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[jeremo]

[Blue District]Puzzle: "Sign Language" [SOLVED]

[notgordian]

Welcome aboard, jeremo!

A couple possibilities off the top of my head
-semaphores, with the angles being flag positions
-first letter of the meaning of the signs
-cipher based on color/shape of signs
-DMV exam

[jeremo]

I'd say the semaphore is unlikely, since we've got plenty of signs that don't really translate to two arms (a no u-turn sign for instance.) there are 31 distinct symbols on the page, and a lot of them show up only once. I'd say that the first letter meaning is a big possibility, but I can't find a listing yet that has all of the signs used. as for a DMV exam, maybe this is the first step for us being granted access to a 3d representation of the future! or not....

[taureanfreak]

So far 2 people have solved it! I'll start looking to see what I can find. I know for sure it's European street signs... Maybe if we could figure out exactly what country they're for?

UPDATE!!! It's not exclusively UK, France, or Germany as far as I can tell. I'm going to bed and I'll try some more tomorrow.

[AndyTheGeeky]

I just received this puzzle too. The text says that their encryption database decrypted some of the message, and I have posted in the location forum requesting that partial decryption.

[notgordian]

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/signs_index.htm

British Roadsign resource
(META SPOILER:

[AndyTheGeeky]

Thanks for the resource Gord! Now let me see where this get us...in the morning. I'm going to bed, as soon as I finsh this guestimation list I'm building.

[jeremo]

I don't think this has any of the park signs; you know, the brown ones. other than that, this looks like a great resource . Also, this puzzle has said that 2 agents solved it since the first time I saw it, so I don't neccesarily think that 2 people looked at it, immediately understood what it was, and solved it like that. but maybe they did, I dunno.

[plikma]

I can indeed confirm they're british signs.

I've decided to work on the assumption that it's a subcyphe with the spaces removed, and signs for letters, symbols and perhaps typesetting features. I think the lane sign is a punctuation mark, perhaps comma, and the

[AndyTheGeeky]

A list for you...

[AndyTheGeeky]

We've made headway!

[jeremo]

if you follow the weird capitalization and spacing you get: UNFORUMS.COM

so he just pointed here...

[AndyTheGeeky]

Yeah, I know. Just something cool, and I wanted to share it.
His second message(first was "Hi!") stated that Lisa from the Blue District (the character who posted this puzzle) assigned him as a greeter of "new active players."
He also asked if I had questions, so therefore the above post.

[AndyTheGeeky]

More from Quentin

[BrumGuy]

I'm pretty convinced that the meanings of the individual signs aren't going to play a factor in decoding what the message actually is.

I'm a UK resident and have held my driving licence for nearly 16 years and can pretty much tell you exactly what all the signs mean, (Q & T are still iffy for reasons stated)

I've already suggested to a couple of people privately that the uncoded part, or instructions for the task, tells us what they have decoded and what they are looking for.

So with that in mind, I think the three answers are actually going to be city locations. Which in my mind makes the easiest way to solve this puzzle, plugging the locations into the lines


Finally had a few minutes to look at this puzzle, and got a few things.

31 different road signs are used, so it's not a straight Alphabetic substitution cipher, so it's either alpha-numeric, or the punctuation has been included, or a mix of both.

Transcript for Frequency Analysis (I realise this has already been done but included it as it corresponds to the attached key):

ABCDEFGHBIGE
JKDLMENOPAKEFDQRS
OFHTPABKNRUVTS
WDX
ABMCYOTY
HZ1F2LDY3
PMKA4KYF3ABABMH
AGLFA
BRT5



Brum