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[Randomeis]

[Puzzle] timeman

[Randomeis]

spec

[Randomeis]

tried a couple of greek words for time but its hard they have tenses

[RedKnight]

Good job on finding the command word. I thought it was a strange coindince that a troll like post showed up in the forum shortly after I'd learned about it's meaning in an online context.

RedKnight

[Randomeis]

interesting note AM PM hmm what else does PM stand for ^_^

[Satanis7]

Re: [Puzzle] timeman

[Blacklotus]

Re: [Puzzle] timeman

[Satanis7]

Thanks.

That makes more sense than just posting up "This is my spec, which was right" and then not posting up the spec itself...

[Randomeis]

sorry it was late ^_^

[5th Earth]

This sounds like a key for a cypher to me. Some sort of modular cypher maybe? Modulo arithmetic is sometimes called "clock arithmetic".

On another note, "Troll" was a really cool puzzle, and really awesome that you figured it out.

[Randomeis]

also we have kronos (chronus .... several ways to spell) the greek god of time.

but i tried all the diffrent ways of spelling it i could find no dice

[slinky730]

"i am just like night and day Just parts of a whole "

The key for this solution is split into two parts.

"music is a camoflage for my message"

And it will be hidden in an MP3.

Sounds like misunderstood, guys, time to pull that back out.

[slinky730]

More on misunderstood:

Exact lyrics as transcribed:
Pt1:
Baby, do you understand me now
Sometimes I feel a little mad
Well don't you know that no-one alive
Can always be an angel
When things go wrong I seem to be bad

I'm just a soul who's intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

Pt2:
Oh, Lord, don't let me be misunderstood.
Don't let me be, don't let me be misunderstood.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.


My take on this: 60 seconds is 5 cycles in a mod 12 system, leading me to believe that we're watching for something in both of these files, and the exact time it happens. Using a mod 12 time system, we can grab a new letter each time it happens. Judging by the repetition of "don't let me be misunderstood", I'm thinking that might be it, but that's only three times... bah, I'll try it, gimme a minute.

-Slink

[slinky730]

Doesn't work, but then I realized we could try matching things up the other way around- finding the letters first, then the times.

Dunno what it'll do, really, but look at the letters- each one matches perfectly to one or more word in the song, captialization and all, except for 8 & 9: E and F. So since things still match up well to the mods, I'm busy finding possible matches.

The interesting thing is that lower-case c doesn't match up until you use sentence capitalization in lieu of lyrical capitalization.

[slinky730]