Soviet Intercept

lukas · Post by **lukas** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:30 pm

WTF

I need 3 days and in the 3rd day I realized that I shuffeled the 3rd and 4th

tog · Post by **tog** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:10 pm

I found this quite easy. There were a few pixels mostly in the front and back part of each word that you could use to deduce the beginning and ending of each word. Combined with the length and general shape of the word, there were only few combinations left to try.

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:18 pm

I found it quite interesting to solve. Took us (ShardFire and me

) like 1 hour. Photoshop helped quite a bit

PeterS · Post by **PeterS** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:01 am

The last three names were quite easy, but for the first and the second I did some calculations. It probably was quite an overkill, but at least I got the solution right on my first try

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This is the list I got: (values are in pixels)

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Haack: 64
Ceicys: 66
Balcius: 72
Tarulis: 75
Ivinskis: 78
Berzins: 79
Abrutis: 81
Vidugiris: 90
Lukosius: 91
Didgalvis: 92
Gunsilius: 92
Zymonas: 94
Pazeimys: 99
Bessanov: 99
Garastas: 101
Ravdenon: 102
Endrasius: 106
Aleksynas: 107
Sanrkiene: 108
Jakucionis: 109
Bacanskas: 112
Skarbalius: 113
Kaminskas: 114
Zukauskas: 115
Kaganovich: 117
Anelauskas: 121
Maksimaitis: 124
Kuzminskas: 126
Grinkevicius: 128
Nazaroviene: 131
Fedaravicius: 131
Urbnonvicius: 134
Sabaliauskas: 139
Abramavicius: 143
Juozapavicius: 146
Wilkewiczuite: 151
Andriejauskas: 157
Bagdonavichius: 159
Matulewiczshen: 170

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Sat May 30, 2009 11:43 pm

Does anyone know which font was used in the text this challenge? It would be more easy if we'd know which font is.

helly0d · Post by **helly0d** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:12 am

http://font.downloadatoz.com/font,28591 ... ality.html

This is the font Russian Quality. It took some time to find it ( via Google images ).

nahnoe · Post by **nahnoe** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:04 pm

I recorded the widths of the characters and calculated the lengths of the names in the document. The names in the answer were only one or two pixels off my calculated lengths (I measured the crossed-out words)

Took about 30 minutes (longest part was getting character widths!)

moose · Post by **moose** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:28 am

I simply took a font with a simmilar width (I think it was arial) and tried to guess which names could fit in the gaps. Took me about one hour.

nighthalk · Post by **nighthalk** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 12:40 am

i probably went a tad overboard, i wrote my own 'font maker' type program, you give it some text, start drawing the black pixels out, an option to scale it (in case i was slightly off, or in this case, unless the source image appears to be resized from the original font text size) then you can grab a copy of the overall image to your clipboard and use paint with transparent selections to shimmy it around see how far off things are.

once i got all the lower case and most of the upper case i attacked the ones with iffy lengths (#2 was the hardest, even with this method there were 3 very close to possible answers, #6, 23, and 38). it cant make an actual font file it was just bitmaps. didnt help i didnt have an example of all upper case letters involved, i had to guess.

Hippo · Post by **Hippo** » Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:45 am

It seemed to me it would be easier to do this with pancil and paper and material you can write on it and look through .... I was sure with the last 3 names, but guessing first 2 took ma roughly 30 attempts ...

eulerscheZahl · Post by **eulerscheZahl** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 7:09 am

I cut out the single letters and puzzled them together with a script. Every ransom note writer would be proud of me. Then I opened the names as new layers in GIMP.
It still took me some tries.