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Amazing Randi's Cryptogram
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dmon_man
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 		Amazing Randi's Cryptogram
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Cryptographer Solves Psychic Challenge
In January, James Randi secured a mystery item in a specially designated locker in his Florida office, and challenged clairvoyants everywhere to use their remote viewing skills to divine its nature and claim a million dollar prize.

As usual with Randi's contests, there's weren't a lot of takers in the professional psychic biz. But for perhaps the first time in the history of the supernatural challenges issued by the 79-year-old skeptic, there was a winner of sorts. Cryptographer Matt Blaze and a colleague correctly identified the contents of Randi's black box from a thousand miles away, using only the powers of their minds.

Blaze identifies the contents on his website, and in a terse e-mail to 27B Stroke 6, Randi conceded that that the cryptographer's conclusion is correct...

If Blaze has supernatural talents, we'll have to view these Amazing Feats in a whole new light. In truth, though, this was just another puzzle. It turns out that Randi published an enciphered clue to the contents of the lock box in his newsletter, to provide evidence later that he hadn't switched the mystery item with something else just to foil the psychics. The clue was this:

0679
4388
66/27
5 -14



From Wired Magazine: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/cryptographer_s.html
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thebruce
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 		heh, nice... though I guess that's the issue - with the 'solution' being published, there's a non-psychic link back to the answer, no matter how obscure.

To note: the answer isn't listed in the Wired article, so you can read through it without spoiler, but they link to the Matt Blaze's blog which does list the solve. They didn't ask for the million $ prize since they're not psychic Razz.

also from the article:
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As an aside, I'll says it's a sad state of affairs when the world's best psychics are shown up by a couple math geeks. I assume Sylvia Browne chose not to participate because she's embarrassed about a 15-year-old kidnap victim recently turning up alive, four years after Browne told his parents and a national television audience that he'd been murdered and his body dumped in a wooded area near two large, jagged boulders. How this woman sleeps at night is an unsolved mystery that I'd wager even Blaze can't unravel.

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