Ginter Code CRACKED?
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Is anyone working on this? I was thinking on trying to solve this. I am looking for card scans of the “World’s Greatest Victories”. I have card #6 and I will post a scan of the front and back tonight. If anyone can help post scans of the front and back of the “World’s Greatest Victories” cards. There are 20 cards in all.
- From Topps Web Site - LINK -
Be the First to Crack the Ginter Code!
Topps is offering up the collector’s ultimate prize…The first one to “Crack the Ginter Code” will appear in the 2009 Allen & Ginter Baseball base set. In every 24 packs of 2008 Allen & Ginter Baseball, appears in insert titled “World’s Greatest Victories”. There are 20 different cards in all.
Once all 20 cards are collected, they can be formatted as a group to reveal a secret message. The message has a call for action and the first to do it correctly will appear in next year’s set as the “Champion Code Breaker”.
If you have a “World’s Greatest Victories” card please post a scan of the front and back. We only need one copy of each card.
- From Topps Web Site - LINK -
Be the First to Crack the Ginter Code!
Topps is offering up the collector’s ultimate prize…The first one to “Crack the Ginter Code” will appear in the 2009 Allen & Ginter Baseball base set. In every 24 packs of 2008 Allen & Ginter Baseball, appears in insert titled “World’s Greatest Victories”. There are 20 different cards in all.
Once all 20 cards are collected, they can be formatted as a group to reveal a secret message. The message has a call for action and the first to do it correctly will appear in next year’s set as the “Champion Code Breaker”.
If you have a “World’s Greatest Victories” card please post a scan of the front and back. We only need one copy of each card.
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Well you guys saved me a lot of time. Story of my life, a day late and a dollar short!
"Grow a sweet a$$ mustache."
Because Topps said the answer is a "call to action," and gave the hints "orange" and "mustache." Probably not, but still sort of crazy enough to believe in.
<< <i>......With the produce being a month old now.......... >>
I never eat month old produce. Yuck.
<< <i>LOL actually if you buy it at the store chances are it is already 3 or 4 weeks off the plant. >>
3 or 4 weeks?? Where the hell do you live? Siberia?
I guess they where way ahead over on the Becket Boards then the new site killed the thread.
A&G Crack the Code Solved
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
selections. I wouldn't be surprised if the person who cracked it rode our coat tails for most of it. The most frustrating part was
being close to cracking it, but having so little info. We needed pictures of the fronts of the cards, namely the victory cards and
the much rarer team orange cards. We pleaded and even begged for help, but got very little. I actually had hand written team
victory cards that I used for several days.
Finding the answer was actaully very fun, I learned a lot of things, its amazing how each clue would fall into your lap. In the end
I and my friends over on beckett fell short and just didn't have the info we needed.
The code has been cracked, you can find that out by simply emailing the topps address that is on the code cards....actually the answer
had nothing to do with emailing the address, but some sort of call to action. The email was set on automatic response....actually a big
clue to itself.
Kevin
Quoted from the post:
<< <i>The answer is “SEND 6 TEAM ORANGE MINIS, ALL 6 MEN WITH MUSTACHES”
This relates to the 10 Team Orange Mini that are inserts and only 6 of the men have mustaches. You had to send in all 6 Team Orange minis men with mustaches.
I had all 6 cards and sent them into Topps and they received my certified letter with my answer and cards on 8/7/08. >>
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The team orange cards are 1 per 144 packs. There are 10 cards. Assuming never getting a duplicate, that is 1,440 packs or 60 boxes. At $75/box that equals $4,500. This is only for the cards to send into Topps.
In addition, the World's Greatest Victory cards are 1 per 24 packs. There are 20 cards. Assuming never getting a duplicate, that is 480 packs or 20 boxes. At $75/box that equals $1,500.
That totals 80 boxes or 10 cases and $6,000 minimum. Pretty impressive to even get ahold of 10 cases that quickly, break the packs and figure out the code.
Not a bad strategy: from what I've seen written in the blogosphere, Topps only received 2 or 3 correct entries before they started sending out the new email response.
