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lotusflower · Boot Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 64

[SOLVED] Recon Encryption Puzzle...

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BrianEnigma

Is it me, or do the <, >, ^, and v look like they are indicating direction? I am not so sure about the + and *, other than delimeters of some kind.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:33 pm

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cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

Pretty cube! Razz

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:35 pm

cronogenesis

Seems to be ASCII. If you paste it into a document the right side of the cube fluctuates. My first guess was excell, but I can make any sense of it. (* is X) (/ divide) etc

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:45 pm

cronogenesis

Heres the distorted cube. It should be in wordpad, incase its changed.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:47 pm

cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

(OT: Whoa. There's an echo in my email!)

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:48 pm

cronogenesis

Sorry for poining out the obvious, but the cube has roman numerals/tally of 1 , 2 and 3 I II III. A bit like a dice>

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:51 pm

cronogenesis

Im sorry for all the posting, but ideas keep on popping into my head.

Taking a look at the last puzzle, Ancient belief system waqs the key.

That means that this puzzle might be "Encoded". Ive looked at Hexx and Octal, but no luck.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:00 pm

zaeil · Decorated Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 233 Location: NC, US

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:03 pm

lotusflower · Boot Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 64

Some of us (on CHAT) are working on the idea that the arrows are directions and they can be followed to lay out on long string, which can then be transcribed as letters and spaces... don't hold your breath ; )

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:06 pm

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cronogenesis

Ive looked at that as well, all the arrows seem to back on each other though, ive only tried 10 starting points though. or include every characrer ---->]
[<----]
[----->

etc.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:07 pm

InspJJ

My first impression was of one of those annoying typewriter pictures which were around in the 70's which you can now do in seconds on any decent WP. Hidden picture in the data if we highlight some of the code etc????

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:12 pm

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cassandra · Entrenched Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 831

So what's the rest of the image? Is this cube in a display case? on an altar/pedestal?

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:15 pm

BrianEnigma

I am not entirely convinced that the file *is* a string of tokens, but if you take each ASCII symbol or number as a token, here are the frequencies (attached).

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:19 pm

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Zedix · Veteran Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 93 Location: Ottawa

Anyone notice how there's an @ at the end of the file? Any idea what this could mean ?

Edit: There's definitely a pattern. If you start at the top left corner with the 'arrow', and keep following the arrows, it'll lead you all the way through the cube, following at the bottom through a zigzag, then right up to the '@'.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:21 pm