It's probably best if we speak in person. Then Murray continues that, 'If this is Joyce, thank you for calling, I've been trying to reach you. 'Mom, if this is you, please hang up and call me between the hours of 5 and 6 p.m., as previously discussed, OK?' he says, which sounds a lot like coded instructions for ARG players. While initially believed to be just a cool Easter egg, his message could also be read as a potential lead for larger puzzles to come later on in the game.

One fan found that if you call the phone number in Episode 6 for journalist/conspiracy theorist/hero Murray, you get his answering machine. There's also already hints that clues for the ARG were embedded into Season 3 itself. Our prediction is that the next test site on July 7 will be positive for a gate opening, which is when the real work begins. As the difficulty ramps up, the expectation is that fewer and fewer people will actually participate in solving the puzzle, but the larger group will get the experience of sleuthing by proxy and following the community as it unravels those harder puzzles. ARG super fans are known for being dogged sleuths, with almost no limit to the amount of time and effort they're willing to invest to solve a game's mysteries.īut the design of ARGs generally starts slow like this, making the barrier to entry very low so as many people as possible get involved initially. While players and fans are enjoying the opportunity for an interactive augmented reality Stranger Things experience, the puzzles so far have been critiqued by the community for being way too easy. Time to embody Hopper and Joyce's relentless detective work Credit: netflix There's also an ominous final hint about how, 'Radiation data is normal for nuclear testing.' More googling reveals the next potential gate to be 'Semipalatinsk.' But your contact says no portal was found there, so you're once again told to come back tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. ET on July 6, with some info about a Soviet nuclear site. The second clue was revealed at 12:00 p.m. Some basic wiki research reveals the location of that IRL nuke site to be 'THE MORUROA ATOLL.' The contact confirms you found the first potential gate into the Upside Down, and congratulates you for completing the first mission. Your contact gives you Day One's clue about a nuclear testing site in France. Entering the IP address and port given on the call gets you access to a communication system, which provides more details on Operation Scoop Snoop. The first mission requires you to connect to a 'secure server' through early access to 'technology way beyond 1985' (aka the internet). Would be great to have a secret weapon like El for Operation Scoop Snoop Credit: netflix

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