State Your Position
State Your Position
possible?
I notice efe has solved this too now. 
So why is this challenge seen as being so hard? For me it fell out naturally from some Vigenere-style analysis - there are a few repetitions at multiples of 3 characters, and if you do frequency analysis on every third character you quickly see that the third, sixth, etc characters are all in the first half of the alphabet.
I guess recognizing that the other characters are abbreviations for US states requires some general knowledge... but it is at least easy to spot that they, too, come from a restricted set of digraphs.
I actually spent ages trying to find some representation of all the counties (?) within a state via letters, i.e. TNA would be the first (A) county within Tennessee. It took a while to see that the third letters were counts into the state's name.
So why is this challenge seen as being so hard? For me it fell out naturally from some Vigenere-style analysis - there are a few repetitions at multiples of 3 characters, and if you do frequency analysis on every third character you quickly see that the third, sixth, etc characters are all in the first half of the alphabet.
I guess recognizing that the other characters are abbreviations for US states requires some general knowledge... but it is at least easy to spot that they, too, come from a restricted set of digraphs.
I actually spent ages trying to find some representation of all the counties (?) within a state via letters, i.e. TNA would be the first (A) county within Tennessee. It took a while to see that the third letters were counts into the state's name.
