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[SOLVED?] [EMAIL] Secrets@dreadhouse.com 8/27/04

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:53 pm

Gibberx · Boot Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Maryland

Okay, you beat me by a few minutes, I'm going to go delete my thread now.

As far as solving goes, I have no time for Urban Hunt right now, unfortunately. I'm moving tomorrow (going to college! yay!). I'll catch up with you guys later.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 10:57 pm

ironchefmike

Got it - now what?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:35 pm

dishboy

The page has something hidden in the source:

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Substitution cipher?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:40 pm

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RobMagus

It's got a -lot- of one letter words that are all different from each other, so I don't think it's a simple substitution, I think.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:44 pm

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RobMagus

Also, the name of the page is probably a clue: "phone message".

Perhaps the numbers punched in on a phone to get those letters mean something?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:53 pm

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dishboy

There is source code at the bottom of the page we found which refers to a flash file. Pixiestix in #uh found the following:

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:16 am

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Idran1701 · Veteran Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 73

It's a vignere cypher, keyword "phonemessage". Here's the decryption.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:26 am

dishboy

Excellent work Idran!

Here's the extracted .mp3 sound file from the message, if you want to play around with it directly...

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:33 am

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Idran1701 · Veteran Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 73

If I'm not mistaken, that seems to be a code using phone keys. Can anyone make out what the computer voice says at the start of the message?

We do seem to have a name for jc now, though.

Pixiestix

SPEC!!!

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:44 am

Pixiestix

the phone tones...

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:14 am

dishboy

Here are the tones, according to this site:

http://www.dialabc.com/dtmfdetect

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:23 am

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Idran1701 · Veteran Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 73

I tried splitting up that based on the way the tones were grouped in the sound, here's what I got.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:45 am

RobMagus

Great idea Idran. Now get in the #urbanhunt channel on IRC so we can praise you for your tour-de-force of solves and ideas in the string of puzzles.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:51 am

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