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[Kender]

Jack Trevor to me:

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Jack sent this e-mail to me, after I e-mailed him:

[terminalskeptik]

I asked about the reference to Sudoku, if it was a hint or not. Here is the reply;

[Kender]

No idea on a solve yet.

Just a reminder to all that we also hang out in #acwe on the irc.chat-solutions.org IRC server.

It often helps to bounce ideas around together in there to solve a puzzle.

[Chewy]

Total Spec and Possible Trouting Follows:

98% likely not to be anything important, but it seems all who register on the ACWE forums are experiencing an error with registration. The 2% part of me thinks this might be intentional. Here's the error, maybe it could help with the solve. Again, likely nothing, but no harm in posting it.

[pegasus]

Jack is not the only one having a problem with phpbb's email system.

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=325

If he's reading this, maybe it'll be fixed soon....

EDIT: Removed evil session id.

[pegasus]

So I was sitting there mulling over the sudoku reference Jack made in his email to Kender, and I thought about websudoku.com. I mentioned to KSG that if I had a number to go on, I could pull some puzzles and see if they're somehow related. KSG then pointed out that i actually had a number: 004551. It then occurred to me that I another number: 0827. And if you want to be a real pedant about it, also 08 and 27.

With this in hand, I went and pulled some puzzles off the aforementioned page, transcribed them to cut/paste-able format, and, in order to not pollute this thread with possibly unrelated data, posted them here:

http://anothercontestworthentering.com/contestforum/viewtopic.php?p=22

I'm too tired to work on them, though, and I'll do 08 and 27 tomorrow, but I figured someone might like to poke at them, maybe. So there they are.

[Chewy]

Correspondance owns.

Me To Jack:

[smibbo]

one of the basis for decyphering is having some idea of which direction to go in, otherwise you are just using brute force.

If we are to decypher this using more than one approach in some combination, we have to have some kind of clue as to the 1+ methods to try because there seems to be an near-infinite number of combinations to try.

25 ROTs
?? Bases
26*42 Vigenere keywords

I, for one, am not about to sit and try every conceivable combination. Either there is a clue as to which direction to go in, or it's hit-and-miss.

What say you, contestants?

[terminalskeptik]

From the ACWE forums page, JT tells us:

[smibbo]

yes, based on what he said in the forums, I did a second look and posted some observations. The direction I took might be a lead, might be a big time-sink.

[Chewy]

ACWE has been moved to 'ARGs with Potential!'

Let's make use of our newfound potentiality. For all new puzzles, metas, interactions, etc., we can create a new thread to hold our thoughts!

Refresher:

Always tag with [ACWE] when creating a new thread.
Tag with the word [PUZZLE] when discussing a new puzzle (for example, in theory a new thread could be created for the yet unsolved Whipplei puzzle, likely titled:
[ACWE][PUZZLE] Trophryma Whipplei
[META] Tags used for Meta questions/suggestions.

And because of the high amount of email interaction, I do not suggest a new thread for every email. Perhaps a daily interaction thread, or weekly interaction thread should be used.

EXAMPLE:

[ACWE][EMAIL] 1/14/06 Interactions
or
[ACWE][EMAIL] 1/8/06-1/14/06 Interactions

Again, Woohoo for Potential!

[Kender]

Phew, finally broke the FIBB.. code:

[smibbo]

dying to know how you broke it...

ROT the following? What following? did you only solve the first line? maybe there's another puzzle to come?

eh?

[Kender]

Got the next bit as well: