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[jordanmc]

[Puzzle] /hiker [SOLVED]

[Nightmare Tony]

I tried to get letters from the typical sempahore system. Sadly, it makes no swense. Iw as hoping for a simple Ceaser's/. Bleah. The ? will be symbols not on it.

Z K J B2 M
K E ? J J
? U ? PK0 PK0
K D4? T ?
? ? ? P?

If there is another semaphore type language, need help!

[chaotic_mind]

[OrthodoxParadox]

The bottom left-hand corner is a space. Did some searches for one-handed semaphore and came up with a poem: http://www.3ammagazine.com/poetry/2002_mar/cricket_suicides.html

[Nightmare Tony]

Kewlsome. I had tried for some seeprate systems. My dad suggested the boy scouts version. It appears to be the same, but with both flags down being interval instead of undefined.

One trick which helpd op the bottom row, SOME fo the signals are missing a flag. HJere is what I got once again. Still maketh not the sense.


Z K J0 H8 R
K E int J J
int U int P P
K D4 E5 T int
int int G7 E5 P G7


Thats all I have so far. Prolly still with mistakes.

[Chorus]

The whole bottom row makes no sense within the context of standard semaphore.

Additionally, semaphore is consistent throughout languages.

I suspect that this puzzle isn't actually semaphore at all. A number of the images have been altered by the poster to display the arms at different angles. I think the graphic content is where the message is hidden, not in a semaphore cypher.

I honestly wish there were a bit more data linking the image to a meaning.

[Nightmare Tony]

That poem may be more improtant as a clue. Remember when Syn was looking through the camera, she saw a man and a woman on a table?

I think that the actual letters in this puzzle have no meaning, its more the anomalies that give us the answer.

[Chorus]

Exactly.

[Nightmare Tony]

Lets try graphing out which letters make no sense. I had found some as flags which I posted the second time round where you can see a flag missing, but evidentlyu, the message isnt it there. masybe the position, doing pairs, like yesterday's puzzle?

there are still simply TOO MANY references iin the poem that go with the puzzle and the conversdation this morning. we know the man/woman image is linked to the poem, lets find other links, and perhaps highlight those....maybe the coordinates of the bad semaphore signals point to words in the poem?

Its bind moggling!

[Nightmare Tony]

prolly OOG but for googling goin' up a mountain comes up with a song, going up the mountain..... Jim Bouchard....

http://www.macidol.com/jamroom/bands/367/lyrics_4435.php

[Russell]

One handed semaphore is also known as Wig Wag signalling.

"The same flag used singly can also be used for "wig-wag" signaling, a form of Morse code transmission based on waving the flag to the right or left invented by the U.S. Army Signal Corps' Albert J. Myer in the mid-19th century."

Am looking into it now.

[Xrate]

i think everybody see,the hiker one legged...

"original" one-legged hiker.jpg on the site:
http://completewasteoftime.blogs.com/weblog/science/

on the top of the page,news....:"Baby born with two head"

possible syn and ecc....baby with two head....

[PlanB]

I've got to go to work, so I can't try this out myself. Has anyone attempted to treat the flags as clock hands yet?

PlanB, throwing out a wild speculation

[chippy]

http://www.nwsc.org/graphics/semaphores.shtml

seems to be the page where the little men come from

my attempt:
F------k-----j----b----m
k------e----g----j-----y
g------u----g----o----o
k------D----E----t----g
int----g-----F----p----f-G

only line 5 , pos 1 is the interval.
ive also guessed the ambiguous according to arm placement

also: heres a gospel song
http://www.denisdonnelly.ca/arrangments/goin_mountain.html

[Max Incognito]

If they are from the website (and it certainly looks that way), then why bother changing some of the arm positions/flags?