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Dr. Oid
Boot

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 13
Location: Budapest, Hungary

SpaceBass wrote:
Dr. Oid: How did you translate the image?


Like NoVuS did, substituted the symbols (2x3 'big' pixels) to:

Code:

ABCDECFCGHFIABCDJFCEKLMIA
BCJKAACFNABCDECIAAHEHFOPA
AECQRCABCDLPNNCSABFHKJBPG
FMCTGQHNNHUMIJLCFMHSHTGCP
KADPISNCWKPQSCNMFCABCDUPF
FMCSPAAECIADABCDECFCUMSSQ
CPJCSPAABMFADABCDSMCSTHFA
BCUHNALPFAPANMWADBCPRDLBD
NMVPQEHFOABCVPFCHTBHUCPIS
VBMQSFCILCAADXKPFFCQNEMAB
ICMJBGHFNTMQUNTHHAGPQQGCC
FPISPGHRCPQQJPUGQMIJTMQQC
SKLABCBHFMYHIHTABCMFUMISN



From here it's a simple substitution cipher.
(solved with a little help from: http://www.enweirdenment.org/SubCracker/SubCrackerPlugin.html )

PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:40 pm
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catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 25 Sep 2002
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if you want to see how the alphabet substitution looked, here's the glyphs:
classic_solved.gif
 Description   not braille but similar
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classic_solved.gif


PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 8:26 pm
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urthstripe
Entrenched


Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 1113
Location: Atlanta, GA

For the bigbrother puzzle, google once had a hiring ad in which you had to figure out the first 10 digit prime number in consecutive digits of e.

Just interesting trivia pertaining to this puzzle, that seems more like busy work than anything.
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Sin Vraal
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Joined: 28 Nov 2002
Posts: 219
Location: NJ

heh

Yeah - I believe Leftbrain solved it for us using a slightly modified program he used for the Google task. Smile

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rowan
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Joined: 12 Apr 2004
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Slackers all of you. Don't update this thread. Don't update the topic in #soogees. Thank goodness for scrollbacks.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The answer is: http://www.soogees.com/9920695517.htm


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Next up is a riddle.
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rowan
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The riddle answer courtsey of Sin Vraal:

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http://www.soogees.com/watchdog.htm

Don't let the 404 page fool you. It's fake. Check the comments.


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Next up: possible phone puzzle?
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Sin Vraal
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Ayup

Bill clued me in to something I hadn't thought to try within about, oh, 90 seconds of his looking at the puzzle <good Bill!>

However, I think he was too lazy to see it through <bad Bill!>.

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Count across your phone as you punch each number like it was a cell phone phonebook entry - the first '2' is A, 22 would give B, 222 would give C, and so forth.

If you did that for this, you would be able to spell out (when playing with the 77777 as 2 letters): thepathtoinspiration

Thus the answer: thepathtoinspiration.htm


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Sin Vraal
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aha

Now it's a picture of the Grand Tetons, entitled
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"thepathtoinspiration"


Monkey found the real picture, and it was 21bytes smaller. So we first thought steg - no dice.

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However, you get a small sequence of #s when you look at it in notepad, at the end: "1, 3, 4, 13, 53, 690, 36571".

value N times value (n-1) plus 1:

1
3
4
13
53
690
36571
25233991.htm (keep going!)
922832284862.htm (keep going!)
23286741570717144243.htm (keep going!)
21489756930695820973683319349467.htm (keep going!)
500426416062641238759467086706254193219790764168482.htm (keep going!)


Ah, er, no. Don't keep going. Next one!

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Sin Vraal
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hmmmm

Hey look, it says we reached the end!

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And so we did - sorta: theend.htm


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bwochinski
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Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 164
Location: Wisconsin

on theend.htm there is an image of a bunch of numbers

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if you open the image in photoshop and edit the color pallet you can highlight several groups of numbers in the image, which simply enough lead us to
http://www.soogees.com/221545484848465100503215.htm


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catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 25 Sep 2002
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Location: Silicon Valley, CA

just to demonstrate the above stage, here is theend.gif with the color table altered. The numbers were done in two different versions of black, but by modifying the palatte you can see special numbers stand out.
theend.gif
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:03 pm
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catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

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Next up, it's all Greek to me:
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On http://www.soogees.com/221545484848465100503215.htm is a simple substitution cryptoquote which resolves to this:
YOU CAN FOOL SOME PEOPLE SOMETI
MES BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL
THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME SO
NOW WE SEE THE LIGHT WE GONNA
STAND UP FOR OUR RIGHT

It is a lyric from a Bob Marley song, so let's try /bobmarley.htm -- oooh, "Wrong answer. Try something else..." Now let's try the name of the song, and we land here:
http://www.soogees.com/getupstandup.htm


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miss_seph
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Joined: 05 Aug 2004
Posts: 395
Location: New Zealand

Unforums was down, so we weren't able to post anything last night, but we got a little further than that:
thanks to Catherwood and Sin Vraal and others who deciphered the substitution:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

You can fool some people someti
mes but you can't fool all
the people all the time so
now we see the light we gonna
stand up for our right


After much discussion, SpaceBass, Sin Vraal and I decided that it wasn't beastie boys, it was
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Bob Marley's Get Up Stand Up


hence:
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getupstandup.htm
which most of us were still stuck on 3 hours later lol
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miss_seph
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catherwood wrote:
Next up, it's all Greek to me:


d'oh!!! beat me to it!
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ScarpeGrosse
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I haven't looked at one all that recently, but to me that looks like a spectrum from a mass spectrometer, which is used most often either to identify proteins based on peptide size and flight time (you whack them with a laser and make them go WHOOSH! down a vacuum tube to where, depending on size/speed, they'll eventually whack a target which translates Time of Flight to #s, peptide size) or to identify the chemical structure of a protein, similar to NMR.

I don't know if that's helpful at all :/
Looking at it, I don't know quite what else to make of it yet. And then there's that wheel thing...
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