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Post by artofhiddenmessages on May 25, 2020 21:09:33 GMT -5
Thank you for you last hint. I am still working on this as well.
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Post by efanton on May 25, 2020 21:31:54 GMT -5
I'll give you a very quick hint for the first stanza If you have decoded it and still get what looks like gibberish or code, maybe that was deliberate and what you need to progress.
Concentrate on the first line of the third stanza and only that. You crack that and you will all be kicking yourselves. Its simpler than it appears. I am sure I have used something that is new and has never been used before in a hunt. But it is not complicated or difficult, its actually very obvious once you have cracked it which is why I used it in a hunt.
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Post by artofhiddenmessages on May 26, 2020 15:01:50 GMT -5
I'll give you a very quick hint for the first stanza.... The FIRST stanza? Now I am really confused.
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Post by efanton on May 26, 2020 21:14:05 GMT -5
I'll give you a very quick hint for the first stanza.... The FIRST stanza? Now I am really confused. Like I have said, concentrate on that first line of the 3rd stanza. there is decryption involved and the first and second stanza will tell you how to do that. But if you try to decrypt the last three lines of the third stanza without understanding the first line you are unlikely to understand what is going on and why you seem to have no success decoding.
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Post by artofhiddenmessages on May 26, 2020 21:39:34 GMT -5
I think I understand the first line of the third stanza.
But your hint mentions decoding the FIRST stanza and getting gibberish. Are you sure you don't mean decoding the 3rd stanza and getting gibberish?
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Post by artofhiddenmessages on May 26, 2020 21:42:06 GMT -5
I'll give you a very quick hint for the first stanza If you have decoded it and still get what looks like gibberish or code, maybe that was deliberate and what you need to progress.
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Post by efanton on May 27, 2020 13:02:41 GMT -5
I think I understand the first line of the third stanza. But your hint mentions decoding the FIRST stanza and getting gibberish. Are you sure you don't mean decoding the 3rd stanza and getting gibberish? As I have previously said. The first and second stanza's tell you how to decode. Obviously what needs decoding is the last three lines of the 3rd stanza. But for anything to make immediate sense you need to understand the first line of the 3rd stanza. So my advice for those who are still trying to solve this hunt. 1.concentrate in the first line of the 3rd stanza. Understand the clue that is in it and what it relates to. 2. then use first and second stanza to decode the last three lines of stanza three. those decodes will then make sense with what you got from the first line. Without understanding what the first line relates to you probably are going to think you have done something horrendously wrong. Very hard to explain this in a more simple way without actually giving the whole game away. I will be release a further clue later this evening.
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Post by artofhiddenmessages on May 27, 2020 14:39:46 GMT -5
Looking forward to the clue tonight.
One thing I am wondering, and maybe you might even answer it outright...Are lines 2, 3 and 4 in stanza three to be kept separate? Or do they run together as one long string?
Or maybe to make myself a bit more clear:
I'm not sure if each line is to be decoded in a different way.
And I'm not sure if once decoded, we apply them as separate entities.
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Post by efanton on May 27, 2020 16:46:30 GMT -5
A new clue as promised. It going to have to be a BIG clue as we are quickly getting to the end of the month.
The first line of stanza three is key to this hunt.
"You only understand the use before encryption"
What could that possibly mean? Well maybe it means nothing or those words were used for another purpose. There is something about those words that combine to create something else. Maybe you might try taking a letter from each word for instance.
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Post by balloonsrfun on May 27, 2020 16:56:47 GMT -5
I got that reference in the beginning but what to do with it is what I thought you've been hinting to all this time? lol
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Post by efanton on May 27, 2020 16:58:13 GMT -5
a further hint, being that I answered a private message.
a Caesar cipher typically uses a dictionary made up from the letters of the alphabet. But if you need to include numbers as well you must add all the numbers before or after the alphabet. Also the numbers could be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 or 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
Stanza 2 tells you how to set up your custom alphabet.
If you use the DCODE cipher tool it will be obvious as to what you need to do with the help of stanza 2. www.dcode.fr/en
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Post by chipveres on May 28, 2020 11:14:58 GMT -5
"You only understand the use before encryption" spells YOUTUBE. And the following three lines look like Youtube video names. But none of them lead to a live video. Even if you brute-force one with dcode.fr, all 35 answers still lead to nothing. Is there some other use for these names??
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Post by balloonsrfun on May 28, 2020 12:20:25 GMT -5
That is what I've been stuck on almost immediately after this puzzle came out. I have tried using the person from Stanza 1, Line 1, with the year that I got for a keyword for the first line under the youtube reference, the one that starts with W, but I must have either the wrong person or the wrong date?
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Post by efanton on May 28, 2020 15:04:17 GMT -5
Another daily hint
The first stanza refers to a historical event. I'm sure many of you have guessed the WHO, but be careful the first line is important. As ever in history, knowing the year is key.
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Post by efanton on May 29, 2020 12:11:44 GMT -5
I will be releasing another hint later tonight.
If you have suggestions as to what type of hint you would like please post
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