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booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Middle School Math

Well, I've got yhe wrong book or doing it wrong Sad

51f19c 1a7c 6c28c 7b5c 31a4c 51a11c 56b16c 12b1w 516c 37b29c 1a7c 21a7c 29b1c 1a7c 42c2c 20a12c 44e5c 42c2c 52c32c 8a13w 11c50w 12b1w 29b1c 12c7c 37b29c 3b1c 53a8c 49c9q

HIEBIATA doesn't look good, but the three words in a row could be"story about a"
I've gotta go. Will check back to see what i did wrong......

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:08 am

natas

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:39 am

Oriza

Hold on a minute. What math book? Where are you getting this text from?

The "Story about a hotel room" could be a reference to another King novella entitled 1408.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:20 pm

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booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

The ends in a q is now a w Smile

I copy pasted from the source, and believe there are typos.

Yeah i got hotel room using (i think) paragraph up, and allowing for slippage.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:22 pm

natas

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:25 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Looks like another set

1a96c 9b19c 38a18c 43c70c 60g3c 10b4c 20c6c 12b1w 20c6c 39b1c 8a2c 40d1c 55a10c 8a2c 31d8c 33b2c 5a13c 31d8c 24b45c 8a13w 11c50w 12b1c 55a10c 61a1c 39b1c 40d1c 10b4c 49c9w

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:00 pm

natas

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Gotcha on the math.

Am I still trying to decode the characters? or were the words enough?

ETA:

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:43 pm

natas

Genius! good job booba! Signed up.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:47 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Genius?
No not really, i still don't know where your answer came from.
I can't even work it backwards knowing one is a Q. Sad

Felling pretty dense.....

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:02 pm

natas

just use the hint he gave us... the first set of numbers is the page. The letter is the paragraph and the next numbers is the word #. C is for first character and W is for the whole Word.

so 38a18c would be the first letter of the 18th word of the 1st chapter on page 38. (which incidentally is "Q") Get it?

ETA: On a side note.... the PM must have forgotten his own instructions because the first set of codes was written in a format so that the second set of numbers equals the particular letter in that paragraph. I.E. if the number was 15, you would count the fifteenth letter in the paragraph, not the first letter of the fifteenth word. Seems like the PM team made a boo boo.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:13 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Aye Carumba! I was still working on the original set (to stubborn to move on) and getting bupkis....

What in the fragaroony was that???

Edit to add:

i see you just said that it was a PM SNAFU Mad

Wonder what we signed up for?

Edited out the frustration.

DougRoberts · Greenhorn Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Scarecrow Joe twittered about this. Apparently he's frazzled from what's going on and messed up the first time.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:11 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

ScarecrowJoe:

here's a clue: did you help chuck get a job? if not, shame on you!
4 minutes ago from web

doods, do you like math? if so, solve the equation. if you tried before, i messed up. i'm a little frazzled these days. look again.
5 minutes ago from web

Which reminds me, yesterday i got the same letter back as natas on my as Charles McClatchey Police Application. (explains the decoding rules)

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:22 pm

amandel

New blog entry where SJ explains how he "spazzed and messed up" with the code so great deductive reasoning kudos to all. Very Happy

**Posted:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:25 pm

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