Ethan Haas Was Right
A new puzzle game with a distinct ARG smell recently popped on the scene without much known about what it is or who is behind it. Ethan Haas Was Right is a mysterious Flash-based website that presents a series of 5 unique puzzles, some original and some rehashed versions of classic puzzle games. Even if you don't care for alternate reality games in general, there's enough here for a few sessions of casual gameplay.
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Very very cool.
Arg! No wonder I couldn't solve the second puzzle. My window was too small!
I've gotten to lock five and decoded the starscript;
*five**bnsn*, *four* *eitd*, *three* *enie*, *one* *hige*, *two* *tinh*, ****** ******. Using the order provided, it becomes this ilegible lump; "higetinhenieeitdbnsn"
It fits, but it needs to be decripted.
Almost there...
Instead of decryption...
Try an anagram.
Finished puzzle five...
There are 26 glyphs visible when you mouse over the star on the far right...
It's the alphabet. Use it to decrypt the letter sequences appearing on the upper half of the sphere.
.FIVE. .BNSN.
.FOUR. .EITD.
.THREE. .ENIE.
.ONE. .HIGE.
.TWO. .TGNH.
Forget the numbers. This leaves the following text: ENIE EITD BNSN HIGE TGNH - what to do?
It's an anagram. Listen to the last cut scene (which you can replay by clicking the next to last star on the right). Does anything he says seem to fit?
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Convert that back into the glyphs and enter it on the lower half of the sphere (no spaces).
Now you just have to wait until August...
I'm thoroughly stuck on the fourth puzzle. I understand what I need to do, but am having trouble with the execution....
Alright, I'm stuck on the second lock. I don't know what the puzzle is, so I don't know how to solve it.
I see that the star shows 26 symbols, which I'm assuming is the alphabet...
Rumor has it that this game is somehow linked to JJ Abrams newest movie.
You can see the preview in theaters if you go to see the new Transformers movie. It's the one where it's some guy with a camcorder taping a party, when all of a sudden there's a massive explosion in the distance.
However the release date for the movie is some time in '08. I am VERY interested.
CyberTractor: On the second puzzle...
Spell "Haas".
CyberTractor:
You're on the right track...
Re-read hint 2 in the hint email (shown in Jay's description above).
You need to spell out a word using the glyphs.
The word should be entered by rotating the two vertical wheels to show the first two letters, then turning the horizontal wheel to show the last two.
I'm stuck on the third puzzle. Please help?
Why is it that I always do this? I ask for help, then I solve it.
Sorry about the three posts in a row, but lock four is making me furious.
For those having trouble with the alphabet,
here's a quick reference card that includes all the Roman letters, not just A and Z
(derived from a screenshot of the game).
I'm having an awful time trying to figure out puzzle four. It seems I cannot even click on anything to even attempt solving the puzzle. Any suggestions?
on the fifth puzzle, when you have decoded the letters...
rearrange the blocks (ENIE EITD BNSN HIGE TGNH)...
T G N H
H I G E
E N I E
B N S N
E I T D
(read top-bottom, left-right)
For lock 2,
How do you enter the letters in?
I mean, I spin everything to match up (and spell the right word) but it just sits there.
How do you "hit the enter key" if you get my meaning?
I hate puzzle four. grr!
aside from that, this is great. love it!
Hey Ezrabbit,
It's four letters - looking at what you can manipulate, how can you get four letters active at one time?
Never mind, got lock 2.
Got lock 3 by a fluke.
Gave up on lock 4. No patience for that sort of thing.
The Haas group will have to look for someone else.
Stuck on the fourth one too, I know what I'm supposed to do but I can't manage to make all 3 key pieces fit at the same time. Hm, help?
Level 4 anyone?...seriously frustrated...breezed the first 3 levels..then this!
gah! puzzle four is killing me!
anybody know a surefire way to them all into their respective places? frustrating...
i have a T1 connection here at work and this game isnt completely loading :(
forget my previous post! got it!
and i found out what this is for, by the way.
seems to be for a movie named cloverfield. so if any of you care to know more, you should have a look at this.
OK I have no idea what to do for the third lock, I see in the e-mail hint I need to,
"extinguish all lights but one"
but how do I do that?
from the 'source'...
...war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the star's rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape.
well... number 4 is far too difficult for my brain, i reckon...
-adl
I still can't get through level 2, i've tried every combination I can think of to
spell HAAS
... help?
[Edit: Please use spoiler tags if you're going to post information that may spoil a puzzle for someone else. I've added them for you here. Cheers! -Jay]
For puzzle 4, there is another page that you can view to get hints that contains additional information from the email:
http://www.ethanhaaswasright.com/helpme/
Do a Ctrl+A to highlight the entire page to see the secret instructions
I don't know if this is directly related to the game/movie/whatever or just somebody fooling around but someone started up a blog that seems to expound a bit on the mythos:
http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/
Earl (post #5.57am)
try arrow keys instead!!
yay! haxord it :D.
who needs to solve puzzles if you can cheat XD.
