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[Thalia]

This is just something that popped into my head while I was staring at the wall the other day. I guess they're not all technically "Christmas" songs but they tend to get called that anyway so. . .
A few things:
1. The answers are all found the same way.
2. 1,3,and 5, have the spaces marked. 2, 4, and 6 do not.
3. "Key" may not be the right term. You do not absolutely need the key to figure out the titles but it might make things a little easier.

1. oharna caob obarhmgbe hsinbmg kfsink Key: 58, 11, 474, 110, 59

2. plipalbhmgmgmnbchfcaocscmg Key: 57585594

3. vb vfko mnpsc h albararmn lioarfkcaalhk Key: 3, 15, 22, 1, 362, 5867

4. carpkcamncaobksipvalhsi Key: 7253878

5. beblina caob ohmgmgk Key: 90, 11, 117

6. popmgmnsifnoca Key: 15710

Good luck!

[Emily McPeek]

I have no idea how the key works, but...

Spoiler for Song Titles...

1) Hark the Herald Angel Sings
2) O Come All Ye Faithful
3) We Wish You a Merry Christmas
4) Frosty the Snowman
5) Deck the Halls
6) O Holy Night

[Thalia]

I have no idea how the key works, but...

Spoiler for Song Titles...

1) Hark the Herald Angel Sings
2) O Come All Ye Faithful
3) We Wish You a Merry Christmas
4) Frosty the Snowman
5) Deck the Halls
6) O Holy Night

Hi Emily. Welcome to the Den! That didn't take long. As I said, the "key" wasn't completely necessary. I assume you know how I made this and didn't just crack this with the brute force method.

Spoiler for The Key

The number(s) need to be converted to binary.

Can you give the explanation? Can you see what the significance of the numbers are now?

[Emily McPeek]

Oh, this was definitely brute force. It all began with the solitary "h" in #3 :-)

Spoiler for Re: the key

I'll have to brush up on my binary before any significance reveals itself ;-)
Eventually, I worked out H= a
B= e
AR= r
V= w
MG= L
K= s
O= h
F= i
AL = m
MN= y
CA= t
Li= C
BE=d
NA= k
SI= n
N=g
SC = u
C= f
P=o

Thanks for the welcome!

Edited by Emily McPeek, 22 December 2011 - 05:00 AM.

[Thalia]

Lol. Take a look at your list again.

Spoiler for

Anything stick out about the 2 letter ones? As for the binary, just run the numbers through a converter and put them beneath the letters.

[Emily McPeek]

Spoiler for After conversion...

Now all I see is that the number of binary digits corresponds to the number of letters in each word of code...

Haha, I'm really bad at this. Maybe I'll just stick to Sunday paper cryptoquips...

[Emily McPeek]

Spoiler for Oh! I see something...

The number of 1's corresponds to the number of letters in the actual word- a two letter code has the first letter go with a 1 and the second letter go with a zero- presumably to indicate that they should be treated as a pair.

Slowly but surely :-)

[Thalia]

That was the purpose but there's something else you're missing. It will make sense when you figure out where the code comes from. I was literally staring at the wall when I thought of this but there was something on it. Not much of a hint but maybe a lightbulb will go off. You might also consider resorting your list. . .

Edited by Thalia, 22 December 2011 - 06:12 AM.

[Emily McPeek]

Spoiler for Oh my goodness...

The chemistry geek in my loves you now.

[Thalia]

Spoiler for The Key

If you put the binary under the titles as given, the 1s correspond to the letters that should be capitalized. Makes it a little easier to separate the B's from the Be's and others like that. As I said though, not entirely necessary.