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[karmajay]

Working off the Watcher's post, I tried the last line using MOD interval 3.

Did not come up with much, but I am new.

[spies]

im still interested in the idea that its morse code, but here is what ive played around with today...

i think its interesting that the first two lines add up to 34 and the last to 37. so you can make a square here by pushing the red letters at the beginning of the last two lines up a line. you get 35/35/35. (not really a square, just even)

when you do this, though, and add down the column by color groupings, you get nothing too interesting.

i thought of trying to even up the number of color groupings on each line, but there is no way.

there are four groupings of 6, three groupings of 5, one grouping of 4, and several singles.

the several singles is what has me stuck on morse code. maybe if we use the word breaks to get the letter breaks....

ill be back.

[konamouse]

Good thoughts. But the lack of actual spacing is what bothers me.
We have nothing to denote spacing, no matter we use letters or numbers.

I've been in and out of anagrams all morning. The only useable stuff I got was from the top line (using the dark letters that did not include "sorry") because it has htm available. I thought I was on to something when I saw that STOLEN PAGE was in that line, but trying RESTOLENPAGE.htm from DreadHouse.com did not lead me to anything.

[Nogwater]

I've tried using odd lengths of color as . and even as - for morse, and using the missing word breaks as the spaces between letters. Didn't seem to show anything. "Temporarily" would have too many changes in it anyway to be a letter.

[Nogwater]

SPEC:
Maybe the string lengths 5113... are notes of a song. Play the song, recognize it, and the name is the answer. Just a guess.

Ok, I talked my wife into trying to play it on our keyboard. 1=C, 2=D, etc... It didn't sound horrible, but we didn't recognize it either. Oh well.

[catherwood]

I might as well throw up my crayon theory (and maybe just throw up at this point too.)

Attached html file uses the alternating font colors as grid colors, as if lighting up an LED sign. I'm experimenting with variations on the 5x3x7 layout possibilities, and can update this page if you have other suggestions.

[Added another orientation for stacking the grids, refresh if you don't see two tables on the page.]

[Anonymous Guest]

Partial Solution

[RobMagus]

Nifty, anon! Care to log in so we can give credit where credit is due?

[catherwood]

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[Nogwater]

I should have done this sooner.
I just wrote a little php app that will give you all of the possibilities for a given line of morse without spaces: http://www.apejet.org/sites/uh/morse.php

Don't throw too much at it, or you'll be buried in junk.

Ok, I think it's working now, but.... it's slow as hell and will time out after 30 sec. giving you NOTHING! My guess is that you shouldn't send in more than 12 .'s or -'s. If that works, it'll give you at least 3 letters which should be enough to help narrow it down.

[MrvnMouse]

heh

[karmajay]

Umm Please do!

[y2kbozo]

Another possibility...

[RungeKutta]

Here's the decoded message with help from most everyone in #urbanhunt
such as dishboy, IrishSamurai, KonaMouse, MrvnMouse, Nogwater, and Catherwood and some others.


It is a

[karmajay]

Exellent work all, thanks for the hard work!