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Nogwater
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 		[SOLVED] Message from Jaimie
I'm assuming this is a puzzle, so let's talk about it here.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:01 am
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Nogwater
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 		I haven't figured it out, but here's what I have so far:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Original message:
Thanks to everyone who wrote to me about "Ron" and I hope to talk to him soon. He sounds like he will be a valuable ally in this affair.

Replacing spaces with their count:
Thanks1to2everyone2who1wrote2to2me2about2"Ron"1and1I1hope1to1talk1to2him1soon.1He2sounds2like1he1will1be1a2valuable1ally2in1this1affair.

Just the counts:
1221222211111121122111121211

Counts minus one for binary:
0110111100000010011000010100

It's 28 characters long, so that could be broken into 4 groups of 7 or 7 groups of 4. Any ideas?


PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:08 am
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cshelby37931
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 		As I mentioned here. Could it be morse code?

Or am I "barking up the wrong tree"?

PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:13 am
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Nogwater
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 		Good spec on the morse.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://www.dreadhouse.com/anotherpiece.html
Single spaces = .
Double spaces = -
I used my little friend: http://www.apejet.org/sites/uh/morse2.php


PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:23 am
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Arben
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 		About the times tables of anotherpiece.html

I guess we spoilerize puzzle spec, yes?
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Every row is an image of the times tables 0-9, or 1-(1)0, depending on your view. They're randomly loaded into the page, suggesting that each image provide a or some letters for an anagram, to me.

If each string of numbers (the order of the tables) is broken into 2s, the numbers 12, 34, 56, 78, and 90 are present in every string. So: In the order of the pictures names:
Code:

1- 12 34 56 78 90- 1 2 3 4 5
2- 90 12 56 78 34- 5 1 3 4 2
3- 90 56 12 34 78- 5 3 1 2 4
4- 56 90 12 34 78- 3 5 1 2 4
5- 12 90 56 78 34- 1 5 3 4 2
6- 12 90 56 34 78- 1 5 3 2 4

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dmax
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 		Each column has 3 numbers in it

1290563478 are the ones that are repeated.

the bold ones are in columns where are two possible choices, but the other choices are used up in the 9th and 10th columns, leaving 3 and 4 behind.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:45 pm
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Arben
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 		This seems too easy, for so much camouflage...

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Those sticks are called ''napier's bones"
(http://www.geo.tudelft.nl/mgp/people/gerold/indnap.htm)

:. http://www.dreadhouse.com/napiers.html

[Edit:] www.dreadhouse.com/bones.html works too.


The story so far over there:

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On the page (napiers.html), we've got the following string:
0 0 0 1 3 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

26 Characters, which could be alerting us to:
1d 3e 2g 1h 3i 2n 1o 1p 1r 1t 1w
--a frequency count.

[same edit:]
String of 17 chars on Bones.html

6 7 8 10 1 5 15 3 13 16 4 17 2 9 11 14 12


I'm not a fan of the anagrammarie.
(Thanks though, to my #DAPCentral pal, Silicon, for various bolts of inspiration.)

[edit 2:] deleting closing tags I didn't use.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:04 pm
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 		Another page
Arben wrote:
This seems too easy, for so much camouflage...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Those sticks are called ''napier's bones"
(http://www.geo.tudelft.nl/mgp/people/gerold/indnap.htm)

:. http://www.dreadhouse.com/napiers.html



On a hunch, I also tried...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://www.dreadhouse.com/bones.html

Different page with a similar look to napiers.


What I found there....

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Another set of numbers

6 7 8 10 1 5 15 3 13 16 4 17 2 9 11 14 12

17 numbers this time, so not letters. Or maybe this is encoded diferently.
[/spoiler]

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Arben
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 		lurker: guess we found that together.

Next thought:

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napiers freq. count yields 17 letters.
17 characters on bones.

Do what it says, and....
BEHOLD!

ghiidgreoteweinpn


okay...perhaps not ready for beholding just yet...

[edit:] Whoops, went at it from the wrong side. Good going, Grump.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:06 pm
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grumpyboy
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
from napiers.html

0 0 0 1 3 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

Code:
00013021300002110101001000
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz


As Arben said above, those are frequency counts giving "deeegghiiinnoprtw"

From bones.html , we have:

6 7 8 10 1 5 15 3 13 16 4 17 2 9 11 14 12

line up letters from above

Code:
6   7   8   10   1   5   15   3   13   16   4   17   2   9   11   14   12
d   e   e    e   g   g    h   i    i    i   n    n   o   p    r    t    w


Take the letter under 1, then 2 and so on. Gives "goingdeeperwithin" leading to:
http://www.dreadhouse.com/goingdeeperwithin.html


PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:18 pm
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The Watcher
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 		Well that clears THAT up.
Now what the hell does " was, no, is," mean?

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dmax
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The Watcher wrote:
Well that clears THAT up.
Now what the hell does " was, no, is," mean?


My first thought was that he's still alive. Stopping to think about it, though, I believe that it's just JC trying to convince himself that his brother's out there, somewhere, and we can save him.

/me dons cape

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Nogwater
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 		dmax: we're pretty sure JC is female.
Shocking, I know. Smile

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dmax
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Nogwater wrote:
dmax: we're pretty sure JC is female.
Shocking, I know. Smile


Not unreasonable, and I agree. Now, to muddy the waters...

What's Robbie Robertson's real name?


Click on the pic. Wink

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The Watcher
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 		Gasp! JC is Robbie Robertson!

Pronounced "Hai-me"

PostPosted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:11 pm
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