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Post by pluto on May 22, 2008 20:20:26 GMT -5
10124192153293
You see before you a bunch of numbers. It doesn’t make sense to you. All it says in the instructions is “Decipher”
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Post by pluto on May 22, 2008 20:25:12 GMT -5
10, 12, 41, 92, 153, 293?
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Post by pluto on May 22, 2008 20:37:30 GMT -5
10, 12, 4, 19, 21, 5, 3, 2, 9, 3?
Let me check if this means anything in letters.
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Post by pluto on May 22, 2008 20:53:01 GMT -5
It could be some sort of substitution cypher.
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Post by Mr Grumbles on May 22, 2008 21:22:02 GMT -5
Maybe converting it to different bases... and substituting letters in that way?
I'm not sure, cracking codes is hard for me.
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Post by romanticundead on May 22, 2008 21:52:52 GMT -5
Basic substitution would be:
J, L, D, S, U, E, C, B, I, C
Looks like possibly enough vowels for a word there. Word jumble?
Nothing pops out at the moment.
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Post by bliss on May 23, 2008 7:11:27 GMT -5
Those letters aren't an anagram for anything according to the fancy anagram generators on the internets.
Aargh my brain.
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Post by bliss on May 23, 2008 8:23:21 GMT -5
1) Doesn't look like anything when you look at it upside down.
2) Basic ASCII conversion: 101 241 092 153 029 003 = e ± \ Ö [blank] [blank]
3) Same with the numbers in reverse order: 039 235 129 142 101 = ' Ù ü Ä e
4) Can't be split into a list of prime numbers that could then be converted to letters.
5) Then I just put 10.12419 21.53293 as decimal degrees into a GPS mapper and found a spot that's on the border of Central African Republic and Chad. So probably not it.
And then I realized I'm doing this the wrong way again. If the previous puzzles are any indication, it's something simpler that we just have to notice. I'll have a beer and see if I can come up with something, but I have a nagging suspicion that I really suck at these puzzles.
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Post by tuxkamen on May 23, 2008 9:33:12 GMT -5
I have nothing, sorry. I tried a few simple letters-to-numbers things with no success. However, it's probably fairly simple. Might want to try Caesar cipher, as in secretcodebreaker.com/caesar.htmlNote the 'Decipher' button.
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Post by tuxkamen on May 23, 2008 9:36:32 GMT -5
(Also, bonus thought: Maybe 'Q' is the key we need to use.)
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Post by tuxkamen on May 23, 2008 9:39:31 GMT -5
I'm going to vote to exile myself again, and I'm going to PM that's the method to the answer (because I don't have time this morning to try to solve further). You guys see what you can do. Remember that there are other ways to break those numbers up, and also other ciphers (Vigenere with QQ key , so on).
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Post by tuxkamen on May 23, 2008 9:45:32 GMT -5
Note: The last section of the ciphertext (which isn't in dispute) is:
CBIC
which is
SRYS
There are many ways to interpret the beginning and middle.
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Post by locus on May 23, 2008 10:50:07 GMT -5
Sorry guys, drawing a complete blank on this one. At least with the first one I felt like I was in the general neighborhood of the right idea. Here I have no clue.
Though I will echo Bliss' sentiment that we should probably look at the puzzle holistically. A cipher was the first thing that came to my mind as well, but I'm not so sure.
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Post by Mr Grumbles on May 23, 2008 12:43:22 GMT -5
God dammit, I can't think of a damn thing
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Post by romanticundead on May 23, 2008 13:46:57 GMT -5
I'm just thinking... maybe the "fake" riddle is actually a hint. He says "just kidding" but the numbers alone don't seem to be enough.
People look for me I am used to get people to do things I am used to hit balls What am I?
Though the answer to this is not the correct answer, it might be a hint.
I'm presuming the answer to this is "cue".
edit: which can be spelled with the letters we get from the basic number-letter cypher.
edit edit: which is the same as "Q" again, in case you haven't caught that, though that might be part of the joke.
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