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[drizjr]

cjr22, that's it! You're turn to present a puzzle, if you want to.
Pats on the back to cjr22, catherwood, and Rogi.

Thanks, sixsidedsquare. When the tinyurl turned out to have "owl" in it, I thought ut-oh. That's a double edged sword... it may make it easier to hit on the solution to the "steps" phase being it's a recognizable word, but make it harder for anyone to realize that it's a tinyurl.

I found it equally difficult to come up with hints. I was surprised by that, actually.

Doing this has certainly given me a renewed and greater appreciation for all the puzzle makers out there.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Good job,
drizjr

[Ziola]

Do you not have a puzzle? Cuz I have one that I have permission to use (and when you see the image, you'll know wholeheartedly that I had nothing to do with it ).

[Ziola]

Decided to go ahead and post it anyways. Like I said up there, I did not come up with this puzzle, nor do I know the answer. I am most puzzley challenged. But it has been up on the website for weeks without a nibble. So here goes!

[pancito]

Which website?

I don't want to transcribe that...

[Ziola]

I'm hoping the linky works...but if it doesn't, its on www.thecoalitiontv.com

Its posted under the blogs as Double Helix

Double Helix

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Cross-referencing anticodon words doesn't seem to produce anything useful as far as a message goes, and (just going by the first 2 lines and if I haven't transposed a character or two) simple substitution doesn't work. Maybe we convert the RNA values to DNA and search for a genome? As the last triplet is incomplete... Maybe I'm way off.

[Ziola]

Other then the picture, this was the only other information I was given when I presented the puzzle.

[pancito]

I was thinking the broken triplet might just be a sign-off. 'CU' IDK.

One way to look at it is as base64 'words.' Don't know that that buys anything or what we'd do with them once we got them.

[drizjr]

[Ziola]

One of the boys working on it was headed in the right direction (or so we were told). Then we all pretty much pled stupidity

Here's his insight

[sixsidedsquare]

So, uhh, how 'bout that transcript? Probably only needs to be the first few lines to try stuff out. Anyone?

[catherwood]

[sixsidedsquare]

Hmmm, although it seemed to be discounted with Pok's message above, the 3 letter codons could be replaced by the short version of their respective amino acids (Perplex City used this sort of thing in a puzzle a while back). You can find the codons letter in the 'Gene expression and biochemistry' of this wikipedia page. But yeah, as I said this is pretty much exactly what Pok suggested, only to be told it was the wrong path.

[Rogi Ocnorb]