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Rowanbranch
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Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Gävle, Sweden
SOLVED: New Puzzle? I received a mail from Admin at Acheron. It contained a PDF-file with a long string of numbers and letters. It is attached.
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_________________Andreas Rönnqvist
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:07 am
addlepated
Unfictologist
Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 1885 Location: Austin, Texas
The blocks of numbers are interesting. There are several 10-number blocks scattered through the text. The fact that the first three are identical makes me think "www", maybe?
Quote:
1887176055
1887176055
1887176055
1412003415
0071357548
0439210445
0786410698
0071357548
1559500522
0071357548
0439210445
1593730055
1412003415
0804718431
1586633007
0471292753
0933873220
0439210445
0786410698
1558508465
1412003415
0071357548
0439210445
0786410698
0071357548
0892724056
Here are some more ways to display the numbers:
Quote:
188717605518871760551887176055141200341500713575480439
210445078641069800713575481559500522007135754804392104451593
730055141200341508047184311586633007047129275309338732200439
210445078641069815585084651412003415007135754804392104450786
41069800713575480892724056
Quote:
18871 76055 18871 76055 18871 76055 14120 03415 00713 57548 04392 10445 07864 10698 00713 57548 15595 00522 00713 57548 04392 10445 15937 30055 14120 03415 08047 18431 15866 33007 04712 92753 09338 73220 04392 10445 07864 10698 15585 08465 14120 03415 00713 57548 04392 10445 07864 10698 00713 57548 08927 24056
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:26 am
Last edited by addlepated on Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:48 am; edited 2 times in total
Rowanbranch
Boot
Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Gävle, Sweden
Alot of the numbers are repeated, in the middle you can even visually see a pattern without actually looking at the numbers and letters.
Perhaps we should remove the repeated ones and see what's left, or the repeated combinations together represent one letter?
_________________Andreas Rönnqvist
www.omegaproject.se -
For Swedish gamers!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 3:29 am
addlepated
Unfictologist
Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 1885 Location: Austin, Texas
Solved!
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
1887176055 W
1887176055 W
1887176055 W
1412003415 D
0071357548 O
0439210445 T
0786410698 C
0071357548 O
1559500522 Y
0071357548 O
0439210445 T
1593730055 E
1412003415 D
0804718431 I
1586633007 S
0471292753 P
0933873220 A
0439210445 T
0786410698 C
1558508465 H
1412003415 D
0071357548 O
0439210445 T
0786410698 C
0071357548 O
0892724056 M
There is probably a more elegant solution, but I ended up substituting a letter for each number and treating it like a cryptogram.
So check out http://www.coyotedispatch.com !
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:34 am
MageSteff
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?
Joined: 06 Jun 2003 Posts: 2716 Location: State of Denial
Newsprint Wahooooo!
_________________Magesteff
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:38 am
Varin
I Have No Life
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 2456 Location: South of where I used to be
Of particular interest, in an article about Jake's return...
Quote:
Adding to the twist of events with Starkey's return is a scheduled press conference. Mr. Starkey has requested a press conference to discuss his disappearance, rather than elaborate details to the individual media sources. The press conference has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 8th at 5:30pm . The conference will be moderated and in a format of scheduled questions followed by a short free-question section. If the readership has any questions, it is requested that they send them to the editor of the Coyote Dispatch. Though the event will be closed to the public, it will be broadcast online by the Dispatch at irc.coolchat.net#coyotedispatch , and the free-question section will be open to those watching the broadcast.
_________________"I still miss him to this day and probably always will." - Todd Keeler, Chasing the Wish
"meta meta meta, I made you out of play..." ~ j5
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:02 pm
addlepated
Unfictologist
Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 1885 Location: Austin, Texas
Taking a second look, I think I've got what the 10 digit numbers were supposed to represent.
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:16 pm
AnthraX101
Entrenched
Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 797
Nice catch addlepated! We would have been really pulling out our hair if they had not repeated some of them!
AnthraX101
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:22 pm
aliendial
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Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 3438 Location: Far Far Away. Nowhere Near You. Really.
Addleplated, I totally do not get it - one way the actual ISBN numbers "decode" to the letters of the new URL, but the other way they are book titles that just happen to have the author's name start with the right letter? Plus I don't actually see that - your list starts W-D-O-T-C-Y-E . . .-- was it scrambled too?
_________________aliendial
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:38 pm
Varin
I Have No Life
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 2456 Location: South of where I used to be
aliendial wrote:
Plus I don't actually see that - your list starts W-D-O-T-C-Y-E . . .-- was it scrambled too?
Yeah, I see W D O T C Y E I S P A H M. I almost see coyote in that. and part of dispatch. Are there more here that you didn't list? Were they scrambled?
_________________"I still miss him to this day and probably always will." - Todd Keeler, Chasing the Wish
"meta meta meta, I made you out of play..." ~ j5
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:44 pm
addlepated
Unfictologist
Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 1885 Location: Austin, Texas
I only posted the first instance of each ISBN. Some are repeated. It ends up being:
W indham
W indham
W indham
D upont
O 'Neil
T ang
C ook
O'Neil
Y eager
O'neil
T ang
E vans
D upont
I ngels
S harpe
P eterson
A delman
T ang
C ook
H arding
D upont
O 'Neil
T ang
C ook
O 'Neil
M cIntosh
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:50 pm
Varin
I Have No Life
Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Posts: 2456 Location: South of where I used to be
Thanks addlepated. I obviously need things spelled out to me
_________________"I still miss him to this day and probably always will." - Todd Keeler, Chasing the Wish
"meta meta meta, I made you out of play..." ~ j5
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:32 pm
addlepated
Unfictologist
Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 1885 Location: Austin, Texas
Don't worry about it. You don't want to know how much time I spent trying to figure out how the book subjects could possibly have anything to do with the solve!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 7:03 pm
dashcat
Entrenched
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 816 Location: Under the bed
Ok, I get the ISBN solve but how did you get the first solve? I mean I don't understand how you assigned letters to the numbers. Was it just frequency?
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:37 am
addlepated
Unfictologist
Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 1885 Location: Austin, Texas
dashcat wrote:
Ok, I get the ISBN solve but how did you get the first solve? I mean I don't understand how you assigned letters to the numbers. Was it just frequency?
I sifted out the ten digit numbers from the big block of characters. The first number, 1887176055, was repeated 3 times, so I gave it a 'W'. Then I went through the rest of the numbers and just assigned them values of A, B, C, D, etc. until all the numbers had a letter. It ended up like this:
1887176055 W
1887176055 W
1887176055 W
1412003415 A
0071357548 B
0439210445 C
0786410698 D
0071357548 B
1559500522 E
0071357548 B
0439210445 C
1593730055 F
1412003415 A
0804718431 G
1586633007 H
0471292753 J
0933873220 K
0439210445 C
0786410698 D
1558508465 L
1412003415 A
0071357548 B
0439210445 C
0786410698 D
0071357548 B
0892724056 M
Last, I took 'WWWABCDBEBCFAGHJKCDLABCDBM' and plugged it into a cryptogram page at http://www.esg.montana.edu/meg/consbio/cryptogram/crypto.html . I saw there were two "ABC"s, and the end was "DBM", and "DOT" and "COM" both have the same middle letter, so I plugged that in, leaving me with WWWDOTCO*OT*D****TC*DOTCOM. Then I just kind of fiddled with it!
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:56 pm
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