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astashenko · Boot Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 20

[UPDATE] new paintover puzzles... [nov9/10]

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:37 am

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Toast · Boot Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 40

...look, a bunch of characters that appear to be random but probably have some meaning that I totally missed anyway!

Is Texel all right at the moment? Maybe he's...I don't know, whacking his keyboard in utter disbelief or something.

Oh., [OFFTOPIC] astashenko, are you from the SDMB? Scalar weapons, pie and hi Opal? [/OFFTOPIC]

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 2:57 am

astashenko · Boot Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 20

[OFFTOPIC] Ah yes, the straight dope triumphs [/OFFTOPIC]

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 3:01 am

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yanka

I'm afraid to sound stupid... I tried base 64 - no go. The source code looks like this:

& # 1 1 3 9 ; & # 2 0 5 0 1 ; & # 3 3 4 ;

edit: duh, spaces

That's for the top one, at 11:43. Is there anything about conversion to be gained from that (again, probably a stupid question)? Embarassed

[edit] Well, I can't get it to display what I want it to...

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yeahyeah · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 282

my initial thoughts (may be wrong)..

if you convert the characters to decimal, the unprintables appear to be low ascii, not high ascii.. So I thought 'oh, probably a shift/rotate' but the high values, end up going to like 86 decimal, the low end being 0, so a shift/rotate would take that value into high ascii if we moved the low ascii stuff to printables.. :-/

If this makes no sense to you, don't worry about it. just me thinking out loud..

:-/

Also, if you look at the source, one block is just low ascii and ormal printable (non escaped unicode) characters.. why? the low ascii unprintables start at 0 and go on up..

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 3:26 am

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Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

Discuss here:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3125

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 3:49 am