Puzzle 4 Solution
↑ ← ↓ ↓ ← → ↑ → ↑ ← ←
I LOVE YOU LABYRINTH!!!
I spent forever on that puzzle and the closest I could get was two in the spaces and one just one square away :x
Thanks!
As a side note, if you open the game without having the flash player installed, or running NoScript like myself, the following text is displayed:
...war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the star's rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape.
The identity of Ethan Haas : http://tvcomedies.about.com/od/classthe/ig/The-Class--Cast-Photo-Gallery/Jason-Ritter-as-Ethan.htm
hello! thanks jay for posting the game i suggested! anyway, for the fifth puzzle, i know i have it right, so waht do i do now?
och, completely stuck on the third puzzle: "extinguish all lights but one" - how?!
grr, close to smashing in my computer screen here...
I must be good at peg jumping puzzles because I was able to complete that one on the first try. Here's a hint Sweatpea:
Start at the bottom and work your way up. Try to make your moves so there are no pegs left on the under side.
Hey, no problem Harukio. It's good to be loved. haha.
I was stuck on number five for a long time, I was so sure it was keyed in correctly. The problem was I was using jja's spoiler, which is slightly incorrect.
oo pegjumping! play that all the time at home, feel a little thick now :P hehe
i still can't get it to load fully. T1 connection :(
Complete Walkthrough:
Puzzle 1
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As the hint email says, this is a memory game.
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When you click on any button, the game pops out each button in a sequence.
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The sequence is invariant.
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There's a reason for that.
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Ever play the game "Simon"?
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This is similar. You have to push all the same buttons in the same order. If you press some other button, or get one out of sequence, it shows you the correct sequence again.
Puzzle 2
Incidentally, you can right-click to zoom in and out, which is really handy for being able to make out the letters in this puzzle.
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You need to enter some text.
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The game has its own alphabet; roll over one of the stars to make an alphabet key appear. (Or use my easier-to-use version.)
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You need to enter a specific word.
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The word you need to enter is four letters long.
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Get your mind out of the gutter. This is a kid-safe game!
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See any four-letter words in plain sight?
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The word you need to enter is "HAAS".
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Obvious problem: That's four letters, and you seem to only have two characters to work with.
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What's two plus two?
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Rotate the two inner rings such that they spell "HA", then find "AS" on the outer ring.
Puzzle 3
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This one's a classic game.
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It's a simple capture game.
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See those two lights at the bottom that aren't lit?
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Specifically, this is the game of Pegged.
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You need to capture all of the pegs except one.
You capture a peg (= light) by dragging another peg over it to an empty space. This removes the captured peg from the board (extinguishes the light). You can't move a peg without capturing another peg. If you have more than one peg still on the board and no possible moves (e.g., two pegs separated by an empty space), the puzzle resets.
Puzzle 4
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First, I'll point out that this game is controlled with the arrow keys. You may not need any more hints to figure this puzzle out, now that you know how to operate it.
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This is a programming game. (Don't worry, you don't need to learn a programming language.)
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How many gear-shaped things are there (counting the one that the blue circle is sitting on top of)?
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How many green circles are there?
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You need to program in a course that results in all three green circles (which I think of as vacuum-cleaner robots) ending up on the three gear-shaped platforms.
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Ah, but the robots don't seem to go the same direction you tell them to. They go every which way.
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More precisely, the blue one goes in the direction you tell it to, but the green ones go in different directions. Also, if the blue robot is blocked, your move is rejected out-of-hand, but if it isn't, the move is allowed, even if one or more of the green robots is blocked. And as you may imagine, robots can block other robots.
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Also, the squares above the top two platforms are blocks; the robots can't pass through them.
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WARNING: The next hint gives one solution. Thanks, Labyrinth.
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↑ ← ↓ ↓ ← → ↑ → ↑ ← ←
Clue in the video before Puzzle 5
This flashes for just a fraction of a second during the cutscene video. Just in case you missed it (maybe you weren't looking at the screen during the movie), here it is:
54312
Puzzle 5
Zooming helps with this one, too.
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This is not a crypto puzzle.
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At least, not in the sense of having to decrypt something that's encrypted. You do have to work out a password, though.
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Have you figured out the significance of that one screen with no letters on it?
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It's a separator.
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It's a separator in the telegraphic sense. You know, like the word "stop": "Hello stop we are doing well stop the weather here is good stop unfortunately there is no punctuation stop …"
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You need to figure out the message.
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Start by counting letters everywhere they appear.
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This means the rotating messages as well as the letter-board underneath.
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There are 20 spaces on the letter-board (hopefully, you didn't need me to tell you that part). The number of letters in each message varies on the first line but is always four on the second line.
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The messages are not random.
