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[Esteed]

Do you have a link to what you used for the translation? A tool or chart or something?

[wj1975]

I used this


http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html


I tried the same thing with the punctuation in the blog posting but no luck. I think there are spaces missing. the trick is figuring out where spaces should go. right?

[GreenTara]

Yeah I tried various translations as well but no luck...if there's a trick to finding where the spaces go, I'd like to know...it took me forever to try and get those translations right without skipping one and having to go back, etc. etc. OCD!

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new blog post

[Cryptfiend]

got the first blog entry with morse code.

[GreenTara]

I left Providence a morse comment, also sent her an email with some code in it....Just to see.

[Cryptfiend]

i sent her this message:

[faeryqueen21]

Nice job with all the Morsey stuff guys. Our girl is finding creative ways to stay in touch with us.

[chiarac]

I tried anything, from morse to rot to vige to binary one over the other.... but couldn't think tat commas were "." and dots "-" for the morse!

[Madhouse159]

New web post!

Looks as though all this "apples and bananas" might translate to morse code. Although I cant see any way of dividing the letters yet.

I'll have a little stab around with things, but I am a total amateur

--edit--

Ok, so I realized that its probably more likely to be binary. By converting Banana's to 1's and Apple's to 0's and get this:

[Esteed]

Yeah, I tried binary too and got the same thing. Converting it into morse code leaves two possibilities, either:

Apples=dots
Bananas=dashes

or

Apples=dashes
Bananas=dots

Unfortunately I suck at decoding morse, so what I'm going to do is give you guys the conversions and see what you guys can make of it.

EDIT: Gah, broke the h-scroll. Code removed. If you want to give decoding it a shot and don't want to convert it yourself, drop me a PM and I'll send you the conversions I did.

[Cryptfiend]

im thinking maybe binary this time. let see!

nope, not binary. i tried it with bananas = 1 first and then with apples = 1

binary translator didnt take it

incidentally: the only characters in it are 'apples' 'bananas' ' and '...a space before and after each and. no odd spacing or anything at all...no hidden characters in her text.

i dont know what else it could be though other than binary. we have basically 2 units: apple, banana. with ' and ' between each, with no deviation other than the occurance of apples and bananas.

edit: cant be morse. we learned that morse code requires spacing, and there is absolutely nothing in this to indicate any kind of spacing whatsoever. in binary the spaces are put right into the code so it can be one long continuous stream.

but then, it doesnt work either way as binary :/

[MrToasty]

No way to decode it as Morse unless you have spaces between sets to mark individual letters.

ETA - blog post changed, no more 'ands'

[Cryptfiend]

so i tried taking the new blog post and doing the same thing...replacing bananas with 1, and then replacing apples with 1.

no dice either way.

then i noticed that when pasted into a word processor, there is a new symbol.

kind of like a dark mark instead of a space, followed by a space.



there is a copy and paste of it between this line and my previous line. i dont know if it will come up visible or not.

at any rate, when i did that, and replaced all the words with numbers...i discovered that they made perfect vertical lines, seperating all the words.

so i tried going down one of the lines, using each word as 1.

still no dice, but at least this time it makes symbols. i think ill post what each of the lines are, maybe they are one of those rot-9 things or whatever? i dunno.

PS: might have to highlight my post to see the dark mark i am referring to

edit: hmm...the message board edits out the symbol. maybe my word processor is just picking up a weird symbol that providence's word processor used?

also, i was wrong with the vertical lines of text instead of horizontal. several of the 'words' would end in 0, which doesnt work in binary. also, they are all indentical lengths...which...would be very very coincidental.

[Esteed]

I'm not seeing any dark mark when I paste it into Word, but if it's there, maybe it's meant to be spacing for morse code?