Message #14

I found yet another picture! Lucky I have quite good access to many places at the office... :) Never been too good with equations but this is way over my head. Anyone get it?

Message #13

Apparently I'm not the only one who is not so happy with how things are handled at Avecira. I persuaded one colleague to give me this picture he has been working on. Fortunately I was able to convince that it is for a good cause. Naturally, he is afraid of loosing his job, but luckily he was willing to take the risk.

Anyone have an idea what's going on here?

Message #12

It has been a quiet morning at the office so I was able to do some lurking. My heart was racing when I sneaked in to Richard's office and found this scribbled on a piece of paper:

the
llama
escapes
Soon
inside

I wanted to continue sniffing around, but I heard his key turning in the lock! Luckily I managed to hide in his mahogany closet until he left to get some coffee.

Message #11, update

I just saw one co-worker solving the puzzle with cats and faces. She was so focused on the problem that didn't notice me sneaking on her shoulder and taking this photo:

Message #11

Look what I just received! This time I didn't even have to steal it, because a co-worker sent it to me. People have been passing it around since they find it funny that the big shots of the company have ended up in the puzzle! Obviously, sharing this information with co-workers violates almost every part of the company loyalty policy, but apparently some people are willing to take the risk.

Richard has been partly impressed to see his own face in it, but also somehow scared of what it might reveal. I heard a rumor that he filled every empty space with his own picture and then said to one of my co-workers: "Use the uplook to check whether it leads somewhere, chop-chop!", but apparently it didn't.

Message #10

Just as I received a clever idea to the Mona Lisa picture from a friend, I saw people at the office working with a similar picture. Well, the face in the picture surely isn't similar, but the whole feeling about the picture is.

See for yourself. This is what I managed to get:

Update on the Mona Lisa picture

The pixelated picture of Mona Lisa has been puzzling since it was discovered several weeks ago (see the comments of this blog post). I received an email from a helpful and skillful friend who reads this blog. This is what she pondered about the picture:

"…and believe that the pixelated image at http://stoptoilworndiamond.co.nf/sanomali.html likely contains another image, probably a QR code. I think the pixels need to be rearranged based on the red component RGB value and for that you'll need someone with true programming knowledge."

I post her comment here hoping that there is someone with the sufficient programming knowledge who could benefit from the clever idea and try it out.

The pixelated picture of Mona Lisa

Another email from Pasi

I just received another email from Pasi! Like we guessed, we need more info in order to find out the meaning of the card that was already found. This email is even more puzzling and it doesn't have any direct coordinates where to look. Therefore, I post the pictures Pasi sent me hoping that someone would have an idea where it could be.

Can anyone get the hidden thing based on Pasi's email? We should get a hold of it as soon as possible so that it doesn't end up in wrong hands...

EDIT: The card has been found.

Here is Pasi's email:

Hi Beth!

Since my last email, I've been going through my notes and I think I found something! I remember hiding one part of the coded word in a library and I found these photos from my album (Luckily I was an enthusiastic photographer at the time). As you know, it's crucial to get that piece of information. Hopefully these images are helpful enough!

Interesting book. Especially the pages 212-213.

Saw this nice building just next to the library.

Yours Sincerely,
Pasi Liisola

Message #9

There has been a lot of buzz about "the yellowish cat picture" at the office over the past few days. I've been working hard to get a hold of it and finally today I succeeded! I must say I'm pretty proud of myself at the moment. I knew who was currently working on the cat picture and I also knew where he kept his backup disk. When he went to get some more coffee (lucky the coffee consumption is pretty high at the office), I sneaked in and changed the backup disk to my own. Then I just waited until he took the daily backups and changed the disks back.

And this is what I found...

The yellowish cat picture