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Have you written them all down yet? (Not that you need to; they're in the next hint.)
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FIVE (new line) BNSN
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FOUR (new line) EITD
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THREE (new line) ENIE
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ONE (new line) HIGE
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TWO (new line) TGNH
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Note that the order is important.
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No, it's not 12345. That would be too easy.
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Remember the clue from the most recent cutscene?
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No? That's OK, it was only on the screen for a brief flash. It said 54312.
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The messages appear in that order: "FIVE BNSN", then "FOUR EITD", then "THREE ENIE", then "ONE HIGE", then "TWO TGNH".
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The significance of this is that the numbers aren't part of the message. They're just sequence information.
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It's also important that every message's second line is four letters.
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What do you get when you multiply 4, the length of every clue, by various numbers?
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Like, say, the number of clues?
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You have five clues, and they're four letters each; 4 �- 5 = 20, which is the length of the letter-board.
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Except that the letter-board isn't a single line; it's a rectangle, 10 �- 2.
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What if it were a 4 �- 5 rectangle instead?
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It'd look something like this:
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BNSN -
EITD -
ENIE -
HIGE -
TGNH
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Unfortunately, that arrangement doesn't help you much.
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Try playing with the order. (Next hint shows the correct order.)
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TGNH -
HIGE -
ENIE -
BNSN -
EITD
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Columns are rows and rows are columns.
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THEBE -
GINNI -
NGIST -
HEEND
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Still haven't figured it out? The next hint gives it away.
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"THE BEGINNING IS THE END".
Thanks to Labyrinth (10:40) and Kevin (6:46) for their hints, with which I was able to finish the game and this walkthrough.
I hopped on over to IMDb after I beat this to see if I could find out anymore about this movie. It's listed as Untitled JJ Abrams Project (2008). There isn't much official info at all, not even 1 actor or even the director listed. Coverfield is a fake working title. There are a lot of people participating in the message boards. They hadn't heard of this game or that blog so I turned them onto that. If you want to see the teaser trailer there is the link. It's cell phone camera footage but that's all there is. From what I heard Paramount is RELENTLESSLY getting every video of the trailer that gets put up on YouTube taken down. It looks like they are trying to keep it mysterious and get the word of mouth marketing going. Anyway, fun game! Can't wait till August 1st!!
Accidently had the volume off during a video?
Got attacked by the puppy?
Need to watch a video again?
Click the stars to the left to replay any (I think) video that you've already seen
hey gregory
here is website that has some info on the trailer you mentioned http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/
Just a comment on the connections to the game:
I don't think the Ethan Haas character from the TV comedy "The Class" has any connection to the puzzle or the coming film.
I think the name is just a coincidence.
I mean, if you watch the game's videos and the film's trailer, I don't think you can really place an NBC sitcom in there... really.
LOL. I think we're in total agreement here, Ezrabbit. ;)
More info on the game: It looks like the blog
http://ethanhaaswaswrong.blogspot.com/ IS part of this game/world. I emailed [email protected] and asked him about it..I didn't expect to get an answer but I did:
"Stephen,
It's not a person, it's a group, a very ancient sect. These are dangerous "people", be
careful trying to dig too deep....
I've never seen them myself, I'm not sure anyone has, for a very long time.....
This is getting very interesting. It feels a lot like something Lovecraft would write. Does anyone here speak Hindi or read Sanskrit? There is some sort of cryptic message up at the blog that might be part of the solution to all this.
I agree Stephen, that was my impression when taking a glance at the couple of posts at that new blog. I immediately thought of the "balance of power" that Van spoke up in the first email message (noted above in the review).
It might be interesting to note
that I, too, received a bit of a personal reply when at first I emailed asking about the site. In the message I mentioned: "I hope the site leads to something rewarding for the casual player." To which he replied:
"Jay, I hope the site leads to enlightenment for all of us."
That gave me chills, quite honestly. Very cool indeed.
puzzle 5 is very confusing. i dont get it, I'm stuck.
a little advice
puzzle 1 was very simple with the little simon says thingy.
puzzle 2 was just to make you spell haas.
puzzle 3 was just removing all the pieces leaving 1 left.
puzzle 4 you can find on other comments:D
for puzzle 5, the other spoilers are not that understandable.
for puzzle 3, where do i drag the lights? nothing changes when i drag them :(
We have a discussion going here at IMDb too looking for clues and debating whether this has anything to do with that movie.
B Brain: For puzzle 3:
There are two empty spaces (unlit lights) at the bottom.
The idea is to capture all the pegs (lights) on the board (except for the last peg, of course, since you've nothing to capture it with at that point).
You capture a peg by jumping over it with another peg.
You can only move a peg exactly two spaces, and only if you would capture a peg by doing so. This means that you can't move a peg exactly one space, nor three or more spaces, and that you can't move a peg by two spaces if there's no peg in between that you would capture.
