Guest Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Decrypt the following quote and tell me who said it. 129221126122 3291 4181526251. 51628122 21819292 52411251814261 22917331 013191019231 126332 1222519163812262 516231 41312251. --73124182 5121128163 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 It must be time for a hint... that each word has an even number of characters? That must mean something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) Thanks for the bump! 128212 221273043192 05923173316322 Edited December 10, 2008 by Cherry Lane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HoustonHokie Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 81 42815204413132 910451 516231 126322213141. 629121 3291 619104 73128231 516231 05913231? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 I think you are both pretty close, but if you'll notice... the digits in the even positions are always 1, 2, or 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 81 42815204413132 910451 516231 126322213141. 629121 3291 619104 73128231 516231 05913231? Figure out your mistake and I think you will be on the right track to answering your own question. If not, I'll clue you in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 I think you are both pretty close, but if you'll notice... the digits in the even positions are always 1, 2, or 3. Yes, I did. But rather than go find some of those that hadn't been used, I picked numbers that I knew had not been used because they didn't fit your pattern. It is obvious, however, that we both did what you asked, which was to decrypt the quote. And HH made sure to use only digits that had been used before, including my made up ones. Perhaps we should have just stated the solution, but that would ruin it for others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Yes, I did. But rather than go find some of those that hadn't been used, I picked numbers that I knew had not been used because they didn't fit your pattern. It is obvious, however, that we both did what you asked, which was to decrypt the quote. And HH made sure to use only digits that had been used before, including my made up ones. Perhaps we should have just stated the solution, but that would ruin it for others. Yes, you're right. It is obvious you both read my message. The question now is - Can you find the method for creating future messages using this code? I see you and HH tried and came quite close, but it doesn't follow the formula I used. Can you find my method? Here's a clue... Y-san's SOS Printout puzzle Either way, Congrats on reading the message! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 To remove ambiguity, this is made using the same algorithm: 516231 1171813382 5341912163 429123 7271730122 91433141 516231 92121361 329152. Figure out how the code was made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 ALWAYS DO RIGHT. THIS WILL GRATIFY SOME PEOPLE AND ASTONISH THE REST. --MARK TWAIN. Words are separated by spaces. Each word is "spelled" backwards. Each letter in a word has two numbers associated with it. One of which is a "control character" and the other is the "identifying character." Hope I didn't give too much away without spelling everything out. 214131316233 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 (edited) Yes, you're right. It is obvious you both read my message. The question now is - Can you find the method for creating future messages using this code? I see you and HH tried and came quite close, but it doesn't follow the formula I used. Can you find my method? Here's a clue... Y-san's SOS Printout puzzle Either way, Congrats on reading the message! ahhh....that hint sure helps128212 221273713192 31923173316322 I didn't realize at first that there was a method to the madness, that's why I used the semi-random numbers. Now it makes much more sense. Thanks! Edited December 11, 2008 by Cherry Lane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Words are separated by spaces. Each word is "spelled" backwards. Each letter in a word has two numbers associated with it. One of which is a "control character" and the other is the "identifying character." Hope I didn't give too much away without spelling everything out. 214131316233ALWAYS DO RIGHT. THIS WILL GRATIFY SOME PEOPLE AND ASTONISH THE REST. --MARK TWAIN. You got the message and are on the right track to the code, but I am not quite sure if you are there because I don't understand your coded message. Nothing is spelled Backwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 ahhh....that hint sure helps I didn't realize at first that there was a method to the madness, that's why I used the semi-random numbers. Now it makes much more sense. Thanks!128212 221273713192 31923173316322 Glad to see we're on the same page now! Good job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 You got the message and are on the right track to the code, but I am not quite sure if you are there because I don't understand your coded message. Nothing is spelled Backwards. I was reading each block of numbers backwards to make it easier to write out. That way I got the control character first and the indicator character second. To correct what I've written before... If you break the chunks of numbers into pairs, the second number in the pair is the control character and the first number in the pair is the indicator character. It should read... 336231314122! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Decrypt the following quote and tell me who said it.
129221126122 3291 4181526251. 51628122 21819292 52411251814261 22917331 013191019231 126332 1222519163812262 516231 41312251.
--73124182 5121128163
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