Didactic Text 2

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kap
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Didactic Text 2

Post by kap »

Hi,

what the hell is an dinosoreass??? or is that word without any meaning? it's very hard to guess a word that seems to be senseless...
Skremers
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agreed

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took me a lot of time and many other dead ends.
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Post by adum »

sometimes i use non-dictionary words as answers so that things can't be brute forced or guessed at without a full solution...
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Post by wrtlprnft »

After manually decoding the first four or so chars I was pretty sure I was on the right track, knowing the solutions to some other of adum's challenges…
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Post by theStack »

I just solved that, it was quite a nice variation to read some bible verses :)
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Post by sigi »

Overall I found it to be an easy challenge, but the solution word is a joke. Please don't use random character combinations like these for crypto challenges.
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Post by the_impaler »

I concur. Although 'dinosoreass' is not a real word it follows English semantics. If you specify password generator to make pronounceable passwords it would make something like that . It's not like voices in my head.
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Post by tails »

I concur too. The answer doesn't have to be an English word in this type of challenge. We can fully determine how to decode the cipher from the other part of the sentence.
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Post by wrtlprnft »

there's another part of the sentence?
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Post by tails »

wrtlprnft wrote:there's another part of the sentence?
Sorry, I mistook.
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Post by markobr »

Well, the solution is a bit strange, but after the first four letters it was quite clear to me that I found out something (which was not difficult - my second guess.
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Post by AMindForeverVoyaging »

adum wrote:sometimes i use non-dictionary words as answers so that things can't be brute forced or guessed at without a full solution...
Still, why did it have to be *that* stupid? Containing "sore ass"? Come on.
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Post by bodjo »

finally got it thank you AMFV
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Post by compudemon »

normally with a code based on a book you take the numbers and get a word. i spent way to long picking out say the first word of each. i expected a phrase along the lines of the answer is 'blah'
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dinosoreass

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Silly - loved it!
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