Thanks Peter, got it.
Take this with a grain of salt because I cannot confirm but someone on the IMDb board just said all 5 videos from the game were posted on YouTube and were all removed at the request of Paramount Pictures, the distributor of the JJ Abrams film. I will try and confirm but if true that will end debate as to whether this is in fact viral marketing for the teaser trailer shown before Transformers.
Just a note on the Ethan Haas/The Class thing, if you watch the teaser, Lizzy Caplan is the brunette they show toward the beginning, she played the friend of Ethan Haas on The Class.
Sure enough it is confirmed. Search for "Ethan Hass" on YouTube and scroll down a little and you'll see they are the videos from this game and there were taken down due to "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Paramount Pictures Corporation"
Is it this august or next years august 1st because next year is an eclispe.
Breezed through everything but got stuck on 4. I started hitting arrow keys and now it's hopelessly tangled. Is there any way to reset it back to the start?
that's it? i did all of that so it can tell me that the end is the beginning?
Hahah August first is my birthday happy b day to me and theres even something if it for you all ;) Good luck with the puzzles (number five is a beast).
Looks like the entire discussion about the film - game links got wiped!
It's just pages and pages of "This message has been deleted by an administrator".
Someone REALLY wants zero info available on this!
Sorry to double post... but I meant the discussion over at IMDB.
how do you launch the first puzzle?
In the second video, Van refers to "The Slimes," and how they (plural) have been showing themselves for years, but have not been stopped by those in power. The J.J. Abrams movie features a singular creature called The Parasite, who judging by the effects shots and noises would be very difficult to hide on Earth for multiple years if anybody, of any social rank, knew anything about it.
Sorry to bust up everybody's hopes/dreams, but this site has absolutely nothing to do with 1-18-08.
I've completed the last puzzle and entered my details. Am I supposed to recieve some kind of confirmation email cos i got nuttin'
For puzzle number five is it
"The beginning is the end" or "The beginning of the end"
I see both of them in people's posts
Anybody see this?
...war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the star's rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape.
i don't understand where everyone is getting the letters .BNSN. .EITD. .ENIE. .HIGE. .TGNH. from??
how does that fit in with 54312?
The name "Ethan Haas" is related to actress Lizzy Caplan who stars in Cloverfield and is also part of the cast in the show "The Class". Ethan Haas is also a character in the show. Maybe they just needed an alias? Hah, alias..jj.abrams..tv show..ok..yeah. pun intended. thoughts?
puzzle 5? I cant figure out what i'm supposed to after the last video? how do i get the key or letter to pop up?
I can't even get the third puzzle to open... What's wrong with me?
I simply cannot get Puzzle 3. I've tried everything and understand the concept, but what I don't understand is whenever I move a light somewhere, that is over a "peg" (that being where a light may have been or is), it doesn't do anything but return to where it was. I can't move forward with the puzzle because I cannot place any lights anywhere...could the flash be messed up or not loading completely?
Very frustrating, how do I move these lights and extinguish them?
I'm stuck trying to find what opens the sphere for puzzle #4. Any help? What do I click or roll over to get it to open?
How do you get the puzzle to open on #3? All of the others opened automatically. I've been trying to click and try everything I can think of to open it. Did I meet a glitch? :(
I can't get past the first puzzle. The page loads but nothing happens. No buttons work NADA zip.
I'm having that same problem Rafael.
Does anyone know how to solve puzzle 3. PLEEEEASE! The only logical explanation is that something is wrong with my Flash application....
E-Man - I had a little trouble at first getting going on my rather slow performing PowerMac. Try clicking on a light and keeping the mouse still for a moment before dragging. There may be a bit of a delay between your click and the game responding to it. I hope that helps.
How do I reset game 4 so I can type in the cheat?
I've followed the route that somebody posted for puzzle 4, but what am I supposed to do next? Nothing happens.
HELP!!!
heath - try just reloading the browser window. The game saves your place, so it should bring you back to the beginning of whatever level you were on.
David - if nothing happened, then I think you may have done it wrong. Follow my suggestion above: reload the browser window and try again. Remember when following the walkthrough for puzzle 4, you need to press each direction TWICE in succession.
When the puzzles don't open, you can try refreshing the page. It'll stay on the level you have gotten to (at least it did for me), and then it'll open the new puzzle.
I entered the decoded words into puzzle 5 but nothing is happening. Is something supposed to happen after you complete puzzle five?
i can't solve puzzle 4! i found the hint with the arrows that people have posted under the spoilers but it does not solve the puzzle and only leaves me even more confused!
what order do the letters go in the boxes in puzzle 5? i put them in a few but none worked.
how do you put in the word on level 5 across or up and down?
hey jay, i've just gotten a second auto e-mail from this game!
You're taking a big risk contacting me but I understand why you are, I would rather face
the future with my eyes open than closed.
