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wombatclay
Kilroy
Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Ithaca
I'm back in town and sadly found no fun emails...sadness and sorrow!
So, puzzle hat on...keeping in mind that I honestly can't solve half of the puzzles I've created myself, so this could get REALLY funny...
(and just in case this will amuse the ghostly ones, I spent over an hour today wading through my trash folder and a week's worth of spam mail looking for these mystery messages...learning all about body parts that can be enhanced or diminished through the use of amusingly named pills, young ladies and lads who would like to be my friend, and just how much political candidates would like me to vote for them...all to no avail. You are cruel cruel ghosts!)
clay
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:30 pm
darkphan
Veteran
Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 113
Well, the upper case HEX codes are operators and equals signs, or numbers.
so these lines here:
Code:
(random): 7a 2B 2b 2B 1c 2D 4d 3D 31 31 32 35
(texel): 2a 2D 5b 2B 8c 2B 4d 3D 32 32 31 31
(caesar): 4a 2B 8b 2D 6c 2B 3d 3D 31 32 34 38
(mello): 6a 2D 5b 2D 2c 2B 1d 3D 35 34 37
become:
Code:
(random): 7a + 2b + 1c - 4d = 1125
(texel): 2a - 5b + 8c + 4d = 2211
(caesar): 4a + 8b - 6c + 3d = 1248
(mello): 6a - 5b - 2c + 1d = 547
Looks like some "basic" algebra now...
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:42 am
kenbo
Decorated
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 171
Going here:
http://www.1728.com/unknwn4.htm
gives
a = 80.20679886685552
b = -51.98016997167139
c = 160.45325779036827
d = 126.76487252124646
I MUST have done SOMETHING wrong. Doesn't look like much to me.
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:06 am
AnthraX101
Entrenched
Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 797
Ah, good ol' simultaneous equations:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
a=217
b=115
c=192
d=204
With the numbers coming out so even and the fact that all of the equations just happen to be in their simplest form, leads me to beleve that this is indeed what we've been looking for.
This could be a form of key escrow. They could have sent out 5 equations, as long as we found four of them they can solve it. In this way, you can keep keys secret even while sharing them with someone. If you have a set of related equations with N variables, you must have at least N equations in order to solve it. If I had a problem with just A and B, and gave 3 equations out to 3 people, if any two of them got together they could solve it.
It's a good method of redundancy. I wonder if that's what happened.
AnthraX101
_________________VGhlcmUgaXMgbm8gc3Bvb24u
ll----ll--ll--ll----l---ll---llll---ll--l--ll---llll-ll-l-ll-llll--l-.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:06 am
joebrent
Unfettered
Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Posts: 640 Location: New York, sometimes
AnthraX101 wrote:
wah waaah wahwah waaah waaah waaah wah wah
joebrent wrote:
D minus! How did I get a D minus? Linus!
Holy crap Anthrax is wicked smart.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:22 am
tanner
Entrenched
Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 875 Location: (x,y,z,t,i, ...)+
Omne initium est difficile - Every beginning is difficult
Orbes volantes exstare - Flying saucers are real (just my silly joke)
sorry about gatecrashing -- i wont do it again
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:14 am
Caterpillar
Unfictologist
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 1887 Location: cem's otherbody
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:17 am
Alzheimers
Unfettered
Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 339
On the right side of the picture -- are those, wingdings? They're so low rez though it's hard to make out what they are.
_________________If at first you don't succeed, blame the cruel PM.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:40 am
krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3651 Location: Is not Chicago
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The wingdings along the right-hand side are from the original image for the Metacortechs game. The quote appears to be identical, except that some of the symbols are highlighted.
Check the next spoiler if you wanna know what the highlighted letters say.
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"lessons to learn"
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 9:51 am
L.Boomer
Decorated
Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 170 Location: The Gym by the Beach, or the Beach by the Gym.
If I remember correctly I may be mistaken, but I believe the quote was from Alice in Wonderland and the whole thing read:
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Always to have lessons to learn
_________________So much muscle that I never have to flex...
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:46 am
AnthraX101
Entrenched
Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 797
Re: If I remember correctly
surferstick wrote:
I may be mistaken, but I believe the quote was from Alice in Wonderland and the whole thing read:
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Always to have lessons to learn
Yes, that's what the whole quote is on the right. The highlighted letters are what krystyn said, however.
AnthraX101
_________________VGhlcmUgaXMgbm8gc3Bvb24u
ll----ll--ll--ll----l---ll---llll---ll--l--ll---llll-ll-l-ll-llll--l-.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:44 am
krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 3651 Location: Is not Chicago
Um, whoah! Thanks to my boss, I found the next piece:
Wow!!
added url tags
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:23 pm
Wolf
Decorated
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 292
I believe this is the correct text that flashes--hard to read in blown up screen caps:
First:
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[logging user info
{this.x;this.y}=bw=(x,y)bw_moveBy{x,y)]
Then:
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this=(bw.Q1||bw.defined=(1.5.0.5){-1.0))?this.css.is:your.one;
this=(bw.nq||bw.undefined)? this.css.left.this.world.in.pain;
this=(bw.Q2||bw.defined=(-0.5,0.5){0.1))?this.css.is:your.two;
this=bw.Q3||bw.defined=(-0.5, -1.5){-1.1))?this.css.is:your.san;
this=(bw.Q4||bw.defined=(0.5, -1.5){0.1))?this.css.is:your.death;
{this.cxl.visibility="dreamlinestate"identity}
Correct if necessary.
_________________You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:40 pm
Wolf
Decorated
Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 292
Using /dreamlinestate/ goes to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
a 404 page with a broken image link that says "HAVE YOU SEEN IT? Keep it to yourself."
Then again, you get the same thing when you try /monkeylove/ so maybe /dreamlinestate/ is irrelevant.
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:49 pm
vpisteve
Asshatministrator
Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 2441 Location: 1987
I can't tell you how strange this is, heh.
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:52 pm
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