Post by efanton on Jun 5, 2020 11:55:07 GMT -5
Thanks to all who participated, especially those that submitted solutions.
Here is a complete solve for Hunt Number 4.
A score table with results of submissions received is also posted below the solve.
He failed to conquer (Julius Cesar)
This precious stone set in the silver sea
A quote from William Shakespeare, form the play Richard II. Describing England. In my personal opinion one of the greatest pieces of English literature/poetry you are ever going to read. (I will post it in full below so those that have never read it have that chance)
some years before AD, 55
(Julius Caesar failed to conquer Britain in 55 BC, but succeeded a year later in 54 BC)
But secret writing he did leave (Caesar Cipher)
If you had a key, (Shift Length 55)
one clue you will get
to help you use the key,
you must add to the alphabet
the numbers 1, 2, 3, ...
basically instructions on how to set up you custom alphabet ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
You only understand the use before encryption (first letter from each word spells YOUTUBE)
W2F86G45yeQ decrypted becomes DiWomXklfv8
yIx4KzHRy9Q decrypted becomes fZeK2gY9fP8
xyNVA6Dtub2 decrypted becomes ef5CRmUabsI
Youtube has a unique code for every video posted. When playing a video in youtube the URL will be something like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiWomXklfv8
Three song titles you will get will be
Streets of London
A-Bomb in Wardour Street
One Hundred Ways
This will then lead to an address, 100 Wardour Street, London
one more riddle to give a date
Sedaka sang sweetly (Neil Sedaka, Happy birthday Sweet 16)
a god of the gate (Janus, Roman God of the gate, for which they named the first month January, being the gate to a new year)
a windy city cut off completely (in 1967 there was a great blizzrad in Chicago that shout down all airport, roads and rail lines for a number of days)
This stanza gave you the date 16th January 1967
What was once great no longer exists
(Although the address still exists the Marquee Club that used to occupy it no longer exist. The Marquee was famous as being one of the top music venues in the UK)
the eye no longer sees
but the greatest its said was here
Who could it possibly be?
(Jimi Hendrix performed here on his first UK tour on, ahem 24th January 1967. My apologies for that particular feck up. I still cant get over that
)Final Answer : Jimi Hendrix
I am so disappointed that so many had problem with the decode.
I thought using a YOUTUBE code was a brilliant and novel idea. It was actually the idea that the whole puzzle revolved around. Having recognised that each YOUTUBE video has a unique code I thought it would be a great idea to incorporate it into a hunt.
I didn't realise that people would use the first button in DCODE rather than the second. In future I will watch out for things like that and give hints where necessary, or simply make a statement while posting the hunt.
I have to also apologise profusely over the feck up, having a newspaper cutting in front of me I failed to confirm that date online. I totally own that mistake.
RESULTS
As there was some confusion in this hunt regarding the decode, and I somehow managed to feck up the date, (I still cant get over the date being wrong on my newspaper clipping), I think it would be unfair to award scores base on solution to each clue.
Some of you got most of them with no assistance, some of you had the benefit of my less than subtle hints towards the end.
So I am going to simply post a list of all those that submitted the correct solution. Everyone that submitted a solution did submit a solutions for most of the clues.
However CHIPVERES Yet again submitted the first correct solution and had most of it right before the date issue became apparent. So I think it only fair to simply announce him as the winner and list those that posted a successful solution
WIINNER : CHIPVERES
CORRECT SUBMISSIONS (in no particular order)
geddybee
silentpartner
artofhiddenmessages
(artofhiddenmessages had posted an almost complete solution, and I am sure she would have posted a final solution had there been time.)
William Shakespeare, Richard II, From Act 2 Scene 1
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus expiring do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
For Christian service and true chivalry,
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,
Dear for her reputation through the world,
Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,
Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
England, bound in with the triumphant sea
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,
With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death!
