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Re: Cryptomania What I did so far: - Found the red text was a cryptogram for "i wonder which one stevie used". The word 'one' could refer to various things, e.g. calendar, day, friday... but the appearance of stevie+wonder, in combination with 'use', let me focus on code - in this case, Braille, for obvious reasons. - Then I tried to find a word in binary interpretations of the Braille version of 'August', #. #. ## #. .# .# .. .. ## .. #. ## .. ## .. ## #. #. which I soon abandoned, due to the low probabilty that 'august', written in a different system, yields a valid word too. Also, these 36 bits could only be 6 x 6 bits or 9 x 4 bits, both sequences without meaningful results. - Then I inspected the cryptogram mapping letters (ä,a,l,s,g,b,f,c,i,w,h,p,v). If they were chosen arbitrarily, then why would you insert a strange letter like 'ä'. Just for fun? Probably not. Or I'm just overthinking, like always... - There might be a reason why you wrote 'The One' - instead of simply marking that day with 'X' or '?'. |
Re: Cryptomania Well you skipped right to the answer :rotfl: Now answer it :tongue: August was a hint towards one step, and The One was a hint towards another a with the two dots is special |
Re: Cryptomania Can't answer it :thinking: |
Re: Cryptomania You already solved it. Spoiler: The bonus point was if you could give the answer to the question. If you figure out the theme of the code, you should get the answer. Here's a hint to one part. August isn't just a month. |
Re: Cryptomania 1 Attachment(s) What about 'Hohner Clavinet'? Already started checking meanings of 'August' (e.g. names, river, prize, company, films, poem, novels, play, songs, albums, place...) and 'The One' yesterday, but I gave up; the lists are bigger than my patience... ========== Before I forget, here's a new one (2 steps, hints included): Attachment 85216 0 ο 0 O o O Ο O 0 О o 0 0 Ο O o O Ο Ο ο 0 O o 0 Ο 0 ο O 0 ο 0 O O Ο o o Ο o ο O 0 ο 0 O o o 0 ο Ο 0 Ο Ο O 0 O 0 0 ο 0 O 0 o 0 o o 0 0 О 0 Ο O o o Ο O О 0 О Ο 0 |
Re: Cryptomania Good enough :winnerthu The One referred to Neo's nickname, and August referred to August Dvorak. See a theme? ;) ------------ A coffee grinder. Java? The long and short zeros add up to 80, which could be 10 groups of 8 or 16 groups of 5 |
Re: Cryptomania Spoiler: ... coffee grinder ... Java ... :nod: Yep, coffee is our theme. Although the code looks like beans, it's nothing to do with Java. ... long and short zeros ... That's all they are? Have a closer look. |
Re: Cryptomania Spoiler: Short ones and long ones? |
Re: Cryptomania on my pad they are o's and 0's- or letters and numbers |
Re: Cryptomania What I mean with the short ones and long ones, is the white space between each zero. |
Re: Cryptomania Regarding 'short/long' as the only characteristic of the beans (or their white space) is exactly what I wanted you to believe. Because I'm insidious :biggrin:. Apparently vivi did look a bit closer... |
Re: Cryptomania Castle Bros. is a real coffee importer. Were Castle Bros. and cafe hints to coffee, or is there more to it? |
Re: Cryptomania Time for hints: - Step 1 is purely logical/mathematical. Can be solved offline. - In step 2 we'll need the (book of the) Castle Brothers to interpret the text we've got. - Common rule in both steps: A=1, B=2, ... - Solution is a single word. |
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Re: Cryptomania :nod: yep, that's the book. If we had just two types of O, it were binary. However, there are more types of them... |
Re: Cryptomania I only see 0 O. Unless you are referring to the white spaces. |
Re: Cryptomania ... I only see 0 O ... Don't trust your eyes. |
