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[Me168]

[Abalone]

Earlier today, i tried a Vigniere-type grid approach to the paired number sets and using the pairs of numbers as coordinates (79= 7 down, 9 left) on the grid... Have tried using a 9 x 9 grid with just about every imaginable combination of forward alphabet, backward alphabet, filling it with "continue on" forward and backward, and also using partial alphabets... Nothing. Just putting it out here in case someone else is doing the same thing. Now you don't have to waste your time. At least we have the "each number might represent more than one letter bit to help us.

[MthsLadeira]

Patterns

[Me168]

Re: Patterns

[TheNarrator]

didn't jay say that not all of the letters are used? what if we just tried the old method of take a letter out and try that one code that someone used up there. Ah, it was Blank_zero's.

[DemanusFlint]

i'm interested now in the idea of coordinates—(7,9) (7,5) (8,3) etc—since it could explain why it's missing 0. not sure of the significance of the mirror pairs, though.

haha i like the implication that he's figured out every other TTA code on his own though

[DemanusFlint]

i'm also unsure what his latest tweet means:

[Me168]

[MDS1138]

Blankzero's method made me think of something else - we're assuming now that numbers can represent multiple letters (and for the purpose of this post, "number"=a pair)... but, can the same letter be represented by different numbers (as his method suggests)? Or is a letter exclusive to a number (e.g. 83 is E or T, and no other number can represent those letters)? Do only the "mirrored" numbers share common letters? I hope this makes sense.

[kralyk]

I really don't think one specific number = one specific letter. I've substituted each unique number for a letter and ran it through a dictionary-based substitution cipher cracker only to find gibberish.

It's not that straigh-forward. A number is not tightly bound to a letter.

[Me168]

Could we add the Mirror part and have numbers flip and become letters, like 3 becomes E, I don't know, I'm probably going to go to bed and wait to see if Jay posts anything for tomorrow.

[kralyk]

Got something, although it's probably a random thing...

When you combine the two rows in each set using the One-time pad cipher (modulo-add 26), you get:

"guvozvz rgkvvk"

A substituion cipher cracker yielded this substition: g=a, u=m, v=e, o=n, z=d, r=c, k=r

Using which I obtained:

"amended career"

Which is probably not the solution, but I had fun...

[Mehetabel]

"amended career"? Well, Tim did say he was worried about his job...

I dunno. Makes more sense than anything we've seen so far.

[Oxide]

I think I'm done for now.
Just want to say this is my first time trying this group solving thing, and it's been pretty fun. Thanks, people.

[DemanusFlint]