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[Trailhead] Rewriting The Future
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ads123
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sequoya wrote:

But maybe it will work. Hopefully!

Nope, it didn't.

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sequoya
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 		Heee I think I have it! If you overlay the first card over the second, you get something like my attachment (excuse my crappy paint!). Then, convert the dots into binary:

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01000110010010010101001101001000010000110100000101001110


which converts into ASCII:

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FISHCAN


Laughing So what order should we send it?

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THEYCANDIVEBUTNOTJIVEFISHCAN maybe?


That's what I'm trying initially anyway!

EDIT - no, that didn't work! So, how to arrange these 28 characters??

How about:

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FISHCANDIVEBUTTHEYCANNOTJIVE
??

That one worked! Yay! I got this in reply:

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This is an automated message from Avecira Solutions self destruct system.

Self destruction can be completed by submitting all activation keys. An activation key is a string containing ten characters. You can obtain one activation key from below, once you decode the encryption. To use the key, send an empty email to this address. The subject of the email should contain the number of the key and the activation key in format: N abcdefghij

------------------ Activation key 31 ------------------

ephebe Fautorship Toilworn Siphonless Striae Porotype Danburite snack subsistent cunningness


It looks like the vowel counting thing from earlier, which would mean 31 htiitrbsbn? I'm hurrying so might have done that wrong... I've tried that anyway but need to jump offline for an hour or so.. do we all need to send in the string to get a key or something?
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AUZ505
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 		Got the puzzle for code #64 (no idea what to do at the moment)

Quote:

This is an automated message from Avecira Solutions self destruct system.

Self destruction can be completed by submitting all activation keys. An activation key is a string containing ten characters. You can obtain one activation key from below, once you decode the encryption. To use the key, send an empty email to this address. The subject of the email should contain the number of the key and the activation key in format: N abcdefghij

------------------ Activation key 64 ------------------

88o5ql9FMU
o1tN7i9FB4
AJgK2JLhTk
BheUVTDWm5
jwWSN6gB54
EjOVSYrl4q
131qsT0laX
HvBXvjaSKj
J880xNumLr
jxcVRVTvRc


Does this mean we need 100 different email senders? And we have to solve 100 puzzles? Hopefully some of them share the same coding mechanism.

EDIT: BTW, great solve, sequoya
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sequoya
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AUZ505 wrote:


Does this mean we need 100 different email senders? And we have to solve 100 puzzles? Hopefully some of them share the same coding mechanism.


It seems that way, doesn't it! That's a lot of senders, but hopefully there are at least some people lurking this thread who can help? Smile

I'm having trouble getting mine to activate, I did have it wrong in my post above, but as far as I can tell it should be "31 htiprobsbn" if we are using that same vowel counting code as earlier? But I keep getting rejected, so maybe not. Can someone check my work? I don't have my code on this computer from last time I did this, doh.

Scratch that, it was case sensitive! 31 is ACTIVATED Very Happy

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You submitted a correct activation key. You have just contributed to the launch of Toilworn Diamond emergency self destruct system.

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amandel
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 		Ditto on the BEAUT solve, sequoya! (My binary came out as FISKWAN & almost sent that in Embarassed ) Anyway, only your nbr. 31 is now "activated" at TDSDS

EDIT: With so very many to activate I'll send an email also and give it my *at leisure* best try.
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Arenhart
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AUZ505 wrote:


Quote:

This is an automated message from Avecira Solutions self destruct system.

Self destruction can be completed by submitting all activation keys. An activation key is a string containing ten characters. You can obtain one activation key from below, once you decode the encryption. To use the key, send an empty email to this address. The subject of the email should contain the number of the key and the activation key in format: N abcdefghij

------------------ Activation key 64 ------------------

88o5ql9FMU
o1tN7i9FB4
AJgK2JLhTk
BheUVTDWm5
jwWSN6gB54
EjOVSYrl4q
131qsT0laX
HvBXvjaSKj
J880xNumLr
jxcVRVTvRc


Does this mean we need 100 different email senders? And we have to solve 100 puzzles? Hopefully some of them share the same coding mechanism.

