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ironside100
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Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 21 Location: UK
Phaedra wrote:
ironside100 wrote:
well from a quick scan i count 19 symbols
+ (x4)
! (x4)
[ (x8 )
| (x4)
< (x3)
} (x7)
* (x1)
, (x4)
{ (x9)
^ (x2)
~ (x2)
$ (x7)
? (x3)
= (x3)
/ (x2)
' (x4)
# (x1)
@ (x1)
> (x1)
Okay, good. Now substitute letters for the symbols and give us the ciphertext....
Im new to this so as soon as I find out how to actually do that i will get right on it.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:13 pm
Atrophied
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:27 pm
Last edited by Atrophied on Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:49 pm; edited 1 time in total
Kender
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Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 264 Location: The Netherlands
The code, orginal and replaced with letters:
Code:
+![|<|}*,{}
+^~$[{}[,?$
!^=[|~/`{}
$`[}!])`?$
#,[${}|[>
+[|{{$={,@<`/
}!)<=${{!|+?
abcdedfghif
ajklcifchml
bjncdkopif
lpcfbrqpml
shclifdct
acdiilnihuepo
fbqenliibdam
I managed to make this out of it using monoalphabetic substitution:
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CHRONOTWIST CYBERSTRIKE HYDROBLAST EARTHQUAKE FIRESTORM CROSSEDSIGNAL THUNDESSHOCK
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:37 pm
sequoya
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 548 Location: Land of haggis, kilts, neds and Irn-Bru
Hehehe, I thought this whole thing seemed familiar somehow
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Those are all characters from Project Gateway , and it appears the sequel is due Winter 2005...
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:39 pm
Darkstar
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 256
sequoya wrote:
Hehehe, I thought this whole thing seemed familiar somehow
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Those are all characters from Project Gateway , and it appears the sequel is due Winter 2005...
Why is everything a sequel!?!?! WHY!?
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:42 pm
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Hrm... I took the symbols from the first page of the thread (not having winZip on this PC). So that would explain the errors. I'll fix it up/get rid of it next time I'm online/logged in.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:42 pm
Phaedra
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Atrophied|Offline wrote:
Hrm... I took the symbols from the first page of the thread (not having winZip on this PC). So that would explain the errors. I'll fix it up/get rid of it next time I'm online/logged in.
Sorry.
Like I said, transcribing too quickly.
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:44 pm
TJ229ER
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Hmm ok this is looking coo.l I'm in.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:53 pm
Phaedra
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Darkstar wrote:
Why is everything a sequel!?!?! WHY!?
No clue.
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:56 pm
ironside100
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Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 21 Location: UK
could someone describe to me the method used is deciphering that last puzzle or point me in the direction of a good tutorial because i dont quite get how you used it.
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:02 pm
Duckie
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Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 401 Location: Drifter
"you will soon come to understand"
PS-- the name of the file when saved to my computer was "pink style"
EDIT-- anybody thinking back to the future....... heh, time twisting indeed.
Description
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273 Time(s)
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:16 pm
OmegaX
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I know this is unrelated (apparently, since you're saying something about Project Gateway, which I have no clue about), but for some reason, though there's no similarity whatsoever, these images make me think of the Shin Megami Tensei video game series (or "MegaTen).
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:56 pm
Kender
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ironside100 wrote:
could someone describe to me the method used is deciphering that last puzzle or point me in the direction of a good tutorial because i dont quite get how you used it.
Basically what you need to do is replace every symbol with the correct letter.
1st thing I did was replace the symbols with letters. The first one I encountered I called a, the second one b, etc.
That gives you the nonsense words like 'lpcfbrqpml'.
This step is done because most software to work with these codes only works on letters.
Then I tried using decrypto. That program uses a dictionary to find words that 'fit'. So in the case of 'lpcfbrqpml' it will list all words where the 1st and last letter are the same and where the 2nd and 8th letter are the same, while all other letters are different. It comes up with 'earthquake', 'sepulchers', 'stimulates' and 'stipulates' as possible answers.
Then I used de-crypto.co.uk which allows you to play around with the different letters. After some fiddling with that I got the solution I posted above.
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:59 am
ironside100
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Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 21 Location: UK
thanks Kender I get it now albeit slowly.
could these pictures somehow link together to show a bigger drawing? We will probably need another one to get the wider picture.
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:57 am
Shaded Spriter
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 282 Location: England
about the last two files that were sent.
I think the lines are the important part of it - I think all the lines will line up ones we get all the pieces.
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