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PaperbckWriter9

New post up with a new code: http://jonahnynla.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/623/

I thought it was Greek letters, but after I change it to English it doesn't make much sense...

tyd jrgvz rprq nwfv aogstot oh iug

I'll keep trying, but I could use some much needed help... Wink

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Received an email, definitely not Porter or Netchurch (with a bit of a fudge on the cc's):

Subject: Try free antidepressants! 7qw

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[ACCOUNT HACKED]
�Stumped?�- S.
�SYNTAX ERRO)
_@&*EHD*8

Ugh, I've got to get better at all this decoding... Crying or Very sad

**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 12:00 am

yochanan · Veteran Joined: 11 Nov 2007 Posts: 74

These are definitely greek letters, but there is something strange. The letter phi is represented two different ways, and the letter pi is also represented two ways (the omega with the line over it is actually a variant of pi). For that reason I wonder if the code has to do with the value of the characters.. maybe the unicode values, as in this table:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF

All of these are of the form U+03_ _ , where the 4 numbers are in hexadecimal format. Here are the last two digits of the letters in the code.

c4 c8 b4 � d5 c1 b3 d6 b6 � c1 c0 c1 b8 � bd c9 c6 d6 � b1 bf b3 c3 c4 bf c4 � bf b7 � b9 c5 b3

Not sure if I'm on the right track here or not...

**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 2:08 am

jslice1001 · Boot Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 50 Location: Los Angeles

They're on a college campus, so maybe it's time to go greek?

I'm looking at a cornell map right now, checking out all the fraternity buildings... maybe something will come up.

And btw jki, I got that email too, so don't feel like they're picking on you! If the codes were easy to solve, the game wouldn't be as much fun. Twisted Evil

**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 8:23 am

PaperbckWriter9

**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 10:18 am

jslice1001 · Boot Joined: 22 Nov 2006 Posts: 50 Location: Los Angeles

The campus map didn't reveal anything in particular, besides the fact that there are a lot of fraternities/sororities at Cornell. I'll be stubborn and proclaim that no matter what this turns out to be, it's gotta be inspired by the greek societies at the school.

When I "translated" the greek, I just typed it out in Symbol font and then changed it to a regular english font. I think it came out a little differently, but still didn't make sense.

Whether it's some kind of scramble code, or something to do with the unicode or ascii, or maybe it's just supposed to look like something else (the last two words look an awful lot like "on ivy")... Unless somebody comes up with another bright idea, I'll just wait and see if this "S" guy responds to my email. I wonder if it's Sara...

**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 1:15 pm

ndemeter

If someone can post it here I will see if I can translate it for you.

I cannot go to the website due to work filters.

**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 1:34 pm

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**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 2:16 pm

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ndemeter

It's not Greek. The characters are but it does not mean anything.

**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2009 2:50 pm

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JonahFalcon · Veteran Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 111

New puzzle up.

**Posted:** Thu May 21, 2009 11:44 pm

JonahFalcon · Veteran Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 111

Is there anybody out there?

**Posted:** Mon May 25, 2009 8:57 pm

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**Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 10:54 am

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JonahFalcon · Veteran Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 111

ROT'd?

**Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 11:18 am

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**Posted:** Tue May 26, 2009 12:58 pm

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