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rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

[SOLVED] Code from back of note found in Milwaukee

**Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:20 am

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Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

By looking at the original note, do you think that the line breaks are part of the puzzle, or were they forced because there was no space on the paper?

Looking at the image in flickr even though I'm not sure about the edges, it looks to me like the lines break because they reach the end of the line, so when trying to solve this one we should look at it as one continuous line.

I'm also not sure if the other marked numbers we got are related to this and might be required to solve this, so I'm waiting for the rest of the caches to be found before attempting to solve this one...

**Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:36 am

grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

got sick of looking at contact1976 so i decided to take a crack at this one. turns out it's solvable with the info we already have Wink

Dionysus

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Once again... Great job, Grumpy!
It's frustrating how it seems so simple once you've cracked these.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:54 am

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I think most of us thought that we need all the caches to begin solving this and GB just tried and got lucky. Bah, I hate you!
No, I don't. Good job! Razz

**Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:22 pm

tom_in_bristol

Well done!

This makes me think that either there aren't caches in bristol and melbourne, or else they don't contain pictures Sad

Gotta just wait for ribbons, i guess...!#

Cool

**Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:32 pm

grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

i still have a nagging feeling that this puzzle isn't completely solved. it seems strange to go through so much trouble to encrypt such a simple, harmless message.

- there is still the FLYHGGH at the end of the message (as I've mentioned in my spoiler post above, it might be a password or key for something else)

- and only 39 (or 46 counting the FLYHGGH) of the 185 letters were used... Confused

Dionysus

Bah.. Im bored. I'll take a look.

The leftover text is

**Posted:** Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:01 pm

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rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

Can we mark this solved by grumpy boy?

**Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:46 am

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