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[Ehsan]

Very nice work, kona, night, and cather

The bottom part matches the previous thing I worked on.. but I'm not sure if that's what it should say after all... This is not a test or whatever you think it is?

TINAT is the new TINAG!

[konamouse]

Cipher Wheels, huh?
Googling so far I've only found a reference to the Lorenz Cipher.

I can't find anything about a Knight Spencer code anywhere. Yet.

[catherwood-offline]

Knight Spencer

[Night565]

I think the next hint saying we can use the name to help us solve the next puzzle is related more to using "knight" as a key or a cipher, rather than making use of Spencer's actual code. But you all prolly figured that out already. I prolly won't start working on this next clue right away, need to get some 'real' work done.

[konamouse]

This code-creator's first name will help you decipher the second clue. Use your keys to find your way.

806989576856 = 9

When finished, use the rings and these discs sent over from Mission Intelligence to decipher the code below.

[see attached pictures of the code wheels]


9*131344*53 5*131344*4*3 4*131344335


Your next clue is located at
www.realSabotage.com/tminusk/splust.php

(For example, www.realSabotage.com/reality/tv.php)

[Mystatude]

New Code

[Ehsan]

As mystatude said above, and cather just mentioned in chat, I decided to try the keyboard as the keys... and I got something out of it

Might be a longshot...
This code-creator's first name will help you decipher the second clue.

KNIGHT
806989576856 = 9

80 69 89 57 68 56

The K is under the number 8 on the keyboard so 80 = K (maybe 810, see below)

69 = 6 and 6+3, so 3 keys under the 6 is N

89 = 8 +1 so 1 key under the 8 is I

The whole list is:
80 -> (8 10?) 8 +2 -> K
69 -> 6 +3 ->N
89 -> 8 +1 -> I
57 -> 5 +2 -> G
68 -> 6 +2 -> H
56 -> 5 +1 -> T

And finally, +3+1+2+2+1 = 9

Didn't figure out what to do with yet

[Ehsan]

Using the above code,

[Ehsan]

Next one (Clue 3)

[Ehsan]

Clue 4

[Rogi Ocnorb]

"GRAY" appears on one of the disks.
Any ideas on how we deal with the "1" digit?
Does the first inner disc, above have both a 1 and a 7 or is it two 7's?
Two 1's?

[Mystatude]

Black also appears across the disks...
I dont know...
The third and fourth clues?
oh boy...im going to let this one sit for a bit.

[Night565]

I'm pretty sure that the hint of clue 5 to make use of clue 3 and 4 in combination with the cypher wheels means that we should transpose the letters of the cypherdiscs using the a=t transposition.

I'm not sure about all of the letters, but I've used the letters that Ehsan transposed in clue 4 to garner these results:

bcvtni = ?g?aeo
uzmabh = s??t??
fkotqx = ??ia??
dwspjo = r?u??i
grysla = cdluyt

As you can see, there's quite a few letters missing. There are a total of 12 letters without transposition, meaning 6 pairs.

From the one wheel whose letters are all there, I can't make any actual words myself. Maybe if someone wants to complete the transposition? I can't seem to figure out the transposition pattern myself, if there is one.

Here are the thus-far transposed letters:
a=t
c=g
d=r
e=n
g=c
i=o
l=y
n=e
o=i
r=d
s=u
t=a
u=s
y=l

[catherwood]

Please allow me to catch up. Going back several steps to /knight/spencer.php (Clue 2) and working thru the solution, Mystatude's "hint" to use the keys on a keyboard was a breakthru. (And not at all suspicious?)

Using the Standard AMERICAN QWERTY keyboard layout, and the numbers row as the top, all letters are located \diagonally\ below a number and an offset of 1, 2, or 3 keys down.
letter, key, \down\, digit.sum, concat.pairs (columns below)

[catherwood]

clue 5 short-circuited