View the source to see past the puzzles and tricks, there are answers beneath
If the puzzles I've left you are too tricky trust HAAS for the second key, it will
unlock the door to more answers.
I'll be at this address for as long as I can, I hope I hear from you again.
good luck to all of us............
How in the world do you solve puzzle 5? I get that I'm supposed to
type in the beginningistheend but how in God's name do you do it?
Wow, Jake, you pull any muscles doing that stretching? :-P Too many puzzle pieces DON'T fit...read my above post.
answers for puzzle number 5
make the bottom set of symbols spell out thebeginningistheend and the ball will open or whatever right away. if its not, check your symbols again. i had 2 of them wrong the first time. the flashing symbols on the top dont seem to have any significance as far as i could tell... hope that helped.
Yeah I also have issues with #5 don't know if something is suppose to happen or not. Any one finished that can shed some light?
For some reason, I can't see Labyrinth's solution for puzzle 4, I just see a bunch of squares instead. What could the problem be?
I'm running several browsers (including the latest Firefox) on an Intel Mac. The flash does it's loading thing with the gear, and then stops. Nothing I do seems to affect it, including 'play' 'forward' 'rewind', all that jazz. Any tips or anyone else have this problem?
puzzle 5 how to do it without matching gliffs
match all letters to the one that corisponds to "A" it looks like a fish hook
then enter this code starting with the top left by clicking the icon this many times
19, 7, 4, 1, 4, 6, 8,13,13, 8
13, 6, 8,18,19, 7, 4, 4,13, 3
Thanks for the help, I was stuck on the last one.
So thinking out of the box, I did a whois lookup on the websites listed...
http://417stjneh.com/
www.6ld9102.com
www.279fh7691.com
These were all registered by
Domain Privacy Group, Inc.
c/o 417stjneh.com,
5160 Yonge St. Suite 1800
Toronto, ON M2N 6L9
CA
on 7/16/07
www.ethanhaaswasright.com was registered by...
Domain Name: ETHANHAASWASRIGHT.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Updated Date: 07-jun-2007
Creation Date: 07-jun-2007
Expiration Date: 07-jun-2008
For the most part, checking the registar will get rid of the fake sites. Too bad these are just web companies and something with more clues. Haven't checked all the other sites yet.
That's Zinc, not zing.
Has anyone also noticed the symbols on the outside of the ball, before it opens up into a puzzle or the DIVINUS tablet? I can't really see what they are, even on my screen cap.
Hey hey, check this out. After looking through that comment from jay I took those numbers and letters at the end and stuck them into a url.
But I'm very bad at reading cursive, I can barely make out what it says on that paper. I know that at the end it says "The Beginning and The End." A reoccurrence of the Alpha and Omega theme.
[Edit: the quotes were missing in your HTML, I've fixed them now. =) -Jay]
In the 360 degree room at www.CKROX.com It says "More to come soon" just right of the tv at the top. You can also see it backwards in the mirror.
Well it's 8:55PM and still no update on the Ethan Haas site, I'm extremely disappointed.
check the eyes of the animals in the CKROX site....
they reflect something!!!
Yeah this is all crazy stuff i just happened upon the ethan haas stuff while researching the 01-18-08 movie. I definately dont think they are linked, but anyways.....i cant read the cursive posted from the 2 weird sites can anyone put the text down here? And also im saddened to see the haaswasright site hasnt changed or any hidden links can be found. Keep the info coming folks. I will try to see what i can dig up as well
It seem that CKROX is a web designer, i found this other site:
http://www.returntosenderthemovie.com/rtsflash.html
(it's about a short film called "Return To Sender" -2005-)
... maybe he works for the Red Interactive Agency (the one who designed the site of ethanhaasright.com) and put his nick back on the DIVINUS tablet
okay so in the second email you get from van its says to no the stars of Cassiopeia and you will no when you have reached your destination now one of the stars is called SCHEDAR and one of the lets is called this does this mean that this is the destination
so
three letters each have titles
http://417stjneh.com/ 1
www.6ld9102.com 2
www.279fh7691.com 3
The first one Schedar mean Alpha
The second Caph is Beta
The third Gamma Cass is Gamma
each letter corrispondes with a star in the cassioperia constellation
Know in the letter can says :
know the stars of Cassiopeia and you will know when you've reached your
destination.
so i Know the stars does this mean i have found the destination the end
but there is nothing more then letter that go no where
??
