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Jemma
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 		Hello to you all! Long time no see again Smile I'm still completely stuck on Hi Tech Zombie and I'm hoping some lovely person out there might take pity on me and help a fellow zombie in need Smile I've changed "Ugh" into
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Ook
and then changed the
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Ooks
into
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Brainfuck
language, but I've got absolutely no idea what to do with it now. Everywhere I've tried to put it and the links that have been put on the board to do with it so far as well have either not worked on my computer, or I just don't understand them. I'm begging you, help!

PostPosted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:56 pm
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jenny62778
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Joined: 18 Jun 2006
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 		I am starting to feel like I will never be able to solve Base Pairs!
Sad

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jenny62778
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Joined: 18 Jun 2006
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 		ok.. i got the
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dna reference - found the wikki page on dna, and all that relate - i can see the letters used, can see how they form, but it doesn' t make any sense to me? Some of the letters that are only 2 letters, there isn't a 3 letter "word" that can be made? etc... CC - there isn't a DNA sequence that has 2 C's in it! HELP!


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Rolerbe
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Joined: 01 Mar 2005
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Location: North America

 		Hi Tech Zombie
(painfully) Hand compiled and hand executed this, but get gibberish

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Hkbbe W[_hZ!<new line>

so obviously doing something wrong there, Is there a starting seed??

tried the online compiler from earlier in this thread, appears to compile OK, but does not produce printable output (piped it to a file which has only non-printable chars), so that didn't work out either.

Anybody got any other helpful hints? Thanks. Confused
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triLcat
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Joined: 12 Jun 2006
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Location: Modiin, Israel

 		Rolerbe: actually, you're close... it won't help you, but you are close.

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http://www.hevanet.com/cristofd/brainfuck/di.html


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sidtheduck
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Joined: 31 Jan 2006
Posts: 105
Location: The Land of Milk and Rainier Beer
jenny62778 wrote:
ok.. i got the
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dna reference - found the wikki page on dna, and all that relate - i can see the letters used, can see how they form, but it doesn' t make any sense to me? Some of the letters that are only 2 letters, there isn't a 3 letter "word" that can be made? etc... CC - there isn't a DNA sequence that has 2 C's in it! HELP!

I'm stumped on Base Pairs as well . . .
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I too checked out the wikipedia article on DNA Base Pairs. But what gets me is that damned 'e' in the final line (go ahead, check it out, right smack dab in the middle between 2 'c's. What up with that?)!! Now I'm no genetic DNA sequencer / decompiler or whatev, but according to the wiki article, 'a's like to hook up with 't's and 'c's got a kinky thing for 'g's, yet 'e's are nowhere to be found (maybe they're stuck in the corner with nothing but themselves to please Wink ). I've tried using the whole "DNA to Protein" & "DNA to Amino Acid" translations but it just skips over that 'e', does it's own thing, gives me an error that "the number of bases does not distribute evenly between codons" (because it skipped over the 'e' methinks) and I'm left with either a list of Amino Acids (82 to be exact) or another list of random letters (with quite a lot of 'p's in there). Am I way off base here and am missing a code that happens to use similar letters to DNA Base Pairs to implement it's magical ciphering, or is there some credibility to my quick google and wikipedia research? Any hints or pointers would be much appreciated!


EDIT: Never mind. Magus already caught the typo and posted over on the Zombie forums.
/me whistles and looks away, acting as if nothing was ever wrong.
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Plectrum
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Joined: 17 Jun 2006
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Location: Cheltenham, England
triLcat wrote:
It has nothing to do with Aethelred the unready, and little to do with the region. There were more red herrings than clues.

In addition, the answer should have been the inventor of the thing, and not just the company that made it.


The answer stares you right in the face! It's surprising how few people bothered to spend ten seconds googling
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the capital of Wessex
and no-one seemed to pick up on the mare-drawn cart, which was another clue.

I'm happy with my contributions. Feel free to make something better, triLcat.

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Rolerbe
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Location: North America

 		Hi Tech Zombie
triLcat wrote:
Rolerbe: actually, you're close... it won't help you, but you are close.

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http://www.hevanet.com/cristofd/brainfuck/di.html


Thank you Thank you Thank you.

That got it. It was easy enough to convert to BF. Not sure where I went awry by hand, but I'm DONE! Very Happy
well, with this one at least
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Eiserblew
Kilroy

Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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 		Okay. Now, I am totally stuck on base pairs.

The clue is that there were 4 zombie geneticists... is this important or am I over-complicating it?

also...

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when I look into genetics and codes for base pairs, they always seem to talk about them being in groups of 3, not in 1s, 2s and 3s... I can't find any pattern in the groupings either, and I've tried seeing if the last two lines are 'translations' of the first line (where A=T and C=G) but can't see anything.


Am I overthinking this? Crying or Very sad

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Therum
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Joined: 27 Oct 2005
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 		Don't worry, Plectrum. Your quests are good. That one did have a lot of Red Herrings, but it wasn't bad nonetheless.

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hpeterson
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Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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 		hi-larious
I liked Anachronism. Party because it didn't require a much google-fu, or decoding; but mostly because it was a puzzle where you had to sit there, read it a couple of times, and just wait for the oddity in the puzzle to jump out. It might have been a little simple, but after the string of super-difficult puzzles, I could use a few easy/tricky quests to get my confidence up.

And if nothing else, the writing was funny. -eth -eth (for historical correctness)

Speaking of funny, Zombiology was hilarious.

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Stiffy77
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Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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Location: Toronto Canada

 		Base Pairs
#8 Wohoo.

I found this one satisfying once I knew what to do (took me two hours though) Here are some hints:

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In a way it's like Editorial Inspiration.


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Each combination of letters (ie. CCA, CA, GG) is one letter.


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CGT is a space between words.

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EGo
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Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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Location: Wasting time in east New Jersey

 		Ninth on Base Pairs. Rock.
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Norad
Boot

Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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 		Sweet! Not in the top 10, but atleast I'm done. Thanks for the big hints Stiffy77. I was on the right track but it would have taken alot more time. I'm sure my employer thanks you too. Smile

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Macavity
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004
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Location: UNSC Comm Relay Station Alpha, West Shokan, NY
triLcat wrote:
Macavity: are you, perchance, a redhead from Philadelphia?


No, a boonie rat from New York. And what does that have to do with the puzzles?

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Anachronism is stupid.
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the capital of the region

When you look it up, you'll see that it's the name of
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the maker of a boomstick - not a broomstick


Yeah, I tried that - SEVERAL TIMES. No joy.

And the only boomstick manufacturers I can think of are:

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Remington, Mossberg, Ithaca Gun, and Benelli.


Quote:
Editorial inspiration is a simple
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cryptogram


I figured that much, Captain Obvious. What's less obvious is figuring out how to crack it.
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