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enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

nevermind Laz posted it... Thanks Laz

**Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2003 10:47 am

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Re: twoedgedsword SOLVED

**Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2003 11:19 am

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grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

wtg enaxor and Nimue!!!

(/me has another DOH moment and slaps himself on the forehead repeatedly!!!)

**Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2003 3:55 pm

konamouse

Re: twoedgedsword SOLVED

**Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:52 pm

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I hear yah kona.....has happened a few times to me too(shadow/thegoldenrule). So you go off on a completely different tangent with the assumption what you tried doesn't work only to find out it did. Smile

**Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:20 pm

dmax

I'm gonna have to remember that excuse when we figure out the greywethers login page.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:29 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:35 pm

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E-mail from greywethers: Response to Portae

**Posted:** Sun Aug 24, 2003 9:25 pm

dmax

Just starting on this but

**Posted:** Sun Aug 24, 2003 9:30 pm

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grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

The story "The Stone Cutter" is from Japanische Mahrchen in a book called "The Crimson Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang (editor)

none of that works as our next page in case you're wondering...

**Posted:** Sun Aug 24, 2003 9:59 pm

grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

some observations about this one:

- 47 letters (prime number) so probably not to be split into groups. unless it's a variable length code (morse code is a variable length code, but i dont think that's it in this case)

- locations of the letters within the story do not appear to be relevant since, for example, when a "d" follows a "b", it's always the first available one that comes next (1 exception at the end)

things I've tried that have not worked are:
- playing the a b c d's as music notes. I did not recognized any sort or tune but maybe some of you who are more musically inclined might make something out

- converting to a base 4 number with a=0, b=1, c=2, d=3 then converting to bases 2 to 36. in the case of base 2, i ran it thru a binary decoder as well...

**Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2003 6:26 am

grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

not much help but here is what turingprinciple has to say about the current puzzle:

You: bdccdddccdcbbabbbaacdababcbacaabaaabbbabbcddcdc
turingprinciple: Dale has me working on the latest puzzle.
<nextreply> Here is the sequence he provided me -
bdccdddccdcbbabbbaacdababcbacaabaaabbbabbcddcdc <nextreply>
I have analyzed that in several ways. One way of looking at
it is that it represents 12 a's, 15 b's, 11 c's, and 9 d's.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2003 7:18 am

dashcat

SPOILER

**Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2003 2:31 pm

LazarusLong

Re: SPOILER

**Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2003 2:46 pm

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