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[thebruce]

or in case you're having trouble getting it to work... (capitals added)

[konamouse]

FINALLY - a real puzzle/code that wasn't a spoon fed answer. Did the PTB running this experience figure out the community out there can do these??? (Afterall, there was the online results showing 40% claimed they could do it on their own, and 40% said they could do it with others).

[Uberg33k]

Re: Hiro's blog solved

[megiddo]

If I may, I have been following along on the 9th wonders board. One of the NBC staff was poping in from time to time droping hints. It still took one heck of a lot of work by all those folks at 9th wonders to figure it out!

Also, I believe that I read somewhere that Hiro's blog puzzels is something that Masi Oka is doing on his own, so it might not be a part of this experience.

[konamouse]

So, I had to be reminded who is Molly Walker.

http://heroeswiki.com/Molly_Walker

[tornok the great]

Re: Hiro's blog solved

[thebruce]

Re: Hiro's blog solved

[Uberg33k]

Re: Hiro's blog solved

[Strings]

4 and 7 apparantly aply to the margins.

I don't fully understand it myself so I will quote Heroes ARG Blog:

[thebruce]

so.... 'bound by 7 and 4' essentially means you need margins set to word-wrap at the 48th column (47 columns per line), then read the 15th column (as per "I grow weary of hiding on the 15.").

In which case it would seem 15pt Courier in Word would just be a coincidence... which is true if anyone's default margin settings are different. Quite the coincidence... 15th column, 15pt...

I can see the connection, it just seems so thinly connected... either very intelligent person, a person with lots of time on their hands, or dare I say, a leak...
I'm all for the intelligent person though - so props to them for solving!

[dposse]

this was quite an impressive puzzle that NBC cooked up.. Does this type of puzzle have a name? I heard someone at 9thwonders forum say that it's a caesars box, like what was in the Davinci Code book. any truth to that?

do you think that NBC has a professional quiz maker that did this? It seems to be a very complex, yet simple once you get the clues, puzzle.

[Uberg33k]

[dposse]

[thebruce]

Though technically, it is a caesar's box, with spaces, and the 'code' inline is a paragraph, but the message after reading vertically is hidden in seemingly random text (rather than the vertical read text being the message itself, the message is within that text at the right position to start at the top of a line). It's kind of a backwards caesar you might say, with the legibility of the code and cipher switched, save the hidden message itself.

quick object lesson, because I'm bored, even though everyone probably understands this already =P

I could hide the word HIDE two ways, both caesar boxes of 7 width, with HIDE in the 3rd column.

[Uberg33k]

So now that the puzzle itself has been discussed, do we want to make any mention of the email Hiro sends back once you mail the secret address? Once you get it, it seems like the puzzle was a lot of work for a little payoff, unless I'm missing some other secret code here.