Code Breaker Contest #7

Got it :)

jg86 --- You are a genius..

I don't know how you guys come up with these or how you guys break the codes.. Amazing!

I didn't use either hint, I just clued in to the numbers going up to 113, UT looked like a periodic table symbol in that range (since they all start out unun up there), so I started writing out the symbols, and noticed words within them. Lo and behold, the excess letters were the ones written beside the numbers in the code.

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (D.I.M.) published one of the first periodic tables in 1869.

How ironic, I went to the internet about 10 words in, and copied and pasted it from the Wikipedia article "Kennedy Doctrine". I guess my teachers might have had a valid point when they said never to source Wikipedia!

It's entirely up to Moe to sort out this mess, but it seems to me it's like a game show when someone ALMOST gets it right and the next person grabs the prize! I claim that those Ikes are mine!

But let's also remember that jg86 won my last codebreaker for 2 of 4 Ikes I have to give away and graciously agreed to put them back into the kitty for a prize of all 4 Ikes on my next code. If I win these Ikes on a technicality, I propose to offer ALL SIX IKES as a single prize for cracking a code that Moe and I come up with TOGETHER. Sound fair to you, jg86? Moe, are you game?

JG86! Genius!



BUT.....


Larsdog had previously emailed me that he had broken the code before I noticed your deciphering and, as he has pointed out, your deciphering added the phrase "in order" which was not in my encoded message.

So... I declare Larsdog, the winner of Code Breaking Contest #7!!



You both very correctly figured out the clues and the encoding mechanism using the Periodic Table of Elements!! (The idea was given to me last code. It took awhile to figure out how to work it. I couldn't put JFK's name at the end of the code since there are no elements with J's in them! I got lucky with the other letters!!)


Lars/Bill, I still have your address, so if nothing has changed, I will ASAPly mail the Ikes to you when I return from the trip I am now commencing out of Minneapolis!!

Addition:

I really like you adding these new Ikes with the previous 4 to create a "Perfect Storm of Ikes"!! (Lars, the Ikes are yours to do with as you see fit. It think it shows tremendous class to want to pass these Ikes on to other folks!!)

I will await Larsdog's next code with baited breath!!


Thank you all for playing!!


(I knew that last clue was too much!! You all are JUST TOO SMART!)

Note to All (Including Lars): The 2 Ikes are in the mail to you.


I am eagerly anticipating your next code!!


(I already have the next one after that ready to go!!)