Re: Cryptomania Spoiler: There's 3. Degree, Zero, and O Z D Z O D O O O Z O D Z Z O O D O O O D Z O D Z O Z D O Z D Z O O O D D O D D O Z D Z O D D Z D O Z O O O Z O Z Z D Z O Z D Z D D Z Z O Z O O D D O O O Z O O Z |
Re: Cryptomania - There's more than 3. (Perhaps use a hex viewer/editor?) - 'degree' isn't there. |
Re: Cryptomania 1 Attachment(s) The small o reminded me of degree, that's why I called it that. Hex editor(s) gave this Attachment 85493 First one gave me 13 lines while another gave 15 lines :confused3 |
Re: Cryptomania Ok, these are the characters I used (Unicode in hex): 0 (30) O (4f) o (6f) Ο (039f) ο (03bf) О (041e) Thus, in its enumerated [0...5] form: 0 4 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 5 2 0 0 3 1 2 1 3 3 4 0 1 2 0 3 0 4 1 0 4 0 1 1 3 2 2 3 2 4 1 0 4 0 1 2 2 0 4 3 0 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 5 0 3 1 2 2 3 1 5 0 5 3 0 |
Re: Cryptomania Am i suppose to convert first? Or am i suppose to use the numbers like a book cipher: page, line. number |
Re: Cryptomania 1. Numbers -> words 2. Use book ---- Time for a less minimal hint: read them as pairs (and remember, we're in base6) ;) 04 01 21 31 05 20 03 12 13 34 01 20 30 41 04 01 13 22 32 41 04 01 22 04 30 33 10 10 04 01 02 02 20 05 03 12 23 15 05 30 ---- Ok, here's its decimal form: 4 1 13 19 5 12 3 8 9 22 1 12 18 25 4 1 9 14 20 25 4 1 14 4 18 21 6 6 4 1 2 2 12 5 3 8 15 11 5 18 ---- Which translates to... d a m s e l c h i v a l r y d a i n t y d a n d r u f f d a b b l e c h o k e r Now you can use the book. ;) |
Re: Cryptomania Spoiler: Using the book I get 17 bags of coffee 1 U.S. gold cent 8 bags of coffee 23 bags of coffee 1 bag of coffee 8 U.S. gold cents Q A H W A H? |
Re: Cryptomania :arms: yes, the etymologic (Arabic) root of the word coffee. Brew us one, link :jossun: |
Re: Cryptomania 1 Attachment(s) |
Re: Cryptomania in god is our trust |
Re: Cryptomania Ok smarty pants :tongue: Care to explain how you solved it? |
Re: Cryptomania Spoiler: ---- Don't brute-force, it's A SIN! B000NIIX6CAKYPEOMFKCRO ZGHFTBVAUZRBLRYIARAONF QNRWREUMFOKGRLPEKFCEBG CFDEMLKHRHVXVIIFIAUZSX VGNXLIPXQGCHBQYGDQMRHG DNKOGFLBVAYNSXFMBYOFZG XBLFXXWMXBVLGLHROIWLZR |
Re: Cryptomania Well you found most of it. You skipped the first step: Francis *Binary to Baconian ;) 0=A 1=B Then you'd get your ciphertext 50 Stars and the colors were hints to U.S.A. and that you needed Francis Scott Key ------- SIN as is Social Insurance Number? |
Re: Cryptomania Not SIN. I said, "it's A SIN!" |
Re: Cryptomania Amazon Standard Identification Number B000NIIX6C ASIN is Education is the Key So the text is: AKYPEOMFKCRO ZGHFTBVAUZRBLRYIARAONF QNRWREUMFOKGRLPEKFCEBG CFDEMLKHRHVXVIIFIAUZSX VGNXLIPXQGCHBQYGDQMRHG DNKOGFLBVAYNSXFMBYOFZG XBLFXXWMXBVLGLHROIWLZR And the keyword is Education |
Re: Cryptomania And why didn't you post the solution? :) Still working on a new one? |
Re: Cryptomania I made a typo :tongue: Using vigenere cipher with keyword Education: whenever x you x go x for x a x riddle xx you x cant x cut x a x corner x or x diddle xx dont x cause x a x sensation xx you x need x education xx or x else x youll x get x stuck x in x the x middle |
Re: Cryptomania :arms: back to Canada |
Re: Cryptomania 1 Attachment(s) |
Re: Cryptomania line break important? [edit] Probably not: DHJdotCHHNDIspaceTK |
Re: Cryptomania Again explain how you found it already? |
Re: Cryptomania That welldone->Weldon hint was well done, but I saw it only after the fact. :lol: Found the font right away by googling for some symbols, e.g. fish clover pin circle... Wondering what dot & space means :thinking: |
Re: Cryptomania I see :tongue: Just be simple with dot and space ;) |
Re: Cryptomania My theory is that the solution might be 'Sculpture 2.0' for 3 reasons:
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