I dont know how to start the puzzles. All i see is a circuler object with blue spheres around it. so i dont know anything about the game. did the puzzles include these words "Look to the stars for help","...war came, no longer from the elemental nor from the star's rain of fire. The world was again remade, and the glow was as the coming of the sun upon the Earth. The children of the gods were again too few, scattered and divided and among them walked the ancients and those whose thoughts were not as to the towers and the marvels, but to the End and the destruction of the Earth and to the fires from which nothing could escape". i found these words by viewing hte websites source(view source)
its just a game....alphaomega
What was promised to happen has happend...the revelation has come. Those who are ready will see and follow the path before them into the new world. Those who do see or refuse to see will be left behind. Do you have the courage to learn the truth? Behold the coming of truth! http://www.alphaomegathegame.com/
It's some kind of new RPG either table top or online or both called Alpha Omega. It takes place in the future after the planet has been trashed people and animals have mutated and aliens are making war with each other on earth and people get involved. We used to worship them as Gods and Devils but because we've grown and evolved we now see they are just aliens. It looks like an interesting game but as the site just launched there aren't really any good examples of character creation, game play etc.
Lol burn at everyone, we were almost ALL wrong. Well done to whoever DID beleve the Alpha Omega thing, The rest fo us are easily led.
I want to know who DID make the original Cloverfield-ethan haas link, though.
It is 4:30 am Aug 2nd 2007 and ethanhaaswasright.com has exposed it reason for being. It is to sell people on a new RPG called "alpha and omega" and appears to have nothing to do with Project Cloverfield
Sorry folks, we've been had
well the ethanhasswasright site just changed. it gives the option to advance to another site or replay the puzzles. the new site is called www.alphaomegathegame.com/ although it does not load properly just yet. i guess most people were wrong about the movie after all.
yea seems that the alphaomega site is some online rpg. at the moment nothing is up, i try to create character and i get no response from the server. im assuming that at this time they just want us to know that the site is based on an online game that will be made available soon...
gg. i was hoping that it be related to the movie...utter dissappointment
I am terribly disappointed.
I feel like my entire life's meaning was for nothing.
I havn't even read about the actual game, but I swear if I have to pay for it, I will murder the internet.
you'll kill the internet? i like the enthusiasm. lord knows im pissed too....
Darn. I wet myself over the Ethan Haas crap for nothing. Oh well. I wanted deeply to believe that I didnt waste my life on that website for nothing.
*sigh*
I'm just glad it still had nothing to do with that NBC sitcom.
If that had been the case I would definitely have had to hurt somebody.
1. maybe it is the alphaomega movie
2. lots of Slusho updates!
wait everyone thought this was a cloverfield site...lol it took me 10 mins of lookin around to confirm it was alphaomega, i just wanted to crack the secrets =p
I don't get it at all there are so many clues it's hard to grasdp what this thing could be slusho or godzilla. Does anyone out there know what it is
hey if you go to 01-18-08.com it will bring up some pictures from the trailer it will allow you to move them around and if you mess around with their corners you can flip them there are messages to the main character from the party . I hope it helps you
I'd read all the comments... and I was so paranoid about all of Ethan Haas, 1-18-08 and Cloverfield xDDD
I'ts just a stupid RPG and a stupid movie like Godzilla but with Cthulu
Cthulu is a squid demon, but that's all I know! can ANYONE give a good explanation? The call, 1-18-08, movie, lion, girl, zoom. WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU SAYING!?!?
So it's an advergame for a b-horror movie?
Ethan Haas does not anagram to He Has Satan. That's two S's
I know all about the cloverfield movie its huge be ready tonight at 22 (french hours)
the game wont load for me. It gets up to the last dot, and the dot wont appear. all the others dots came up. I even left the window up for a day, and it didnt load. it loads on my other computers fine. What am i doing wrong?
Hey folks, just wanted to give you guys something neat. If you stay on the 1-18-08.com website for awhile, you'll hear this HUGE LOUD monster noise. From the Cloverfield Trailers, except more detailed and drawn out.
Also, the monster is obviously Cthulu, if you go to the Slusho website, you'll see it's only a subsidiary of TAGRUATO CORP. which is a powerful Japanese mining company, which mines... some new resource that only comes from the deepest parts of the ocean.
"Tagruato explores the final frontier on planet earth -- the deepest recesses of our oceans. Our scientists and engineers have created drilling technology that can withstand degrees of extreme pressure, cold, and heat never before thought possible."
You can check the map that displays all of it's Mining Operations all over the world, it's workstaff and when it was made, the newest Drill was just opened September 2007, a few hundred miles off the coast of New York.
1. just so everyone knows the spoiler pattern for the 4th puzzle given on this page, and many others out there, does not work. try it. you tell me if you get that sequence to work...
You have to tap everything twice, unless it's two directions in a row; tap the first one twice then just press the other one.
Lovecraft? Monsters? Ruined cities and humanity's armaggedon? We'll be watching movie about Cthulhu people. 100%
thought this was interesting. btw i came here as a result of trying to figure out the 4th puzzle and got caught up in all the hype. the link tells the story of cassiopeia. the interesting part is the seas monster parts. i know the ethan/1-18-08 connection has been shot down but could there still be a connection?
http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/cassiopeia.htm
hey guys i think its a remake on (the beast from 20,000 fanthoms) most of the stuff from both movie are the same, plus all the website have to do with water so it has to be a montser from the water not a lion
I dont know if tis any good, but in the zone "investors news" on the tagruato corp's page, ganu yoshida (the same as slusho's history) said tha they were "reaching for the stars". I guess if that has something to do with the stars of cassiopeia (ethan haas).
