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Here it is: money to burn!
The code is backwards. We have a winner!      The code is actually simpler than that. The code is ASCII plus 6 backwards. That's it. 1. The lyric "When Worlds Collide said George Pal to his bride" is often misquoted "George Powell". 2. Morse Code was the basis for electronic coding, which was improved upon by Baudot (hint #7) by making each character a fixed length and further improved to create ASCII. 3. Alice and Her Adventures in Wonderland is NOT the purpose of that clue. It was the sequel - Through the Looking Glass - where everything is BACKWARDS! 4. This has nothing to do with weeds. This actress also portrayed Bonnie Hannsen, wife of spy Robert Hanssen, who used a code of adding 6 to dates, so Jan 6 at 8 am becomes July 12 at 2 pm. 5. Is the album Dark Side of the Moon, but signifies a single from that album: Money! 6. Was just to get everyone off of the weeds notion. 7. The young and old Morse didn't do the trick, so adding Baudot was intended to indicate that Morse code was an antecedent of the code I used. 8. Of course that nailed the movie. The reason H and M don't fit your scheme is they are capital letters. The reason this code was tough is that I violated all the rules - I used mixed case, added punctuation, and even left in the dreaded space character! If you look at an ASCII table, and just add 6 to each value, you will have a decoding table for this code. Then just look at it in a mirror! PM your address and I will send out the Ikes! Well done!  |
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Impressive, congrats to code creator and breaker. Great fun!
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It's really hard to answer some of the questions. When LTMets44 wrote: Quote:
Is each 3 digit set = to ONE letter? I didn't know if I should say "Sometimes" or what because some of the codes were spaces or punctuation marks. Anyway, tons of fun, and I'll have to come up with something totally different to give away the other two Ikes next time Moe lets me guest host this thing! |
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svslav - Dodgson was a descent mathmatician, but his immersion in logic was fascinating! There is a lot of his quirky sense of logic in both Alice Books.
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Here it is: money to burn!
 Is the answer? (see how dumb I am?)  |
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Lars, I happen to teach logic, and I get a lot of inspiration in Carrol's books (fiction or technical).
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Great job.. Is it bad that I still can't figure it out?  |
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Lars, I happen to teach logic, and I get a lot of inspiration in Carrol's books (fiction or technical). Then you may be familiar with "Wittgenstein, Nonsense, and Lewis Carroll" by George Pitcher. It's from the 60's, but really an interesting treatise of how nonsense and logic are often juxtaposed. |
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Great job.. Is it bad that I still can't figure it out? It's easy! Here is a table showing the ASCII codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCIIUse the Decimal (DEC) version of the codes. Those are the numbers (base 10) that humans are used to dealing with. Ignore the Binary (base 2), Octal (base 8) and Hexadecimal (base 16) codes. Those are for computers and computer programmers. Subtract 6 from every three digit number in the code I gave. Take the result and determine the letter, space, or punctuation mark from the ASCII table. When you're done, take the result and write it backwards. Viola! |
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WOW. AWESOME job and great contest!!
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Pillar of the Community
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Ah.. Now I get it. Thanks.. it was fun..
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WOW. AWESOME job and great contest!! Thanks, but I'm just the guest host this time. Wait until you see some of the wicked twists that Moe will throw at you in contest #7! |
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OK, time to put this one to bed, but I do have one final announcement before turning this back over to Moe. The winner of my contest has thrown down the gauntlet. He wants ALL of the Ikes and is graciously forfeiting his prize so I can offer ALL FOUR IKES the next time I guest host a code breaker contest! (He seems confident he can go 2 for 2). So I'll have to spend some time coming up with something interesting while Moe resumes his rightful place hosting this party!
Time for me to get on the other side of the curtain and await Moe's next code!
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