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Tue 20/05/08 at 21:39
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thats all there is, no clues as yet, if im given any i'll pass em on.
whoever helps me solve it gets to hug machie


clue 1: Breakfast anyone?
clue 2: Yes or No
clue 3: clue

I think the binary definately has something to do with it, but no idea what
Tue 20/05/08 at 21:39
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You are about to embark on a journey of great rewards where your combat and strategy skills will be challenged and honed to a fine edge


thats all there is, no clues as yet, if im given any i'll pass em on.
whoever helps me solve it gets to hug machie


clue 1: Breakfast anyone?
clue 2: Yes or No
clue 3: clue

I think the binary definately has something to do with it, but no idea what
Wed 21/05/08 at 07:18
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Is it anything to do with this ?: Duels
Wed 21/05/08 at 10:59
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No, they just copied the phrase because it sounds good.
Wed 21/05/08 at 12:25
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Wed 21/05/08 at 16:57
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what's it for?
Wed 21/05/08 at 17:25
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The problem with codes and ciphers is there is usually a key to cracking them. Without the key or even what we are looking for, it's difficult.

I separated the bold letters and the normal letters and tried to spot any words. I saw 'or' 'on' 'eat' 'rumba' 'coat' 'about' and 'till'. There may be a few more. It doesn't mean a lot to me.
Wed 21/05/08 at 17:47
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The bold letters in the order they appear are:

yuaboutoebrkrygrtrshrumbadraegysksleaedheafnege

(could someone post the same for non-bold)

It's 47 letters long (missed 3 characters first time :p, I think that's right now). There's an absence of the letter i; which you probably wouldn't expect in a standard piece of English text although it's not a huge string. That probably suggests it has either had some form of cipher applied to it but the letter 'e' is the most frequent so that is unlikely - or it's not intended to represent a piece of text on its own.


What is this from, btw?
Wed 21/05/08 at 19:19
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I would say that seeing as it has not been written specifically for a code (it's been lifted from a game i believe), you should be looking at the way it's written, not whats written. The spacing between the bold is probably the key.
Wed 21/05/08 at 20:46
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Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> ... There's an absence of the letter i; which you
> probably wouldn't expect in a standard piece of English text

The words "skills", "will" and "fine" are in there.
Wed 21/05/08 at 21:40
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I meant once you separated the bold and non-bold characters. There are no i's in the bold set. But I hadn't realised there were only 3 i's in the whole thing so maybe that's just chance. After playing around with them as separate strings for a while I haven't got them to give to anything obvious so Nin's mention of the spacing is probably more promising.
I get bold characters to be at positions:
[0, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 25, 31, 32, 35, 36, 42, 44, 46, 50, 54, 55, 58, 60, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74, 77, 80, 83, 86, 93, 94, 97, 101, 102, 104, 105, 108, 109]

umm... treating the first character as position zero.

And the distances between two consecutive characters is apparently
[2, 1, 4, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 7, 6, 1, 3, 1, 6, 2, 2, 4, 4, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 7, 1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1]

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