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[PUZZLE] New puzzles from "Worry"
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SMG3er
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Re: PUZZLE CENTRAL

Hmm, what's the IRC server? I tried going to irc.chat-solutions.org with mIRC, but I can't find a heist or unfiction room. Are the servers split?

PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:38 pm
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jazzysixx
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Binary Jester

the binary jester in puzzle 95h3 looks more "Joan of Arc-ish" to me than Jester-ish.

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SMG3er
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Re: Binary Jester

jazzysixx wrote:
the binary jester in puzzle 95h3 looks more "Joan of Arc-ish" to me than Jester-ish.


I was told it looks like Carmen Miranda with her banana hat.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:43 pm
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johnny5
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Re: PUZZLE CENTRAL

SMG3er wrote:
Hmm, what's the IRC server? I tried going to irc.chat-solutions.org with mIRC, but I can't find a heist or unfiction room. Are the servers split?


that's correct, try the java applet first, see if you can get in.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:47 pm
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enaxor
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File 37g5 decodes to

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4073 n broadway ave
7350 s wentworth ave
2955 n central
e 55th st & s praire st
3439 n halsted st
4723 s state st
3412 n sheffield ave
75th & perry
lawrence & talman
madison & western
2215 n clybourne ave
6915 s ashland
ravenswood & lawrence
3135 n clybourne
5510 w belmont
6522 s cottage grove
lawrence & damen
taylor & western
broadway 1 blk n of lawrence
71st & green
western & warner
1953 w roscoe
milwaukee btw' belmont & avers
1360 n milwaukee ave
4525 n western
roosevelt & western
528 n milwaukee ave
1953 w roscoe
74th & wallace
541 w lake
2444 w madison
diversey & kilbourn
1529 w armitage
662 w grand
division & kedzie

Which appear to be Chicago addresses.


I used this program to decode it.
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cskane4life
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I am not so sure thta is a picture of a jester. I have a lot of knowledge about medievil jesters and it doesn't look like one to me. For one the costume looks more like a fighter's attire to me and it looks like there is some sort of weapon on the figures hip. Jesters never carried weapons.

I am not sure if what I am posting is any help but I just wanted to add my thoughts =)

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jazzysixx
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37g5

anyone from the Chicago area know if these addresses are in close proximity to each other? I'm trying to pinpoint each one on a map, but my eyes are going crossed. My thought was that these are not really individual addresses, but it seems like a tracking type thing. Like a list of pin-points on a map from a gps read out or something. Pure spec, but I thought I'd give it a try. Unfortunately, these "work" people keep interupting me for non-arg things. C'mon, it's Friday for the love of Pete!

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Mattazuma
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I think you are right

I just went to 541 W. Lake in Chicago and there isn't a sign.

Also, I agree that some of locations are right next to one another.

I think the addresses are for a connect the dots using a big map.

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rose
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Didn't the first list of addresses we got have another clue embedded in them?

Just from looking around on the board I saw a reference to the solve of Heidegger -- a password to a zip file from a quote found in the list of addresses. Or am I wrong about that??

So the list of addresses may not have anything to do with the physical locations?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:59 pm
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SMG3er
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Here's the decode of 72t2, which I think tracks to Washington D.C.:

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Georgia Ave & Harvard St,
Gerogia Ave & Decatur St,
Rhode Island Ave & 3rd St,
U St between 10th & 11th,
1st St & Rhode Island,
H St between 4th & 5th,
Georgia & Jefferson,
N Y Ave & Florida Ave,
1100 Bladensburgh
Georgia & Sheridan
Florida St & 3rd St,
Madison & Georgia,
Georgia & Madison,
5322 Georgia Ave,
14th St NE & H St,
I St NW & 20th St,
W St & 14th St,
K St & 16th St,
U St & 9th St,
9th St & L St.

The clue from Worry is hex for "Twenty" and if you start to organize the text in a block that's 20 characters wide and then take the "," to be the end of a line, you get the street names.



The solved images is at the Wiki.

