Didactic text 2

Broker · Post by **Broker** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:38 pm

... in other words: [1] Do the numbers reflect the words?
[2] Are words inside the text, so the finding of the numbers was useless???????????
[3] Is the calculation (my first post here) incorrect.
[4] To solve it we have to look at a completely different direction.

Whitch direction is best to look for or whitch one is a blind alley?
Sorry, but i have NO idea...

rmplpmpl · Post by **rmplpmpl** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:46 pm

Broker wrote:... in other words: [1] Do the numbers reflect the words?
[2] Are words inside the text, so the finding of the numbers was useless???????????
[3] Is the calculation (my first post here) incorrect.
[4] To solve it we have to look at a completely different direction.

Whitch direction is best to look for or whitch one is a blind alley?
Sorry, but i have NO idea...

1) be more precise, what do you mean "numbers reflect the words" - I don't want to send you on a wrong track, but neither want to give away too much
2) no
3) yes
4) not really, you are very, very close... stop thinking too complicated

Broker · Post by **Broker** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:02 pm

Thanks for the hint. So we are close.

I thought "easy" by eliminating the ":" and convert from Hex2Ascii
84209211426153119321511824524133192819

No result. I think i have to give up......

rmplpmpl · Post by **rmplpmpl** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 8:08 pm

Broker wrote:Thanks for the hint. So we are close.

I thought "easy" by eliminating the ":" and convert from Hex2Ascii
84209211426153119321511824524133192819

No result. I think i have to give up......

No Hex, no ASCII, it's much simpler, don't give up!

Broker · Post by **Broker** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:01 pm

But the only words - i already mentioned - are like

eightfourtwozeroninetwoone... or
eight fo(u)r twen tynine...

... all make no sense

rmplpmpl · Post by **rmplpmpl** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:13 pm

@Broker: you got a PM

Allosentient · Post by **Allosentient** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:32 am

I really cannot figure this out. I think I am close, but can't get any further

ThortonB · Post by **ThortonB** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:16 am

Indeed, I find myself in a similar situation. Any more hints on the the resultant text should look like? We already know that it should have no spaces when submitted and that it's apparently not normal English.
In addition to tips, if any, would one who's solved it be so kind as to clarify:
whether it contains solely characters, or includes numbers and special characters, etc.

Eagerly awaiting your help,

Thorton

rmplpmpl · Post by **rmplpmpl** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:22 am

the answer consists of letters a-z only

ThortonB · Post by **ThortonB** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:30 am

Hmm...that blows the leet idea I was planning on doing...

ThortonB · Post by **ThortonB** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:32 am

Oh, I forgot, would it be possible to hint at the length? As in small or large?

ThortonB · Post by **ThortonB** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 9:07 am

Ah never mind all that then.

Yay

Allosentient · Post by **Allosentient** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:07 pm

I still have no clue how to apply the numbers to <anything>, since there is a chapter number and a passage number. Maybe combine the two?

sigi · Post by **sigi** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:45 am

Just go for the simplest solution you can think of. And then just blindly submit the "word" you get out of your "decoding" method.

As many others have said: this challenge is a lot easier than some of you here apparently think it is (you've got the numbers already, now there's not much work left to do).

Broker · Post by **Broker** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:05 am

Overall solved it... But i dont agree to everybody here, who is telling us to use the "easiest" way.

The pure decoding-mechanism (!) of the message is extremely easy - correct. But to examine this, you have to go into many blind alleys...