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OK, it's embarrassment day - I don't get anything from this and noticed that (as well as part three of the didactic text series) only few have solved this.

Of course I found the source and thought, "hey that's easy, this code has been used in one zillion of films" - but, alas!, I dont get anywhere near a meaningful solution.

Oh, and then there is this hint about the "presentation" of the text, that made me suspicious, but again without any further success.

Anyone willing to give a nudge towards the right direction?

Hi, I just can comfort you by telling you, that I froze just before the goal (or so it seems).
It's to close to be wrong, but to wrong to be close.
At first I really thought, great adum might have made a mistake somewhere.
Unfortunately I'm no native speaker, what makes it harder for me to guess the rest.
I did'n find anything concerning the "presentation", like it was meaningful for the other Didactic texts. If any pointing of direction is possible - pleeeeease.


Now I'll try to sleep a bit.

did not find the answer so far, too.

What i found out is that the text is from the old testamant, the fifth book, deuteronomy.

The sentences match the following phrases of that book:

8:4
20:9
21:14
26:15
31:19
1:18
24:5
24:1
33:19
28:19

but i have no idea what to do with this...

warm

... but you left one out.

I think the most confusing thing about this challenge is, that the solution isn't a real english word. Since this is an exception from all earlier challanges, it might be allowed to mention it here.

Its several english words put together into one phrase. For those wondering, you submit the answer as one word not as the broken up phrase.
I believe its a joke or a mispronunciation of a common english word.

the completed list:

8:4
20:9
21:14
26:15
31:19
32:15
1:18
24:5
24:1
33:19
28:19

if the numbers represent characters, i have no idea which.
If the numbers point to words, i have no clues how.
if there's something else significant, i missed it.

will have to go to bed frustrated...

exactly my problem :/

this is many times easier than you think... took me two weeks to realize this

I thought of a representation of characters like

n + 8 = ..
n + 4 = ..
n + 20 = ..
n + 9 = ..
etc., where n belongs to 32 to 120

But with no readable result!

Probablyit it is easy. But without a idea...

Could somebody tell, if 8, 4, 20, are characters or numbers or whatever????
Or if they have to calculated (divided in a special way)??

Like m!nus and chrjue: NO idea

must be the three of us being german :/

Being a non-native English speaker makes it just a little more difficult, IMHO.

When you decode the string don't be put off by strange spellings

m!nus wrote:must be the three of us being german :/

four

if you say "strange spellings" do you mean chain of letters without any sense ?

EDIT: what the hell ... I got it!!
i thougth of this a lot ... but i didn't realise that the spelling could be as much different from german than it was at least

Andr3w wrote:
four

if you say "strange spellings" do you mean chain of letters without any sense ?

EDIT: what the hell ... I got it!!
i thougth of this a lot ... but i didn't realise that the spelling could be as much different from german than it was at least

No, not a chain of letters without any sense, just - well - words which you wouldn't normally write nor connect that way. Hard to explain without giving away too much. But you got it, so you understand.