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Pillar of the Community
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With the holidays coming up, I thought I would do something a little different. Instead of there being a prize for the winner, I will donate $25 to a charity of the winner's choice (so long as the charity helps people out around the holidays). Since this is holiday themed, I am going to put a December 24th Midnight EST deadline on solving this though. If it remains unsolved, I will donate to my local food bank.
I hope the spirit of giving sparks some interest in this puzzle. I will try to answer any questions you ask as quickly as I can.
RCIQSBIWHEMUZFQZGU
HROBGZSGQUQGJXMEFD
SZIWHZSAMEFDQMZZAZ
XNVXXJHKGTENPEPYQL
IONPMGVKVTWWPPYOZC
HDXZNOGVHZFCTYQTYT
Good Luck!
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New Member
Canada
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I'm trying to teach the cavemen to play Scrabble. It's uphill work. the only word they know is 'unh', and they don't know how to spell it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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jg86! Thank you for the Code!  1. How many words? 2. Weeds? |
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
686 Posts |
22 words
No weeds.
I realized that the website I took this from had a typo. I am not correcting the code to account for the typo, because I don't know if the encryption method will work as well with the correction.
Questions will be important to solving this one, so please people, ask away!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
593 Posts |
Is it a straight substitution cipher?
If not, and if there is a key, can you divulge the key length?
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Valued Member
United States
360 Posts |
Does Jesus play a part in this code?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
686 Posts |
Lars - Not a straight substitution.
There is a 4 letter key that is needed.
j-win - I guess a little
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
686 Posts |
Hint 1:  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
593 Posts |
Is the 4 letter key a french word?
If so, is the key Noel?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
686 Posts |
Impressive lars. Let's see you put it to use!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
593 Posts |
I had already tried an additive and subtractive Vigenere Cipher to no use.
Is this something different than a Vigenere Cipher?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
686 Posts |
Lars - I hope this answers your question  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
593 Posts |
I tried a few things and got nowhere. Are we supposed to apply one letter of the key to each quadrant?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
593 Posts |
Also, are the quadrants simply created by taking the first 9 characters of the first three rows and putting them in the top left quadrant, and so forth, or is it more complicated than that?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Are we supposed to apply one letter of the key to each quadrant?
Yes
Also, are the quadrants simply created by taking the first 9 characters of the first three rows and putting them in the top left quadrant, and so forth, or is it more complicated than that?
Just as you described, nothing more to it.
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Pillar of the Community
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Is the key "NOEL"?
If so, is the "N" applied to the top left quadrant?
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Posted 12/19/2012 2:53 pm
