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[SOLVED] Ron's EMail 9-06-04
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[SOLVED] Ron's EMail 9-06-04

Just got this from Ron

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capitals in the subject line: GRID

Can't help but notice the "14/14" under his name, either. 14x14 grid, perhaps? But of what?
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Here's the 14x14 grid.

Suddenly, Puzzle
cards are the new
cultural rage. My
sales get larger
each session. The
summary just may
be very exciting
to those people I
give it to. Our new
cards will raise
awareness at the
start too.Much of
the great growth
is due to the team.

Dishboy points out that the diagonal = salesreport.htm

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SOLVED

Interestingly enough, there are 196 (14 * 14) letters in the email. Makes for a nice grid!

Code:

SuddenlyPuzzle
cardsarethenew
culturalrageMy
salesgetlarger
eachsessionThe
summaryjustmay
beveryexciting
tothosepeopleI
giveittoOurnew
cardswillraise
awarenessatthe
starttooMuchof
thegreatgrowth
isduetotheteam


which leads to this:

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check the diagonal: salesreporthtm

Leads to http://www.ronsworld.org/salesreport.htm

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check out the source info
I did a translate of the message and came out with this (Italian):

chain dell'ombra of the dead women

but that is incomplete. If you take out the ' you get:

chain dell shadow of the dead women

Any Ideas?
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rasputin1072 wrote:
check out the source info
I did a translate of the message and came out with this (Italian):

chain dell'ombra of the dead women


it's actually "chain of the shadow of death", according to several different translation sites....
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I translated it into Chain of the Shadow of Death. XD Yay i beat someone to something!

You should probably be in the IRC chat rasputian. Then you'd be up to speed.
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rasputin1072 wrote:
check out the source info
I did a translate of the message and came out with this (Italian):

chain dell'ombra of the dead women

but that is incomplete. If you take out the ' you get:

chain dell shadow of the dead women

Any Ideas?


Check www.freetranslation.com, the language is correct, and here's what it came up with:

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chain of the shadow of the death


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There has to be a puzzle in the letters on the x and y axes of the graph. Also, I thought that the characters at the top and bottom of the thing look awfully suspicious.
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Alright, that proves it. Babbel fish sucks.
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Replace our alphabet up the grid and you get "be careful txt which leads to

http://www.ronsworld.org/becareful.txt


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Ron's Txt (for the records)
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Excellent work, enaxor!

The text is close enough to be able to be ready anyways, but I went ahead and did a straight substitution on it, which made it better, though not yet correct... is there another level of encryption hidden here? Regardless, it's more readable now... attached if you want to have a look...


EDIT: Here's the fully correct text. Use ronstext-revised.txt Here's how you get it:

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Looking at the salesreport.htm page, start at the bottom left corner x-axis. For each x-axis letter/letters found in the text, replace it with the corresponding y-axis letter/letters.

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Great job dish! I just have one question. How the heck did you do that so quickly? I'm guessing you used some type of proggy. I was trying to attack it manually, so maybe I'm just dumb.

edit: This is my 50th post!
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enaxor wrote:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Replace our alphabet up the grid and you get "be careful txt which leads to

http://www.ronsworld.org/becareful.txt



Could you elaborate a bit on how you got from the sales report to this answer??? Thanks.
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