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Every time I buy new cards I always feel ripped off. Then a few months later, I forget about it and buy something else new. It's all crap. If you don't pull some autograph or super duper short print parallel card, you've literally bought a box of feces.
<< <i>If you don't pull some autograph or super duper short print parallel card, you've literally bought a box of feces. >>
I'm going to guess you're not the set-building type...
I very much enjoy my 06, 07, and 08 (in progress) A&G sets. It's very zen-like to pull out a binder and flip through them on a lazy weekend.
I do admit, though, including fake players (Team Orange) this year tested my patience... I'm not sure how I'll like seeing some collecting shmuck on a card next year... especially if they once again fail to include AAGPBL players...
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<< <i>Amazing how quickly he solved this, just from a material and money standpoint.
The team orange cards are 1 per 144 packs. There are 10 cards. Assuming never getting a duplicate, that is 1,440 packs or 60 boxes. At $75/box that equals $4,500. This is only for the cards to send into Topps.
In addition, the World's Greatest Victory cards are 1 per 24 packs. There are 20 cards. Assuming never getting a duplicate, that is 480 packs or 20 boxes. At $75/box that equals $1,500.
That totals 80 boxes or 10 cases and $6,000 minimum. Pretty impressive to even get ahold of 10 cases that quickly, break the packs and figure out the code. >>
Raw please tell me your under 12 years old!!! If not reread what you wrote and tell me why he would have to pay $6,000 and not the $4,500 alone. Crack that code.
Collecting:
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Football HOF Rc's
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<< <i>Amazing how quickly he solved this, just from a material and money standpoint.
The team orange cards are 1 per 144 packs. There are 10 cards. Assuming never getting a duplicate, that is 1,440 packs or 60 boxes. At $75/box that equals $4,500. This is only for the cards to send into Topps.
In addition, the World's Greatest Victory cards are 1 per 24 packs. There are 20 cards. Assuming never getting a duplicate, that is 480 packs or 20 boxes. At $75/box that equals $1,500.
That totals 80 boxes or 10 cases and $6,000 minimum. Pretty impressive to even get ahold of 10 cases that quickly, break the packs and figure out the code. >>
Raw please tell me your under 12 years old!!! If not reread what you wrote and tell me why he would have to pay $6,000 and not the $4,500 alone. Crack that code. >>
Hahaha. Damn you, I spit coke all over my monitor.
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<< <i>Amazing how quickly he solved this, just from a material and money standpoint.
The team orange cards are 1 per 144 packs. There are 10 cards. Assuming never getting a duplicate, that is 1,440 packs or 60 boxes. At $75/box that equals $4,500. This is only for the cards to send into Topps.
In addition, the World's Greatest Victory cards are 1 per 24 packs. There are 20 cards. Assuming never getting a duplicate, that is 480 packs or 20 boxes. At $75/box that equals $1,500.
That totals 80 boxes or 10 cases and $6,000 minimum. Pretty impressive to even get ahold of 10 cases that quickly, break the packs and figure out the code. >>
Raw please tell me your under 12 years old!!! If not reread what you wrote and tell me why he would have to pay $6,000 and not the $4,500 alone. Crack that code. >>
Yes, you are much wiser than me. Unless, Team Orange Boxes can never contain WGV cards and vise versa:>
Despite my ignorant example, $4,500, 1,440 packs and cracking the code all by August 7th is pretty impressive.
Here is the order the cards go:
11, 3, 12, 15, 4, 18, 7, 6, 19, 2, 20, 14, 8, 17, 9, 13, 5, 10, 1, 16
I figured this out because if you look at the back, the first word and the last word almost all match the next card.
On card #11 it has a line on the bottom above the code letters/numbers instead of an arrow like on top under the code letters/numbers, card #16 is vice versa, all the rest have arrows on the top and bottom so I figured one of these is the first card and the last card.
Example - on the first card #11, the last word in the paragraph is Today, the next card is #3, the first word in that paragraph is Today, the last word in the paragraph on #3 is World, the next card #12, the first word in the paragraph is World, the last word in the paragraph on #12 is Year, the next card #15, the first word in the paragraph is Year.