Another hint: in the same "investor news", another article sais something about a complain to another article from a "ravaille research center" that mentions slusho!. when i googled ravaille, the first page is that of scienceforums.net, and someone posted:
Hi! I'm new to the boards. You all seem very well read so I hope someone nows what I'm talking about.
I'm attaching a article I found about the Slusho! drinks and the weird affect it's having on people. I'm worried because my 2 boys drink it everyday.
Does anyone have info on the Ravaille Research Center? Are they legitimate? Does anyone have any other research on Slusho! drinks?
It's a viral attack from official cloverfield, or just a fan helping to spread tha virus?
The unfiction forum sais something about "the cause" and "ravaille...", and some jamie and teddy. Looking up in the ethanhaas.org/cloverfield page, i found the post of the article or memo that Ravaille wrote about slusho!. The web page thanked unfiction for the translation. The cherry on the top: the cast of heroes posing with slusho! for the pictures. What's going on here? This is getting SO viral!
oh, i forgot. They linked a page called jamieandteddy, and there is just a picture of two teddy bears!
so it seems that jamie and teddy are jamie lascano and his friend teddy. The weird thing is that, apparently, the characters of the movie have sites in myspace, with friends and everything.
Still dont know what the people on unfiction were talking abouth with "the cause".
Other pages are saying the "ethan haas/cloverfield diaries is a fake page". well, they sure dont clame to be "real" in the sense of "slusho.jp".
ok, my last post until someone sais something. apparently (i cant confirm this, because im just downloading the videos from the jamie and teddy web page), the "cause" is part of the conversation that teedy wants to have with jamie about his work; this can be a fake clue, whatsoever, 'cause the guys at unfiction created website called "the effect", that proclaims be fighting against tagruato corp, in a way of participating in this mass phenomenon. son, tha "cause" can be an extension to their game, or a real hint extracted from the videos. seeing is believing. i hope there could be real answers soon, especially indentifying the fake webs from the real ones.
I am so amazingly stuck on the 4th puzzle. I have tried the spolier above and it didn't work at all. Could someone please help me get those annoying green dots onto the gears?!??!?!?!
Hey guys. Im a Paramount rep. I wont say where. Dont get your hopes up yet because i have nothing to do with the making of the movie or anything. I set up and host all the pre-screenings for paramount movies in my area. Really im on the bottum of the ladder but I have heard some things from reliable sources... and ill share some things with you guys abot my own experiences.
While showing transformers to a test audience long before it came out is when i first saw the teaser - still nameless. My first thought was Godzilla, Independence Day, or AVP2. I called my boss and inquired. He had no idea what it was.
However word leaked down to me and i finally found out. Now the movie comes out in 1 month and i'll be watching it in about 3 weeks with test audiences. when i see it ill report back with a spoiler, and dont read it if you can wait another 2 or 3 weeks, but itll be here.
Well, i want to tell you guys so bad but im going to leave it at this. heres my own little riddle - put it together.
Spiderman, The matrix, SAW... whats in common?
(relating to releases)
When did the teaser first appear? (absolute first)
Japaneese Cartoons.
Japaneese Toy.
" ITS HUGE - ITS ALIVE! "
optimal111mus2.
What type of preview has never been shown before a movie.
and lastly the words of haas:
"today we
remember the
ancestors that
died
never were
spawned, born
frail yet
uncannily
outspoken and
rude.
may never,
ever be
suddenly
remembered in
splendor...
Today
we reach
out to them
and prove
their deaths
were not
in vain. The first character
that those set aside
and skip will find the answer.
That is the omega. "
This proves to me that ethan haas knows the secret. its so simple to solve the last one that its hard. Just look at it.
Robeasts, Yum! The fact that something fell from the sky makes me think Voltron. But I could be way off . . .
Either way: Slusho Turbo!
Spiderman, The matrix, SAW... whats in common?
(relating to releases)
IT'S GOING TO BE A TRILOGY!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT'S IT!! THERE'S GOING TO BE THREE
i tried playing this game but it directs me to a RPG site? for a d&d typr game called alphaomega??WTF!!
I don't know if this is true but I remeber finding this link on a website for a rable top rpg called Alpha and Omega. This game is apparently the back story for that game.
http://www.alphaomegathegame.com/
Actually, the spoiler given for the fourth puzzle does work. Press each key given twice.
this is kinda freaky... i was looking at my screen at all the comments, and i herd a weird sound effect. i looked at the screen my game was on, and
all i saw were dots on the 5th game. the entire message screen.
weipd, right?
