Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:19 pm
How so? Isn't there one vowel too many for it to be homophone to an actually existing English word?laz0r wrote: The answer does follow English pronunciation rules though...
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:26 am
how should I get a word from numbers without hex or ASCII !!!!!!!!!!!!rmplpmpl wrote: No Hex, no ASCII, it's much simpler
I think I should start over because all my previous approaches were based on ASCII code
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:31 pm
I've never heard of a vowel to consonant ratio.AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:How so? Isn't there one vowel too many for it to be homophone to an actually existing English word?laz0r wrote: The answer does follow English pronunciation rules though...
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:16 pm
And I've never heard of the "word" which is the solution here.DaymItzJack wrote: I've never heard of a vowel to consonant ratio.
P.S.: There is such a thing, see e.g. this link.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:38 pm
Yes but since I solved this years ago, I solved it again today and I knew the answer was an answer as soon as I saw it. The challenge isn't difficult and if you find anything that looks close to an English word -- which it does -- then you've found the answer.AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:And I've never heard of the "word" which is the solution here.DaymItzJack wrote: I've never heard of a vowel to consonant ratio.
P.S.: There is such a thing, see e.g. this link.
I actually just used the numbers posted in this thread to find the answer too, so more than half of the problem is solved for anyone who looks at this thread.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:50 pm
In my opinion, the answer looks more like a Spanish word. 
You need to keep in mind that English is a language that distorts the pronunciation of the vowels, whereas many other European Languages (like German, Polish, Italian, Spanish, ...) keep the original pronunciation as it is in languages like Latin and ancient Greek. So what might look or sound obvious to a native English speaker might not at all be obvious to a German, Pole, Italian or Spanish guy. Or girl.
You need to keep in mind that English is a language that distorts the pronunciation of the vowels, whereas many other European Languages (like German, Polish, Italian, Spanish, ...) keep the original pronunciation as it is in languages like Latin and ancient Greek. So what might look or sound obvious to a native English speaker might not at all be obvious to a German, Pole, Italian or Spanish guy. Or girl.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:55 pm
The fact that you get a 7-9 character answer all in plain text using the same method on an easy challenge is enough information for you to guess "oh hey, this is correct."AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:In my opinion, the answer looks more like a Spanish word.
You need to keep in mind that English is a language that distorts the vowels when pronouncing them, whereas many other European Languages (like German, Polish, Italian, Spanish, ...) keep the original Latin pronunciation. So what might look or sound obvious to a native English speaker might not at all be obvious to a German, Pole, Italian or Spanish guy. Or girl.
If we as humans could not put knowledge with common sense or any type of ability to guess, these challenges would be impossible. Half of these challenges I DO guess and I do say "I'm going to keep going down this path.. it looks plausible." The answer you get is plausible and that's all anyone needs to know.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 4:57 pm
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here.DaymItzJack wrote:The answer you get is plausible
It would be interesting to know what would happen if the solution were a French word, or a German or Polish one. Maybe then the native English speakers would complain.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:52 pm
As long as it's all a-zA-Z, I would not care. If I find a word or letters that look like an answer, I try it if I think it could be the answer. I don't think there is one place on this forum or website that says all the answers are English words, you have to take what you get.AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here.DaymItzJack wrote:The answer you get is plausible
It would be interesting to know what would happen if the solution were a French word, or a German or Polish one. Maybe then the native English speakers would complain.
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:55 pm
woot 
yout got it... think easy
yout got it... think easy
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:39 pm
I had a couple of ideas now... using the number pairs mathematically (add them, subtract them, divide them) was one of the more complicated ones, until I saw the hint about "don't make it too complicated".
So I tried using the most simple codes I could think of referred by numbers... word in a scentence, letter in a word, letter in the whole string, all just came up with complete garbage... So could someone please tell me: are these approaches a) too simple, b) too complicated or c) total crap and completely on the wrong track?
So I tried using the most simple codes I could think of referred by numbers... word in a scentence, letter in a word, letter in the whole string, all just came up with complete garbage... So could someone please tell me: are these approaches a) too simple, b) too complicated or c) total crap and completely on the wrong track?
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:18 pm
Hopefully this isn't too far but the numbers are an index (by index, I mean sort of like an array) of some type of string, book, paragraph, or text. You are on the right track sort of, no math is really involved.
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 7:55 am
Do we have to use the text in the challenge after we got the numbers listed above ? or the decryption of the numbers is independent to the text ?
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:07 am
You should interpret the numbers seperately from the text.Bliss wrote:Do we have to use the text in the challenge after we got the numbers listed above ? or the decryption of the numbers is independent to the text ?
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:23 pm
DaymItzJack wrote:Don't bring people to wrong paths - it ist NOt 7-9 chars long. (it's a bit longer)AMindForeverVoyaging wrote: The fact that you get a 7-9 character answer all in plain text using the same method on an easy challenge is enough information for you to guess "oh hey, this is correct."