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sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Hmmm, I was looking at stroke count too for a bit, mainly guided by the idea that the single letter word with a single stroke could be an 'A'. There is a little uncertainty for strokes that are split in the middle, like in 'B', but if you take those to be 1 then the stroke count for blue/grey groups are as follows:

**Posted:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:47 pm

GreenWindmill

I'd also counted the strokes but I haven't summed them for each group. Just for completeness sake here's the stroke count without any summing:

5413211452 . 133212 . 1 . 114521
3112 . 153352 . 44514412514514

(I've also assumed long strokes on letters such as B, E, etc. count as just one)

**Posted:** Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:27 am

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addlepated

Hey guys - hope you don't mind if I stick my nose in here, but I thought I'd clear up something that may be giving you fits. While it won't necessarily prevent a solve, it will perhaps make it too hard/laborious to follow through on.

Just in case you don't want to see any hints, I'll spoiler it:

**Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:03 am

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Rogi Ocnorb

I Nwas playing around trying to get something to work out in Morse and it struck me how many of the characters have vertical symmetry.

Letter tops:
-- .- .. ...- - ...- .. . . .... - -.
.. .. - .- ..- - . -- - .-- . ..- . -- .-

Or, in Morse:
maivtvieehtn
iitautemtweuema

Bottoms"
-- .. -. ...- - ...- -. - . . ... -.-.
.. .. - .- -. - - ..- - ...- . ..- . -- .-

Morse:
minvtvnteesc
iitanttutveuema

Of the 17 letters used, F,L,M,Q,W,R (With G & Z maintaining symmetry for purposes of Morse) are not symmetric, top to bottom.

In the regular alphabet, A,F,J,L,M,P,Q,R,T,U,V,W,Y (G,N & Z for Morse)

Discounting the "symmetric in Morse" letters, the puzzles characters are 9 out of 17 symmetric (53%)
And the regular alphabet is 9 out of 26 (36%).

Probably nothing... Just something I noticed.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:40 am

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sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Ha, should have picked this earlier with how many 'I's there are, but it was much easier to see with addlepated's split up version. Spoilering for spoilers sake, in case anyone else wants to solve it themselves still.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:18 am

cjr22 · Boot Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 58

Slight fix to sixsidedsquare's solve

**Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:07 pm

MrToasty

That CI to give U should most likely be C I to give you BA, thus BACK. Nicely done! After seeing the spacing I also came to the conclusion that dots were zeros, but didn't make the next step to see the addition. Excellent, I can finally put this one out of my head.

ETA - simulpost on the BA.

**Posted:** Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:08 pm

sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Ah, BACK makes so much more sense. And just a small kicker on my one, like I said it doesn't involve stroke counting, but there is some counting of sorts involved.

**Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:13 am

addlepated

Sorry, yes - should have been spaces there. Congratulations. Smile

P.S. Can you believe I went over that bloody thing 87 times, plus had other people proof it, and none of us caught that 3+3 did not equal 7? Bang Head

**Posted:** Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:12 am

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sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Another to try and get this one cleared. This goes for any encrypted text really, but try to look for any things that are similar or repeated across it and try to tell if they are similar to anything else you've seen before.

And a more outright push, that actually gives away some of the letters:

**Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:49 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

If it were:
TIII H IF MI . IJ N . MV O IIO DI

It might make more sense to me.

Can you tell that I don't have a puzzle ready to go? Wink

**Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:14 pm

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Yup, VHEN IN ROME doesn't make as much sense does it?! (No puzzle to put up here either!)

I guess anyone who's ready should jump in?

**Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:45 am

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sixsidedsquare · Unfettered Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 409 Location: 60E

Maybe it was said by a Swedish tourist that happened to be passing through Rome? It's funny how with pretty much any puzzle, when you know the answer it's so easy to miss small mistakes and completely read over them.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:51 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

Okay...
I'll throw out another quickie:
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Find:
1) The largest 4-digit number "ABCD" where AxB=C and BxC=D.

2) The largest 5-digit number "ABCDE" where AxB=C and BxC=D and CxD=E.

Add them together to get the final answer.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:20 pm

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pancito

9199+31339=40538?

**Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:57 pm

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