Post by wgardner on Jan 3, 2020 8:49:24 GMT -5
Kryptic Advice (KA) #3
. Reminder 1: Review and ponder earlier Kryptic Advice #1 and #2 too! Really! I mean it! Especially hints that you haven't found a use for yet.
. Reminder 2: Kryptic Advice is trying to help everybody, including people who have just started and people who might be solving things you haven't thought about yet.
. You might flip when you realize that patterns on one side reveal patterns on the other side...
. If something seems like a lot of work to generate one kodeword, that kodeword might be pretty critical to a later step...
. Sometimes you need to reexamine old things to find new things. You might need to look at things that you might not have looked at the first time, or so I've heard...
. Sometimes "O" in a kodeword means the letter between N and P, but sometimes "O" in a kodeword means zero...
. Only one cipher on the kards encrypts using pairs of letters. That might be why there is an extra encoded character on one thing compared to another similar thing. Which kard has that cipher? What key might be used with it???
. An Instructions kard and an image with postcards hide kodewords in a related (but slightly different) way...
. The large Mastermind pegs and the Chickapigs hide kodewords that can be decoded using a similar (but slightly different) process...
. New approaches sometimes require throwing out some old original standards and notions and starting fresh. What might the new original standards be???
. Your pocket might hold two locks for one key. Unlocking one lock might reveal a stage-one kodeword while unlocking the other lock with the same key might reveal a stage-two kodeword...
. The "O" at the corner of each long ternary L separates one side coming in from one direction from the other side going off at ninety degrees in the other direction.
. XXX is too big to be a triliteral letter. What else could it refer to???
. Eighteen kodewords have very precise confirmations in the deck. How might that be done???
. Two ribbons can be tough but can tie things together...
. The fraction of stage-2 kodewords that has been reported discovered so far by at least one person or team is 22/27, or as a base-10 fraction .814814814..., or as a base-2 fraction .1101000010010..., ...
. If you stack the deck face up with high numbered kards on the top and then spread the kards out in a certain way, you might see a stage-two kodeword if you read it the right way...
. The first five of nine special kodewords explain how to calculate twenty-seven things. The last four of nine explain what to do with the results...
. The final kodeword that claims Prize #1 has nine letters.
. This image shows roughly where the kodewords are found. The table structure could also be used by participants to share their progress with others and possibly team up to collect all of the kodewords.
. A good number of people have reported finding between ten and twenty stage-two kodewords. But interestingly, some of the leaders are missing some important kodewords that a handful of other folks have found.
Final note: this message is just a plain old message. I did not encode anything in this message for you to find and decode.
. Reminder 1: Review and ponder earlier Kryptic Advice #1 and #2 too! Really! I mean it! Especially hints that you haven't found a use for yet.
. Reminder 2: Kryptic Advice is trying to help everybody, including people who have just started and people who might be solving things you haven't thought about yet.
. You might flip when you realize that patterns on one side reveal patterns on the other side...
. If something seems like a lot of work to generate one kodeword, that kodeword might be pretty critical to a later step...
. Sometimes you need to reexamine old things to find new things. You might need to look at things that you might not have looked at the first time, or so I've heard...
. Sometimes "O" in a kodeword means the letter between N and P, but sometimes "O" in a kodeword means zero...
. Only one cipher on the kards encrypts using pairs of letters. That might be why there is an extra encoded character on one thing compared to another similar thing. Which kard has that cipher? What key might be used with it???
. An Instructions kard and an image with postcards hide kodewords in a related (but slightly different) way...
. The large Mastermind pegs and the Chickapigs hide kodewords that can be decoded using a similar (but slightly different) process...
. New approaches sometimes require throwing out some old original standards and notions and starting fresh. What might the new original standards be???
. Your pocket might hold two locks for one key. Unlocking one lock might reveal a stage-one kodeword while unlocking the other lock with the same key might reveal a stage-two kodeword...
. The "O" at the corner of each long ternary L separates one side coming in from one direction from the other side going off at ninety degrees in the other direction.
. XXX is too big to be a triliteral letter. What else could it refer to???
. Eighteen kodewords have very precise confirmations in the deck. How might that be done???
. Two ribbons can be tough but can tie things together...
. The fraction of stage-2 kodewords that has been reported discovered so far by at least one person or team is 22/27, or as a base-10 fraction .814814814..., or as a base-2 fraction .1101000010010..., ...
. If you stack the deck face up with high numbered kards on the top and then spread the kards out in a certain way, you might see a stage-two kodeword if you read it the right way...
. The first five of nine special kodewords explain how to calculate twenty-seven things. The last four of nine explain what to do with the results...
. The final kodeword that claims Prize #1 has nine letters.
. This image shows roughly where the kodewords are found. The table structure could also be used by participants to share their progress with others and possibly team up to collect all of the kodewords.
. A good number of people have reported finding between ten and twenty stage-two kodewords. But interestingly, some of the leaders are missing some important kodewords that a handful of other folks have found.
Final note: this message is just a plain old message. I did not encode anything in this message for you to find and decode.
