[Jiminy Cricket]

01101111 01101010 00101000 01100101 00101000 01101000 01110101 01101011

00101000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00101000 01101000 01111010 01101001

01100101 01110011 00101000 01101111 01110100 00101000 01100101 01110010

01110010 00101000 01100111 01110101 01110010 01110101 01111010 01111011

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[Guest]

It can make matters worse...

111 106 40 101 40 104 117 107
40 103 101 116 40 104 122 105
101 115 40 111 116 40 101 114
114 40 103 117 114 117 122 123

There seem to be a relation, so maybe it´s better to keep them binary...

[HoustonHokie]

crypto try and failure

IF A THE WAS TODAY IS ALL WHLHO

maybe a starting point for someone else?

[Guest]

28 67 65 74 28 68 7A 69
65 73 28 6F 74 28 65 72
72 28 67 75 72 75 7A 7B

6F 6A 28 65 28 68 75 6B

Is it Hexadecimal?

Edited December 6, 2008 by Riranor

[Guest]

crypto try and failure

IF A THE WAS TODAY IS ALL WHLHO

maybe a starting point for someone else?

Based on your answer... it seems you figured out that the "00101000" character must be a space. Converting binary to decimal you get 00101000 = 40. Knowing that 40 had to translate to a space somehow, I looked at an ascii chart and noticed that in base 8 (octal), 40 is the space character. So if we translate the rest of the message into decimal, and then treat that as octal ascii code... we get:

Spoiler for Answer:

IF A DOG CAN DREAM IN ALL COLORS

You guys were already on the right track and did most of the work.

[Jiminy Cricket]

Based on your answer... it seems you figured out that the "00101000" character must be a space. Converting binary to decimal you get 00101000 = 40. Knowing that 40 had to translate to a space somehow, I looked at an ascii chart and noticed that in base 8 (octal), 40 is the space character. So if we translate the rest of the message into decimal, and then treat that as octal ascii code... we get:

Spoiler for Answer:

IF A DOG CAN DREAM IN ALL COLORS

You guys were already on the right track and did most of the work.

Great job!

[Jiminy Cricket]

crypto try and failure

IF A THE WAS TODAY IS ALL WHLHO

maybe a starting point for someone else?

I would really like to know how you got that.

You got some of the characters right, what happened with the rest?

[HoustonHokie]

I would really like to know how you got that.

You got some of the characters right, what happened with the rest?

translated the binary to decimal & got the same answers as Skywalker. Then I ran a char(X) function to get the ascii characters. I saw they were all lowercase letters, closing parentheses and one close brace. I figured the close parentheses were spaces, the close brace was a period or question mark, and treated everything else as a regular cryptogram. I just went wrong on the cryptogram portion - figured you were completing a sentence, I guessed "if" and "the" is one of the more common three letter words in English. The cryptogram method would actually have worked, except I wouldn't have gotten "colors", just "color" - I just never figured on "dog" Edited December 6, 2008 by HoustonHokie