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[Fuseunderground]

does anyone have an anagram for the
164990462647551511589599262129081060112 number?

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[EvilGenius]

UK Ver2.0 - about the space thing. I think about it this way. If I was setting the puzzle and decided that I wanted to represent the spaces with two, I would count them and assign values to the letters. That is the evident plan from what we have solved (admittedly not a lot). The longer the encoded message, the more likely the primes will wrap in modulo26. But why would I subtract one space encoded as a 2 just because the message is longer than before. It's doable but a real nuisance. Until I see a reason to do otherwise, I will continue with the idea that the spaces are the factors 2 and the other wrap to accordingly. It's weak as an argument but better than the alternative which I could only adopt to be contrarian at this point. I prefer to leave that complication for the time being.

As for the other pieces, I interpret them this way: the first anagram we had both the question (the part to be decoded) and the answer we given us, that's why it was a primer; the second bit we had the encoded part with no answer, so it was test, hence the answer; the next bit we had the encoded part which turned out to say what it did. They seem self-referential. The third may continue in this vein or be a hint, not sure which. I'm a bit overwhelmed with the choices so I figure some inspired guessing would help out to narrow the options.

[Hunting4Treasure]

[EvilGenius]

The 197 thing in my post is a typo - I also meant 107.

We have no certainty which way to go at this point but the way you arranged all that is compelling. What to do? I suppose that the "zero" position named "space" would be the more mathematically sensible one, wouldn't it? That's what you'd normally do with numbers. OK, Im converted.

[donxkey]

[Uhtoff]

The problem is there are lots of promising looking words, I'd really hope that this line is some kind of instruction...

[donxkey]

[UKver2.0]

New direction...

The final big message is too big to anagram. There are too many possibilities. My poor computer has been generating them all night. So I'm going to go on the idea that the final text is (probably don't need to spoiler this)

[donxkey]

do you think the chalkboard itself could be a clue? and is it signifigant that the Initials (if that is what they are) are in a heart?

I am searching wikipedia for anything that might be signifigant but not much to go on

[donxkey]

"Kimberly Smith (born March 3, 1983 in Odessa, Texas) is an American actress/model. She has appeared in the film Catwoman"

hmmmmmmmmm I think i've been staring at this card too long and I am making connections where there arent really any!

[GasparLewis]

Rather than panicking at the site of Kim's number, we really should work on the smaller one first and save ourselves the neuroses. Just because we know the system doesn't mean we have everything we need to crack it.

Handle the one with 27 characters, not the one with 32 or 33 spaces alone.

We may rock out loud, but let's slow the tempo a bit, mmm?

[UKver2.0]

[donxkey]

[doublecross]

Is GRTae's factorisation correct? I get that 2 divides the second-longest number four times, so there are four spaces, and therefore five words in the result.

We are therefore looking for a five-word anagram of

[Fuseunderground]