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Bert
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Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 50 Location: Chepstow
These 3 players may not be known to us but still playing?
edited: because Oliver answered my question before I asked it
Also Oliver can you tell us when the email was sent?
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:41 pm
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Mikeyj
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Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 1847 Location: London
You might be right...it was the 3 that said "Hello PXC" to me, but you've got a 2 (not very cubey, the Receda Square sounds silly)...and the composer stuff, but that's kinda tangential...will add a link to here. And then maybe we can be moved?
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:43 pm
European Chris
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Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 1264 Location: London's trendy Whitechapel
I still say the person who wrote these was drunk.
It doesn't appear to be of any 'rot' persuasion-as already noted. It's possible it's not a bit of cryptography at all. As both of these are of the same length it's possible there will be numerous emails and they will have to be read vertically once we have plenty of them. It would explain the capital letter but not the numerous '-'s.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:47 pm
oliverkeers13
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Perhaps "-" = " "
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:51 pm
BBuck
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Quote:
As both of these are of the same length it's possible there will be numerous emails and they will have to be read vertically once we have plenty of them. It would explain the capital letter but not the numerous '-'s.
Definitely agree. If you line these two up vertically, then the capital Y in the "3" e-mail comes after one of the full stops in "2". Also all of the pairs could form words. But the two messages seem different lengths, with Oliver's two characters longer:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
he
po
ic
-d
d-
ot
so
ve
my
od
.Y
u-
re
my
on
y-
op
-o
n
.
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:52 pm
Mikeyj
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Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 1847 Location: London
OK...I thought this was Perplexcity at first cos of the subject "3" (a sensitive number)...maybe the thread could be moved from there ? Ollie got the next in the series.
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:54 pm
European Chris
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Bah, possibly. They could have just used " "s, or not bothered at all and got much the same outcome.
That's what I would have done....which might explain why I don't use codes like this much, or it may not.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:55 pm
Mokey Fraggle
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Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 393 Location: FL, USA
Is it just me, or is the last bit of that likely a patchy
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
You're my only hope
?
Exciting!
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:55 pm
Mikeyj
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I think so...
with another potential
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help...solve my...towards the top
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:58 pm
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European Chris
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BBuck wrote:
Definitely agree. If you line these two up vertically, then the capital Y in the "3" e-mail comes after one of the full stops in "2". Also all of the pairs could form words. But the two messages seem different lengths, with Oliver's two characters longer
Ah yes, I put ollie's errant '.' on the other message on my pad of paper. It still may work if those two letters (ending with a '.') are with end of the message.
Hey ho, I'm sure we'll find out.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:58 pm
zeldafan8626
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Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 193 Location: Hyrule Castle
Like oliver said I got the same e-mail
Subject: 2.
Message:
Quote:
hpi-dosvmo.urmoyo-n.
At first I thought it was a keyboard switch but I didn't get anywhere with that.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:59 pm
BBuck
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Excellent spot. Looks like there's only "1", "2" and "3" then. Here's my guess (not sure about the help)
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The-police-did-not-solve-my-code.You-are-my-only-hope-o?n?.
Think there may be some typos and the last word is now.
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:02 pm
European Chris
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BBuck wrote:
Excellent spot. Looks like there's only "1", "2" and "3" then. Here's my guess (not sure about the help)
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The-police-did-not-solve-my-code.You-are-my-only-hope-o?n?.
Think there may be some typos and the last word is now.
Well done guys (particuarly BBuck-my guesses at filling the holes (merph) were rubbish), I'd be suprised if that was wrong.
I would email the person backing letting them know we've solved it.
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:05 pm
oliverkeers13
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Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 917 Location: London, UK
I replied saying "How can I help you?" yeah, I know. I got this response:
Quote:
Os olhos vêem tudo. Mas não podem ler esta língua. Eu tenho outsmarted os assim distante. Eu escondi alguma informação. Verifique para fora de meu email address. Procurare-o por.
Spanish or portuguese!
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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:21 pm
terminalskeptik
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I got my 3. letter from The Composer last night at 7:02pm. I replied saying "Sure I would be glad to help you launch your game...er...um...help you." I am pretty excited here, this is my first launch interaction!
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:23 pm
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