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So wait doesn't B = single letter and also J= single letter and U = e?
That's three right? I agree: B is a single letter, J is a single letter and a U in the code would equal an E in the uncoded message. I don't know what you mean by "That's three right?". |
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All I came up with for the first word, that was actually a word, is SOUP. The first word is not SOUP. |
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Does J =Z ? No. Hint #17: an encoded J would equal T. |
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Does ION decode into U? Yes. |
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I agree: B is a single letter, J is a single letter and a U in the code would equal an E in the uncoded message. Early on in this effort, you told us that one of the words was "RS-U" and this was a two-letter word and so therefore U must be a single letter. B, J, and U makes three. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Early on in this effort, you told us that one of the words was "RS-U" and this was a two-letter word and so therefore U must be a single letter. B, J, and U makes three. The 4th word is indeed encoded RS U The 4th word is also indeed a 2 letter word. U does indeed represent a single letter. (Obviously RS represents another single letter.) I'm not sure what you mean by B, J and U makes three. Edited by Moe145
01/17/2016 8:37 pm
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Is the third word six letters long?
If so, is it broken up like: PATE EAEI EF QI XZA A?
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The first word is not SOUP.I The first word is not SOUP. I know this. I meant that out of all those shifts I did, soup was the only real 4 letter word I got. I asked and was told it was wrong. You said earlier there was only 2 single letters that decode into single letters. That's what "that makes three" means. Edited by jay4202472000
01/17/2016 8:53 pm
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Is the third word six letters long?
If so, is it broken up like: PATE EAEI EF QI XZA A? I think you mean PATE AEIO EF QI XZA A And yes.  |
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So now A makes the 4th single letter that decodes into a single letter.
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So now A makes the 4th single letter that decodes into a single letter. True. But, like I said before, this is not a one-for-one substitution cipher. |
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I don't understand what a "one for one substitution" has to do with saying there are only 2 single letters that decode into single letters. There are supposed to be 12, 4 letter code groups. If there turned out to be 11, or 13, 4 letter code groups, would saying it isn't a one for one substitution fix that?
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David Bowie was a great musician... Time may change me but I can't trace time. Translate each letter into a dot or dash and solve it using Morse Code. C, D, G, H, and Y are not used, but all vowels are dots and all consonants are dashes (I realized that while typing it just now, not when I was decoding it). Luckily I was trying to learn Morse Code previously to this contest, and what gave it away was that it was said to have not been invented for war, but used in it. Also, in Morse Code twelve letters have four dots/dashes  Great contest Moe!   |
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