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What in the world
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:53 pm
by AMindForeverVoyaging
So since this challenge doesn't have a topic yet I'm opening one.
It occurs to me that the data given here has a pattern, which you need not be a genius for to find out. It's always four letters, followed by eight digits, with a total of twenty-one entities:
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GJCD 39581542
GJDL 20534887
FJCJ 13281871
GJFH 17114179
FJDQ 41028396
GJAD 25382405
FJQP 14010414
GJFF 25385284
FJMM 31351660
GHHP 43393455
GJDD 31261379
GJLK 27265861
GJAB 56454051
FJNH 09599444
GJBJ 59518543
GJCH 55504911
GJFJ 18037254
GJJE 48059424
GJPH 39323177
BHJF 30474095
DKNC 54387196
I'm quite certain that this is no coincidence. However, this is already how far I have been able to get. I don't have the slightest clue how to decode this. Okay so it's not actually a "Crypto" challenge, but it sure looks like one. Beats me what the criterion is to be considered "Misc" instead.
What strikes me is the repetition of the GJ/FJ characters, they appear quite often. But the meaning of it? I have no. freaking. clue. :-/
Re: What in the world
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:18 pm
by Tron
AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:[...] the data given here has a pattern[...]
There is even more structure to find.
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:59 pm
by DaymItzJack
What in the world... I don't even.
Re: What in the world
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:41 pm
by AMindForeverVoyaging
Tron wrote:There is even more structure to find.
Well, some day I might find it... thank you so far.
Re: What in the world
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:29 pm
by teebee
Tron wrote:There is even more structure to find.
I found that structure but can't figure out
what in the world to see ...
Re: What in the world
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:09 am
by laz0r
teebee wrote:Tron wrote:There is even more structure to find.
I found that structure but can't figure out
what in the world to see ...
I know what they are, but I have found no means in which I can turn them into something useful...
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:36 am
by MatRush
is the four-letters stuff is after encrypted text or just some plain text code?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:34 pm
by cyberwoozle
Most of them remind me on some Aircraft Type Identifiers .... unfortunately a few of them do not exist
Re: What in the world
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:58 am
by AMindForeverVoyaging
laz0r wrote:
I know what they are, but I have found no means in which I can turn them into something useful...
It seems you did
cyberwoozle wrote:Most of them remind me on some Aircraft Type Identifiers .... unfortunately a few of them do not exist
Hm, I think those would rather have five letters than four?
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:39 pm
by cyberwoozle
Hm, I think those would rather have five letters than four?
I meant aside the first character in front of the "-" ...
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 8:49 pm
by cyberwoozle
The second part of the challenge - are there any parallels to the NG games?
Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 11:56 am
by laz0r
I seem to remember identifying these as a type of co-ordinates - make of that what you will, given the quality of my memory...
[EDIT - me being stupid and mistaking this challenge for a similar one - sorry!]
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:21 am
by trofi
They look like georef coordinates around the USA,
but have no idea what exactly I need to pick to make sense of it.
Rivers? Neares cities? States?
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:21 pm
by AMindForeverVoyaging
trofi wrote:They look like georef coordinates around the USA,
but have no idea what exactly I need to pick to make sense of it.
Rivers? Neares cities? States?
That's what I'm asking myself, too. I looked up all the places indicated by those coordinates with Google Earth, but to no avail.
I guess there might be a problem with converting the georef coordinates to latitude/longitude. I did that using some website. If the results are off, that would explain why the transformed coordinates do not yield anything that really forms an answer.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 11:36 am
by michuber
AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:I looked up all the places indicated by those coordinates with Google Earth, but to no avail.
What about using a different map?