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[GuestUser17]

RIGOR updated again

[youngpaddy1]

can't say we're doing bad off an almost blank sheet of paper.

Apart from the picky stuff was there anything useful in the update?

[GuestUser17]

[youngpaddy1]

Another update, nothing useful just a change to the R and the addition of commas before the state abbreviation.

[GuestUser17]

[blackfeathers]

it looks like they're slowly updating the left column first -which we've already deciphered much. if this continues, this could take awhile.

in the meantime, one could throw in a bit of fuzzy logic / best guess by figuring out plausible number fonts. here's a few ideas:

- the sections which we suspect to be numbers may actually be numbers, eliminating over 26 other characters. however, they could also be punctuation or other special characters.

- in many font types, the zero character tends to be more rectangular than letter 'o's, which tend to be more circular or vice versa. since our letter 'o' pattern is known, then we might assume the '0' is of the other variety... unless there is a diagonal line that crosses through it, (which i doubt considering the font resolution).

- since all of the dots and dashes appear to be straight across the middle of the characters, we can make a few assumptions of which numbers(? - if they are numbers) cross paths in those areas and group them up on this characteristic.
example:
-- to produce a center dot, the number could likely be a '1' and possibly a '7'(?) since they have lines that may intersect that general area.
-- two dots on either end could signify a '0'.

- dashes would be more difficult and might need to be distinguished by length. wide dashes could be a 2, 4, 8, or 9....

[BitGamer]

New city after Boston is Philadelphia, PA.

[MrToasty]

Um, one small nit to pick, it's San Francisco, not San Fransisco.

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[Paradoxic]

Or they are making it a touch harder by introducing random typos that will be useful in the next bit of the puzzle.

So are these all flights he's taking in sequence? Might help with the departure times if we can assume it moves forward... though that seems a bit odd; that's a lot of flying in one day, unless the 21 JUNE indicates a date of departure.

Or maybe it is another puzzle involving a place and time? Though saying "be at this airport at this time" seems a bit useless too.

[blackfeathers]

depending how literal they get with the flight numbers:

[Paradoxic]

Assuming the bit after FLIGHT is a number, we can narrow it down a fair bit. I believe that 7 is the single right dot because none of the other numbers can do that. A dot in the center would be 1. Dots on either side would be zero. For example, flight to DC would be 177.

5 dots in a row we know matches 2, but also could be 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 depending on how rounded vs squared the 5, 6, and 8 are. But it looks like all the flights are either 1, 7, 0, or a straight five dot line.

I'm not sure what to make of the segment after the place. The 4/5 length bit has a few marks that are uncertain (like 4 dots which we often see as E) The triplets can't be times as they have some letters as well (specifically the third one has a single dot in column 1, which is either L or C).

[blackfeathers]

more info for further speculation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stop_flight

[Paradoxic]

Yeah, distance or time traveled would fit well but it seems unlikely as SF -> LA is short and quick but requires 5 characters.

Interesting thing: All the 4/5 character bits end with a 4 dot character (like an E). So looking at Chicago we have the following four sets of options - ITY1 DUOV0 DUOV0 ERFPB(possibly numbers like 3, 5, 6). Anyone good with anagrams? DC would be HAS ITY HAS ERFPB not accounting for numbers.

Second point. The 3 character sequences are almost the same. They are either 4 2 1 dots or 1 2 1 dots. That is - ERFPB DUOV ITY or LC DUOV ITY (again, not accounting for numbers).

As for numbers:

1 - middle one
2 - five
3 - first four or five
4 - five
5 - first four or five
6 - first four or five
7 - last one
8 - middle three or five
9 - five
0 - left and right ones