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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To commemorate the culmination of my 2nd year of coin collecting, I have created a code contest. Contained below are the rules. 1) One Guess per member per day. 2) I will supply a hint on each date that ends in a 5 or a 0 (may be a little off depending on my schedule) 3) Any member can win, provided he/she has 50 posts by the contest end. 4) Contest will run until the code is solved. Prize will be a a common date Peace dollar. The code is as follows: 202601309024090-5080270120-1017019023080 0024011012017090230-40160210 70180140100330140240-003017060 50230220-4011070260280150 3014021025060270150210 30270140100200-003022070-10702308040170250 80260160-20140190-50340230300270 00190110120150180230180190110290 hints: Language is English All capitalization and punctuation are ignored The 1st word has 5 letters The 4th word has 6 letters Both the 1st and 4th words start with the letter "t" A - or a new line represents a space Edited by nod2003
04/21/2009 3:10 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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G'day & best wishes,
"There are 10 types of people in this world:
those who understand the binary system;
and those who don't."
Peter
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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"These rows of numbers cleverly conceal the information that DL20K is the winner of this contest. The organizer would also like to thank everyone else for participating".
Edited by DL20K
04/07/2009 12:46 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My first guess:
They're coming to take me away,
Haha,
They're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they're coming to take me AWAY,
HA HAAAA
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3294 Posts |
Hint set 1:
There are no numbers in the encoded message,
The first word has 5 letters.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1291 Posts |
I'm guessing that the first word is "Coins". I'm also guessing that the glaciers will come again or that the sun will burn out before I figure this out....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
Hint set 2
The first letter of the first word is "t"
words are separated by either a - or by starting a new line.
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1291 Posts |
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain?
(They say that if you give an infinite amount of monkeys an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of typewriters that ONE of them will eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare. I wonder if they might also break this code....?)
Edited by weerdsteev
04/16/2009 9:01 pm
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Valued Member
United States
419 Posts |
I'll have to wait on more clues
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Moderator
 United States
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The answer is as follows in thus wherein it pertains to the unbeknownst reasonings upon my later findings of the irrational absurdities being that in this sojourn of relentlessness decipherment the answer can and shall only be the sum of every third letter in this antithesis of a dactylic quandary. Enjoy  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Hints:
The fourth word in the message has 5 letters and starts with the letter t
EDIT
How embarrassing, the fourth word has 6 letters. I don't know how to count.
Edited by nod2003
04/21/2009 3:08 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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I dont really understand... is there a hidden phrase in the numbers? how do we go about solving this code? I dont know where to start.
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 United States
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
OOps, too long! :-)
swcoin.ecrater.com
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't have enough frustration & stress in my life so I'm going to give this a shot. So far all I've got is that there are 17 words, with the 1st & 4th starting with the letter t. I guess I need more clues before my pea brain can get any farther.
Edited by trdhrdr007
04/20/2009 8:09 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Now I'm really confused. The 1st word & the 4th word are both supposed to be 5 letters & begin with the letter t. However, word one starts with 202 & has 15 numbers, while word 4 starts with 002 & has 19 numbers. If they both start with t how come they don't start with the same numbers?
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Posted 04/07/2009 12:34 pm
