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STILL Unsolved Wired / Lost puzzle! NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!

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thejoker34
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maybe the key is backwards?

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 3:25 pm

sapagoo
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Re: STILL Unsolved Wired / Lost puzzle! NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!

iheathen wrote:

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Then, using "WIREDMAGAZINE" as the key (remember the different page numbering!), and decrypting it as a Vigenere Cipher, the text decodes to be:
"USELETTERSBACKWARDFROMEND" or "use letters backward from end."

So... then moving on to page 105, this part is completely unsolved.

There is NO page numbering at all on this page, in fact it is completely blank, except for a new set of large black numbers. Here's the set:

4, 34, 18, 55, 14, 93
54, 5, 6, 11, 10, 13
30, 12, 6, 19, 2, 22, 5
2, 1, 117, 2, 17, 1, 17

This has finally been solved. I'm only putting the final solve behind spoiler text. If you want hints but not the solution, only read this post one line at a time. Smile

After watching for updates at http://bradicali.blogspot.com/ , someone posted a link to http://mestizorocks.blogspot.com/ for the May 19th article.

* Jon at mestizorocks solved it by using the August 2003 issue of Wired (as seen in the episode "The Variable")
* The article about Time Travel mentions the Casimir effect.
* That section of the article ("Throne Plates") is the key to the book cipher used.

Once you have the key, and the tip "use letters backward from end," it is simple to decode the following message:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

T H E F O U / R T O E D S / T A T U E I S / T A W E R E T

Which we saw in the finale, and was verified in the ABC recap page.

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