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Progress

[HitsHerMark]

[GateKeeper]

Re: Progress

[nivra]

we can make a list for each layer of:
1) Common Virgil ROT'd word,
2) Common Virgil Non-rot'd non-linear word,
3) most common letter,
4) all virgil words non-ROT,
5) all virgil words ROT'd,
6) remaining letters.


eg. for Layer 12:
1) ZORRO
2) KING
3) K
4) horizontal: still, pidelko, facility, ruination, expertise, decompile
vertical: oriented, object, sophism, torture, dada, ReleaseDate, nike, MountEbank, hypocrisy, NishaChronicles,
diagonal??: time, doom/mood
5) Yabai
6) B, N, [M, D]

The remaining letters in brackets are included if you don't include the diagonal 4-character words time & doom in the group of words considered crossed-out.

[nivra]

[rowan]

I think I figured out what Emile was talking about with the ROTs.

Our problem is, we are counting the wrong way. Instead of thinking that 'able' = 'a' = 1, we should be thinking that 'able' = 'a' = '-1'. Once you do that, Emile's talk about having one of Virgil's favorite words pop out at you is true - and it's not one of those words that repeat throughout the layers.

For example, on the first layer, I noticed that the word 'conspiratoria' showed up on our ROT-25. On the second layer, 'cipher' appeared at ROT-24. On the third, 'imposter' was at ROT-20. The keywords on the ROT-0 of these repectively are 'able' (1), 'bold' (2), and 'fear' (6).

If you use the unfiction rot applet, you'll see that 'conspiratoria' is ROT-1 of 'dpotqjsbupsjb' , 'cipher' is ROT-2 of 'ekrjgt' and 'imposter' is ROT-6 of 'osvuyzkx' - all of which are on the non-roted versions of each layer. So all we need to do now is reverse the direction we were going in, and we should be able to find all of the keywords that Emile was talking about fairly easily.

[johnny5]

[nivra]

Wiki Page is up for the Evil Cube.

xnBomb's technique needs to be done for all the other layers to identify the remaining letters. Also, layers 14 & 19 have mis-match unique word ROT and most common letter.


There's a theory that if all 20 the "most common letters/first word of non-linear/most common word" are unique, then maybe we can re-order the layers using that. But currently we have non-unique "common letters."

[missphinx]

Here's #11 continued from xnbomb's work, with I, IOTA, and Virgil words marked. As far as I can tell, C, L, U, T are not used. Although the L could be part of TOIL and the T part of TENT. Ignore the ZDN, it's part of VELASQUEZ (see evil cube wiki).

Just posting this in case, it may not be at all useful

[nivra]

layer13 & 14

[missphinx]

Okay, layer 4. I got SEC left over.

[Ehsan]

I'm very happy

I see a solve coming up..

[missphinx]

Okay. I think the OTE is a mistake (typo?) Maybe it was supposed to be Poet Pontean, or NOTE Pontean... anyway other than that, ESI is left over, as far as I can tell.

[nivra]

layer 2

[GateKeeper]

Here's sheet six.

There's an interesting occurence of 'TIME' in an upside down T just to the left of 'discountenance' If that doesn't count, add 'IME' to the unused letters.

Unused letters: ADULFALDAM