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SOLVED
—Just happened to casually flip through my monthly issue of WIRED (the May ‘09 issue with J.J. Abrams as guest editor) after work yesterday when I spotted the tiny sentence “For example, spotting and decoding one of 15 hidden clues in this issue will make finding the rest—and solving the overall mystery—a bit easier.” A hidden puzzle? Just like the old days and GAMES magazine! Well, I couldn’t put it down after that. Soon I was elbow-deep in ASCII codes, dvorak keyboards, morse code, semaphore, and a dozen other cryptographic techniques. It took a while, but I finally figured out the puzzle. If you’re looking for a distraction for a few days of solid puzzle work (and Wikipedia searches for how to decode an electrician’s twisted-pair wire code), pick up this month’s issue.
