Whysoserious.com/Bamboozle

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July 7, 2008

Text messages sent by Humanresources@whysoserious.com led to Whysoserious.com/Bamboozle, which depicts a Jokerized fortune telling machine.

Bamboozle.jpg

Clicking one of the 24 buttons causes a ticket to come out of the slot. Each ticket has a fortune and a joke about each fortune from the Joker. Seven of the tickets have rectangular cutouts in them. Each ticket also has a number and a letter in the top left corner.

Fortunes

The phrases in italics indicate the Joker's comments. Bold indicates a ticket with a cutout.

  Top left
  • CardB4.jpg B4 - You will get your heart's desire. Too bad you're an addict.
  • Card8J.jpg 8J - You will come to the attention of people in high places. Like crazed hilltop snipers.
  • Card8G.jpg 8G - You will live in interesting times. Interesting to historians. Like the Black Plague.
  • Card1M.jpg 1M - You will meet someone tall, dark and handsome who you will share your life with. They'll route your bank funds into an untraceable Carribbean account.
  • Card3P.jpg 3P - You will come into great wealth. After an industrial accident. You'll be blind. Deaf. Completely paralyzed. But rich.
  • Card3I.jpg 3I - Now would be a good time to leave your job. Twenty years flipping burgers is long enough.
  Bottom left
  • Card9L.jpg 9L - Children will influence a major decision. Who knows. You might have married her anyway.
  • Card1H.jpg 1H - You will have a breakthrough in your career. Your boss will take credit.
  • Card6M.jpg 6M - You will have an opportunity for a good investment. House of Pies stock is shooting up.
  • Card3D.jpg 3D - Don't assume you know what is going on at work. But yes, there are photos. And yes, they will stand up in court.
  • Card8N.jpg 8N - You will make money, if not for you, then for an organization. Like the IRS.
  • Card5K.jpg 5K - You will unexpectedly need help today, and the response of friends will surprise you. They'll take video. Send it to your boss. Your wife. It'll go viral.
  Top right
  • Card4F.jpg 4F - Money is heading your way. But you're a moving target. Too bad.
  • Card3L.jpg 3L - Expect a promotion. Expect it to be humiliating.
  • Card8D.jpg 8D - You will soon receive a gift If your lawyer calls and says don't answer the door, there's a reason.
  • Card2K.jpg 2K - You can expect an inheritance. One of those genetic things that predict a short and miserable life. It will also explain why your ears look like that.
  • Card2F.jpg 2F - Someone you currently doubt is telling the truth Saying you are the prophet of a new religion won't help. The voices were wrong. They weren't free samples.
  • Card6C.jpg 6C - Beware of false information regarding a loved one. But that thing about the affair? That's true. Sorry.
  Bottom right
  • Card4N.jpg 4N - Beware of unexpected windfalls. Vegans are especially flatuent. (Note: the number 1586 is written above the word "vegan")
  • Card9A.jpg 9A - A new person will enter your life. Your cellmate. The voices will tell him you're a demon.
  • Card5H.jpg 5H - An acquantaince will approach you with a business offer. Anyone stupid enough to use a fortune-telling machine will think it's a great offer. You probably date a pagan.
  • Card9H.jpg 9H - A small kindness will lead to unexpected benefits. After several thousand dollars, things will mostly be okay. Just give up and throw out your mattress.
  • Card6E.jpg 6E - Cancel the trip you planned this week Take the trip-dysentery. Stay home-salmonella. Either way you lose weight.
  • Card7A.jpg 7A - Your star is climbing. You'll be a celebrity. The Darwin awards are a kind of fame.

Solution

The ticket bank has this orientation (note that bold numbers are punched cards):

1--2--3--4--5--6   13-14-15-16-17-18
7--8--9-10-11-12   19-20-21-22-23-24

Noting the use of "Epyttnelis" ("SilentType" backwards) for the name of the fortune teller, the city map of Gotham (compiled by SHH user "SilentType") was used to find the next clue.

Using the punched tickets overlayed over the Gotham city map so that each ticket covers two squares with the top left in its defined coordinate, the holes frame street numbers:

BamboozleOverlay.jpg

8Gcutout.jpg
3Pcutout.jpg
6Mcutout.jpg
3Lcutout.jpg
2Fcutout.jpg
5Hcutout.jpg
6Ecutout.jpg


Following the order of punched cards from #1 through 24 as above:

  • 3 = 8G = 22nd
  • 5 = 3P = 1st
  • 9 = 6M = 5th
  • 14 = 3L = 3rd
  • 17 = 2F = 4th
  • 21 = 5H = 17th
  • 23 = 6E = 14th

Click on the buttons in the position of the street numbers in the order shown above:

22-1-5-3-4-17-14


Doing so dispenses a ticket which leads to Whysoserious.com/Bamboozle/2l43kjsa892nn2.htm

Bamboozleticket.jpg