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Walkthrough Guide
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Complete Walkthrough:
Puzzle 1
As the hint email says, this is a memory game.
When you click on any button, the game pops out each button in a sequence.
The sequence is invariant.
There's a reason for that.
Ever play the game "Simon"?
This is similar. You have to push all the same buttons in the same order. If you press some other button, or get one out of sequence, it shows you the correct sequence again.
Puzzle 2
Incidentally, you can right-click to zoom in and out, which is really handy for being able to make out the letters in this puzzle.
You need to enter some text.
The game has its own alphabet; roll over one of the stars to make an alphabet key appear. (Or use my easier-to-use version.)
You need to enter a specific word.
The word you need to enter is four letters long.
Get your mind out of the gutter. This is a kid-safe game!
See any four-letter words in plain sight?
The word you need to enter is "HAAS".
Obvious problem: That's four letters, and you seem to only have two characters to work with.
What's two plus two?
Rotate the two inner rings such that they spell "HA", then find "AS" on the outer ring.
Puzzle 3
This one's a classic game.
It's a simple capture game.
See those two lights at the bottom that aren't lit?
Specifically, this is the game of Pegged.
You need to capture all of the pegs except one.
You capture a peg (= light) by dragging another peg over it to an empty space. This removes the captured peg from the board (extinguishes the light). You can't move a peg without capturing another peg. If you have more than one peg still on the board and no possible moves (e.g., two pegs separated by an empty space), the puzzle resets.
Puzzle 4
First, I'll point out that this game is controlled with the arrow keys. You may not need any more hints to figure this puzzle out, now that you know how to operate it.
This is a programming game. (Don't worry, you don't need to learn a programming language.)
How many gear-shaped things are there (counting the one that the blue circle is sitting on top of)?
How many green circles are there?
You need to program in a course that results in all three green circles (which I think of as vacuum-cleaner robots) ending up on the three gear-shaped platforms.
Ah, but the robots don't seem to go the same direction you tell them to. They go every which way.
More precisely, the blue one goes in the direction you tell it to, but the green ones go in different directions. Also, if the blue robot is blocked, your move is rejected out-of-hand, but if it isn't, the move is allowed, even if one or more of the green robots is blocked. And as you may imagine, robots can block other robots.
Also, the squares above the top two platforms are blocks; the robots can't pass through them.
WARNING: The next hint gives one solution. Thanks, Labyrinth.
↑ ← ↓ ↓ ← → ↑ → ↑ ← ←
Clue in the video before Puzzle 5
This flashes for just a fraction of a second during the cutscene video. Just in case you missed it (maybe you weren't looking at the screen during the movie), here it is:
54312
Puzzle 5
Zooming helps with this one, too.
This is not a crypto puzzle.
At least, not in the sense of having to decrypt something that's encrypted. You do have to work out a password, though.
Have you figured out the significance of that one screen with no letters on it?
It's a separator.
It's a separator in the telegraphic sense. You know, like the word "stop": "Hello stop we are doing well stop the weather here is good stop unfortunately there is no punctuation stop …"
You need to figure out the message.
Start by counting letters everywhere they appear.
This means the rotating messages as well as the letter-board underneath.
There are 20 spaces on the letter-board (hopefully, you didn't need me to tell you that part). The number of letters in each message varies on the first line but is always four on the second line.
The messages are not random.
Have you written them all down yet? (Not that you need to; they're in the next hint.)
FIVE (new line) BNSN
FOUR (new line) EITD
THREE (new line) ENIE
ONE (new line) HIGE
TWO (new line) TGNH
Note that the order is important.
No, it's not 12345. That would be too easy.
Remember the clue from the most recent cutscene?
No? That's OK, it was only on the screen for a brief flash. It said 54312.
The messages appear in that order: "FIVE BNSN", then "FOUR EITD", then "THREE ENIE", then "ONE HIGE", then "TWO TGNH".
The significance of this is that the numbers aren't part of the message. They're just sequence information.
It's also important that every message's second line is four letters.
What do you get when you multiply 4, the length of every clue, by various numbers?
Like, say, the number of clues?
You have five clues, and they're four letters each; 4 �- 5 = 20, which is the length of the letter-board.
Except that the letter-board isn't a single line; it's a rectangle, 10 �- 2.
What if it were a 4 �- 5 rectangle instead?
It'd look something like this:
BNSNEITDENIEHIGETGNHUnfortunately, that arrangement doesn't help you much.
Try playing with the order. (Next hint shows the correct order.)
TGNHHIGEENIEBNSNEITDColumns are rows and rows are columns.
THEBEGINNINGISTHEENDStill haven't figured it out? The next hint gives it away.
"THE BEGINNING IS THE END".
Thanks to Labyrinth (10:40) and Kevin (6:46) for their hints, with which I was able to finish the game and this walkthrough.
Posted by: Peter Hosey | July 5, 2007 2:06 PM