This happens all the way down to card #5, on card #5, the last word does not match the next, card #10 but the last word Enough in the paragraph on card #10 matches the first word in the paragraph on card #1.
Line all the cards up in 1 row and write down all the letters/numbers from the top starting with card #11, write them from left to right, it should look like this:
A I N 3 P F G Q N T S B R E I E T Q N F H A P 5 L N C V Z N F X I E J R 8 D G S D A L K 6 M J D U R H T B E N A O P E F S C T O R E H D T E 2 G I L D A C M X K D H Y R U A T C D P O E J F M D O D H G 3 4 E R N J 2 I S O P E G 8 B Z R A P A P K F 1 T H I T D E A N C M M B F Y N Q O S A G E 7 S F H J T R Y C S G G L D F N E W R E S K S L E O B Z Q T Y E M O F T R I B N U 5 W P K L D N I N H 9 S Y W T E Q Z G D S U O S 5 E P G W T 8 H Y S
Do this for the bottom EXCEPT write them backwards starting with cards #16 and write all the letters/numbers from right to left, it should look like this:
D J U T H T H G D B S P O L W A L Y H G T R N B A M L K R R W 6 T 1 2 W L N S M 3 R F H M U Y H T W 6 B E E D A S P V W L Y 1 N R T C A V 7 N W U T H F 5 E W N T C B D U J R K W A L 4 I F H N W B V C K M A Y T Q R 3 G F S D T C H Y W I E T H B D O B W H A L P H S Q M P L D H 2 U T C N W A B S V 7 U Q T W H K A B N S 6 G F H H T P O S A M Q H D 6 T E J P O Q O E N C A Y R 9 2 Y E H X K S H Z V E B N E 7 Y W Q P E 6 S C J E H T 8 E K J A
Deciphering the code. Starting with the top letters/numbers, start at letter A, now with the cards in order, 11, 3, 12, 15, 4, etc. Start with card #11, go over 11 letters/numbers and you have the letter S,. Next card is #3, go over 3 letters/numbers from S and you have the letter E. Next card is #12, go over 12 letters/numbers and you have the letter N. Do this all the way to the last card, #16.
Your answer for the top should be “SEND 6 TEAM ORANGE MINIS”
Now with the bottom, you have to go backwards, do everything in reverse. Go backwards starting with 16, 1, 10, 5, 13, etc. Start at letter D, now with the cards going backwards go over 16 letters/numbers and you have the letter A. Next card is #1, go over 1 letter/number from A and you have L. Next card is #10, go over 10 letters/numbers and you have the letter L. Do this all the way up to the first card, #11.
Your answer for the bottom should be “ALL 6 MEN WITH MUSTACHES”
The answer is “SEND 6 TEAM ORANGE MINIS, ALL 6 MEN WITH MUSTACHES”
This relates to the 10 Team Orange Mini that are inserts and only 6 of the men have mustaches. You had to send in all 6 Team Orange minis men with mustaches.
I had all 6 cards and sent them into Topps and they received my certified letter with my answer and cards on 8/7/08.
If you still need help or do not understand, let me know.
and a half would get you the right info if you knew what you were looking for. The irony here is that while I and a bunch of us over on beckett
were reading the backs of these cards, doing google searches and putting together answers, topps mother of a code only had to do with
looking at a few numbers and a few words! Perhaps the true trick of this whole thing was how easy it was to crack. Perhaps topps was
banking on people going too in depth with it.
Most of the victory cards were already on ebay, you could of easily looked at the scans and solved the riddle even with no cards in hand. You then
had to just track down a handful of team orange cards...even offer a guy a few bucks on top to overnight them. Even a week to week in a half
after the first US hobby boxes were showing up, the team orange cards were hard to find on ebay...to think while we were all looking and
trying to decifer the backs of the team orange cards, the info we had at hand much earlier than this guy was actually enough to break the
code! (we had the order guessed a few days before this guy)
In the end the key was what topps told us to begin with...you only needed the victory cards to crack the code NOT the team orange cards too..
they were right! Maybe next year!
Kevin