EDIT: BTW, great solve, sequoya


Ten rows of 10 characters strings? Perhaps you could get the nth char for each row assuming the sequence of digits in Pi? They seem to like Pi, and I guess each puzzle has a prior similar puzzle...

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iamthor
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 		I was given activation key 88 and (sorry) solved it before I posted here. I do some web work so the solution was pretty obvious to me. Here's the key:

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------------------ Activation key 88 ------------------

rwx-wx--x--x--x-wx------rwx-w-


And the solution:
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7311130072

You get this with the equivalent read/write/execute CHMOD permissions for the values above.


88 is now activated.

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Arenhart
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iamthor wrote:


88 is now activated.


I have just sent this exact solution... Do you think we can get a second key? I'll try that

EDIT: just got this:
You are allowed to request only one activation key in every 6 hours. Try again later.

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Sugarstain
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sequoya wrote:
AUZ505 wrote:


Does this mean we need 100 different email senders? And we have to solve 100 puzzles? Hopefully some of them share the same coding mechanism.


It seems that way, doesn't it! That's a lot of senders, but hopefully there are at least some people lurking this thread who can help? Smile

I'm having trouble getting mine to activate, I did have it wrong in my post above, but as far as I can tell it should be "31 htiprobsbn" if we are using that same vowel counting code as earlier? But I keep getting rejected, so maybe not. Can someone check my work? I don't have my code on this computer from last time I did this, doh.

Scratch that, it was case sensitive! 31 is ACTIVATED Very Happy

Quote:

You submitted a correct activation key. You have just contributed to the launch of Toilworn Diamond emergency self destruct system.


Hi, lurker here, willing to help Smile I'll go ahead and send an email with the secret string, let's see if I can do this!

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amandel
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Code:
--... -.-. .-- ----. .--- --. .... --. ---.. ..-

Mine is Morse decoding to: 7CW9JGHG8U.
Neither gCWiJGHGhU nor GCWIJGHGHU is correct. It's nbr 19 & the Morse translation alone finally activated it so the 10 characters can be letter/numbers combos, too.

ETA: Welcome to uF and this thread Sugarstain! Betcha you can do it just fine!
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ads123
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AUZ505 wrote:


Does this mean we need 100 different email senders?


Would it work if someone who has already activated one sent the activation key again? Then we wouldn't need that many people just a few dedicated puzzle solvers.

:Edit: Got key 67.

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------------------ Activation key 67 ------------------

hUiTKKhP2R
d4gpWgKTNp
411sfEBmXf
wym9TJpU3F
wRDrALrqSC
iCg4PhoJ67
6yYXdgX96C
BZhNJZIkyn
iNtV6M0cDK
hPk53HSmn7


Not really sure how to decode that. :/

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Arenhart
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ads123 wrote:
AUZ505 wrote:


Does this mean we need 100 different email senders?


Would it work if someone who has already activated one sent the activation key again? Then we wouldn't need that many people just a few dedicated puzzle solvers.



You can get a code every 6 hours.

BTW, I got the 42, the puzzle was:

1000111010
0111011100

The answer was

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1111100110
just a matter of employing a xor operation in the two sets of bits



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Sugarstain
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amandel wrote:
Code:
--... -.-. .-- ----. .--- --. .... --. ---.. ..-

Mine is Morse decoding to: 7CW9JGHG8U.
Neither gCWiJGHGhU nor GCWIJGHGHU is correct. It's nbr 19 & the Morse translation alone finally activated it so the 10 characters can be letter/numbers combos, too.

ETA: Welcome to uF and this thread Sugarstain! Betcha you can do it just fine!


Thanks for the warm welcome Smile I got morse code too. Activated key number 12!
.-- .---- --.- . .... - -.-. .--. ...-- -..- as in W1QEHTCP3X
Yay!

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sequoya
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Sugarstain wrote:


Thanks for the warm welcome Smile I got morse code too. Activated key number 12!
.-- .---- --.- . .... - -.-. .--. ...-- -..- as in W1QEHTCP3X
Yay!


Welcome Sugarstain and thanks/good job! Looks like we are at, what, 5/100? I've recruited my boyfriend to send another one at least Smile

Edit - he got #30, it was another vowel counting puzzle so that's another one down!
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 		I received Key #14 and activated it. Easy Morse Code.
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