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Eupharia
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|  Subject: Decryption Game  Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:42 pm | |
| Jinji's secret messages have inspired this new game. Basically, solve the puzzle and you get to post your own.
Current Decryption Machine
Mac
Rules:
The puzzle must be solvable without a super-computer.
Maximum of 3 puzzles within a puzzle. (4)
Leaderboard:
- Mac - 2 Decryption Points.
- Jinji - 1 Decryption Point.
- Euphy - 1 Decryption Point.
Are you up to it?
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Eupharia
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:42 pm | |
| My puzzle:
- Spoiler:
Along with the puzzle itself lies another secret. A puzzle inside a puzzle, if you will.
Solve them both for 1 decryption point. | |
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Mac of All Trades
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:54 pm | |
| It's a smartphone barcode. I assume figuring that part out was one puzzle and when scanned will reveal an actual puzzle? So if we don't have a device that supports a barcode scanning app, we can't earn the points? Unfair. | |
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Eupharia
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:57 pm | |
| - Macro wrote:
- It's a smartphone barcode. I assume figuring that part out was one puzzle and when scanned will reveal an actual puzzle? So if we don't have a device that supports a barcode scanning app, we can't earn the points? Unfair.
There are other means of deciphering it, if aware of its name. | |
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Eupharia
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:12 am | |
| - Macro wrote:
- If you read this message. Approbation is yours. Many will seek this answer. Each struggling to find secret. Unfortunate. Perhaps Jinji will discover. Having made many, the cryptic strand. Alas. RedHerring shall prevail. I wonder. Astound this fox.
The first letters of each sentence spell "I am Eupharia"
This is the message from the QR Code. Mac has solved both of the puzzles. The answer is in the quote, try and figure it out before you highlight it.
Anyway, well done Mac. Ghost and Fish have competition. We await your puzzle, oh wise machine.
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Jinji
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| | Subject: Unimaginative first puzzle, but a great thread nonetheless. Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:20 am | |
| Though you've revealed the answer already anyway, I can still state thus: if people still haven't worked out this first puzzle by now, I pity them. That kind of coded message is common knowledge, especially with the emergence of internet trolls who use similar methods to "stealth-pwn" people; and I can honestly claim I have not seen another puzzle thread similar to this one on other Forums where such a code WASN'T used as the very first puzzle.
The only difficulty here was in hiding the puzzle behind a QR Code, which there are many readers available for. However, being relevant, I therefore feel compelled to state that I am not very keen on the use of QR Codes and feel physically turned off when they are included in a page except to provide a service that wouldn't be easy to provide otherwise (e.g. mobile downloads). I am not sure of the reason for my feeling this way, but I do.
Nevertheless, I am flattered to find I was named as inspiration for another person's creation - it is truly an honour. I am just sad not to have been made aware of it much earlier. But it makes me proud to know of it. This thread has a great concept and I certainly hope you guys keep it going strong! | |
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Eupharia
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:10 pm | |
| I didn't want to set the bar too high on the first post but now that I see you're both more than capable of deciphering this, expect my future contributions to be hellish. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Thu Aug 18, 2011 2:12 pm | |
| ok here's my puzzle:- Spoiler:
read, or I should say look at, this paragraph very carefully. Perhaps im hiding a message in the initials like Euph did. Or maybe im just distracting you. Or maybe there is no puzzle and this is just here to fool you. Especially observe this period. OLLOLOOOOLLLOLOOOLLLOLOOOLLLOOOOOOLLLOLOOOLOLLLLOOLOLLLLOLLLOLOOOLLOLOOLOLLOLLLOOLLLLOOLOLLLOLOLOLLLOOLOOLLOLLOOOOLOLLLOOLLOOOLLOLLOLLLLOLLOLLOLOOLOLLLLOOLLOOLLOLLOOOLLOLLLOLLLOOLLOLOOOLLLOOLLOLLLLOOOOLLOOLOL <--oh this ? It's just me loling at your inability to solve this (or is it)
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Most of you are probably calling me "Gray Mac" by now due to Mac's multiple personalities. But a lot of people in the world refer to me as "Chaos" , a synonym of this name you're looking for. Also "Nothing".
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Jinji
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:41 pm | |
| You lagged my browser to hell with that puzzle! But I got the answer without having to wait, though I won't explain how because I don't want to spoil it for others. Let's just say it was ingenuity. Does the phrase "I am the cheese" mean anything to you? | |
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Eupharia
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Jinji
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:23 am | |
| I had been waiting for Macro to confirm our answers but it doesn't look like he is going to. Euph's already accepted it as right anyway and is the final arbiter for this topic really, so I guess it doesn't matter that much all told.
Since I may not be around much more today though, I thought I might as well submit my puzzle now. This is only a single puzzle though it does have two parts, as I am not going to tell you what you're looking for or where - you have to figure it out yourself. I will know you have cracked the code when you correctly post what you think the solution is in BLOCK CAPITALS; but I do not expect this to be easy.
