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jbd
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 295
Re: Programming?
jazzysixx wrote:
Well, I'm an Accountant, not a programmer, but I found this site in my frantic search for clues. could we be trying to solve a puzzle that isn't a puzzle at all but a clue to look elsewhere? Can someone who is much more programming literate than I look at this site and tell me if it could possibly be telling us something?
Semaphores are used in parallel programming to prevent the same area of space from being used by more than one program at once. Imagine, for instance, a counter of how many people enter the gates at a stadium. There's a West Gate and an East Gate. Whenever someone enters a gate a piece of data somewhere flips and adds one. However, if people enter both the West and East gates simultaneously, it is possible one of them won't be added properly. Semaphores are simply flags to make sure the program doesn't break with stuff like that.
...in other words, nothing to do with our puzzle. But you asked.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:28 pm
jazzysixx
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Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 56 Location: PA, USA
Gotcha.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:37 pm
jbd
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I've been puzzling over why there are two figures in the last square, and the only case I've seen something like that is in trying to fit the alphabet in a square, like
A B C D E
F G H I J
K L M N O
P Q R S T
U V W X Y/Z
Therefore it is possible we should be looking for some 1-1 matching with letters of the alphabet.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:38 pm
chippy
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 789 Location: Leeds, UK
tried jbds suggestion, and rot-3 got "high pe i jiphsigh" i think its scrambling when it comes across the (2nd row, 3rd across) one armed one
"highpeiyiphsigh" also and intriging "msneyeseekne" with ROt-9!!
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:54 pm
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Chorus
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Cool idea -- how does it work when some of the images are doubled?
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:56 pm
step
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Hi all. Been lurking for a while...
I think the "Goin' up a mountain" is supposed to lead us to using route transposition.
That is, how do you get a mountain? you start at the bottom and zig zag your way up.
though I 'm not sure if we are supposed to start on the bottom left or bottom right
hope this helps
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:08 pm
baseball3190
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good idea i will take a look
_________________"hey doug we are going to play a game......little red riding hood or i will kill you, have a nice day"
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:15 pm
jbd
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Chorus wrote:
Cool idea -- how does it work when some of the images are doubled?
Well, if each image refers to a different letter, then there's some operation that changes to get from the image given to the correct one. So in one image you might rotate the right arm 90 degrees and the next one you rotate it 135. I don't see any good logic (at the moment) to decide that, though.
It doesn't have to be that way even if the alphabet square is used -- it could be there's 'junk' images and 'good' ones and you're only picking out the letters on the 'good' squares.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:25 pm
SarahKiddo
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For what its worth: I'm almost positive the "interval" guy is either the start or stop point, and more likely the start point.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:33 pm
OrthodoxParadox
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ok if it truely is going up a mountain on the puzzle then it is notable that the "false" flaggers make an upside down T in the frame which could indeed be the mountain to climb starting at the 2 person or the bottom left
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:52 pm
jbd
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Two other alphabet square possibilities are:
E->F O->P Z
D G N Q Y
C H M R X
B I L S W
A J->K T->U/V
(using the idea of the "semaphore start position" being the start)
or
A B C D E
Q R S T F
P Y Z U G
O X W V H
N M L K I/J
I and J tend to be the two letters smashed together in alphabet squares. See, for example, the Playfair cipher:
http://www.techtricks.com/paradox/playfair.php
this version was an attempt to achieve that effect.
Both of them give an impression of "climbing a mountain" in the order of the alphabet.
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:54 pm
baseball3190
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hey one thing i was lookin at the hiker page and lookin through the flags carefully and i saw that letter D or what is supposed to be letter d according to this page http://www.nwsc.org/graphics/semaphores.shtml
the red and the white parts of the flag are flipped.....mean anything?
_________________"hey doug we are going to play a game......little red riding hood or i will kill you, have a nice day"
^^first arg contact directly to me. almost wet myself. lol
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:08 pm
chippy
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Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 789 Location: Leeds, UK
ooo maybe this means we gotta flip the signals first, then do the alphabet square / zig zag etc
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:19 pm
baseball3190
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well i dunno about all of them because of what all i looked through that was the only one that was flipped.
_________________"hey doug we are going to play a game......little red riding hood or i will kill you, have a nice day"
^^first arg contact directly to me. almost wet myself. lol
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 5:23 pm
DreamOfTheRood
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He shoots and something: http://inter.scoutnet.org/semaphore/semaphore.html
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Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:53 pm
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