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amandel

Can't get any of my transposition columns to line up correctly and while anagrams don't gel with the spaces, this in one:

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"I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."

Abraxas

What I was trying to say, earlier:
The columnar transposition is just a specific way of anagramming the phrases. If it's done that way, it's theoretically possible to anagram it. But it's certainly not practical. There must be more clues, like the spacing. The "words" remaining the same length. The rarity of 15-letter-words notwithstanding.
Other than that one Wink

, do we have any sensible words of that length?

The text is 77 characters. You can only group this neatly in 7x11 or the other way around. I tried it, but I'm not sure I understand how the applet (coltrans) works exactly...thought the encoding was dead-simple. But I get very different results.

Figures that right when this game stops it with the annoying audio comprehension stuff, it's sleepy-time for me, too. Mad

And won't be around, tomorrow. Have fun! Smile

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:37 pm

MotaHed

Put this in your pipe and smoke it: Did a few quick frequency analyses with this text, and from what I can see, it appears to be a close match to typical English frequencies. Meaning that the letters are probably not shifted/replaced, but simply scrambled using some formula. The capital letters for the beginning of sentences and the periods for the ending may be the best clue we have (although welcome and Abby might be good clues as well).

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:43 pm

amandel

Reckon we all have our own fav for columnar transpositions. Mine is CipherClerk's Applet which always works easily.

However, what I was saying is that the 15 letter word wasn't compatable, at least not for me. Wink

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:51 pm

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"I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."

Lucavex

Just in: ChildrenofZ has posted from San Antonio.

Could he be planning to do something at the KRF Headquarters in Houston?

Theories needed.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:54 pm

church

could be he is planning his own little alamo ??

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:18 pm

catgirl789

Okay, I've made no progress on the code besides realizing that there are three sentences that start with the letters W, T, and F, thus perfectly describing my feelings toward this code.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:19 pm

Lucavex

Just posted from Sotpyrk:

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:59 pm

catgirl789

The numbers must be the key to his first message, but I still don't know what to do with them.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:06 pm

Lucavex

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:11 pm

catgirl789

Alright, I googled 6 49 and found out that this is the Canadian lotto. So do you think that this week's winning lotto numbers could have something to do with the code?

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:36 pm

Lucavex

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:48 pm

dangermonkey · Boot Joined: 18 Jul 2009 Posts: 51 Location: Ohiiiio

I'm toying with the idea that this is a transposition cipher and the 649 is somehow the key.
Unfortunately, I have NO idea how to decode this, key or no key.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:58 pm

catgirl789

*bashes head against wall* Stupid Sotpyrk, I hate you.

ETA: I just realized, the ZT site posted this:

**Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:01 pm

elvenkayt

Not sure if this will help, but I'll try.

The pic posted has a file name of 19965888

Could this help with one of the weird decypher things that I don't quite understand?

Confused

**Posted:** Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:43 am