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Pillar of the Community
United States
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SLDWB ULOPH! (Howdy Folks) Welcome to the latest installment of code breaking. I have prepared a nifty little puzzler for you all. To help motivate, I am including as a prize, what I believe to be the 2nd oldest coin in my collection. I think that this large cent is an 1803 with the large fraction, though in the condition, I can't really be certain, and my obverse photo didn't turn out very good. Anyways, here is the coin   All you need to do is tell me what the following means, and a short explanation as to how you figured it out. I will start with 3 hints. 1. The phrase is not a famous quote 2. It is in English 3. I did not differentiate between capital and lowercase.
PARTPPGKPSITGSPSGRETBAVT
PPUTBPNTPEET
BPPEWTPPGKPSPGTH
PCPTGSPSGKTT
BAGSTF
PPTRBPPETW
PCGSDTGPGRTTBAGTHave fun and I will provide periodic hints if no one solves it quickly (which one of you might). |
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Valued Member
Canada
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Is there a letter that specifys a space in between words?
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Valued Member
Canada
138 Posts |
Also, how many words are there?
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Pillar of the Community
614 Posts |
Just when I log in to post my contest.............. Niiiiice. I guess ill post the next one. :/
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3294 Posts |
No letter specifically indicates a space, or any other punctuation.
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Valued Member
United States
240 Posts |
must get coin, but must do homework :( I've tried a couple of methods already
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hey, my brother Nod!!  Sweet squeeze into the Code Breaking Contest line-up!! Well obviously your initial hint (SLDWB ULOPH! (Howdy Folks)) was not a complete cue to the code!!  So we must now explore other options. The code can go up and down (versus left to right), right to left, or down to up. We'll look at that. There also appear to be MANY Ps, Gs, Ks and Ts. All confusing but apparently are extra letters OR lead to the code... and that leads us to...  But we are undaunted and will overcome!  |
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United States
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hmm moe can you explain the hint SLDWB ULOPH?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Say A is Z, B is Y, C is X, D is W, ...
Then SLDWB ULOPH is Howdy folks.
However, if you try to apply this to the rest of the code, it gets ugly. Even applying it to the black letters only doesn't seem to go anywhere.
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United States
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if you try to apply this to the rest of the code, it gets ugly.  My post was just a quick statement that the code appears to be more than just a one-for-one substitution code (usually a pretty easy one to break.) So Nod has placed some "hindrances" to a straight left to right, top to bottom, one for one substitution cipher. However, his "Howdy Folks" may very well be a clue to the code. It may be a one for one substitution code but with extra letters, read from right to left, or maybe bottom to top. As a matter of fact Nod has made codes in the past where the code circles around the ciphering. (Pretty clever, actually!!) Now, one must just try several iterations of the code using and not using some letters and different alignment methods. I'm going to try to work on it the afternoon if my schedule allows!!  Edited by Moe145
09/11/2012 2:15 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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There are five different colors. Are they indicates different formula?
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United States
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There are five different colors. Are they indicates different formula? Sort of, they are distantly related to the encoding method. |
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United States
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Slowely working it out , might be done tomorrow, , any more hints?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
The shortest word is 2 letters.
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Australia
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Can you give a hint about why the black letters do not conform to all being in groups of 3 like the other colours?
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Posted 09/10/2012 8:17 pm