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Diandra
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26b1.doc decodes to:
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brookline ave & overland
warren & clifford
warren & taber st
bluehill & talbot ave
harvard & cambridge st
1232 dorchester
bremont & brooks
clayton & park
washington & bray st
chelsea & geovisconti rd
757 atlantic & beach
huntington & vancouver
336 commercial & murphy ct
warren & gaston
brighton & linden
talbot ave & codman sq
cambridge & harvard
eastern & webster
washington & bloomingale
dorchester ave & 4th
chelsea & gove
overland st & 90 east
huntington & evans way
1060 robere beach pkway

Which appears to be Boston, a city with which I'm unfamiliar, so I apologize if I messed up the line breaks. I found it by interpreting the binary clue (one step before the legal enemy) to mean "begin one letter before LAWFOE". So I started with the B before those letters in the grid, then used the numbers below as directions. 1=up, 2=right, 3=down, 4=left. That spelled out the above intersections/addresses.


Credit also to j-5 who helped work this one...especially when he corrected my boo-boo about thinking the clue was one step beyond the legal enemy.
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Diandra
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63d9.doc decodes to

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68 th st nw 28th ave
122nd street nw 87th Ave
1st street SW 13th Ave
77th ct nw 32nd street
27th ave nw 1st street
25th ave SW 1st street
flagler street sw 25th ave
7th street nw 19th Ave
22nd ave sw 8th street
8th Street SW 19th Ave
77th ct nw 29th street
14th ave SW 1st Street
Flagler Street 14th Ave
46 SW 1st Street
1st Ave ne 17th street
2nd ave ne 17th Street
2nd ave ne 15th street
2nd Ave NE 28th Street
29th street nw 1st Ave
n miami ave ne 36th Street
36th Street ne 1st ave
37th street ne n Miami Ave
n miami ave 38th Street
2nd Ave nw 44th Street
27th Ave nw 71st Street
27th ave nw 42nd street

Sorry it's messy, but these are Miami intersections. Method: lowercase letters = rot+1; uppercase letters = rot-1

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Re: jester.html

nivra wrote:
Uploading html file of the jester for viewing.


"Foolery doth walk the orb like the sun... It shines everywhere."

But not in this case...

I agree with cskane4life.

I know this image... Those are feathers on his hat. His hand is resting on a sword... More in a moment.
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missphinx
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I recruited my husband and his mad skillz to plot out some cities. Boston is attached and below are the lat/long coordinates. I don't see any particular pattern or anything, but let me know if you want more cities.

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NOTE: there is no "robere" beach parkway, but there is a "revere" beach parkway, so he included that.

1060 revere beach pkway
longitude -70.99054200000001
latitude 42.40216100000001

huntington & evans way
longitude -71.04597900000002
latitude 42.256214

overland st & 90 east
longitude -71.09969900000002
latitude 42.346071

chelsea & gove
longitude -71.037171
latitude 42.371281

dorchester ave & 4th
longitude -71.057057
latitude 42.341551

washington & bloomingale
longitude -71.117648
latitude 42.24736

eastern & webster
longitude -71.172472
latitude 42.24799

cambridge & harvard
longitude -71.13274300000001
latitude 42.35552000000001

talbot ave & codman sq
longitude -71.10488100000001
latitude 42.356523

brighton & linden
longitude -71.13019
latitude 42.35272

warren & gaston
longitude -71.083637
latitude 42.313549

336 commercial & murphy ct
longitude -71.199815
latitude 42.358079

huntington & vancouver
longitude -71.097177
latitude 42.337008

757 atlantic & beach
longitude -71.056628
latitude 42.35044

chelsea & geovisconti rd
longitude -71.061579
latitude 42.3713

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rowan
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53v4 has finally been solved. 'Twasn't easy.

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First of all, you have to use a vignere program to get letters into a solvable state. nivra found that omaauglpsiwe works the best. Next you have to swap pairs of letters, carrying over the line breaks (RC NE HS will become CR EN SH). Numbers do not switch. This will give you about 90% of the streets. For any streets that are still messed up, you need to do a ROT-1 on the messed up pairs of letters.

The list is really long - so please go to the wiki.

Credit for solves goes to: nivra, Rowan, misssphinx, Diandra, catherwood, and others

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