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konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
[SOLVED] HHR to meet Barney Sept 5th? - cipher posted on Ben's Flickr, was in HHR's files. We have a puzzle. Posted on Ben's Flickr for "friends" to see.
Bottom of the page, Happy's handwriting wrote:
Barney - 2:00 pm Sept 5th
[edit - since Ben's disappearence on 10/14 the photo has been removed from the Flickr page]
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:54 am
Last edited by konamouse on Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:27 pm; edited 3 times in total
mapmaker
Unfettered
Here's a transcription I've been working from, with letters substituted for characters. I have been liberal in separating out characters - for example, there might be one or two double-cross symbols, one with a split in the middle and another without. The line breaks are arbitrary.
Code:
abcxozqamjnaqvrmabanvacrwa
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:50 am
Rolerbe
Unfettered
Possibly a simple substitution cipher. Note the recurring abc's ("the")? Just starting to look at this. Here's the letter frequency table:
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:16 am
grumpyboy
Unfettered
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i went ahead and did my own symbol to letter substitution and got this:
http://www.bokler.com/eapoe.html ). I thought it looked kinda familiar! could've saved myself some time...
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:18 pm
danteIL
Unfictologist
This is a (yet another) fantastic solve, but so.. the cipher was what? Busywork? And the real information is the fact that Barney went to white rose meeting on Sept 5?
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:14 pm
orangepeelbeef
Boot
good god grumpy, you are a machine!
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:48 pm
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Betty comments on the cipher I reposted the picture from Ben (since it is missing from his site) in order for Betty to see it (but I marked it Private so Mr AJ and his spoocheeeee jackals couldn't see it). She left this comment:
Betty wrote:
heather, that is poe but it isn't from that website.. it is from barney's favorite book "secret codes and cryptograms" by elonka dunin. this was like his favorite cipher for whatever reason anyone would have a favorite cipher... i will find the page for you guys. i do remember it is from some crazy old play. that date september 5th is 2 days before we went back to ny and 3 days before barney went missing at st. barts. why did happy have this? and what up with the white rose?
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:48 pm
drizjr
Unfictologist
Cato by Addison The "crazy old play" that the deciphered quote comes from is "Cato" by Joseph Addison written back in 1713.
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:03 pm
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
Betty added another comment on the Cipher Photo From Flickr comment:
Betty wrote:
that cipher translates to a quote from a play by someone named joseph addison. more later
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:04 pm
mapmaker
Unfettered
FYI, it is in Elonka's book at page 420. Only thing on the page (except some introductory text).
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:31 pm
konamouse
Official uF Dietitian
From Flickr comment 10/16
Quote:
*also i found more about the play on wikipedia like the full title and what the play is about. interesting. barney used to spend half his day wandering around wikipedia. total junkie.
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:29 pm
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