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[DrNewcenstein]

[tripitaka]

Blocks Page - substitution methods ..cont

[corgipower]

the letter N was also reversed in the rot room.

[tripitaka]

Hmm yes Poe wrote the poem on the rot room page, the clues do seem to make sense...

still, perhaps he just likes back-to-front N's, who knows!

[DrNewcenstein]

Hmm. On what page of this thread was GG's "message" about going into the shadows? I read it once but didn't think to copy it.

As an interesting aside, has anyone put the text of the Cubes in CrypTool and hit "3D Vizualization"?

[DrNewcenstein]

Wouldn't the Solution Key to get to the blocks ("shout yer rosary") and the "mind your manners" note indicate a specific decoding method for the blocks?

Or is that where everyone's headed anyway?

[SuperSlug]

[DrNewcenstein]

Cool, thanks.

I have a few theories about this block puzzle:

First, the key is hidden in plain sight. It must be. The complexity of it has already been noted several times, and it seems rather odd to have such a stronger encryption than the others (though admittedly, one must wade through miles of rice paddies to be suddenly met by the Great Wall of China).

Second, this is "it". The end that no one can pass. GG is laughing at the show, hence his message about moving into the shadows. He's done with Torment and will work on another one.

Third, the guy with the gas mask saying look behind you is the true path, and the clues are those Hebrew glyphs no one translated


Regarding the blocks:
Trivially speaking:
Rotating the image clockwise so the uneven ends are on the right, as was mentioned previously, 9 of the 25 lines do not have breaks:
2,4,6,8,10,12,13,17,22 (and those intervals are +2,+2,+2,+2,+2,+2,+1,+4,+5, for the number-happy out there).

I ran the whole puzzle through a Vigenere Cipher http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere.php
using each of those 9 lines as a Passphrase, and found that lines 1, 9, 10, 22, and 25 convert to all As when those lines are used as the passphrase (i.e. line 10 becomes all As when line 10 is used as the passphrase).

[tripitaka]

[DrNewcenstein]

Anyone making progress?

Here's a letter-count breakdown. Dunno if it'll help:

a 23
b 23
c 25
d 16
e 22
f 25
g 15
h 11
i 13
j 19
k 21
l 25
m 22
n 14
o 8
p 26
q 18
r 20
s 19
t 19
u 11
v 19
w 19
x 5
y 20
z 10

[DrNewcenstein]

[booba]

The "shadow" of the figurine on the Child's Play hint page is certainly no angel.

[eventfarm]

Help with early puzzle

[SuperSlug]

Hint for eventfarm:

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Help with early puzzle