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[Gupfee]

New Email for the "White" Team

[danman_d]

I think this puzzle may have something to do with keyboard positions.

Not only are all of those symbols on the top row, keys look sort of like steps (step by step).

Ideas?

-Danny

[Caterpillar]

I've tried converting the symbols to their numerical equiv. and then to the alpha equiv. of that...and rotting the whole darned thing...nada.

[Fortune032]

R3U2 L3 R2D2 U1L1 R3D2 U3 D2R1 L1U2 L1 L2 R6 D1L3(or4?) D2 R4 L6 U3
U is up, D is down, right and left...directions from each letter(symbol) to the next...
Now I just wish i knew what to do next...


on second thought...i'm overthinking...

[Myssfitz]

Re: New Email for the "White" Team

[konamouse]

okay, opened up this as a chat room in both the UF server and CD server.
No dice tonight.

[Misha]

I think the first step is to decode the alpha - ignore the rest for the time being but keep it in the right place. Then we look for what could be words. Like A=I etc...
Next step is to convert the characters to numbers. Now the harsh part...
Convert the numbers to alpha by way of telephone code. Note that there are no 1's anywhere (or !). Unfortunately if you try to do this step first there's WAY too many possibilities.

I tried running the alpha through unilateral substitution using "seeker" as the key but no luck.

The other thing I thought was the new "codes" they've been using on the two riddle sites (net and planet). Once you decode the text, you have to read up and down the lines in some way. It's a longshot but thought I'd throw in the suggestion for good measure.
Anyway, I'm off to bed...My pocket hurts.

Misha

[villard]

more on..

[Shelina]

I prefer the "keyboard" idea...
Maybe counting the position of the key where ecah symbol is?

I was going to try that when I realized that european and American keyboards are a bit different...

[villard]

Agree, but I had the same problem as you but still wanted to contribute in some way...
Too many ö and ä on my keyboard...

[Misha]

If it is "steps" on the keyboard like spec'd then I'm out - I have an ergo keyboard. That means it's split in the middle. So I'm having a tough time placing the letters in the middle. What I did though so far was "A" for example could be q, z, or w - this steps the letter BOTH ways diagonally. The only problem with this is that it's a one letter word so unless it's a number, it should be A or I. The next word "%@dw" could be rdxtgb, wsxq, ecrx, and sxa. So the only word that closely fits that pattern is "twer" and it's unlikely that people still say that (it's slang for past tense of it was" That's why I thought it went the other way - decode alpha first then insert phone code for the numbers.

[Myssfitz]

I'm not very good at this but our email before this one had 4 different ROT's for each line.
So using "step by step", what if line 1 decoded, steps to the next line and so forth. What I'm trying to say is each line is a "step" in it's self. The 4 lines won't use the same decoding.

Am I making sense? (this time )

Another thought....The only thing is they don't work in the other lines, unless they aren't supposed to.

This kind of looks like a cryptogram I try to solve in puzzle magazines. Here's some ideas for line 3: (no rhyme or reason)


W(&)t................... sa........... zb%l........ w*cc
W(ai)t......................is............................. well
W(ha)t...... ................................................will
W(en)t...................................................... call
W(es)t.....................to............ pine..........tree -the trees at Diana's grove are one of the doorways to the Otherworld. So maybe we have to "be" there to help Dale out.
Nevermind for the last one. If the first W is "W", then so would the W in the last word.
Sorry for the dots, only way I know how to line up the "chart".

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but does anyone know what the "rocket ship" is at Diana's Grove Park?

[Misha]

"The Rocket Ship"
I asked about that long ago in an email but never got a response.

[kingohugs]

Looks like a Silo to me. Possibly historic (to the town) or the town's emergency grain

[bigdave]

I don't know if this will help but a previous puzzle used 2's and 1's to help us(ya'll) solve it. It was in a post by Danman at the 'Blue initiates' puzzle location. It occurred to me that the new email could be divided that way. For example, 'A' is a 2 because you hit 'shift' and 'a' to make that charecter. If you did the whole first line it would read

2 2211 121 221 211112

This means absolutely nothing to me but I thought some of you heavy hitters might be able to use it. I hope it helps.

Dave