories, think we are going to need a couple of days of data but it's encouraging to see discussion like this on day 1

[Tyrith]

I'm going to let you guys do the muscle work on this, my job makes my brain hurt enough as it is.

Need to go ahead and cast a vote here, there's a good chance I won't be back until after the deadline. I'm going to go ahead and tie it up, if very fast vote tracking is accurate, and that is the sole motivation behind my vote.

VOTE CRIMSONFOX

[J23]

I'm headed out shortly and not sure if I'll be back before deadline.

vote DV

Mostly because I'm annoyed he voted for me.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Autumn

For talking so much before the game began I

vote crimson fox

Of all the bogus day 1 votes I've ever received, this one I think is the most disappointing...Right now I'm thinking DV and Autumn are wolves. DV has talked on day one more than I"ve ever seen him talk. And his vote looked very throwaway especially with the "Voting before I head out" comment.
Abe you are hilarious. At first I didn't believe him as there's no way Jackal would have us dial random phone numbers, but he continues to sell his story with details (maybe too many details). Whether true or not it's pretty darn funny.

Voting for another candidate I'm tied with as I am not a wolf and I suspect this one is.

vote DV

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

Of course, I simply misstated, ten digit numbers are still phone numbers like my front desk number 313 577 9852.

I think everybody should call Abe right now.

[mckerney]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

I think everybody should call Abe right now.

Meh, I'll probably just get Atchison Hall.

[The Jackal]

This is what I have, do let me know if there are any discrepancies:

4 - Darth Vilus - mckerney (86), dwardzala (130), J23 (193), CrimsonFox (194)
3 - Zinto - Narcizo (84), ntndeacon (100), Schmidty (181)
3 - CrimsonFox - Autumn (82), bhlloy (182), Tyrith (192)
1 - Autumn - PackerFanatic (97)
1 - J23 - Darth Vilus (177)

[Tyrith]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

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Of all the bogus day 1 votes I've ever received, this one I think is the most disappointing...Right now I'm thinking DV and Autumn are wolves. DV has talked on day one more than I"ve ever seen him talk. And his vote looked very throwaway especially with the "Voting before I head out" comment.
Abe you are hilarious. At first I didn't believe him as there's no way Jackal would have us dial random phone numbers, but he continues to sell his story with details (maybe too many details). Whether true or not it's pretty darn funny.

Voting for another candidate I'm tied with as I am not a wolf and I suspect this one is.

vote DV

This seems pretty loose to me, personally. I'm fairly disinclined to move my vote at this point.

[Abe Sargent]

Alright, I want to push, to see what happens.

No reason to choose between Zinto and CF except that Zinto is higher on teh Jackal's list, so he won;t have to move him up or down.


Vote Zinto.

[mauchow]

Glad I get to avoid voting two minutes before deadline on opening day. It worked fine last game, but glad to avoid that this time. I'll keep the score close and make it a three way tie.

vote cf