Lonelygirl15 puzzles
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This is an index of all the puzzles that have taken place in the Lonelygirl15 web series.
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Bree Phone Home
In Bree Phone Home, Bree calls several of her relatives in hopes of finding out what could have happened to her parents. When she dials great uncle Franklin from San Francisco, her call is picked up by an answering machine for Powell's Dry Cleaners.
Powell's Dry Cleaners Message
Bree said the phone number aloud as she dialed it: 287-0211. Since she mentioned Franklin was in San Francisco, one of the possible area codes was (415). Calling 415-287-0211 allows you to listen to the same message heard by Bree.
- Hello and thank you for calling Powell's Dry Cleaners. We are open 7 days a week from 9 am until 5 pm. Our current specials are as follows: Dress shirts 3 for $5 with an 8-9 day turn around time. We also offer rush service at a rate of 3 shirts for $12. Please leave a message after the tone and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you.
The numbers of shirts and days that it will take to clean them are the real message. The message below has the numbers in bold.
- Hello and thank you for calling Powell's Dry Cleaners. We are open 7 days a week from 9 am until 5 pm. Our current specials are as follows: Dress shirts 3 for $5 with an 8-9 day turn around time. We also offer rush service at a rate of 3 shirts for $12. Please leave a message after the tone and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you.
The numbers are 7953589312. This is not a phone number. However, when reversed, it yields (213)-985-3597, which is indeed a phone number. When this number is dialed, a voice message from Bree's father plays.
Bree's father's message
This is the message heard after dialing (213) 985-3597.
- Bree, it's your father. If you are listening to this message, you managed to crack my code. Your mother and I are safe but I need to talk to you alone. Confirm that you got this by sending me a secret message back. I'll meet you one week after that at the place where we used to talk about Feynman and Jared Diamond. I know you're confused right now. But all will make sense after we talk. I'll see you soon sweetie.
Richard Feynman is a famous physicist for whom Bree has great admiration. She quoted him in her blog Daniel Returns, and More Interesting Factoids (Yay!), in which she tells a story from his book Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman.
Bree also quotes Jared Diamond' Guns, Germs and Steel in the The Tolstoy Principle (and Dad "talks" to Daniel).
Since Bree is homeschooled and these readings have been assumed to be part of her coursework, it's possible that her dad is referring to some place where they used to go to work on her studies. He does not seem to specify what kind of secret message he wants her to send back.
- Listen to the message from Bree's father.
- Wikipedia article on Jared Diamond
- Wikipedia article on Richard Feynman
Mystery Movies
When Bree hears the answering machine's message for Powell's Dry Cleaners, she seems disillusioned and says she's run out of leads. She either has not yet realized there is a puzzle behind the message, or she was acting as if she didn't notice. In her video Mystery Movies, Bree names the movies she watched that day and mentions
- Citizen Kane
- Usual Suspects
- Sneakers
- Out of Sight
- Ocean's Eleven
- Never Say Never Again
The first letter of the titles of these movies spell out "CUSOON", as in "See you soon." Bree must have indeed figured out the puzzle and this is her response to his message. Although even in this video she acts like she can't figure out the puzzle, presumably she's putting on that act because her father wanted it to be a secret message. Bree's frequent mention of movies and how she used to go watch them with her dad might be another clue as to the location of the meeting place.
Since her father had requested that she meet him a week after receiving the message, their meeting was expected to take place on Saturday, December 30th, 2006. On December 30th, 2006 Jonas and Daniel found Bree meeting with her father at an unnamed location, confirming that Bree and her father indeed managed to successfully communicate via these puzzles. Nikki Bower later discovered that the location was The Coral Tree Cafe.
Miss Me?
Miss Me? is the second video in the LG15 series to contain a puzzle that viewers can solve. The first video to contain such a puzzle was Bree Phone Home. The Bree Phone Home puzzle however, was much simpler and not implicitly tied to the OpAphid ARG. OpAphid videos always contain puzzles, but this is the first of that series to be incorporated into the Lonelygirl15 series.
There are very faint symbols that flash momentarily, several times during the video, in different corners of the screen. The symbols appear to be braille, although the resolution is poor, and the contrast in the video needs to be increased in order to see them properly. See External Links for the video with contrast.
Watch out for the flashes at these times (in min:sec)
- The first is in the lower left corner at 0:04
- The second is in the upper left corner at 0:19
- The third is in the lower right corner at :33
- The fourth is in the upper right corner at 0:45
- The fifth is in the lower left corner at :58
- The sixth is in the upper left at 1:15
- The seventh (and last) is in the upper right corner at 1:27
Due to the poor quality of the symbols displayed, they don't look much like braille, although they were intended to. Each of the screencaps below has three rows. The first shows the symbols as they were displayed, the second shows their braille equivalent, and the third translates the braille to letters. (screencaps to be added soon).
First set
Anagrams to "HARD".
Second set
Anagrams to "AND LIFE".
Third set
Anagrams to "HEINZ".
Fourth set
Anagrams to "SQUARE".
Fifth set
Anagrams to "MILE".
Sixth set
Anagrams to "RIP STEPHEN".
Seventh set
Anagrams to "ASMODAI".
The phone number
Together, all the solved phrases are
HARD / AND LIFE / HEINZ / SQUARE / MILE / RIP STEPHEN / ASMODAI
They each have some number associated with them.
- Hard = Hard Eight, a movie. (8)
- And Life = A song by Skid Row, called 18 and Life (18)
- Heinz = The Ketchup (57)
- Square = 4 Square, the children's game. (4)
- Mile = 8 mile, the movie. (8)
- RIP Stephen = St. Stephen, who died in the year 34 AD. (34) (Note: Many have also suspect RIP Stephen is also in reference to Bree's dad, whose name is unknown to viewers.)
- Asmodai = The demon of lust, the seventh sin. (7)
| HARD | AND LIFE | HEINZ | SQUARE | MILE | RIP STEPHEN | ASMODAI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 18 | 57 | 4 | 8 | 34 | 7 |
The number is: (818)-574-8347
Daniel's voicemail message
Daniel's message to Bree is
"Hey, this is Daniel. Leave a message if you want to, but I only call back girls who do ceremonies. (In a whisper) Bree, do the ceremony."
- Video with increased contrast
- Forum thread containing solution. Second post summarizes the thread.
- mp3 file of Daniel's voicemail
