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Re:Save the Date by Google by tantalor on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:39PM (#13475805)
Here is better format:

  Numbers are amazing. Follow the count.

    V -----------------------------------
  > 1  7  8  5  4  10 1  2  6  3  6  1. 9|
   |4. 2  9  4  2  7  9  8  5  6  5  2  7|
   |4  10 9  7  4  2  5  9  6  8  10 7  9|
   |8  5  3  5  3  5  4  7  2  9  6  1  8|
   |2  7  1  3  4  1  5  8  4  9  8  8  3|
   |6  1  9  4  5  5  7  3  1  2  6  10 4|
   |10 8  7  1  2  4  5  8  2  5  7  9  1|
   |2  3  5  7  1  4  6  9  5  3  4  5  6|
   |9  1  4  4  8  3  7  6  2  5  1  6  7|
   |2  1  9  3  7  4  5  7  3  6  8  7  8|
   |8  3  8  5  8  4  6  1  5  9  1, 10 6|
   |6  3  5  7  7  1  10 4  8  6  3  5  9 >
    ------------------------------------v
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Re:Save the Date by Google by sja on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:55PM (#13475992)
14.2981, 101.2189

Start from top-left, move the number of spaces given by the number of your current square:

down right left down right right up down down right down

It's a maze; worked backwards from the numbers that have commas and points next to them.

Number: 19; Title: Thailand https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-...

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Re:Save the Date by Google by jobead on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:01PM (#13476049)
Image name is base64 encoded: V2hlcmUgaGF2ZSB5b3UgYmVlbj8 = Where have you been?

So, maybe where the chess pieces have been moved from?

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Re:Save the Date by Google by mariehaynes on Saturday January 28, 2017 @01:06PM (#13507762)
This has been bugging me for days...trying to figure out how you knew to go down, right, left, etc. I finally figured it out.

Start at the end. That's a 9. The only way that we could have landed on that 9 is either moving down or right. So, look at each number on that path and see which one would have got us there. There is an 8 that is 8 squares above 9, so that's the second last number. Now, how did we land on the 8? There is a 1 that is one square to the left, so the next number is 1. And so on.

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Re:Save the Date by Google by xt00 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:13PM (#13476191)
It looks like the king on the white side is sitting dead on the side?
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Re:Save the Date by Google by wmblaettler on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:13PM (#13476189)
I cannot reply the sibling comments yet, but "where have you been?" could refer to where we were for the past 4 clues: 5 - Brazil, 17 - England, 18 - Poland, 19 - Thailand
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Re:Save the Date by Google by justinv on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:00PM (#13476043)
V2hlcmUgaGF2ZSB5b3UgYmVlbj8

base64 decode "Where have you been?"

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Re:Save the Date by Google by bobowzki on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:58PM (#13476572)
Damn I was going to bed before I found this. Now I need to solve it. Did anyone solve the chess board?

I feel the pawns on the left are somehow significant 4-3-2-1...

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Re:Save the Date by Google by bleezy on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:28PM (#13476353)
Can someone confirm what chess pieces are on the board? It looks like black has knight, rook, king and white has rook and queen?
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Re:Save the Date by Google by mariehaynes on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:09PM (#13483277)
How did you figure out the directions? (i.e. down, right, left...)
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Re:Save the Date by Google by wallzz on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:25PM (#13476320)
we should concentrate on the numbers in the board
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Re:Save the Date by Google by mattdotc on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:47PM (#13475896)
Here's the caves.jpg fixed:

http://imgur.com/a/WBqiL

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Re:Save the Date by Google by dkonofalski on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:55PM (#13475987)
FBMD is found in metadata: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31120222/iptc-metadata-au...
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Re:Save the Date by Google by neogodless on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:51PM (#13475941)
Number maze. Move East and South. Possibly along the lines of 1, 2, 3... haven't quite solved the meaning of moving through the maze yet.
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Re:Save the Date by Google by truesy on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:56PM (#13475997)
looks like a maze which shows you where to enter and leave. must not cross your own path, and the .s and , would work well in creating a geolocation
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Re:Save the Date by Google by espeed on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:54PM (#13475983)
number paths wrap down and right...first move down and right 1 step, then down and right 2 steps...?
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Re:Save the Date by Google by wallzz on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:03PM (#13476082)
should we play the chess and use the moves as an entering point ?
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Re:Save the Date by Google by caffeineninja on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:50PM (#13475923)
All you need to do is sum up the numbers on each row/column. Horizontal will produce the latitude (except after the 1,), and vertical will produce the longitude.
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Re:Save the Date by Google by xt00 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:07PM (#13476137)
I think for the chess game we have the play the game backwards.. I am trying to play the game forward, but not clear what is the delineation for the comma or period in the lat lon.. maybe black can put white into check?
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Re:Save the Date by Google by hathawsh on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:44PM (#13476478)
Hint: it can't be a valid game since one of the kings has been removed. :-)
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