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Chronus_Valtiel

I think everybody did, really.

Jeez, that's wild. GREAT job, everybody.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:38 pm

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MrToasty

OK, that lost me somewhere. I'll have to think about that solution more later.
Nice job Night!

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:38 pm

typoartist22 · Veteran Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 106

For some reason I had thought about doing distortion alphabetically but then disregarded it and now I dont remember why.... AGH!!

WELL awesome job EVERYONE!!! So fantastic that we can move on!

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:46 pm

Nighthawk

I can't take all the credit... Nice work everyone.

I still don't get the PM's hint; the errors had nothing to do with the solve.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:48 pm

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natas

Great job nighthawk, and everybody else, AWESOME Teamwork!!!!!
I'm going back to the trailhead thread now. pe@ce.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:50 pm

MrToasty

OK, I'm feeling extra dense today. Dunce

Somebody want to explain it using small words, or even better filling in the letters on the original image?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:51 pm

ancalime

It may help to look at the Wikipedia entry on Transposition ciphers and its example with ZEBRAS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_cipher

The trapezoid ended up being rotated 45 degrees so it filled in the diagonal of a 10-row, 10-column grid. Our keyword was DISTORTION, with the two letter I's specified as columns 2 and 3 respectively.

So we arranged the letters of DISTORTION into alphabetical order and then arranged the columns of our grid into the same order.

Reading down each column, starting from the last column, got us to the "WEANDY THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT" etc etc message, and from there we leaped to important.html as the next page.[/url]

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:59 pm

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MrToasty

OK, think I've got it now. I was looking at Night's trapezoid as the initial fill and not the transposed. Thanks!

**Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:01 pm

carmenmiranda · Decorated Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 226

Nighthawk, you rule! Thank you SO much, I was ready to start crying with this one!

**Posted:** Thu May 01, 2008 3:29 am

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**Posted:** Thu May 01, 2008 6:55 am

Pied Piper · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 362

I've asked one of the moderators to put the [SOLVED] tag into the subject line of the first post. I can't believe that I only remember we were supposed to do this AFTER natas, who started this thread, left for a month.

Oy. Dunce

**Posted:** Sat May 10, 2008 6:34 pm