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Re: the Koran

[AtionSong]

Something occured to me today. The answer to the number strings were solved based on the answer to "Secret Location", the connection being infered due to the street "Translation Approach" being on the back. Perhaps shuffled involves this in reverse:

The answer to "Shuffled" could be connected to "Roaming Identity", the connection being infered due to "Casino Recor" being on the back.

Roaming Identity contains "otpaaworldtdnia 1.56.29" on the back. I don't know what connection there could be. Perhaps:

O
Ten/Three/Two
P
Ace
Ace
W
O
R
L
D
Ten/Three/Two
D
Nine
I
Ace

And the numbers could indicate card position in an unwrapped deck (The Ace of Spades being first..etc., not sure about the others.)

The letters that are left anagram to "IPOD WORLD". Of course! The cube is burried in Cupertino, California!

But, anyway, there's my spec.

[Marnok.com]

[Boomanda]

Now, just a note to people suggesting brute forcing... That might be hard. Of course it would be possible, but it might take a _lot_ of time. First, all the possible keys are 54!. This roughly equals to 2,308436973 * 10^71. Now, suppose a computer can try ten keys and also check the results in some way in just a second. How long time would that computer take to finish checking all the possible keys?

In a single day, it would be able to check 60*60*24*10 keys. (The number of seconds in a day multiplied by 10.) This is 864000 keys. This looks like a lot. Alas, 54! divided by 864000, the number of days the computer would take, gives an equally depressing figure: 2,67180205... * 10^65. Now, keep this figure and say 6,500,000,000 computers (incidentally a number close to the world population) were connected together. We then get 4,110464... * 10^55. Dividing this by 365, the amount of days in a year, gives us the amounts of day-and-night work in years: 1,126154711... * 10^53. This is actually quite a lot of years.

This forces me to think that unless some clever way to reduce the searching space is created, brute forcing this card will be hard. Very hard.

[ABPositive]

I don't think this has been mentioned, or if it's even possible since I don't have the cards on me - but with all the risk pieces and risk metapuzzle talk, is there any chance of the solitare cypher being done with a Risk deck? It does have two jokers, but I don't know if it's in any way feasable.

-AB+

[jaikaiman]

The pack of cards shown on the puzzle card would say otherwise. I don't believe it has anything to do with the Risk Metapuzzle. Nice thinking though, I personally think its just so simple that we are all missing it!

[Boomanda]

You're probably extremely right. Solitaire is, to date, more or less unbreakable. While there is a slight flaw in it that someone have managed to break it with, that was only done by using vast amounts of ciphertext - no idea exactly how much, but far, FAR more than we can use. This means that a frontal attack on the cipher without any extra information that it is a solitaire cipher would be impossible - unless MC knows some flaw in solitaire that no one else has noticed, and decided to use it for a puzzle card instead of revealing it. (Or they might just be putting up a piece of ciphertext hoping that WE might stumble upon a flaw.) That's quite unlikely, so we need some way of identifying the deck order, or, at the very least, several details about it.

[kian]

[Cabbage]

I know this thread and its predecessor are EXTREMELY long, but it has been stated numerous times that Mind Candy have said that we do not need any other card to solve this puzzle.

[Marnok.com]

Are there any cypher types which might leave the cyphertext looking very much like the plaintext?

Reason I ask it,

[Stratman]

Not been looking at this for ages - amazed its not been solved yet!
Had a quick look through and am still struck by (from page 33 and earlier)

[Amadeus]

[Amadeus]

Also, couldn't the three letters at the end turn out be someone's initials?

Spec.

[ariock]

[sloth007]

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