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[Trailhead?] Ilogikal Thoughts

[Sphaso]

Looks like one for sure.
So, in the "About me" section it says that every page contains a puzzle of some sort.

Home\Blog: 9-A-7-9-11-D-A-G-8- 0-20-7-8-G-E
"9" seems to be the clue to solve it.
all the other pages empty ATM.
His profile says that he's a male from Cary, North Carolina
He goes by the name of Ilogikal, so he likes to be creative in his spelling.

EDIT: I'm not sure he was referring to "9" as the first number or the 9 numbers. He writes

[daffke]

looks promising
gonna follow this one

[forgo7]

Cool, was looking for a new one to follow from early on. Thanks!

[Hellaine]

He says to contact him, have good aim so... I added a few different variations of his name on AIM so we'll see.

[lrkr]

Anybody had any luck with the code? I'm still working on it.

[Hellaine]

Not yet Doing a simple letters/numbers solver on it brings up a lot of letters for the word logikalthought without vowels. So I'm wondering if the letters correlate to vowels somehow but.. I dunno. I'm still pen-and-papering it.

EDIT: Nevermind, it's too early... Wrote my L's to look like I's. Which still works out in a different way but... yeah. Coffee.\

[lrkr]

I tried converting all the numbers to letters then performing a caeser shift....no luck.

[Hellaine]

After the ninth letter/number entry, it says "(Here is one where it belongs, no tricks, I promise)" which makes me think whatever it is, is scrambled and the 0 is the only one where it should be? So everything else should work around that maybe.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 0 _ _ _ _ _

Fudge if I know. I'm better with lore than crypto so I'm pretty elementary at this stuff.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

I too took the 9 to be a direct replacement for I in a simple substitution(as in I = 9th letter of the alphabet.). But it really didn't go anywhere. The dash just before the parenthesis confuses me.
If the parenthesis breaks the line and there is really a single "word", I'd bet we have to replace something with space(s).

[lrkr]

I agree with 9=I, especially because of the next line "I can not help anymore then (sic) 9 already have"

Also, the parenthesis break makes me wonder if -(here is one where it belongs, no tricks..)0-

is

-10-

since that's the only break without a parenthesis in between two things.

Or it could be a place marker like you guys suggested, I have no idea.

[Hellaine]

[lrkr]

Ah, but should we interpret ALL zeros to be spaces?

If that's the case, that would mean we have (without anything being done but direct letter substitution)

IAGIKDAGHJ B GHGE

If only that one is a space we have, and the other is 20 (not 2 0)

IAGIKDAGHJ TGHGE

[Hellaine]

I think your second one is right. 20 is 20.

Also, I think if we're doing direct number-to-letter for the numbers, then there is a different code to turn the numbers into letters. Then unscramble it to get the answer. Also, if number-to-letter is the way to go, I can't think of any word that would be TGH_ _ , so I assume the entire thing (minue the 0) is scrambled, and not the individual words, if that makes sense.

Fudge, I don't know.

[VeritasK]

9-A-7-9-11-D-A-G-8-(Here is one where it belongs, no tricks, I promise)0-20-7-8-G-E

More likely 10 then 0. IMHO