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amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Grace has an Oz museum update. She got "hellograce.wmv ". There's a hidden msg to photoshop at the end. Here's what I posted to her & nice bashin' punxtr!
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At the end of your tape there's a hidden msg: "I am following the river Down the highway Through the cradle of the Civil War."
That's a line from the Paul Simon song 'Graceland' so maybe that's your next stop? http://www.elvis.com/graceland/
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:47 pm
Dia Renalda
Boot
Joined: 10 Aug 2011 Posts: 45 Location: ARG Obsession
New post from the Jester:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
R8: Three Days: 0.5-16-24.5-64---12.25-25-32---32-0.25-16-20.25-64-1.25-18-32---144-0.25-81---32-40.5-1.25-72-12.25-25-8-0.5-18
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 4:04 pm
Ashe1024
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Joined: 10 Aug 2011 Posts: 123 Location: Tennessee
amandel wrote:
Grace has an Oz museum update. She got "hellograce.wmv ". There's a hidden msg to photoshop at the end. Here's what I posted to her & nice bashin' punxtr!
Quote:
At the end of your tape there's a hidden msg: "I am following the river Down the highway Through the cradle of the Civil War."
That's a line from the Paul Simon song 'Graceland' so maybe that's your next stop? http://www.elvis.com/graceland/
Makes sense to me seeing as her name is Grace and the Jester believes her next destination is someplace he thinks she will like.
Dia, I'm trying, but I can't make heads or tails of that code. I need like a crash course in ciphers/cryptograms that isn't greek to me. lol.
My neighbor (who's playing but hasn't posted here yet) found this site,
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/baconian.php
Where inputting that code decodes to N O W
but I don't know if that's worth anything or not.
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:01 pm
punxtr
Die Hard Try Hard
Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 2994
Well, I searched NOW and got:
http://www.now.org/
I'm not sure that could be an answer. Most have been a coded riddle of some sort...
I can derive all numbers except 1.25 using the method I've found so far. The method seems close to the solution, for sure.
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:23 pm
Ashe1024
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Joined: 10 Aug 2011 Posts: 123 Location: Tennessee
punxtr wrote:
Most have been a coded riddle of some sort...
That's why N O W didn't make any sense to me whatsoever. I'm sorry I'm not of more help. I feel totally useless when it comes to decrypting.
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:02 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
The other substitutions I could track albeit with a big cup of wake-up java. This one befuddles me. Also, Mummer's Farce has some interesting answers.
Never like to muddy the waters about a maths code I'm not seeing yet have got a question: Is it possible this one has an add'nl cipher/twist inside the riddle?
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 5:31 am
Dottoe
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Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 278
Can't come up with anything better. I don't even know of a number cipher that would accept all of these numbers
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:50 am
punxtr
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You can find many of the used numbers by dividing squared numbers 1 through 9, until you reach halved values with a remainder of 0.25.
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:16 am
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
amandel! amandel!
Someday I may learn to do such wonderful things.
Audacity?
As for the "math" riddle, a great big IDK.
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:21 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
punxtr wrote:
You can find many of the used numbers by dividing squared numbers 1 through 9, until you reach halved values with a remainder of 0.25.
Thanks P. Thought it was some sort of modular systen *LM chortling is heard thru the ether* HI Booba!! Photoshopped the visual & agree Audacity clues are fun.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:50 am
Dia Renalda
Boot
Joined: 10 Aug 2011 Posts: 45 Location: ARG Obsession
New blog post from Grace.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://lookingforderek.blogspot.com/2011/08/poor-boys-and-pilgrims.html
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:24 am
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
punxter- I see what you were getting at, 1.25 doesn't fit. Think it's a typo for 12.25?
beginning with
.5 squared =.25 x2 = .50
4.5 squared = 20.25 x2 =40.5
ending with
12 squared = 144 /2 =72
the numbers are squares in .5 intervals, or double
or one half of
a square
ETA 6 squared (not used) = 36 x 2 =72
Have no ideal what that could possible mean, except that it would be kind of orderly.
except for 1.25
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:12 pm
LatentMoths
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Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas
amandel wrote:
Thought it was some sort of modular systen *LM chortling is heard thru the ether*
I did no such thing...not so much as a snicker.
I have pretty much the same observations as the rest of you. I was hesitant to post about it so as not to take people down the wrong path with me. However with time running out here goes...
Each number either is a perfect square or can be made one by multiplying by an integer. Even 1.25 (which bothers me too) can be made into the perfect square 25 when multiplied by 20. I've tried taking the square root of each perfect square and changing those to their letter equivalent...nothing. I've tried taking those letters as it's own code and deciphering it using other methods...nothing. I've tried incorporating the multiplier used to get to the perfect square in various ways...nothing.
Nothing I've tried has led me anywhere useful. So either the perfect squares are a coincidence and we need to look at this differently OR we are on the right track and need to go a little further OR Jester came up with a nonsense code that can't be solved so he can punish Derek for our "incompetence".
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:02 pm
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
From The Puppets Fool:
(I fade back into the background, should not have sleep through those math classes)
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:12 pm
Dottoe
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Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 278
And take it away, Facebook!
Lonesome Artist wrote:
every cut other these word numbers but in not twine these
about an hour ago · Like ·
Lonesome Artist wrote:
The key lies in 2's and 4's. I can say no more.
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:42 pm
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