Category: Artwork

The pac-dots inside the labyrinth contain the lines:

“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?” – Reference to 42 (taken from the TV show)

“Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty”

“Cramhints” – encription key (C,R,A,M,H,I,N,T,S=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) for the two names hidden in the high scores.

The number 42 is also included as the total sum of the bonus items (4200 points); the current year is to be found inside the power pellets.

The only hidden message is the number 42, which in this case is represented by Deep Thought himself – but the one from the movie, not the one appearing in the TV show.

Furthermore “Practice Random Kindness…” can be found on the billboard in the lower right corner and a picture containing two suspiciously looking guys in the lower left corner. Both boards are written in fonts that were used for the Futurama TV shows.

Last, but not least, the current year as a part of the “Planet Express” headquarter’s parapet.

No hidden messages this time – at least if one is capable of reading Tengwar, the written language of Middle-earth.

“Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty”, written in the Tengwar-Annatar font by Johan Winge, can be found at the bottom – hopefully without too many typos.
(The first one has been found already: An additional “d” has crept to the end of the line. Fixed now – thanks go to Uwe Engelmann for reporting it.)

On the right hand you can find the current year (written in Tengwar using the elvish duodecimal number system) and on the left hand the number “42”.

The number “42” and the current year can be found as binary numbers (smaller and bigger dots for “0” resp. “1”) to the right and left of the cFos borg logo.
“Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty” is written on the lower border using Tommy of Escondido’s borg font. The green letters can be rearranged to “Resistane is futile”.

黑客After rotating the mug by 90 degrees – please use empty mug for this ;), the borg cubes contain these two chinese characters as autostereograms (SIS). Their meaning is hēi kè (hei1 ke4), which can be translated as “dark/strange guest/visitor” – the Chinese expression for “hacker”.

In the bigger version of the image the stereograms can be seen by turning your head to the left, like this: : -) .

This mug has most strings included as anagrams – generated by using AnagramGenius.

There are:
Christoph Lueders (Hurried Splotches)
Martin Winkler (Twin Nil Marker)
cFos Support Team (Fast Mouse PC Port)
Twothousendandfive (Shunt of New Void Data)
Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
(Non-Trademarked Codec bypasses assistant influences)

The “42” is hidden in the “brain” and then there also is a “Heart of Gold”.

The “42” is written in chinese numerical on the upper crossbar of the easel:
四十二 = 4(四)*10(十)+2(二).

The current year is inserted in Braille in the upper left ( : .: .: :’ ).

The lower crossbar’s grain contains the “Practice Random…” slogan – as the bit patterns of the ASCII codes.

Nothing to see here, please move along… 😉

This time only the number “42” is included at the bottom left border. It replaces – written in slightly modified Roman numericals (XLII) – Escher’s signature (MCE), which can be found in most of his pictures.

Except for the number 42 (in binary notation) every thing is included in the dropping letters as plain text.

Included are (as far as I can remember):
CFOS CUP 2002
C3PO
R2D2
12 MONKEYS
101010 (that would be the 42)

Have fun searching them!

In the background – hardly recognizable – you can see a caffeine molecule.