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[S2] [Cards set] #193 I'm so sorry
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LastResort
Boot

Joined: 25 Feb 2007
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 		[S2] [Cards set] #193 I'm so sorry
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^_^
Hi there!

I just wanted to send you an e-mail and apologise 8(- I was way out of order before 8[' B)- You know it, I know it B)' B]- 8]'

The problem is email :)' 8[- well it's me too, but email is a lot of it. 8]' :]' 8[-

Okay I know what you are thinking 8[' 8]' (yep, I'm a mind reader! B)- You think, it's not email it's you B]- B[' :[' B[' Right okay, its me 8)- :)' but also it's email, because in email you can't really be sure what anyone means B(' like, how can anyone tell a joke in email? :)' :[- B)' and that means we get into fights B[' B[' yeah fights like this, because who can tell what you mean? 8]' :)- B)-

Anyway, so it was my fault 8[- B[' B)' B)- 8)-

I should have been more clear :[- and I shouldn't have made all those jokes B)- 8)- I mean, who makes jokes in email :[- In a serious email anyway? 8}' :]- 8[- 8]'

So anyway, it was my fault and I'm sorry, and can you forgive me now? :0- 8)'

I'll really try to me [sic] more clear about what I mean from now on, more sense, less jokes, more smileys? 8]' B]- :]~

B(~ well better smiles anyway B[' 8)-

All forgiven? :]~ B(~ 8(~ 8]~

See ya soon!
=|8O :-C :-$ :-P


It's obviously got something to do with the smilies, I thought probably
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A substitution code? It's also a bit strange that all but one of the smilies have exactly 3 characters. The answer page says we should give a last name only, so we are looking for a name. Maybe we get a question from the smilies that give us a question.


Edit - Topic for consistency - MikeyJ
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:30 am
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X9Tim
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 		Slight error in your transcription of the message:
Where you've used an apostophe (') in the "smilies", they should be grave accents (`).

Probably not important, but it distinguishes the "smilies" from punctuation, e.g. in the word "it's"

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LastResort
Boot

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 		I've solved this one now, although probably not the way it was intended.

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It's like broadside, and the answer can be found on wikipedia


If anyone knows how it was actually supposed to be solved, it would be nice to work it out that way as well.

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MD1500
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 		I haven't solved this yet, but I couldn't help wondering whether...
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this card is like Vexillogy. Maybe we're meant to use a Smiley Dictionary to look up the meaning of all the Smileys used in the email, and form a question from them?


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X9Tim
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 		If you check all the "smilies", you find there are 26 different ones (not including ^_^), which implies to my mind some sort of alphabetic code.

Total smilies 58, most appear once only, but two of them appear 6 times.

Sadly I'm rubbish at simple substitution codes. But I WILL NOT LoOK AT THE SPOILER!!! Mad

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Rotek
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 		Oh yes. I just made a guess and got it right! Go me!

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:49 pm
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UKver2.0
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 		For all of you that are falling bass ackward into a solve (easy to do), you are missing out on a very cool puzzle.
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Naomi: We did joke that we’d end up have to go round to your houses with shovels, drive you to the location and tell you to dig.
Andrea: Paint a little X on the ground with spray paint..
Naomi: and then you’d try to anagram 'shovels'

PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:35 pm
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pheebs
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 		a small clue please anyone for those of us who dont know where to start?

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xdajlo82
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 		what i find interesting about the smilies is that almost all of them are composed of three key strokes. For some reason, this puzzle doesn't scream Smiley to me. Im not sure what exactly but it doesnt seem to be smilies.

additionally, does the position of the sets in the email have a significance?

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ArcySparky
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 		I noticed most (practically all)

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End in either a - or a ' I figured that perhaps it was some sort of morse code, but all I get is gobbledy-gook


For those who have solved it, am I on the right lines?

~Arcyhopesitsnotableedingsubstitutioncipher,hehatesthose...

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xdajlo82 wrote:
...For some reason, this puzzle doesn't scream Smiley to me. Im not sure what exactly but it doesnt seem to be smilies...
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Fine, call them emoticon(s) if it will help Wink

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Naomi: We did joke that we’d end up have to go round to your houses with shovels, drive you to the location and tell you to dig.
Andrea: Paint a little X on the ground with spray paint..
Naomi: and then you’d try to anagram 'shovels'

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 		Sorry, Arcy, but

~echidnaregretstoinformArcythatitisexactlywhathe'shopingitisn't
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ArcySparky
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 		Urgh.

~Arctakesouthispencilandnotebookandstartsthinking...

**EDIT**

Well that wasn't nearly as hard as I expected... perhaps I'm slowly getting over my dislike of substitution ciphers...

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Gladys Pool
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 		Can someone link the Smiley Dictionary they used for this, as I can't seem to find one with all of these on?

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back wrote:

I first heard of Mr. Suanion's plight from Sister Golda Flynnt after the sixth day prayer at noon. She knew his family and told me of the terrible accident he had suffered at Catbite Gorge, and also of his troubled past. I was fascinated by this man and endeavoured to find out more, and talked to his mother, who belongs to our congregation.

Mr. Saunion was staying at Greycastle Hospital in the northwest of the city. I normally do not venture out that far, but his mother asked that I should pray for him, and worried for is spiritual health. "I know that he wouldn't want this, but we must try something. He's been in this... condition for five months now," she told me, in tears.

I found him in bed, being monitroed by all kinds of machines and computers. A screen behind him showed waves and lines slowly marching along. Mr. Saunion seemed peaceful enough; he was healthy and clean, and anyone coming across him would think that he was merely taking a nap. As I knelt beside him on the floor, I began whispering a prayer of recovery, drawing from the teachings of the monuments at Rhat-Mamar.

At that moment, I heard a buzzing. I looked up and saw the screen was full of discordant waves, flashing red with warning. There was a movement beside me, Mr. Saunion opened his eyes.

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