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[nbnewell]

ok, cluster IM..lol

[Kyle Stutts]

Haha i didnt say much in that convo did i?

[nbnewell]

[Kyle Stutts]

Well i was talking to bob in another convo what was i supposed to do talk alot on both! Jeez

[Wolf by night]

Hey guys sorry to join the hunt so late in the day. The code's got me pretty stumped as well although I'd have to say that from the structure of the words it most likely isn't a Rot cypher, also Bob seems to be pretty insistant that we don't need any decoders for this just the simple ability to count... so I'm going to have a fun after noon counting out words (this could also fit with his clue about shifting as we could find multiple lines within any single line depending on where we shift the start point from).
If any one still thinks this could be rot cypher look at the first word 'uuur' now my english is not amazing but I can't think of many words that start with 3 identical letters. Which would mean that if this were any cypher really it would have to treat each letter dynamicaly. This would almost certainly need a tool to crack, so I think chances are we just need to simplify... we're looking for a chariot when it's only the wheel we need.

Any way's I'll keep at it let you know if I find anything. Ta

[nbnewell]

I think that when Bob said we didn't need the decoder etc it was referncing just 19 9 24 and AUZ equaling six. so six must be the key. when i decode just HCMONTY with the keyword six in the purple hell cryptogram solver I get century so I am gonna play a bit more...

[massive]

For completeness' sake, the ISBN numbers of "Life Without Principle" by Thoreau:

10-digit: 1573922021
13-digit: 9781573922029

I can't see anything to do with the tridecanumerism there though.

[EnigmaFisk]

well its like this...seems to me that bob is telling us that this is just a "skip-so-many-letters" code (if there's a proper name for that i apologize. he 's talked of counting, given us numbers, said we didnt need tools, and said the anwser was right under our nose. I thought maybe even the "look to the right" statement meant work backwards. Here's the problems I've run inot with that..

1) What the --expletive-- is Auz?
I know nb said it could make six also...but why would he give us a code for that twice? (plus by the way i didnt follow how you turned that into six...your magic mystifies me-lol)

2) skipping letters destroys hcmonty...
I agree angelus that hcmonty will probably decode into a recognizable word before the rest do...if you skip letters though you skip parts of the word....there are a bunch of h's, c's... and so on in the text but they seem to be at random intervals. I mention that because i thought maybe when we found the right intervals we'd spell it out again...im still double checking that but it dont look good

3) why the tridecalogisms?
if they arent keywords for an "internet tool" then what are they for?

4) did we squeeze everything out of the g.c. picture?
Bob:

"This hint will help you with the bigger picture, to be brief, the one with the canyons on the side."- by the way that's arkansas diamond mining depicted on the side of the u-haul in the first picture

"Beautiful n'est pas?
Your next clue lies the walls within the walls"
Lies the walls within the walls...maybe it is just a typo...but then you got to think he looked it over...dude quotes thoreau...

well thats my piece...i think we got to talk this out guys....dont seem like any of us are getting much of anywhere alone....

[nbnewell]

alright, here is what I know for sure.....

it was given twice to re-push or confirm it.
six is ONE of the keywords.
it gets us century for hc monty on PH Cryptogram solver
six is the shift from auz

I am sure we need to keep shifting. "work in shifts"

I don't think that Thoreau is impotant now, many of the quotes are from Walden.

[EnigmaFisk]

actually i was just saying the guy quotes thoreau why would he leave a typo like that on the grand canyon page...glarin at us from the top....its not like the words in the picture were hard to find...so what does that sentence mean?

[nbnewell]

In IM we got confirmation. Take the coded text and ROT 6 it to get:

[EnigmaFisk]

that's awesome guys...unfortuantely i tried every word i can think of thats even sort of related to the clues given...and i got nada...but hey at least we moved forward

[LordIllidan]

[Adam C]

they got six from auz by looking at their keyboards... the letters to spell six are one letter to the right each of a-u-z

[Angelus78]