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[notgordian]

[White District] - Blockrun [SOLVED]

[Tezar]

good work

[notgordian]

Just posting the idea I'm following now...

I have a hunch this problem is like Composure *ugh*--in this iteration, it works like a telephone cipher. One completely green block would be one letter (maybe "A") while two in a row would be another (say, "B").

There are a couple of iterations of this that would make sense, so testing if it works will take a while. Dunno the starting point, whether it goes clockwise or counterclockwise, whether the duplicates move on to the next letter or if it cycles through all the "1s" then all the "2s".

If any of you are good at frequency analysis for cryptographic solves, here's one iteration of what the lettering would therefore be.

ESGKCNEFRBIRMFSIAHAGFRASDELFGHBPCORFMQCCHCQIDEKITAHCQ

[negativeview]

Things noticed

[Tordek]

A phone cipher was mentioned before, but it doesn't look like one: there are 9 different blocks (although one could indicate a space).

naming 0 all-brown and 8 all-blue, we can get this:

3
44441
66
5
33
32
886
8
88
442
4444
870
712
887
4444
43
55
210
611
522
882
4400
5
50
500
843
668
666
70
500

Now, it's time to de-phone that

[notgordian]

Apologies for posting without anything to say, but just wanted to remind everybody that this puzzle is still unsolved.

I wrote Theo a while back (since the Brotherhood would know the code) to see if he could let me know if we were on the right track, but I didn't hear back from him regarding this.

[notgordian]

Here's the message for wrong answers, by the way.

[VQ.Wavecrest]

Well, for future warning, don't ask Prince for help with tasks. Here's what he said to me:

[VQ.Wavecrest]

And a double post for me. Bah.
Well, here's Kropp's "hint":

[Transtar]

[VQ.Wavecrest]

Welcome aboard Transtar!

On Blockrun... I've noticed that, in the video, only a few blocks at a time are up. Since it's at a diagonal, even if letters repeat, might it mean something? I'll take a few more looks, but I don't think we have to look at it straight down, like we do in the pictures.

Of course, I might be completely wrong. I'll keep checking

[Stickler]

nintendo's anyone

[Tordek]

Sorry, but those are just errors that happen when you try to access a point in memory where there aren't any more pictures.

Perhaps anything to do with magic sqares? Although that renders 0 useless (+1 to everything?), and the basic 3x3 square (2 7 6, 9 5 1, 4 3 has 8 rotations + flips.

Following the phone road, 4 is the only number that appears 4 times in a row, and there are a couple positions where it matches 7 or 9, the only two numbers in a phone pad with four letters. (Still, the issue of the useless 9th button comes back to haunt us.)

I thought about semaphore signales (table at wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_%28communication%29 ), but it doesn't seem to work.

Brainstorming, people, please.

[plikma]

[Transtar]

Everything that I got