[arg_discuss] Useful puzzle books?

[Andres M. Quijano]

I think (and I read it elsewhere if I'm not mistaken) that Sgt. Pepper's 
Lonely Hearts Club Band was kind of an ARG. Too bad there was no 
internet at that time, but surely every single one started looking for 
meaning and clues in that album cover!

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Andrés Martínez Quijano
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despain at quantumcontent.com escribió:

> "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges from 1940 strikes me as

> proto-argish. More info:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n%2C_Uqbar%2C_Orbis_Tertius

> 

> I'm also told Peter Greenaway has done some interesting things with his

> project Tulse Luper, which is kind of all over the place on the

> net. Here are some good starting points:

> 

> http://petergreenaway.co.uk/

> http://www.tulseluper.net/

> http://www.tulseluperjourney.com/

> 

> For anyone interested in just plain puzzle books, a recent one is called

> "The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms" by Elonka Dunin.

> 

> I agree the overlay of wacky puzzles ontop of most ARGs these days is kind

> of redundant and over-used, but many ARG players seem to have come to

> expect it, and aren't sure it's "really an ARG" if there isn't a word

> puzzle to figure out in the first week.

> 

> I guess what I'm really saying is - can you blame the developers? I think

> they're just playing to their audience.

> 

> Wendy Despain

> quantumcontent.com