For the code breakers on the Escapist

[Bellvedere]

I'm guessing it's something similar to a Polybius square [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_square]. There's enough Qxn symbols such that Q<n could be an x-coordinate and Q>n could be a y-coordinate - so Q2 is (4,2). Additionally, Qn which supports that they may be a pair of coordinates. Where there's not pair, it could be something like the missing coordinate is the same as the coordinate from the previous pair. However if that's the case there would be a couple of redundant symbols - like in(Q2+Q<3Q>2)so maybe there's something else going on. Not sure about the +'s either.

Anyway I'm supposed to be doing Uni work so I can't really take a close look.

 

[Noah Pinder]

the previous two posts are incorrect

 

[know whan purr tick]

Nope, looks like its just a guessing game of phrases now. I do like the ingenuity though

Yes, but there were a few mistakes in that last one that I caught reviewing it. If I had a better handle on number theory I'd probably be able to figure out why, or if, this is doesn't work. I'm puzzled if its supposed to output an anagram or the sentence outright. This approach might just be wonky but I went ahead and made a little decoder to see if anything materialized.

Spoiler

Spoiler: data

With python, a reference, and a little refresher I was able to put this together but I'm not very good at this:

Key = [20,24,10,9,19,19,6,25,23,19,22,9]
Alphabet = ["A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z"]
 for i in Alphabet:
	x = Alphabet[0]
	Alphabet.remove(Alphabet[0])
	Alphabet.append(x)
	print("***********")
	print(Alphabet)
	for j in Key:
		print(Alphabet[j])

Spoiler: 26 outputs

From V=0
"Obtuse Proof E"
"Be our top foes"
[url"http://boulter.com/anagram/?letters=P+T+F+E+O+O+B+U+S+O+R+E"]many more[/url]

You willing to confirm that there are twelve characters? I'm tempted to ask for a direct message reveal but I'd love to see someone come in and just solve this. Its fun to play around with and see what can be put together. Reminds me of those refrigerator magnet word-scramble-poems and cryptoquotes. What would Alice and Bob [http://downlode.org/Etext/alicebob.html] do?

 

[Noah Pinder]

You willing to confirm that there are twelve characters?

There are 21 characters that make up a 6 word phrase.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

You willing to confirm that there are twelve characters?

There are 21 characters that make up a 6 word phrase.

20 occurrences of '>' to me implies that these break up the characters, in which case you get this:

Spoiler

Q<4Q
2+Q<3Q
2+Q<2Q<4Q
5Q
2Q<2+Q<3Q
1Q
2Q
3Q<4Q
1+Q<4Q
1+Q<4Q
1+Q<3Q
5Q
2+Q
1Q
1+Q
2Q<4Q
1+Q<4Q
1+Q
2Q
2+Q
1

No idea about breaking up the words; '2+Q' and '2Q' both occur five times, but they don't look to be in the right places for this.

I might look at this a bit more later, but I have more important things to be getting on with today.

 

[Noah Pinder]

No idea about breaking up the words; '2+Q' and '2Q' both occur five times, but they don't look to be in the right places for this.

I might look at this a bit more later, but I have more important things to be getting on with today.

You have gone backwards now. saying "2Q" is a character is incorrect

 

[Noah Pinder]

Welp, unfourtunatly. The internet may have been bested by this. Thank you to all who attempted to pick apart this code. Feel free to keep trying but it looks like this thread is dead

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Hmm. I wonder if [user]Kross[/user] would take a crack at this?

 

[sky14kemea]

Get back in your grave, necro'd thread.