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arteris
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User Created Green Challenge 11/25/16 3:22 EST Nov 25, 2016 15:24:12 GMT -5 4pollo likes this

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Post by arteris on Nov 25, 2016 15:24:12 GMT -5

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4pollo Member Level: General Access	User Created Green Challenge 11/25/16 3:22 EST Nov 27, 2016 9:35:28 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 4pollo on Nov 27, 2016 9:35:28 GMT -5 Nice one, looking forward to more! Also, it nicely uses a lot of the concepts we encountered so far.

arteris Member Doing some stupid shit probably. Posts: 48 Level: General Access	User Created Green Challenge 11/25/16 3:22 EST Nov 27, 2016 19:29:20 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by arteris on Nov 27, 2016 19:29:20 GMT -5 <3

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User Created Green Challenge 11/25/16 3:22 EST Dec 12, 2016 23:04:46 GMT -5

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Post by Kate on Dec 12, 2016 23:04:46 GMT -5

This is a very cool looking puzzle, buuuuut I have not been able to get any purchase on it. (I... don't think I understand the (decoded) hint? Is it a reference to something?) Anyone have any additional hints?

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{Spoiler}Hexadecimal? Hexadecimal if you put '4 7' in each of the blanks alternating? Obscure musical notation? Words with a bunch of the letters sucked out of them? Words with the letters "o t t e r s" removed from them? (47 times?) (and then scrambled? backwards? )

I assume the grave accents are important; is there a kind of encryption that provides grave accents that people recognize? Are they delineating different blocks? (They look too long to be words.)

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User Created Green Challenge 11/25/16 3:22 EST Dec 13, 2016 8:51:57 GMT -5

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Post by aylus on Dec 13, 2016 8:51:57 GMT -5

Dec 12, 2016 23:04:46 GMT -5 Kate said:

This is a very cool looking puzzle, buuuuut I have not been able to get any purchase on it. (I... don't think I understand the (decoded) hint? Is it a reference to something?) Anyone have any additional hints?

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{Spoiler}Hexadecimal? Hexadecimal if you put '4 7' in each of the blanks alternating? Obscure musical notation? Words with a bunch of the letters sucked out of them? Words with the letters "o t t e r s" removed from them? (47 times?) (and then scrambled? backwards? )

I assume the grave accents are important; is there a kind of encryption that provides grave accents that people recognize? Are they delineating different blocks? (They look too long to be words.)

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{Clue hint}Wrong track with the clue. Try abbreviating the clue to get the explicit method to decrypt the first step. At that point, things should start looking more familiar for subsequent steps.

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{Addl hint}This method often turns symbols into letters or numbers and vice versa.

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{Still stuck?}The 47 refers to the specific iteration of the method to use.

Last Edit: Dec 13, 2016 9:21:55 GMT -5 by aylus

emato Member Posts: 84 Level: General Access	User Created Green Challenge 11/25/16 3:22 EST Dec 13, 2016 11:15:19 GMT -5 OCDCoder likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by emato on Dec 13, 2016 11:15:19 GMT -5 I think I understand the first part: SPOILER: Click to show {Spoiler} Runaway otters! There's 47! = ROT 47? If that was correct, I'm now stuck with the next step.
	Last Edit: Dec 13, 2016 11:20:33 GMT -5 by emato "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in" - Leonard Cohen

OCDCoder Member Level: General Access	User Created Green Challenge 11/25/16 3:22 EST Dec 13, 2016 12:36:39 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by OCDCoder on Dec 13, 2016 12:36:39 GMT -5 Ok, that was quite clever. Also, your clue made me laugh (and took me a minute to figure out), so bonus.
	If there's a better way to do it, I'll find it.

Post by arteris on Nov 25, 2016 15:24:12 GMT -5

Post by 4pollo on Nov 27, 2016 9:35:28 GMT -5

Post by arteris on Nov 27, 2016 19:29:20 GMT -5

Post by Kate on Dec 12, 2016 23:04:46 GMT -5

Post by aylus on Dec 13, 2016 8:51:57 GMT -5

Post by emato on Dec 13, 2016 11:15:19 GMT -5

Post by OCDCoder on Dec 13, 2016 12:36:39 GMT -5