[Puzzle] I wrote a letter to a TV Station once. "The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over The Lazy Dog" I typed first to test the keyboard. As I did so, I read over a headline in the newspaper. "T.V. quiz jack, Mr. PhD, bags few lynx". Rather contrived way to put it, I thought. Underneath it, "Phew! Junk MTV quiz show graced by fox!" I put down the paper in disgust - every headline sounded smutty, yet the stories themselves were perfectly innocent - and turned on the TV. An advert said, "Watch 'Jeopardy!', Alex Trebek's fun quiz game." I finished writing and looked up to see the Local News, and the reporter announced "Thousands of DJs flocking by, asking why MTV ax'd its quiz program". The TV showed a protest had started outside MTV studios from both staff and viewers angry about them cancelling not just the quiz, but a large number of their programs overall. I decided not to send that letter after all. Sometimes what people DON'T see is more important than what they do.
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:08 am | |
| yeah you're right. It didn't quite turn out like I expected because lmgtfy doesn't scroll -_- (autocorrect tried changing lmgtfy to "onrush" lol) now please tell me you used find and replace on word instead of changing every single l to a 1 and o to a 0 xD
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:22 am | |
| Btw jinji
SOLVE
that is all | |
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Jinji
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| | Subject: That was way too quick... Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:42 pm | |
| - Macro wrote:
- Btw jinji
SOLVE
that is all Gegeh... (places arm behind head and looks embarrassed)... that puzzle took me an hour to write, and you solve it in ten minutes! I was not expecting it so quickly...
(Straightens up and begins to speak more authoritatively)
Very well! I was not really on my A-game last night and came up with that puzzle on the spur of the moment, so it wasn't going to be a difficult one as I usually put a lot more thought into them. I will NOT make that mistake next time! But for now, you may take your point, Macro; and enjoy the glory that comes with being above me in rank. At least now, you can show us how a puzzle should be done. | |
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Eupharia
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:39 pm | |
| Tbh this may be more of a scavenger hunt (hint hint) than a puzzle, but Euph you can judge if it's worthy or not in which case I guess I'll spend an hour or two thinking of another idea instead.
Who am I? That is the riddle you must answer. You will not need to leave this site. Do these clues mean anything to you?
1. Macacacacacaca...Manana...
2. Super Late Ivys
3. I will take on any challenge time for all the world to see...
4. Zammbi -a +o -m +e
5. Clear four rows at the same time
6. Poster Pick Tear
7. Alexonsager
8. List of Play
9. "The Forum Clown"
10. You bastard
11. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL It's ITT
12. This isn't About Me
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Eupharia
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:10 pm | |
| NONEXISTENCE
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1. Introduction - N - Whether your answer is based on the letters you find or these sentences accompanying them, the result is the same, but the wise man will attempt to comprehend these before just putting the letters together.
2. Superlatives - O - Whenever I'm here, I always have been and always will be. Whenever I'm not here, I never was and never will be. Time is nothing to me.
3. Guild Video - N - Space is nothing to me. Do I have form? Do I have structure? Do I have real composition? No. If I did, I simply wouldn't be what I am.
4. Zombie Fic Contest - E - Just like Space and Time, Spirit is nothing to me either. I don't have Emotion, Rationality, or Judgement. In fact I am unable to comprehend the concept of them, just as you are of whatever does make up me.
5. Tetris - X - You really can not grasp the concept of me. Your mind's capacity is finite black and white compared to my infinite range of color between that.
6. Post a Picture - I - I am simply a perfectly balanced combination of Good an Bad, actually I lie right in the middle of ANY two perfectly opposed things.
7. PK Fusions - S - They say your world originated with me, then suddenly all things became one and part of me broke off into something new. However, as things dissappear/fade as if they never were, I slowly claim it back.
8. Playlist - T - You who read this are in a Universe that strives for Goodness. Which means somewhere there's one striving for Bad. Since I am in between you, if you DON'T
do Good things, you pull closer to me.
9. Custom Ranks - E - Even if Bad things are your true enemy, you both share the same goal and frankly work together. You see, the more you seperate yourselves or pull yourselves closer, I become smaller or bigger; closer or farther away.
10. Bastardo - N - If I had to pick a Pokemon to represent me, probably Giratina, because it's just kinda there in this distorted world unaccessible to anything else, in the middle of the pokemon representing Space Time and Spirit.
11. Decryption Binary - C - Most of you are probably calling me "Gray Mac" by now due to Mac's multiple personalities. But a lot of people in the world refer to me as "Chaos" , a synonym of this name you're looking for. Also "Nothing".
12. Profile - E - It is most likely impossible for us to really interact. (You must remember it's really me, Mac typing this in the viewpoint). As we, Existence, are in complete opposition to each other, although I AM the neutrality of opposition itself.
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Eupharia
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| | Subject: Puzzle Eupharia Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:33 am | |
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My next puzzle:
Part A - Scavenge
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13. Unlucky for some. The solemn few on the list were unable to type. Perhaps Pokemon Related? Certainly the works of a devious creature. In the end it all comes down to the shot-screen. The grace of a picture that tells more than a thousand words.
Heed my words: 21 holds your pen-ultimate prize. Remember.
What is the keyword?
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Eupharia
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| | Subject: Re: Decryption Game Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:53 am | |
| A clue since Mac is terrible at his own game (scavenging)- Spoiler:
Look at the 13th name of the banlist, gallery. Go to their profile and remember 21...
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