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| Topic: Cut the red wire! No, cut the blue wire (Copycat bomber) |
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Suddenly, the screen flashes, "You got on but there is another a back up bomb. Try this own for size. TICK TICK with a new crytic clue, It's again 2 lines of text HOPE YOU READ LEFT TO RIGHT, OTHERWISE IT'LL BE A VERY SHORT NIGHT 62 51 91 41 93 52 -2 71 --- 21 12 41 63 81 63 52 |
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| Drats. An imposter trying to muscle in on my cryptic detonation turf. I must thwart this upstart. But how? A fiendish code to crack. Gadzooks, this is a tough one. There will be precious little evil doings today until this is cracked! |
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| This is a hard one. |
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To the left is left and right is right. that's all the clue you get tonight |
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| Will the answer be word, numbers, or both? |
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Two numbers are a letter and words come from those Left to right and just the nose knows Two words are correct, all others are not Type in the wrong two and you'll be in a spot :evil: 63 01 -1 71 34 12 51 :evil: CORRECTED :D 63 01 -1 71 33 12 51 |
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Between the evil frowning "smilies", I see a 34. Is this a typo? |
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| Okay thank you. |
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[quote] On 2005-06-30 14:26, stanalger wrote: Between the evil frowning "smilies", I see a 34. Is this a typo? [/quote] Yes it should be 33 and asking that question tells me you probably have it.. :) |
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L-------------------------T----------I------N------N 62 51 91 41 93 52 -2 71 --- 21 12 41 63 81 63 52? am I on the right track? |
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Not Quite Remember First is left and then is right Otherwise, KABOOM! tonight!! |
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| What if "only the nose knows" and "left to right" lead to a code word that is 7 letters long and goes with the numbers between the not-so-happy faces. nose-scent-scenters-centers? But that's neither left or right. |
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You're trying too hard. It's easier than that Just look at your keyboard, signed :evil:63 01 -1 71 33 12 51 :evil: |
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| To hard for me. I'm not very good at this stuff. Stan, you can have it. |
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| 61 82 32 93 02---61 91 71 |
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| You've got it!!!! :) Would you like to share the answer and explanation? |
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| YES! |
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[quote] On 2005-06-30 15:23, stanalger wrote: 61 82 32 93 02---61 91 71 [/quote] Says, "Thank You" |
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| 42 61 01 93 41 --- 73 31 !!! |
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| Can someone please explain? |
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Can't we round-up all these mad bombers and send them to 42 91 93 72 --- 22 81 63 52? (That's SING SING!) |
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| But how do you get this!? |
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| So the finale answer is "Friendly Warning"? |
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[quote] On 2005-06-30 17:03, stanalger wrote: ...42 91 93 72 --- 22 81 63 52? (That's SING SING) [/quote] Interesting to have a code that appears to have the digits changing for the same characters. How does one interpret a message missing it's start then? i.e. does 22 81 63 52 decode to "sing"? |
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| Think of the numbers as a type of co-ordinate |
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| Actually, "vector" might be a better description |
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Two (yep, two!) encodings are possible for every word, depending on the word's position in the message. So...taken out of context, a ciphertext word could have two possible decodings. For example: 52 91 41 61 could, depending on its position in the message, represent the word DIET or the word GORY. 01 81 63 82 could represent OUCH or PINK. And the first three words of this post (ignoring punctuation) would encode as 61 31 01 61 31 01 61 31 01 Stan Alger |
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[quote] On 2005-07-01 08:40, Jonathan Townsend wrote: [quote] On 2005-06-30 17:03, stanalger wrote: ...42 91 93 72 --- 22 81 63 52? (That's SING SING) [/quote] Interesting to have a code that appears to have the digits changing for the same characters. How does one interpret a message missing it's start then? i.e. does 22 81 63 52 decode to "sing"? [/quote] Yes, 22 81 63 52 unambiguously decodes to "sing." That particular number combination can only occur in an even-position word. Stan Alger |
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I wrote: "So...taken out of context, a ciphertext word could have two possible decodings." I should have written "And" instead of "So." Stan Alger |
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[quote] On 2005-07-01 08:40, Jonathan Townsend wrote: [quote] On 2005-06-30 17:03, stanalger wrote: ...42 91 93 72 --- 22 81 63 52? (That's SING SING) [/quote] Interesting to have a code that appears to have the digits changing for the same characters. How does one interpret a message missing it's start then? i.e. does 22 81 63 52 decode to "sing"? [/quote] That makes for a harder code to break. Otherwise, most simple replacement codes can be deduced simply by assigning letters according to common frequency and position. |