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[Silverkun]

[PUZZLE]Poison and Parasites SOLVED

[Silverkun]

So after printing this sucker out and trying to find a pattern, I admit defeat. It's very very very possible that I'm overthinking this and am instead going to feel like an utter twit when the answer becomes apparant, but I'm going to play with syntax.

I'm going to enter 1:2:3 for Poisons
and I'm going to enter 6;7;8 for Parasites, out of a sense of skewed consecutive logic...

ILikePucks and Tessaract suggested (and I think are organizing?) getting people to try a sequence of numbers starting a 0&9 all the way to 9&0. Possibly more.

Suggestions, folks?

Counting on Fingers and Toes,
-R

[LatentMoths]

Good summary silver...now lets get cracking on this one. I unfortunately have no good ideas at the moment.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Have y'all toyed with frequency analysis?

[Silverkun]

[Dr. Confoundo]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

"P", like in "Poison" or "Parsasite"?

I wonder if there's maybe like an international standard for diseases, conditions, injuries and morbidity that uses single letter codes?

[Silverkun]

[Sgresso]

I wonder if we take out spaces and punctuation and see if the letter run together and spell a number

for example

aTWOnder

?

[Svengoolie]

[carlwebb]

Here are the results the processor gave me for batch 2.

Text for Batch 2

He would walk, begging for work, until he was exhausted; he could not remain still—he would wander on, gaunt and haggard, gazing about him with restless eyes. Everywhere he went, from one end of the vast city to the other, there were hundreds of others like him; everywhere was the sight of plenty and the merciless hand of authority waving them away. There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Synchronicity - 664 & 857
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
krispy - 3 & 3
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
tallerbird - 4 & 3
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Tesseract - 18 & 7
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
gaj90027 - 1 & 24
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
gandalf112 - 200 & 200
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
sgresso - 3 & 8
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
kinsey - 27 & 5
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
jkaufman - 5 & 5
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Chattonne - 16 & 9
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
macwebby - 6 & 8
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
brad7924 - 5 & 5
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
dreddy1999 - 6 & 2
1/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Svengoolie - 5 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
Silverkun - 1 & 6
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
carlwebb - 2 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
ladyindigo - 3 & 6
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
cjknight06 - 21 & 4
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
mnemo - 1 & 0
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
ilikepucks - 24 & 1
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
tjray - 8 & 17
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
emighhome - 22 & 3
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct
vikingofmars - 5 & 9
0/3 & 0/3 Observations Correct

[carlwebb]

So now we have three correct observations for the first question ("poison"): 6 for Kevin's text, 1 for Batch 1, and 6 for Batch 2. We have no correct observations for the second question ("parasites").

I keep thinking the poison question refers to words with double letters, but the counts don't seem to be quite right for that.

[ALISDAIRPARK]

It would be worth having all the results pulled together, for both successes & fails. Silverkun had started this in the other thread, but I've attached a sheet that I will continue to update with the figures on.

BTW: There were nearly a third of the guesses that were duplicate numbers, so wasted guesses IMHO.

Also I was thinking about the various entering 3 numbers ideas, the thing that potentially screws us is we would have to get 2, or 3, numbers correct before we can find the format, i.e. 1, 2, 3 might be the correct way to enter multiple numbers, but if they are all wrong it will still say 0/3.

EDIT > the above doesn't seem to matter. On the forums Dizzave got a response from Kevin pretty much confirming we need to get it right 3 days in a row. Did I suggest this first?

EDIT >For coordinating the numbers, given my attempt failed yesterday, does anyone have any other suggestions?

Edit 500 > I've dropped a mail to Kevin asking if we can have a file sharing space, or if not then allow attachments on the forum.

EDIT 2967 > (where is everyone...) Some other thoughts I've had while doing some work: The only possible "clue" to this code is the cryptozoologist historian profession for Lehner, which, if memory serves, is studying the history of mythical beasts. So could there be a link to poisons & parasites there?

Also there are two options for a relationship to the answers:
1) Poisons kill parasites therefore opposites
2) Poisons kill, and parasites feed from, but let live therefore a reduced version of poisons?

[Svengoolie]

I'm all for the brute force method at this point. Guarantee us (hopefully) right answers, then tomorrow the smart people can study it all day and figure out the pattern. I really just want to get this thing over with and move on with the "case." On the other hand, if this thing turns out to be the whole case... I'll be quite disappointed.

[MageSteff]

Re: [SC] Studio Cypher - Poison and Parasites