Put them in order, then swap in the alphabet-with A as 1 and so on-for the rearranged tour dates, and the message is revealed.
How? Well, the cities listed on the shirt, which appears onscreen only momentarily, are also the names of the first nine U.S. I was kind of surprised: 'Oh, we're gonna have to a little harder next time. It was so fast how they figured that one out. "The tour shirt one was the one that was the trickiest ," Miller says, "but those Redditors picked it up within the hour. For example: a tour t-shirt momentarily glimpsed in Xavier's bedroom in episode 3, the one wardrobe piece that costume designer Trayce Gigi Field said she was given specific parameters on, can be decoded to read "NOT MAD DOG," ruling out Tiffany Haddish's Detective Danner-who is later revealed to have earned the nickname Mad Dog at the police academy. Look closely, though, and you’ll see that each episode features a coded clue ruling out one suspect when solved, the clue reads "Not" and a nickname alluding to a specific character. The clues themselves are so subtle that if you haven't been tracking the online discussion, you may have totally missed them. "We knew The Afterparty was going to be just as good as everything else they've done, and he really let us get our hands dirty and get those puzzles and codes in there from the beginning." "When you get somebody like Chris reaching out to us, first of all, Lord and Miller never miss," Kwong says. Kwong and Shukan were immediately on board. Everything that we do, we kind of kill ourselves to try and jam it with as much love and special little jewels as possible." "People really appreciate it when you feel like you worked really hard on something. "Phil and I have always found giving a lot of extra details makes the thing a lot richer, and makes you want to watch it again and again," Miller says.
#The circle the afterparty code
It was that idea - of delighting in cracking the code, and even spotting that there was a code in the first place - that inspired Miller when he approached the duo about helping to bury clues in the show, deep hints that would reward close attention and rewatches by keen minds. "I made Rian Johnson cry once," Kwong says, quickly adding, "Kidding!" (Lord tells VF that he doesn't attend, "so the group could proceed with success without a big dummy weighing it down," but clarifies that he's "killing it at Wordle.") Imagine very intense escape room runs and hours-long games of Decrypto, which Kwong describes as "kind of like Code Names on steroids." That game usually takes about 20 minutes to get through-but with the intense puzzle night crew, every nuance matters. The two got acquainted with Miller at a regular game night for Hollywood puzzle nerds, among them Aline Brosh McKenna, Craig Mazin and Megan Amram. They're a Big Deal in puzzling circles: Both are New York Times-published cruciverbalists, the holy grail of crosswords Kwong has staged multiple successful magic/code-centric shows at LA's Geffen Playhouse and Shukan has both won and written the MIT Mystery Hunt, which he calls "the Olympics of puzzle solving."
#The circle the afterparty professional
Shukan, an attorney for 30-plus years who has been moonlighting as a professional puzzler for the past decade, and Kwong, a magician and puzzlemaker, have since worked as a duo consulting on puzzles, deceptions and codes in shows like NBC's The Blind Spot and the recent Ghostbusters: Afterlife movie. The pair first encountered one another in an escape room, Kwong and Shukan tell VF, a meet-cute ripe for a puzzle-centric buddy comedy. (It’ll reward them even further in its recently-announced second season.) Contrary to the idea that binge-watching is a mindless zone-out, this show can flex your brain muscles if you let it-thanks not only to Miller, but puzzle consultants David Kwong and Dave Shukan. Beyond real-time switcharoos like those, The Afterparty is a show packed to the brim with Easter eggs and god-level puzzles, rewarding to both casual viewers and hardcore puzzle nerds.
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